This is Beirut, 26/03 22:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Palestinians on Wednesday staged protests in the Gaza Strip against the territory's Hamas rulers for the second consecutive day, calling for an end to the war with Israel, witnesses said. Demonstrators carrying banners reading "Hamas does not represent us" were seen marching in Gaza City and the town of Beit Lahia to the north, just over a week ...
This is Beirut, 26/03 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on Wednesday to seize areas of Gaza if Hamas does not release hostages, with the Palestinian Islamist movement warning that their lives are at risk following the resumption of Israeli bombardments. The Israeli military also announced that two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, one ...
This is Beirut, 25/03 13:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Authorities in southern Syria reported that Israeli bombardment on Tuesday killed at least five people in Daraa province, while Israel's military said it carried out a strike in response to incoming fire. The violence in the south, near the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights, followed Israeli air strikes in central Syria, the ...
This is Beirut, 23/03 15:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Palestinian group Hamas confirmed on Sunday that Salah al-Bardawil, a senior member of its political bureau, was killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza the previous day. Bardawil, 65, was killed along with his wife in a camp in al-Mawasi, near Khan Younes, according to the Palestinian Islamist movement. He is the third member of the ...
This is Beirut, 23/03 05:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's opposition leader on Saturday called for a general strike if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to obey a Supreme Court decision freezing the government's dismissal of the internal security chief. If the government "decides to disobey the Court's decision it will become a government outside of the law," Yair ...
This is Beirut, 22/03 05:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened Friday to annex parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas militants release the remaining Israeli hostages held in the war-battered Palestinian territory. The warning came as Israel pressed the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm since a January 19 ceasefire. A ...
This is Beirut, 21/03 21:55 - Reading : less than a minute
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had eliminated Osama Tabash, the movement's head of military intelligence. According to the army, Tabash was also head of Hamas's surveillance and targeting unit, and was said to have planned the October 7 attack.
This is Beirut, 21/03 17:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The UN warned Friday that all of Gaza's approximately one million children were facing "massive trauma" as fighting in the war-ravaged territory resumed and amid dire aid shortages. Humanitarians described an alarming situation in Gaza amid a growing civilian death toll since Israel resumed aerial bombardment and ground operations this week after ...
This is Beirut, 21/03 05:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel's military on Thursday expanded ground operations across Gaza, after it reported missiles intercepted from Yemen and Hamas militants said they fired rockets towards Tel Aviv. The rocket fire from Hamas was its first military response to the growing civilian death toll from Israel's resumption of aerial bombardment and ground ...
This is Beirut, 20/03 02:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel bombarded Gaza and pressed its ground operations on Thursday after issuing what it called a "last warning" for Palestinians to return hostages and remove Hamas from power. The renewed offensive shattered a relative calm that had pervaded since truce took hold mid-January. Heavy air strikes began strafing Gaza early Tuesday, ...
This is Beirut, 19/03 18:53 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged a "full investigation" after a UN worker died and five others were seriously injured by a strike on their buildings in Gaza. "The Secretary-General strongly condemns all attacks on UN personnel and calls for a full investigation," deputy spokesman Farhan Haq ...
This is Beirut, 19/03 17:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In a significant escalation of military operations on Wednesday, Israeli forces have launched a new ground incursion into the central Gaza Strip along the Netzarim corridor, military sources confirmed Wednesday. The operation involves tanks moving to close Salah al-Din Street—Gaza's main north-south thoroughfare—cutting off movement between ...