The Israeli military has targeted a top Hezbollah figure in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, two security sources in Lebanon say, sharply escalating the year-long conflict between Israel and the militant group. The Israeli military said it had conducted a “targeted strike” in Beirut. The attack hit near key Hezbollah facilities, security sources in … Read more
Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah have detonated across Lebanon’s south and in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a security source and a witness say, further hiking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions launched via the group’s pagers. A Hezbollah official told the Associated Press walkie-talkies used by the group exploded as part of blasts heard … Read more
Before civil war robbed Abang Othow of her childhood, she lived among mango trees near the river Nile in Sudan where the smell of her mother’s cooking laced the air and “life was surreal”. Those are the memories she desperately clung to when, at age five, she was left “alone” to flee between the nations … Read more
The West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, President Vladimir Putin says, a move he warns would alter the nature and scope of the conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with Kyiv’s allies for months to let Ukraine fire Western missiles … Read more
Israeli air strikes on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians have killed and wounded 65 people in southern Gaza, the enclave’s civil emergency service reports, as the Israeli military says it targeted a Hamas command centre. Residents and medics said a tent encampment near Khan Younis in the Al-Mawasi area, a designated humanitarian zone, was … Read more
Tens of thousands of angry Israelis surged into the streets after six more hostages were found dead in Gaza, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach a ceasefire with Hamas to bring the remaining captives home. The mass outpouring on Sunday appeared to be the largest such demonstration since the conflict escalated 11 months ago, … Read more
Israeli forces have killed a local commander of the Islamist movement Hamas in the flashpoint city of Jenin, the Israeli military says, as they pressed a major operation in the occupied West Bank for a third day. The military said Border Police forces had killed Wassem Hazem, who it said was the head of Hamas … Read more
A 19-year-old social media star who shared his daily life in Gaza with the world has been killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike, as his family were trying to raise enough money to flee the war zone. Mohammad “Medo” Halimy will never be able to go to college as he had planned after being struck … Read more
Israeli special forces have recovered an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip in “a complex rescue operation”, the military says, more than 10 months after he was abducted by Hamas-led gunmen on October 7. It said 52-year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a member of the Bedouin community in southern Israel, had been … Read more
The brother of an Australian aid worker killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza is pushing for further action to be taken over her death. Zomi Frankcom and six other World Central Kitchen workers died after the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) launched strikes as they delivered food at night in early April. Two officers … Read more
