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A fresh wave of Israeli airstrikes started pounding locations across Lebanon on Sunday night, some striking dangerously close to Lebanon's only international airport. Israel had said it would launch a widescale assault on a banking institution it regards as Hezbollah's de-facto financial arm, the Al...
Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, has been killed by Israeli soldiers in southern Gaza, Israel has confirmed. Sinwar had led the armed group in Gaza since 2017 and was described by Israel, the US and UK as the mastermind behind the 7 October attacks - when Hamas gunmen killed around 1,200 people in...
A Belgian prosecutor said Friday that the country has launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by a Belgian soldier fighting for Israel in Gaza. The federal prosecutor office said that the probe focuses on Belgian member of an elite unit of the Israeli military. According to...
United Nations agencies have called for an urgent increase in funding to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Lebanon as the Israeli military continues its offensive against Hezbollah. UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP) warned in a joint statement on Tuesday that the fighting, which...
Israeli strikes hit the United Nations peacekeepers' base in southern Lebanon on Thursday and Friday—which has injured at least four peacekeepers—has drawn widespread condemnation and outrage from global leaders. Friday's strikes in Naqoura injured two UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)...
A United Nations inquiry said on Thursday it found that Israel carried out a concerted policy of destroying Gaza’s health care system in the Gaza war, actions amounting to both war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination. A statement by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
The Israeli military has carried out intense bombardment in the Jabalia refugee camp, killing at least 17 people hours after forcing residents in the area to leave again during its third ground assault on the densely populated camp in northern Gaza since launching the war a year ago. The Palestinian...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that Iran would pay for its missile attack on Tuesday, while Tehran said any retaliation would be met with “vast destruction,” raising fears of a wider war. In its attack on Tuesday, Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, Israel said...
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant signaled that the Isarael Defense Forces still plan to move its troops into Lebanon, telling the army, “We will use all of our capabilities—including you.” "That is what we will do, and we will deploy whatever is needed—you, other forces, from the air, from the...
The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict leveled an apartment building early Monday. It came after Israel hit targets across Lebanon and killed dozens of people, as Hezbollah sustained heavy blows to its command structure, including the killing of its...