War in the Middle East

Palestinian Gunmen Shoot Dead Six People in East Jerusalem Attack
Palestinian Gunmen Shoot Dead Six People in East Jerusalem Attack

Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding several others. Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) said there were six victims dead in the shooting attack, updating an earlier toll of four. Police said the two gunmen were also killed. MDA said seven other ...

Drone Attack from Yemen Injures 8 at Israeli Airport
Drone Attack from Yemen Injures 8 at Israeli Airport

A drone launched from Yemen injured eight people when it fell on Ramon airport in southern Israel on Sunday, Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service said. "Paramedics are providing medical treatment... to a 63-year-old male in mild condition, fully conscious, with shrapnel injuries to his limbs," the service said in a ...

Lebanon and France Discuss Military Support and Reconstruction Initiatives
Lebanon and France Discuss Military Support and Reconstruction Initiatives

Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi held a phone conversation with his French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, on Sunday, expressing gratitude for France’s pivotal role in renewing the UNIFIL mandate under optimal terms. Barrot welcomed Lebanon’s adoption of the army’s plan to reassert state control over all weapons nationwide and reaffirmed ...

Centcom Chief Visits Israel After Beirut
Centcom Chief Visits Israel After Beirut

The new head of the US military's Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, concluded his first visit to Israel in the role on Saturday, the Israeli military said. "The visit focused on the operational cooperation between the IDF (Israeli military) and the US military, maintaining regional stability in both nearby and distant arenas, and ...

Lebanon Advances Cooperation with US
Lebanon Advances Cooperation with US

Lebanon is advancing its cooperation with the United States, with President of the Republic General Joseph Aoun urging Washington on Saturday to press Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanese territories. Aoun also reaffirmed the importance of US backing for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). Aoun stressed the need to fully implement last ...

France Welcomes Lebanon’s Endorsement of Army Plan on Weapons
France Welcomes Lebanon’s Endorsement of Army Plan on Weapons

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed on Saturday the Lebanese government’s plan proposed by the army to restore the state’s monopoly on arms across all of its territory. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot held talks a day earlier with his Lebanese counterpart, Youssef Raggi, to reaffirm France’s support for the disarmament ...

Israel Flattens Gaza City High-Rise as It Tells Residents to Flee
Israel Flattens Gaza City High-Rise as It Tells Residents to Flee

An Israeli strike flattened a high-rise in Gaza City on Saturday, the second in as many days, after the military warned people to flee south to a "humanitarian zone" ahead of a planned offensive to capture the area. Israel has been warning for weeks of a new assault on the territory's largest urban center, without issuing a ...

Lebanon Must Dare to Choose Peace
Op-edLebanon Must Dare to Choose Peace

In Lebanon, the word “peace” has for too long been confiscated, reduced to an empty slogan or an untouchable taboo, synonymous with “treason.” Yet if our country is to survive, rebuild its economy, and restore hope to its citizens, it can no longer afford to remain trapped in a logic of perpetual war. Peace, including with Israel, must ...

Israel Says It Intercepted Two Missiles Fired from Yemen
Israel Says It Intercepted Two Missiles Fired from Yemen

The Israeli army said Wednesday it intercepted two missiles launched from Yemen, where Houthis have vowed to avenge their prime minister, killed last week in an Israeli strike on Sanaa. "Following sirens that sounded earlier in several areas of the country, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted," the army said in a statement. According ...

Israel Security Agency Says Foiled Hamas Plot to Kill Far-Right Minister
Israel Security Agency Says Foiled Hamas Plot to Kill Far-Right Minister

Israel's internal security service said on Wednesday it had foiled a plot by Palestinian militant group Hamas to kill far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. In a statement, the Shin Bet security service said the planned attack would have involved "explosive drones." It said that in a joint operation with the army in recent weeks, ...

Israel Says Expecting One Million Gazans to Flee New Offensive
Israel Says Expecting One Million Gazans to Flee New Offensive

A senior Israeli military official said on Wednesday that authorities estimated that an imminent offensive in the Gaza Strip would displace one million Palestinians, planning a new "humanitarian area" for them. The vast majority of Gaza's more than two million people have been displaced at least once during nearly two years of war. The Israeli ...

Ofek 19, the New Israeli Spy Satellite
SpotlightOfek 19, the New Israeli Spy Satellite

Israel announced on Wednesday that it had launched a new spy satellite into orbit, called Ofek 19. According to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, “This is also a message to all our enemies, wherever they may be: we are watching you constantly and under all circumstances.” For his part, Israeli President Isaac Herzog declared that “Israel ...