Families should head to centers affiliated with the Judicial Police "to conduct DNA tests", the police said in a statement. The drive is to help families of those who went missing following the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.

As war has raged in the Gaza Strip following Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, Lebanon's Hezbollah has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces in support of the Palestinian group

US envoy Amos Hochstein's Lebanon trip comes a day before ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel are set to resume

Aqaba residents said Israeli troops arrived at dawn and surrounded the house of Amid Ghanam, leading to clashes between troops and young Palestinians.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his counterparts from the G7 nations that any attack could happen within 24 to 48 hours, as early as Monday

For fans and players, Tuesday's match in the Jabalia refugee camp was a welcome distraction from the pangs of hunger and exhaustion endured.

Since October, the cross-border violence has killed 511 people in Lebanon.

Israel has launched major new offensives in Gaza City, even as it also embarks on contacts with international mediators on conditions for negotiating a truce with Hamas

Hamas has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of deliberately stepping up battles in Gaza City and far-southern Rafah to thwart a ceasefire agreement.

Mediators Egypt and Qatar were due to host new talks this week, according to officials, as the bloodiest-ever Gaza war raged on into its 10th month.

Fire and smoke billows after rockets fired from southern Lebanon hit areas in northern Israel on July 4, 2024. (AFP).

The United Nations warned that the almost nine-month-old war had "unleashed a maelstrom of human misery."

Israel's military has accused Hamas of using hospitals in the Gaza Strip as a cover for military operations. It has raided Al-Shifa and other hospitals.

Top Israeli officials have suggested they are open to a diplomatic resolution of the border tensions, though Gallant said Israel should be ready for "every possible scenario".

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's group and Israeli forces have exchanged near-daily fire since Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel triggered the Gaza war

Blinken said his message to regional governments was that "if you want a ceasefire, press Hamas to say yes" to the proposal.

An Israeli strike targeting a motorcycle in Lebanon killed one person and wounded another, according to the National News Agency (NNA). It did not say whether the casualties were civilians or fighters

In central Gaza, the Israeli army said it was "intensifying operations" and had carried out air strikes that "eliminated several terrorists" operating near Israeli troops.

Israel said on Wednesday its forces had taken over the 14-kilometre Philadelphi corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border

Israel launched its controversial assault on Rafah earlier this month, dismissing concerns for the safety of the 1.4 million Palestinian civilians then sheltering in the city

The plans were unveiled last week in a coordinated announcement by their prime ministers, with formal recognition to take place in all three countries on Tuesday. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will give an address at 0630 GMT before his cabinet meets to adopt a decree recognizing Palestinian statehood.

The announcement is the second diplomatic blow this week after the International Criminal Court prosecutor said he would seek arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and Hamas leaders.

After shutting down offices and confiscating equipment of the Al Jazeera news channel in Israel, Netanyahu's government has shut down the video feed services of the American news agency Associated Press (AP). The United States and United Nations have expressed concern and shock over the Israeli move, while AP and...

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa was addressing fellow heads of state and government at the 22-strong grouping in Manama, more than seven months into a conflict that has convulsed the region.

Israeli forces took control earlier in May of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in a push launched in defiance of US warnings that around 1.4 million civilians sheltering there could be caught in the crossfire.

The United Nations said Tuesday that nearly 450,000 people had been displaced from Rafah since Israel first began issuing evacuation orders for eastern areas of the governorate on May 6.

Blinken, on his latest tour of the region since the Gaza war erupted in October, observed Jordan's efforts to bring in food and supplies and praised the "extraordinary work" led by the United Nations.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanded Tuesday that Hamas accept a proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and release of hostages

The Kremlin on Monday called for a de-escalation in the Middle East after Iran's unprecedented weekend attack on Israel. "We are extremely concerned about the escalation of tensions in the region and we call on all countries in the region to exercise restraint. Further escalation is in no one's interests,"...

At least 33,175 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian territory in Israel's campaign of retaliation for the October 7 attack, according to Hamas-run Gaza's health ministry. At least another 459 Palestinians have been killed in violence in the occupied West Bank.

In addition to access to humanitarian aid, the UN's report on children and armed conflict also lists the number of children killed and wounded, as well as attacks on hospitals and schools. The report draws up a "list of shame" of government forces and other armed groups responsible for the...

The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack on the Pinocchio in a statement early Tuesday, maintaining the missile strike "was accurate". The British maritime security agency UKMTO had previously said a ship in the area "reported a sound of an explosion" in its vicinity southwest of the Yemeni port of...

Israel grapples with escalating uncertainty as the Gaza conflict persists, stirring military, political, and economic turmoil alongside rising fears of financial instability.

The Palestinian leadership has been divided since 2007, with the Palestinian Authority exercising limited power in the West Bank. Blinken has called for the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority to exert control over the Gaza Strip after the war, an idea that has not been met with enthusiasm from Israeli Prime Minister...

Yemen's Houthis have been targeting shipping for months and their attacks have persisted despite repeated US and British strikes aimed at degrading their ability to threaten a vital global trade route. The Houthis began attacking Red Sea shipping in November, saying they were hitting Israel-linked vessels in support of Palestinians ravaged...

Hizbollah announced several other attacks on Israeli sites and troops on Monday, with local media also reporting Israeli strikes on south Lebanon villages. During a funeral procession for one of the group's fighters, Hizbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah lambasted the strikes on Baalbek, a bastion of the Shiite Muslim movement near...

The gas-rich country has emerged as the key player in mediation between Israel and Hamas to agree a truce in Gaza and release more hostages abducted by the Hamas fighters in its attack on Israel on October 7. It hosts the political bureau of Hamas but also enjoys warm relations...

The Houthis, who control vast swathes of Yemen, have said the attacks, beginning in November, have targeted vessels linked to Israel, in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. In December the United States announced a maritime security initiative, Operation Prosperity Guardian, to protect shipping in the area.

Palestinian Territories - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to fly to Egypt on Tuesday as part of a Middle East crisis tour seeking a new truce and "an enduring end" to the Israel-Palestine war. In Cairo, Blinken is scheduled to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week said Israel would not get "genuine security" without a "pathway to a Palestinian state." Israel's relentless air and ground offensive has killed at least 24,762 Palestinians, around 70 percent of them women, young children and...

Peace Now said in the report published on Thursday there had been an increase in the activities of some settlers who are "marginalizing" the Palestinians in the territory, noting a "record" number of new settlements since the outbreak of fighting. Acts of violence by settlers against Palestinians in the West...

"Twelve martyrs and dozens of wounded, including women and children, were recovered from under the rubble when a house and a mosque were targeted hundreds of meters from Kuwaiti hospital," Gaza's health ministry.

The demonstrators chanted "Climate justice!" and "Ceasefire now!" as they held pro-environment banners painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag in their hands. Mexican activist Isavela Lopez said, "It's the same fight, it's the same thing -- it's colonialism, it's genocide,"as she described the links between climate injustice and...

Beijing, China - The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday spoke over the phone to discuss the war in Gaza. "The Secretary discussed his recent travel in the Middle East and U.S. diplomatic efforts in the region," the US State Department statement said....

Dubai, UAE - The ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza could result in a significant economic toll for Israel, with estimations pointing to a potential cost of $48 billion over the current and upcoming year, Turkey's Anadolu Agency reports. Yali Rotenberg, the chief accountant at the Israeli Ministry of Finance, was...

Following the outbreak of the war last month, Chinese officials, including Foreign Minister Wang, called for an immediate ceasefire and a "cooling down" of the situation. China has historically been sympathetic to the Palestinians and supportive of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.