United by innovation and progress: The enduring US-UAE partnership
‘’In close partnership, we are working to advance multilateral diplomatic solutions and provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance in Gaza and...Geostrategy
Al Jazeera TV raided in West Bank; ordered to close for 45 days
Global news channel Al Jazeera said armed and masked Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West...Geostrategy
Hamas chief says group to decide on post-war Gaza rule with Palestinian factions
Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday said the movement will be involved in deciding post-war rule in Gaza along with other Palestinian...Haniyeh also said the fate of truce talks was uncertain because of Israel's "insistence on occupying the Rafah crossing and on its expansion of the aggression."
His comments came after Netanyahu said any discussion on who rules Gaza after the war was just "empty talk" as long as Hamas remains in the territory
Israel PM says no ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Rafah as almost 500,000 evacuated
The United Nations said Tuesday that nearly 450,000 people had been displaced from Rafah since Israel first began issuing evacuation...The international community, including Israel's top ally Washington, had urged Israel to refrain from launching a ground offensive in Rafah
But Netanyahu insisted that "the humanitarian catastrophe that was spoken about did not materialise, nor will it"
Hezbollah commander among two killed in Israeli strike: source
Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike on a car in the country's south killed two people Tuesday, with a...Hezbollah said that one of its fighters, a field commander, Hussein Makki, was "martyred on the road to Jerusalem'
At least 413 people have been killed in Lebanon in seven months of cross-border violence,
Palestinians mark ‘Nakba’ anniversary as thousands flee Gaza’s Rafah
Tens of thousands of civilians fled the southern Gaza city of Rafah ahead of a threatened Israeli ground offensive, as...Nearly 450,000 Palestinians have been displaced from Rafah since May 6
Right-wing activists stopped and ransacked at least seven Gaza-bound aid trucks coming from Jordan
Quarter of Gazans displaced again as fighting rages north to south
Fighting has flared in north Gaza four months after the army said Hamas's command structure there had been dismantled, and...Clashes have rocked the densely crowded far southern city of Rafah but also flared again in northern and central Gaza months after troops and tanks first entered those areas
US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel on Tuesday said that while Washington backed military pressure on Hamas, it was not the only way to "fully defeat" the group
Lebanon resumes ‘voluntary’ repatriations of Syrians
Syrian state news agency SANA reported that an unspecified number of people had arrived from Lebanon as part of the...Around 330 people had registered to be part of the "voluntary return"
Lebanon, which has been mired in a crushing economic crisis since late 2019, says it hosts around two million Syrians, the world's highest number of refugees per capita
Fierce fighting rocks Gaza after US warning of anarchy, insurgency
The city on the Egyptian border had been sheltering 1.4 million Palestinians, according to the United Nations, but Israel's military...AFP correspondents in Gaza reported helicopter strikes and heavy artillery shelling in the east of Rafah, as well as battles in northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp
Israel last week defied a chorus of warnings - including from top ally Washington - and sent tanks and troops into the east of Rafah to pursue fighters
Israel opens new border crossing into northern Gaza
Israel said its Kerem Shalom southern crossing with Gaza reopened on Wednesday, three days after being closed because of rocket...Israeli tanks entered Rafah in southern Gaza on Tuesday, seizing control of the Palestinian side of the crossing from Egypt
The United Nations has said it has not been able to receive aid through Gaza's two main crossings in days
Hamas says Israeli-British hostage held in Gaza dead
Popplewell was kidnapped from his home during Hamas's October 7 attack along with his mother, Hanna Peri, who was released...Earlier on Saturday, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades released an 11-second clip showing captive Nadav Popplewell alive and identifying himself
In the video, the footage was superimposed with text in Arabic and Hebrew that read: "Time is running out. Your government is lying."
US slams Israel’s use of American weapons in Gaza
The US has warned that the reputational damage Israel will suffer if it storms a city where an estimated 1.4...Israel's main international ally said it was "reasonable to assess" that Israel has used weapons in ways inconsistent with international humanitarian law
Relations between the two allies sunk earlier in the week after US President Joe Biden threatened to halt some arms deliveries if Israel went ahead with an assault on Rafah