The number of people killed in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war reached a new milestone over the weekend. More than 50,000 people have now died, including 15,613 children, according to figures released by Gaza’s health ministry on Sunday. Nearly 700 Palestinians have lost their lives since last Tuesday, when Israel restarted lethal air strikes in … Read more
Palestinians carry a body pulled from the rubble of the Qrayqea family house. Jerusalem: Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Tuesday that Israel had “no alternative” other than to resume military operations in Gaza after its efforts to secure the release of hostages failed. “Without the release of our hostages, Israel has no alternative but resuming … Read more
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday condemned as “false and absurd” a UN investigation that found Israel had committed “genocidal acts” in the Gaza Strip. “The anti-Israeli circus known as the UN Human Rights Council has long been exposed as an anti-Semitic, corrupt, terror-supporting, and irrelevant body,” Netanyahu said in a statement issued … Read more
Jerusalem: Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Sunday said he had given instructions to stop supplying electricity to Gaza, a week after Israel blocked all aid into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. The move has echoes of the earliest days of the war when Israel announced a “siege” that included an electricity cutoff to Gaza. “I … Read more
Hundreds watched on Thursday as four black coffins, which Hamas said held the remains of Israel’s Bibas family and an elderly hostage, were carried off stage by Palestinian militants in southern Gaza. The ceremony, held on a sandy area that was once a cemetery before its destruction by Israeli forces, marked the first handover of … Read more