UN to demand Israel end “unlawful” presence in Palestinian territories within 12 months UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly will on Wednesday adopt a Palestinian-drafted resolution that demands Israel end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within 12 months. The action will isolate Israel days before world leaders travel to […]
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters. The operation was an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others, […]
Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters. The operation was an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others, including the group’s […]
The World Health Organization chief on Tuesday said that Israeli tanks at the weekend had fired on an aid convoy that had been cleared to travel back from war-ravaged northern Gaza. “Last Saturday, on the way back from a mission to the northern Gaza and after a WHO-led convoy got clearance and crossed the coast […]
UN human rights experts criticised mostly Western states on Monday for continuing to support Israel despite what they described as a genocide in Gaza which might turn Israel into a “pariah” nation. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza as a result of more than 11 months of conflict has prompted questions about Western states’ long-standing political […]
A surface-to-surface missile fired at central Israel from Yemen hit an unpopulated area, causing no injuries, Israel’s military said on Sunday. Moments earlier, air raid sirens had sounded in Tel Aviv and across central Israel, sending residents running for shelter. “Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in central Israel, a surface-to-surface missile […]
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the Prime Minister’s office in Downing Street, London, calling on the UK government to stop arms sales to Israel in response to its ongoing military operations in Gaza. The protest on Wednesday night was sparked by an Israeli airstrike on a “humanitarian safe zone” in southern Gaza that killed at […]
Gal Haimovich, a 49-year-old Israeli national, pleaded guilty in a US court on Monday to charges of conspiring to illegally export American-made aircraft parts and avionics to Russia, violating export controls imposed following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The US Justice Department announced that Haimovich’s actions included the shipment of components with missile […]
Israeli forces detained a United Nations convoy in Gaza for hours, ramming its vehicles and firing shots, according to a UN spokesperson. The convoy, transporting personnel involved in a polio vaccination campaign, was stopped by Israeli soldiers at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint on Monday. The soldiers demanded to question two Palestinian staff members onboard, escalating […]
Israel bombed a school housing displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Wednesday, which rescuers said killed 18 people, including UN staffers, while the Israeli army said it hit a Hamas control centre. The Al-Jawni school in Nuseirat had already been bombed several times over the course of the 11-month war in Gaza. The latest strike […]