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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.
The fateful relationship between America and Israel is not only a threat to stability in the Middle East, but also the rest of the world.
Senior US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham cites Hiroshima and Nagasaki as examples of why Israel must be allowed to do whatever it takes in the already devastated Palestinian territory.
Note from 12 Republican senators threatens court’s chief prosecutor, family and associates with sanctions in bid to protect Israeli leaders.
Like the previous Vietnam generation of baby boomers, US university students are waking up to the atrocities their government commits or helps its client states to commit around the world.
If Western politicians are right, Beijing is behind the student protests in the US, responsible for preventing a British MP from visiting Djibouti and ‘fuelling the largest armed conflict in Europe since WWII’.
The world would be a better place if US politicians exercised the same conscientiousness over Palestine as they have over the Chinese autonomous region.
Israel, Hamas and the United States have blasted the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court after he applied for arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, defence minister as well as three Hamas leaders.
Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian are losing thousands of Instagram followers for their stance – or lack of – on the Israel-Gaza war
Women and children among the dead in air strike on Nuseirat, a refugee camp in central Gaza.
Speaking at a Madrid meeting of global far-right leaders, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said plans to recognise Palestinian state would be ‘rewarding’ Hamas attack.
Protesters focused their anger on President Joe Biden, and the violent crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest camps at universities across the US.
Readers discuss the possible reasons for voter fatigue in India’s ongoing elections, the viability of Palestinian statehood, and strengthening protection of Victoria Harbour.
The Netanyahu rival spelled out a six-point proposal that includes the return of scores of hostages, ending Hamas’ rule and demilitarising the Gaza strip.
The other two captives were identified as 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-old man, Itzhak Gelerenter.
The alleged drone shoot down comes as the Houthis launch attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, demanding Israel ends the war in Gaza.
The pier was successfully anchored on Thursday, with around 500 tonnes of aid expected to enter the Palestinian territory in the coming days.
Sonthaya Oakkharasr and Sudthisak Rinthalak, who worked in the plantations near Kibbutz Be’eri, were originally thought to have survived the October 7 attack.
Israel denied it’s committing genocide in Gaza after South Africa filed a request at the International Court of Justice for a halt to Israeli military operations in the Palestinian enclave to stop what it called the destruction of Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch a full-scale ground operation in Rafah in a bid to dismantle the remaining battalions of Hamas.
The US and other countries, fearing mass casualties, have tried to convince Israel not to attack Rafah. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says it’s necessary to defeat the last of Hamas’s battalions.
A US$320 million pier is intended to boost humanitarian access to war-torn Gaza via sea. Dangers and uncertainties lie head for aid delivery teams as fighting surges.
Celebrities who have remained silent on the crisis in Gaza are feeling the wrath of angry fans who are blocking them on social media platforms.
The United Nations clarifies a fresh breakdown of the death toll in Gaza, after Israel condemned the world body for ‘parroting … Hamas’s propaganda messages’.
Package including tank rounds, mortars and armoured tactical vehicles. It is the first arms shipment after US President Joe Biden warned he may withhold arms to Israel over concerns about a Rafah offensive in southern Gaza.
Detroit-born Tlaib made history by becoming the first woman of Palestinian descent in the US House of Representatives, but the outspoken member courts controversy with her progressive politics
Palestinians observe May 15 as Nakba Day, Arabic for catastrophe, to commemorate the expulsion of 700,000 Arabs at the time of the establishment of Israel in 1948.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed said the fundamental difference between the two parties was over the release of hostages and ending the war.
Israel’s prime minister said 14,000 of those killed in the Gaza war are Hamas fighters, playing down a civilian toll that has sparked global outrage.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that US President Joe Biden’s administration does not view the killings of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel in its war with Hamas as genocide.
Every year, Israel marks Independence Day with a live-streamed torch-lighting ceremony at its Jerusalem national cemetery. This year, as Israel turns 76 in the middle of a ferocious war, things are different.
Lack of a level playing field is underlying issue of overcapacity, Berlin’s representative in Beijing said, in a wide-ranging interview.