This blog has now closed. You can read our latest report on the Israel-Gaza war here and all our coverage on the conflict hereAl Jazeera are reporting that an Israeli military strike has targeted a family home in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, killing a woman and injuring other people. It attributes the information to “colleagues on the ground”.The publication, citing the Palestinian news agency Wafa, reports that “numerous other neighbourhoods of Gaza City have come under heavy artillery...
Israel has pulverized Hamas during the last seven months, destroying its infrastructure, killing its fighters, and reducing much of the Gaza Strip to rubble, but Hamas is proving to be more resilient than few people in Israel thought possible. The terrorists have resumed rocket attacks in Northern Gaza into Israeli communities and have regrouped in other areas.
This subject will be on the table when EU and Middle Eastern foreign ministers meet.
Despite the best efforts of the corporate media and academia, the majority of Americans still side with Israel in its ongoing war with Hamas.
The Palestinian Authority welcomed the World Court's order on Friday for Israel to halt its operations in the city of Rafah, saying it represents an international consensus to end the war in Gaza, presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh told Reuters. Hamas, which governs Gaza, also issued a statement welcoming the decision, but told Reuters that it fell short of recognising that other parts of the enclave are under attack. "We believe it is not enough since the occupation's aggression across...
Yoav Gallant, named alongside Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, criticises decisionCrowds have gathered in Tabriz in Iran to pay respects to those killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday, including the late president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.Associated Press reports that a procession led by a vehicle carrying the caskets of the dead slowly moved through the narrow streets of the city, which is the closest major one near to the...
Israel condemns a ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering it to stop its offensive.
Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders of the militant Hamas group. The human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney wrote of her participation in a letter posted Monday on the website of the couple’s Clooney Foundation for Justice. She said she and other experts in international law unanimously agreed to recommend that...
The human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney wrote of her participation in a letter posted Monday
Amal Clooney is one of the legal experts who recommended that the chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders of the militant Hamas group
After seven months of campaigning, Israel’s most pressing problem remains the continued existence, indeed resilience, of Hamas.
There must be an immediate ceasefire in the “appalling war” in Gaza, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.