Middle East

After air strikes near the city’s airport on 4 October, Hezbollah officials said they had lost contact with Safieddine, while US media cited Israeli officials as saying the cleric had been the target of the bombing. Huge blasts shook the city that night, leaving plumes of smoke that could still …

BBC Arabic’s Gaza Today programme interviewed several displaced people who had recently fled Jabalia camp and sought refuge in the nearby Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City. A man called Saleh said he had “endured a siege for 16 days” while sheltering with his family at Abu Hussein Primary School for …

Mohammed Sukayneh picked his way through slabs of rubble and twisted metal, clutching a few plastic bags – all he could recover from his home of 45 years. It was brought down on top of him and his family last night by an Israeli airstrike, that killed at 18 people, …

Although he acquired British citizenship in 2021, Egypt has never allowed him a consular visit. In opposition two years ago, the UK’s then shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, called for “serious diplomatic consequences” if access wasn’t granted immediately and Alaa Abdel Fattah was not freed. But his family are deeply …

Videos from the Dahiyeh neighbourhood in southern Beirut, where seven locations to be targeted were announced in advance, showed locals fleeing in vehicles and on foot as the strikes began hitting. One location identified as a target by the Israeli army was roughly 400m from Beirut airport, the only international …

Taken together, the two documents are a classified US assessment of Israel’s preparations to hit targets in Iran, based on intelligence analysed on 15-16 October by the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. What features prominently is the mention of two Air Launched Ballistic Missile (ABLM) systems: Golden Horizon and Rocks. Rocks …

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken, following the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar, who topped Israel’s most-wanted list, was a key figure believed to have been behind the 7 October attacks. Netanyahu claims the Hamas leader was “eliminated while fleeing in panic” from Israeli soldiers. Source link

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the key figure behind the 7 October attacks on Israel, was killed by Israeli troops on Wednesday. Drone footage released by the military is said to show Sinwar’s final moments before he was killed. BBC Verify was able to confirm the location of the footage: a …

Two weeks after the bombing of Dahieh began, the air strikes ceased unexpectedly, following pressure from the US government, which said it had made it clear to Israel it was unhappy with the “scope and nature” of the targeting of Beirut. One day passed without any strikes, then another, then …

In a statement on Sunday evening, IDF spokesman Rear Adm Daniel Hagari warned that “anyone located near sites used to fund Hezbollah’s terror activities must move away from these locations immediately”. “We will strike several targets in the coming hours and additional targets throughout the night,” he said. “In the …

In a statement on Sunday, Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry revised its death toll from 73 to 87 after the Israeli strike on Beit Lahia. The earlier casualty figures were provided by Hamas late on Saturday. The ministry also said that ambulance crews were unable to reach the site of the …

Rescue efforts in Beit Lahia are currently hampered due to communications and internet services being severed in the region, Gaza health officials said. The Hamas-run government media office said the bombing hit “crowded” residential areas, and that 73 people had been killed – a number also reported by Gaza’s civil …

A drone has been “launched towards” the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the coastal town of Caesarea, his office has said. “The prime minister and his wife were not at the location, and there were no injuries in the incident,” a statement said. It comes after …

Yahya Sinwar was the architect of the 7 October attacks, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken back to Gaza as hostages. He was also one of Israel’s top targets from that day on. Sinwar had been the leader of Hamas in Gaza, but became the …

Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said Sinwar’s killing was a “significant military and moral achievement”. Yoav Gallant, the defence minister, said Sinwar “joins a long series of eliminations”. “Sinwar died while beaten, persecuted and on the run – he didn’t die as a commander, but as someone who only cared …

The prime minister has repeated his war aims many times – destroying Hamas as a military and political force and bringing the hostages home. Neither has been achieved, despite a year of war that has killed at least 42,000 Palestinians and left much of Gaza in ruins. But the remaining …

It also named 12 men who it said were among “dozens” of members of the Palestinian armed groups present in the compound at the time of the strike. The military accused them of being involved in rocket attacks on Israel and of carrying out attacks on Israeli troops in Gaza …

In September, the Pentagon said the Houthis had launched “a complex attack” on US Navy ships in the region, though all of the weapons launched were shot down. As well as the attacks on ships in the Red Sea, the Houthis have fired several missiles and drones at Israel directly. …

Just across the road are the Palestinian villages of Umm Tuba and Sur Baher, where many public facilities are notably inferior to those in Har Homa. In stark contrast to the building work on the other side of the highway, several homes have been forcibly demolished here in recent years …

There has been intense conflict across the Middle East since 7 October last year, when Hamas gunmen killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages when the group launched a surprise assault on communities in southern Israel. Since then, Israeli assaults on Gaza have killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according …