The Israeli army will “not take its foot off the pedal” until Hezbollah has been disarmed, the new defence minister has said in an apparent expansion of the country’s war aims in Lebanon. Speaking to soldiers on the northern border, Israel Katz, who replaced the sacked Yoav Gallant last week, ruled out a ceasefire despite […]
Read MoreHamas urges Donald Trump to pressure Israel to agree to a ceasefire
In short: A senior Hamas official says its mediators would accept “any proposal submitted to it” that would lead to a ceasefire and Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Donald Trump repeatedly said during his presidential campaign that he would bring peace to the Middle East. Iran has also backed Lebanon’s stance in ongoing […]
Read MoreNetanyahu appoints hardline supporter of Gaza war as US ambassador
Yechiel Leiter, a rightwing publicist and government aide, is also a longtime backer of settlements in the West Bank Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a hardline supporter of the war in Gaza and longtime backer of settlements in the West Bank as his ambassador to the US as Israel prepares for the incoming administration of […]
Read More‘Our job was to protect each other’: the Australian woman who saw a fellow volunteer shot dead by Israeli forces
Helen O’Sullivan was sheltering from teargas in the West Bank with Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi when the US-Turkish citizen was shot in the head. Soon her testimony will be heard in international courts Beneath the shade of an olive tree, Helen O’Sullivan and Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi found a moment of calm. There, in the grove away […]
Read MoreIsraeli war crimes and crimes against humanity “extreme under any circumstances”
“The events since October 7 have been absolutely overwhelming. And that means they are overwhelming for everybody, but particularly for the people who are experiencing them, those who are suffering. The victims. It’s regularly said that October 7 represented the greatest killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust. And that’s correct. What’s said less frequently […]
Read MoreIran preparing for war with Israel, but hoping to avert it
Article link: https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/iran-preparing-for-war-with-israel-but-hoping-to-avert-it-20241025-p5kla8.htmlArticle source: The Age/New York Times/ Farnaz Fassihi/26.10.20248128
Read MoreUS warns against protracted Israeli campaign in Lebanon, pushes for Gaza ceasefire
Doha/Beirut/Paris: The United States does not want a protracted Israeli campaign in Lebanon, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said as efforts got under way to hold fresh talks over a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza. A month into Israel’s military onslaught against the Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, Blinken said he hoped Iran was […]
Read MoreEuropean leaders ‘outraged’ over Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
European leaders ‘outraged’ over Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon The leaders of France, Italy and Spain have released a joint statement condemning the recent targeting of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon by the Israeli military. These attacks were “unjustifiable” and constitute a “serious violation of the obligations of Israel” under humanitarian international law, […]
Read MoreUS-made munition used in Israeli strike on central Beirut, shrapnel shows
A US-made munition was used in a strike on central Beirut that killed 22 people and wounded 117, according to an analysis of shrapnel found by the Guardian at the scene of the attack. The strike on Thursday night hit an apartment complex in the densely populated neighbourhood of Basta, levelling the apartment building and […]
Read MoreAs Gaza toll passes 40,000, the dead are buried in yards, streets, stacked graves
Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip: Tiers of graves are stacked deep underground in a bloated Gaza cemetery, where Sa’di Baraka spends his days hacking at the earth, making room for more dead. “Sometimes we make graves on top of graves,” he said. Baraka and his solemn corps of volunteer gravediggers in the Deir al-Balah cemetery start […]
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