Category: International

Israel Friday informed the United Nations that it has warned 1.1 million northern Gaza residents to relocate towards the southern territory in the next 24 hours, evacuating the north of Wadi Gaza. The warning from Israel was confirmed to AFP by a UN spokesperson, who called for revocation of the order on humanitarian grounds. The spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, Stephane Dujarric, said the Israeli military informed the UN about the order, which also applied to all of its own staff and people sheltered in the UN facilities including schools,…

GAZA: The United Nations has released a harrowing report on the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, revealing that over 338,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip.  The UN’s humanitarian agency, OCHA, described the situation as a “mass displacement” as heavy Israeli bombardments continue to pound the densely populated Palestinian enclave. The crisis deepened as Israel intensified its attacks on Hamas targets in response to the militants’ surprise Saturday assault. Israeli forces reported that approximately 1,200 people, the majority of them civilians, have tragically lost their lives…

After Israel imposed a complete blockade of Gaza in response to Hamas surprise attack, a humanitarian crisis is swiftly unfolding in Gaza with stranded residents facing a shortage of essential items, while the death toll from the clashes crossed 2,000. The Gaza Strip has been hit by airstrikes since imposition of complete siege of the besieged territory with Israeli military fighter jets hit more than 200 targets overnight in a neighbourhood of Gaza City that it said had been used by Hamas to launch its unprecedented wave of attacks. Under…

Palestinian group Hamas threatened Tuesday to execute some of the around 150 hostages if Israel kept up its deadly bombardment of Gaza without warning. The Hamas warning comes as the Israeli military claimed it regained “full control” of the Gaza fence that was breached by the Hamas gunmen who infiltrated into southern Israel on Saturday, according to Al Jazeera. Daniel Hagari, spokesperson for the Israeli military, said no Hamas fighter had crossed the fence over the past 24 hours, but did not discount the possibility that some of the gunmen were…

The Israeli military has gathered nearly 100,000 reserve troops near Gaza Strip in a bid to regain control of a desert near the embattled border, sparking fears of a ground invasion of the besieged territory. A spokesman for the Israeli military said his country has gathered 100,000 reserve troops near Gaza for the ongoing war with Hamas as the death toll surged above 1,100 by the third day of clashes. “We have amassed around 100,000 reserve troops who are currently in southern Israel,” said an Israeli military spokesperson in a…

At least 300 Israelis were killed in a surprise large-scale attack by Hamas on Saturday, with retaliatory strikes in the besieged Gaza Strip martyring over 200 Palestinians. Witnesses told Anadolu that warplanes bombed a military location belonging to Palestinian groups in western Gaza, as well as houses and public buildings in the town of Beit Hanoun and other sites in southern and central Gaza. According to Al Jazeera, Israeli forces were still bombing Gaza and fighting with Hamas gunmen in parts of southern Israel in the wee hours of Sunday. Hamas said its…

Palestinian gunmen infiltrated parts of southern Israel while over 5,000 rocket barrages were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Saturday, Hamas’ armed wing said, declaring the initiation of “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, AFP reported. One person in Kfar Aviv was injured when their vehicle was hit as a result of the attack, and a building in southern Ashkelon was damaged, Haaretz reported. A woman, who was in her 60s, was critically wounded by a rocket attack on southern Israel and later died. Additionally, 15 others were injured in the central Israeli city of…

Over 100 people were killed Thursday in a lethal drone attack on a Syrian military college, according to a war monitor, with state media attributing the drone hit in government-held Homs to “terrorist organisations.” Separately, after Ankara vowed revenge for a bomb assault, Turkish airstrikes in the northeast of the nation, which is controlled by Kurdish forces, claimed the lives of at least 11 people. In the central city of Homs, “armed terrorist organisations” targeted “the graduation ceremony for officers of the military academy”, an army statement carried by the…

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