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US-Israel Relations Under Strain Over Gaza

Despite an apparent alliance, Washington and Tel Aviv are increasingly struggling to conceal their differences in public. While the Biden administration insists on de-escalating tensions on a regional level, the Netanyahu government prefers to forge ahead. President Joe Biden and his officials are becoming increasingly frustrated with Israeli ...

Borrell Accuses Israel of Financing Hamas

Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said on Friday that Israel financed the creation of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas with the aim of weakening the Palestinian Authority. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied these accusations made by his opponents in Israel ...

EU Sanctions Hamas Financiers Ahead of Brussels Meetings

EU foreign ministers will engage in a series of meetings on Monday with counterparts from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Arab nations. Ahead of the meeting on Friday, the EU added six individuals to an asset freeze and visa ban blacklist for financing Hamas. EU foreign ministers will hold a series of meetings Monday with counterparts from ...

Israel Pushes South as Diplomacy Slowly Advances

While the international community remains divided on the solution to the Gaza war, fierce fighting continues in the southern enclave. Under sustained bombardment from the Israeli air force, nearly 20,000 infants have been born 'in hell,' according to UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram. Negotiations persist between Israel and Hamas to achieve a new ...

Gaza: At Least 90 People Killed Overnight

Israel ratcheted up its attacks in the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, where at least 90 people were killed overnight, according to the health ministry in Gaza. Witnesses said the Israeli bombardment was again focused overnight on Khan Younes, the largest city in Gaza's south, although Palestinian media also reported intense fire around ...

Four of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Leaders Killed in Syria

An Israeli strike on Damascus killed ten people in a building where "Iran-aligned leaders" were meeting on Saturday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Among the dead are four members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including the head of the info unit, according to sources close to Syria, as reported by Reuters. The ...

Syria Faces Upsurge in Strikes Amid Gaza War

Soaring tensions triggered by the Israel-Hamas war are being felt in Syria, which has been targeted by air raids and other attacks launched from several countries. On Saturday, Israel launched its second high-profile targeted assassination in the country in less than a month, killing the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' spy chief for Syria and three ...

South Lebanon: Four Killed in al-Bazouriyeh, Including Two Hezb Members

Exchanges of artillery fire between Hezbollah and Israel continued unabated on Saturday morning, following a night of incessant bombardment, as Israel continued its targeted attacks in Lebanon. Two Hezbollah members were killed on Saturday in an Israeli drone attack on a Pathfinder car on the al-Bazouriyeh road (caza of Tyre). In the afternoon, ...

Kataeb al-Ezz al-Islamiya, A Fictitious Group

According to political circles close to the obstructionist axis (called al-Moumanaa), Kataeb al-Ezz al-Islamiya (Al-Ezz Brigades) is the name given to a fictitious group that is not known to the factions that gravitate in the orbit of this axis. According to the above-mentioned sources, this group is credited with any operation that has not been ...

Syria Strike: Iran Blames Israel and Vows Revenge

Iran accused Israel on Saturday of carrying out a strike in Damascus that killed five Revolutionary Guards members, asserting that it "reserves the right to respond… at the appropriate time and place," according to a statement issued by Iranian foreign ministry. Five members of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including two ...

Nasrallah: Al-Aqsa Flood Operation Has Revived the Palestinian Cause

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah stressed on Saturday that Hamas's Al-Aqsa Flood operation against Israel on October 7 was a "game-changer," as it "put the Palestinian cause back on the regional and international stage." "Since the occupation of Palestine, Israel has been working on two tracks," added Hassan Nasrallah in a speech read ...

Fighting Rages Across Gaza Where Death Toll Surges

Saturday, Israel continued its ground offensive south of the enclave. In Tel Aviv, thousands of people demonstrated, calling for the return of hostages held in Gaza and early elections to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Gaza Strip witnesses a staggering rise in casualties, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects ...