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Hamas Says Gaza Truce Talks With Mediators Stepping Up

This is Beirut, 28/03 21:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A senior Hamas official said Friday that talks between the Palestinian Islamist movement and mediators over a ceasefire deal are gaining momentum as Israel continues intensive operations in Gaza. "We hope that the coming days will bring a real breakthrough in the war situation, following intensified communications with and between mediators in ...

Yemen Rebels Report Overnight Air Strikes Blamed on US

This is Beirut, 28/03 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen on Friday reported dozens of overnight air strikes they blamed on the United States, including in the capital Sanaa, saying several people were wounded. In Sanaa, which the Huthis seized in 2014, "American aggression" targeted the international airport and part of the city centre, "damaging houses and ...

Hamas Says Spokesman Killed in Israeli Strike on Gaza

This is Beirut, 27/03 12:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Hamas said an Israeli air strike killed one of its official spokesmen in Gaza on Thursday, the latest high-ranking operative targeted since Israel resumed its bombardment. The group said in a statement it mourned the loss of Abdul Latif al-Qanou who was killed in what it called a "direct" strike on a tent he was in, in the Jabalia area of ...

Yemen's Huthis Say Two Killed in US Strikes

This is Beirut, 27/03 11:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Yemen's Huthi rebels said on Thursday that two people were killed in overnight air strikes near Sanaa that they blamed on the United States. The Huthis' Al-Masirah TV channel reported nearly 20 strikes on Sanaa governorate, both north and south of the capital. "The American aggression killed two and injured two," the Huthi-run health ministry's ...

Anti-Hamas Slogans Chanted at Protest in Gaza

This is Beirut, 26/03 22:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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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 ...

Netanyahu Accuses Opposition of Fueling Anarchy Amid Ongoing Protests

This is Beirut, 26/03 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the opposition on Wednesday of fueling "anarchy" in Israel following mass anti-government protests in recent days. In a speech to parliament, Netanyahu addressed the opposition, stating: "You recycle the same worn-out and ridiculous slogans about 'the end of democracy.’ Well, once and for all: Democracy ...

Oscar-Winning Palestinian Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Released by Israel

This is Beirut, 26/03 04:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Israeli police released Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal on Tuesday, after detaining him a day earlier for "hurling rocks" following what activists described as an attack by settlers in the occupied West Bank. Basel Adra, who worked with Ballal on the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land", posted a photo ...

Israel Says Al Jazeera Journalist it Killed in Gaza was Hamas 'Sniper'

This is Beirut, 25/03 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel on Tuesday said it had killed an Al Jazeera employee in the Gaza Strip, accusing the journalist, Hussam Shabat, of being a "sniper terrorist" for Hamas. The Qatar-based network said Shabat was killed Monday in an Israeli strike on his vehicle in northern Gaza, in an attack that media watchdog Reporters without Borders (RSF) condemned as ...

Israel Strikes Syria and Presses Gaza Offensive

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 ...

Israel Presses Ground Offensive in Gaza

This is Beirut, 23/03 18:38 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Israel's military pressed ground operations across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, encircling part of Rafah city near Egypt almost a week into a renewed assault on the Palestinian territory. Deployment of Israeli troops in parts of Gaza, despite calls to revive a January truce with Hamas militants, comes alongside a deadly flare-up in Lebanon and ...

Israel Military Says it Intercepted Missile From Yemen

This is Beirut, 23/03 09:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israel's military said it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early on Sunday, with Huthi rebels later claiming responsibility for an attack they said targeted Israel's Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. "Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was ...

Israel Threatens to Annex Parts of Gaza

This is Beirut, 22/03 05:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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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 ...

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