Middle East

Hasbaya, about five miles (eight kilometres) from the Israeli border, is inhabited by Muslims, Christians, as well as people from the Druze ethnic and religious minority. It has seen attacks on its peripheries in recent weeks, but this was the first strike on the settlement itself. The attack comes as …

Since Israel began escalating its air strikes against Hezbollah in September, rockets have hit across the length and breadth of the country. It is a military campaign that Israel’s leaders feel has been brought them huge wins so far – having claimed the lives of Hezbollah’s senior leadership. However it …

Previous discussions over such a deal have focused on a proposal from US President Joe Biden in May, which was “positively” received by Hamas. That proposal laid out a three-step plan that would begin with a six-week ceasefire, in which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would withdraw from populated areas …

In the video, a paramedic runs panic-stricken between dead and dying civilians in the immediate aftermath of the strike. Source link

The government media office said “thousands of displaced people” were using the school as a shelter when the strike hit, “most of them children and women”. Nine children were among the 17 killed, with more than 52 injured, the media office added. Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence agency, …

“This is a humanitarian catastrophe,” Gabriel Karlsson, Middle East Manager at the British Red Cross in Beirut, told the BBC. He said there are insufficient shelters to accommodate so many evacuees. “I saw children sleeping in the streets,” Karlsson added, urging humanitarian organisations to coordinate their efforts to address the …

Ms Hammoud said Wednesday’s strike in Teffahta happened after the funeral for Ahmed Ezzedine’s cousin and brother-in-law, Khodr, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in the neighbouring village of Marwanieh on Monday. But she said a report by the state-run National News Agency (NNA) that the strike had …

I ask if the crisis in Gaza makes him worry about the survival of international law. He points to the fact that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, defence minister and the IDF chief of staff. The prosecutor also sought …

From the start of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, medical experts stressed that delays in administering the second dose could jeopardise overall efforts to halt transmission of the contagious, potentially deadly disease. For herd immunity to work, at least 90% of all children in every community and neighbourhood need …

The official said Blinken also pressed the Israeli leadership over reports that its military has been implementing a so-called “generals’ plan” in northern Gaza – a tactic described as using mass forced displacement of civilians and a surrender-or-starve tactic against all who remain. The official said the Israelis told them …

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 …