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Hezbollah says it launched attacks at nine Israeli military sites

Hezbollah says it launched attacks at nine Israeli military sites

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Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”. The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.  Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers. In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published final death tolls based on its own research into medical records. The UN’s counts have largely been consistent with the Gaza health ministry’s, with small discrepancies.  For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here. (FRANCE 24 with AP)  Source link

‘Time for haggling to stop’ on Gaza truce, Blinken says

‘Time for haggling to stop’ on Gaza truce, Blinken says

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Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”. The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.  Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers. In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published final death tolls based on its own research into medical records. The UN’s counts have largely been consistent with the Gaza health ministry’s, with small discrepancies.  For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here. (FRANCE 24 with AP)  Source link

Hamas demands ‘complete halt’ to war in response to Gaza truce plan

Hamas demands ‘complete halt’ to war in response to Gaza truce plan

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Back to homepage / Middle East As it happened Hamas gave its official response to the latest US-backed truce proposal for Gaza on Tuesday, calling for a “complete halt” to Israeli “aggression” as fighting raged in the Palestinian territory. The US said it was “evaluating” the response. Earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $404 million in new US assistance for the Palestinians, urging other countries to give more money to address Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. Read our liveblog to see how the day’s events unfolded. Issued on: 11/06/2024 – 01:42Modified: 11/06/2024 – 16:36 2 min Israeli military vehicles maneuver inside the Gaza Strip on June 10, 2024. © Amir Cohen, Reuters This liveblog is now closed. For all the latest head here. Summary: The US said Israel had accepted the three-phase plan for a ceasefire in Gaza. Sources with knowledge of the talks said Hamas welcomed the plan but proposed “amendments”. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $404 million in new US assistance for the Palestinians during a summit in Jordan aimed at boosting humanitarian aid for …

Houthi missiles strike two ships in the Gulf of Aden, US military says

Houthi missiles strike two ships in the Gulf of Aden, US military says

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Missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two ships in the Gulf of Aden, authorities said Sunday, the latest assaults on shipping in the region. Issued on: 10/06/2024 – 06:02 2 min One anti-ship ballistic cruise missile hit the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged cargo ship Norderney forward station late Saturday, starting a fire that those on board put out, the US military’s Central Command said. It added that a second anti-ship cruise missile also hit the Norderney.  The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center similarly reported the attack and fire in the same area off Aden, saying “damage control is underway.”  Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed the attack in a prerecorded video message Sunday, saying the vessel had been targeted with both missiles and drones. Tracking data analyzed by The Associated Press showed the Norderney was still in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday afternoon.  In a second attack, a Houthi ballistic missile hit the Tavvishi, a Liberian-flagged, Swiss-owned-and-operated container ship in the Gulf of Aden, Central Command. Saree claimed the …

Israel under increased pressure after war cabinet minister Gantz resigns

Israel under increased pressure after war cabinet minister Gantz resigns

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Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz on Sunday announced his resignation amid celebrations for the rescue of four hostages from war-torn Gaza in a raid that Palestinians say killed hundreds. Gantz’s resignation is the latest sign of sharpening domestic dissent over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the eight-month war, and is the first major political blow to him during the conflict. It came after special forces fought gun battles with Palestinian militants on Saturday in central Gaza’s crowded Nuseirat refugee camp area as they swooped in to free the four captives. The Israeli military said the extraction team and captives came under heavy gun and grenade fire, which killed one police officer, while Israel’s air force launched strikes that reduced nearby buildings to rubble. The health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said 274 people were killed and 698 wounded, in what it labelled the “Nuseirat massacre”, figures that could not be independently verified. Freed Israeli hostage Noa Argamani, 26, is embraced by her father at a hospital on June 8, 2024 © Israeli Army …

Who are the four hostages Israel freed from Gaza?

Who are the four hostages Israel freed from Gaza?

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Israeli troops on Saturday rescued four Israeli hostages held in Gaza since Hamas militants captured them on October 7 in the attack on the Supernova music festival in southern Israel. Here are short profiles of the freed captives, identified by the army as Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv.  Issued on: 08/06/2024 – 15:35Modified: 08/06/2024 – 15:33 3 min Noa Argamani, 26 Noa Argamani became one of the faces of the hostages in the immediate aftermath of October 7 after a video emerged of her being taken away from the festival by Hamas fighters on the back of a motorbike. “Don’t kill me!” she screamed. The video showed her boyfriend, Avinatan Or, an engineer, being led away separately. A student at Ben-Gurion University in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, Argamani “loves life”, a group of her friends said on social media. Her Chinese-Israeli mother has brain cancer and in a public video spoke of her despair at the possibility she may not see her daughter before she dies. Almog Meir Jan, …

Blinken to visit Middle East next week to push ceasefire plan as war enters ninth month

Blinken to visit Middle East next week to push ceasefire plan as war enters ninth month

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Back to homepage / Middle East AS IT HAPPENED US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit the Middle East next week to push a plan for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, the State Department announced Friday. Blinken, who will be paying his eighth visit to the region since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, will visit Israel and key US Arab partners Egypt, Jordan and Qatar from Monday through Wednesday, the State Department said. Read our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded. Issued on: 07/06/2024 – 03:21Modified: 07/06/2024 – 22:47 2 min Food and good stalls are set-up by vendors outside the burnt out ruins of the building (L) housing the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip on June 7, 2024. © Omar Al-Qattaa, AFP This blog is no longer being updated. For more coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, please click here. Summary: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit the Middle East next week to push a plan for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, …

Dozens reported killed in Israeli ‘targeted air strike’ on UN-run school in Gaza

Dozens reported killed in Israeli ‘targeted air strike’ on UN-run school in Gaza

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Israel hit a Gaza school on Thursday with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas fighters inside, while a Hamas official said 40 people including women and children were killed as they sheltered in the U.N. site. Issued on: 06/06/2024 – 05:59Modified: 06/06/2024 – 09:52 4 min The strike took place at a sensitive moment in mediated negotiations on a ceasefire agreement entailing the release of hostages seized by Hamas on Oct. 7 and some of the Palestinians held in Israeli jails. Hamas seeks a permanent end to the war.  Israel says it must destroy the Islamist group first. The United States issued a joint statement with other countries on Thursday calling on Israel and Hamas to make whatever compromises were necessary to finalise a deal as the two sides gave contradictory accounts of the school attack. Ismail Al-Thawabta, the director of the Hamas-run government media office, rejected Israel’s assertion that the U.N. school in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, had hidden a Hamas command post. “The occupation uses … false …

Hamas signals post-war ambition in talks with Palestinian rival Fatah

Hamas signals post-war ambition in talks with Palestinian rival Fatah

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RAMALLAH: Deep divisions will limit progress at reconciliation talks between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah this month, conversations with five sources in the groups indicate, but the meetings highlight that the militant group is likely to retain influence after Israel’s war in Gaza. The talks between Hamas and the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will be held in China in mid-June, according to officials from both sides. They follow two recent rounds of reconciliation talks, one in China and one in Russia. China’s foreign ministry declined to comment. The next meeting will be held amid attempts by international mediators to reach a ceasefire deal for Gaza, with one of the key sticking points being the “day-after” plan – how the enclave will be governed. Considered a terrorist organisation by many Western nations, Hamas was shunned long before its Oct 7 attacks killed 1,200 people in Israel, with more than 250 hostages taken, triggering the war in Gaza. But even as it is pummelled militarily, the meetings of Hamas politicians with officials from the Fatah …

Hamas will deal ‘positively’ with any ceasefire deal based on war’s total halt

Hamas will deal ‘positively’ with any ceasefire deal based on war’s total halt

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Back to homepage / Middle East AS IT HAPPENED Hamas will deal “seriously and positively” with any ceasefire agreement that is based on the total halt of war, complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and an Israeli hostages-Palestinian prisoners swap deal, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a statement on Wednesday. Israel earlier repeated its refusal to halt the Gaza offensive for a resumption of hostage-release talks with the Palestinian militant group. Read our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded. Issued on: 05/06/2024 – 01:42Modified: 05/06/2024 – 18:00 3 min Israeli army tanks deploy in an area of Israel’s southern border with the Gaza Strip on June 5, 2024. © Jack Guez, AFP This blog is no longer being updated. For more coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, please click here. Summary: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu toured the country’s northern border with Lebanon on Wednesday and said that Israel was prepared for strong action in the north. Israel is phasing out the use of a military-run detention camp for Palestinians captured during the Gaza war where rights groups alleged there …