An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis killed Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel on Sunday, Hamas officials said, as residents reported an escalation in the Israeli military campaign that began on Tuesday. Pro-Hamas media said the airstrike killed Bardaweel, who is a member of the group’s political office, and also killed his wife. Israeli … Read more
Paris: The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain called late Friday for an “immediate return” to a Gaza ceasefire, as Israel’s military pressed its renewed offensive in the Palestinian territory. Israel on Tuesday began a fresh assault on the war-battered enclave, shattering the relative calm since a January 19 ceasefire. “The resumption of Israeli … Read more
Washington: U.S. immigration officials on Friday sent an email to the legal team of Momodou Taal, a Cornell University student who has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, asking him to turn himself in, Taal’s attorneys said in a court filing. A “notice to appear” sent by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials is among the first … Read more
Jerusalem: The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen on Friday, one day after shooting down two projectiles launched by Houthi militants. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that it fired a ballistic missile toward Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, the group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said in … Read more
Beirut: Israeli air strikes on Friday targeted the military airport near Palmyra in central Syria, a war monitor said, reporting the latest Israeli attack in the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. “Israeli warplanes targeted the Palmyra military airport,” the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Since Islamist-led rebels overthrew Assad in December, … Read more
Jerusalem: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened Friday to annex parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas militants release the remaining Israeli hostages held in the war-battered Palestinian territory. The warning came as Israel stepped up the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm that had reigned in the war-battered territory since … Read more
United Nations: Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi, who was beaten, chained and starved while held for 491 days by Hamas, expressed his anger during an appearance at the UN Security Council on Thursday for having to suffer for so long and worry every day about being killed. “Where was the United Nations? Where was the … Read more
Gaza City: Hamas on Thursday called on Arab and Muslim nations to take urgent action to halt Israel’s renewed offensive on Gaza, saying they had a “direct moral and political responsibility” to “end the genocide”. Israel resumed its air campaign early Tuesday with a wave of deadly strikes, shattering a relative calm that had pervaded … Read more
Jerusalem: Israel’s military said on Thursday it had killed the head of Hamas’s internal security agency in an air strike on the Gaza Strip, the latest official targeted in recent days. Israel resumed its air campaign early Tuesday with a wave of deadly strikes, shattering a relative calm that had pervaded the war-ravaged Palestinian territory … Read more
Hundreds were killed in a series of airstrikes in Gaza over the past few days. The barrage of attacks accompanied ground operations in the restive strip under siege since the October 2023 attack that plunged the Middle East into crisis. Half a dozen Hamas leaders were wiped out as Israel targeted key infrastructures, continuing their … Read more
Jerusalem: Israel announced renewed ground operations in Gaza on Wednesday and issued what it called a “last warning” to residents of the Palestinian territory to return hostages and remove Hamas from power. Israeli forces this week conducted the deadliest wave of air strikes since the start of a truce in January, killing hundreds of people, … Read more
New Delhi: The military campaign will continue in Gaza till there is a Gaza free of Hamas, Israeli Ambassador Reuven Azar told NDTV World today. The 42-day temporary ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is now over and Hamas has gone back on its promise of releasing the hostages kidnapped by the terrorist organisation. This, … Read more