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On October 7, 2023, armed Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, firing thousands of rockets and breaking through the Gaza-Israel barrier. At least 1,200 Israelis were killed in the attacks, which included an assault on a music festival, and hundreds more civilians and soldiers were taken hostage. In response, the Israeli government declared war on Hamas. The resulting barrage of artillery on Gaza and a subsequent blockade of aid caused the deaths of thousands of Palestinians and led to an international outcry.
If China has been committing genocide in Xinjiang, then what do we call what Israel and the United States are doing to the people of Palestine?
Crisis-hit region needs ceasefire in Gaza where thousands have died in fighting, not another step towards a full-scale conflagration.
- Captives Keith Siegel and Omri Miran appear alive in the footage, which appeared to have been taken earlier this week
- Israel’s foreign minister says a planned invasion of Rafah could be suspended should an agreement emerge to secure the release of the hostages
The Yemen-based rebels say they hit the aircraft with a missile as part of a renewed series of assaults amid the Israel-Gaza war.
The militant group, which has insisted on a permanent ceasefire, said it would submit its response after examining the proposal.
An official with the UN Mine Action Service said unexploded ordnance buried in the rubble would complicate the clean-up operation.
The baby, named Rouh meaning Soul, suffered respiratory problems and a weak immune system, died on Thursday.
Analysis using remote sensing technology from Wuhan University puts the level of damage at about 60 per cent.
Lebanon-based Hezbollah has been exchanging near-daily fire with the Israeli army since the day after its Palestinian ally Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7.
The jetty, part of an effort to avert famine in the Palestinian enclave amid Israel’s campaign against Hamas, is set to become operational next month.
Europe must not become a vassal of the US, he said, as he outlined his vision for a more assertive EU on the global stage.
The university cancelled all scheduled activities involving Gilley, who left Malaysia saying he was one step ahead of the ‘mob’ whipped up by the government.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said US President Joe Biden should take action, and suggested sending in the National Guard to ‘bring order’ to campuses rocked by pro-Palestinian protests.
40,000 tents have been bought for the evacuation of civilians, and all that remains is for PM Benjamin Netanyahu to give the order, an Israeli official says.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was seriously wounded during his abduction from the Nova music festival on October 7, and the video shows him missing a hand.
The US Senate approved billions in aid for Israel, which is locked in a war with Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
Student protests in the US over the war in Gaza have intensified and expanded over the past week. Police have been called in to several campuses to arrest demonstrators.
The baby girl survived after she was delivered by caesarean section as her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, was fatally wounded from an Israel air strike.
On Monday, the Palestinian territory’s Civil Defence agency said health workers had uncovered more than 200 bodies of people killed and buried at Nasser hospital, which was besieged by Israeli troops last month.
Classes at Columbia University were shifted online on Monday as protests over the Israel-Gaza war heightened tensions on US campuses and led to dozens of arrests at Yale University.
An independent review group on the UN agency for Palestinians found some ‘neutrality-related issues’, but it noted Israel had yet to provide evidence for incendiary allegations that staff were members of terrorist organisations.
Since Hamas’ unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel triggered war in Gaza, there have been near-daily cross-border exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Major General Aharon Haliva is the first high-ranking official to step down for failing to prevent the attack that shocked Israel and the international community.
As the Gaza war drags into its seventh month, conflict on Sunday was focused on Lebanon and the West Bank, but Israeli officials said further fighting in Gaza has been authorised.
The United States appears close to sanctioning an Israeli military unit over alleged human rights violations in the West Bank.
The overnight strikes on Rafah city killed 22 people, most of them children, with one of the victims only 18 months old.
Experts say Washington’s plan to rely on surge troops could be tested now the arch-foes have broken the taboo of open military strikes against each other.
USC said it was ‘redesigning’ the entire commencement programme days after the school decided to disallow valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s speech at the May 10 event.
Special envoy Li Hui’s latest mission to Europe was met with scepticism, and could be seen as ‘signalling’ to the Global South that China is a responsible power.
‘China’s goal is to enjoy the fact that the US is getting bruised here, but also to use the conflict in Gaza as a way to rally the Global South against the United States,‘ one says.
