Middle East

At least 14 people have been killed after a number of suspected Israeli strikes against targets across Syria, the country’s state news agency has reported. It says five sites were targeted, including a scientific research centre. Israel usually does not comment on attacks in Syria and has not given a …

“Paving the road puts pressure on negotiators and mediators. The Israelis are trying to create a fait accompli,” says Dr Krieg. “It also suggests that Israel is not going to withdraw entirely from the Gaza strip any time soon,” he says. He cites a road built earlier this year by …

The city of Tubas and al-Faraa refugee camp were also raided during the operation across the northern West Bank – the deadliest of its kind since the start of the war in Gaza last October triggered by Hamas’s attack on Israel. Hundreds of troops from several branches of the security …

The IDF said one of its aircraft had “struck armed terrorists who hurled explosives and shot at the security forces” during the operation in al-Faraa camp. “In an exchange of fire, Israel Prison Service forces eliminated a terrorist who was armed with an explosive device,” it added. The IDF provided …

In a wide-ranging interview, he explained the ICC needed to request warrants for leaders on both sides to ensure people around the world thought the court was applying “the law equally based upon some common standards”. “If one had applied for warrants in relation to Israeli officials and not for …

Defence for Children Palestine (DCIP), a rights group, said, external Israeli soldiers entered Kafr Dan around 11:30 (09:30 BST) on Tuesday, prompting clashes with armed Palestinians. “Israeli soldiers surrounded and besieged the home of a wanted Palestinian man, firing live ammunition and shells at the house,” it said. “Around 14:10, …

“[The] decision means that while ministers apparently accept that Israel may be committing war crimes in Gaza, [the government] is nevertheless continuing to risk complicity in war crimes, apartheid – and possible genocide – by Israeli forces in Gaza,” he said. The non-profit organisation has continuously called for a ceasefire …

It felt like quite a moment. The new-ish government spelling out a different approach to Israel and the conflict in the Middle East from that of its predecessor – the third such time it has done so in two months. When David Lammy became foreign secretary in early July, he …

Through limiting access to grazing land, outpost settlers like Moshe Sharvit are able to put Palestinian farmers in increasingly precarious positions, says Moayad Shaaban, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission. “It reaches a point where Palestinians don’t have anything anymore. They can’t eat, they can’t …

The government has reacted angrily to the union’s action, with far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich accusing it of playing into the hands of Hamas. It is unclear how widely the stoppage will be observed, after several cities and municipalities announced they would not take part. However, the call for a …

When fans saw rapper Macklemore had cancelled an upcoming gig, some of them assumed it was in solidarity with Gaza. But it wasn’t. The gig was in Dubai and he’d cancelled over the war in Sudan, which has already killed tens of thousands of people, left millions more hungry and …

Monday’s walkout comes as the government faces calls to get a deal to free the remaining Gaza captives. Source link

The UN’s World Health Organization says it aims to vaccinate 640,000 children in Gaza, weeks after the first polio case was detected in the region in 25 years. The rollout relies on a series of localised pauses in fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters. To be effective, the World …

US Central Command says it targeted members of IS leadership in an effort to “disrupt and degrade” the group’s plans. Source link

Ariel Geller’s family was invited for a guided tour of Haifa’s Hecht Museum in Israel, a few days after the four-year-old smashed a rare, 3,500-year-old jar in the museum. The museum told the BBC the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC – and was a …

In a statement published on Friday, external, Anera said the transport plan for the aid convoy to Rafah had been co-ordinated and cleared with Israeli authorities and that its agreement with transit company Move One had called for unarmed security guards. “Shortly after departing Kerem Shalom, initial reports indicate that …

Down another shattered street, paved with broken glass and burned pieces of rubble, I hear a voice at the window above me. It turns out to be Umm Yazan. She says the army laid wires from her home to blow up two of the houses opposite – families she has …

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which said on Thursday that it had killed five members of armed groups in Tulkarm, including their local leader. The military did, however, announce that forces had pulled out of the al-Faraa refugee camp near Tubas after completing what it called …

Jenin, the focus of news networks today, has been living through a news blackout. The Palestinian phone network was down for much of the day – lines cut by the Israeli military operation here, the telecoms company said. The resident I speak to says his family still has water and …

Around 1.26m doses of the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) are already in Gaza, with 400,000 additional doses set to arrive soon. The campaign will be administered by “the Palestinian Ministry of Health, in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, UNRWA”. Over 2,000 health and community outreach workers have been …