At least 55 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 43,259, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Friday. A ministry statement added that some 101,827 others were injured in the ongoing assault. “Israeli...

The World Health Organization said Friday that the necessary second round of child polio vaccinations in northern Gaza would begin on Saturday, after Israeli bombing had halted the drive. The announcement that the final phase of polio vaccination in the Gaza Strip can go ahead came a day...

A strike hit a building in the coastal city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Friday, an AFP correspondent said, after other heavy Israeli raids there in recent days. Friday’s strike levelled the building on the city’s seafront, where rescuers and paramedics were seen pulling people from under...

Nine Israelis were injured, including one critically, on Friday after rockets launched from Lebanon struck the town of Karmiel in Israel’s Upper Galilee, Israeli media reported. Channel 13 reported that sirens sounded across Karmiel and nearby areas in northern Israel before the rockets...

At least nine Palestinians, including a child, were killed on Friday when Israeli airstrikes targeted two vehicles, a residential home, and a gathering of civilians, medical sources reported. Medical officials told Anadolu that four Palestinians, including a child, were killed, and others...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk on Thursday that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israel’s security. “The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork...

A Hezbollah attack on northern Israel’s Metula killed five people including an Israeli farmer and four foreign workers, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Thursday as Lebanon said Israeli strikes killed six health workers in the country’s south. US envoys and Israeli officials were due to meet...

At least 30 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, mostly in the north where one attack hit a hospital, torching medical supplies and disrupting operations, the enclave’s health officials said. Israel’s military has accused the Palestinian...

Israel is able to reach anywhere in Iran should the need arise, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. Netanyahu, in a speech to new military officers, said that Israel has unprecedented freedom of action following its recent airstrikes against Iran. “Israel today has more...

Local authorities in northern Gaza's Beit Lahia declared the town a “disaster zone” Wednesday as Israel continues its onslaught in the Palestinian territory. The decision came after the Gaza Health Ministry said that at least 93 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli strike...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has documented three attacks involving “apparent war crimes” in which the Israeli army “unlawfully” struck medical workers and healthcare facilities in Lebanon. These included attacks on paramedics at a civil defence centre in central Beirut on October 3,...

More than a year into the Gaza war, the Israeli army’s reservists are exhausted and it is struggling to recruit soldiers just as it opens a new front in Lebanon. Some 300,000 reservists have been called up since October 7, 2023, according to the army, 18 percent of them men over 40 who...

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah named Naim Qassem as its new leader on Tuesday but Israel said his tenure would be “temporary,” an apparent threat after it killed his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut over a month ago. “Temporary appointment. Not for long,” Israel’s Defense Minister...

Gaza’s civil defense agency said Tuesday that an overnight Israeli airstrike killed 93 people in a residential building in the northern district of Beit Lahia. “The number of martyrs in the massacre of the Abu Nasr family home in Beit Lahia has risen to 93 martyrs, and about 40 are still...

Gaza war mediator Qatar on Tuesday condemned the Israeli parliament’s decision to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel, the Gulf emirate’s foreign ministry said. Israeli lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly voted to ban the agency, UNRWA, from working in Israel...

The Israeli army said Tuesday that four of its soldiers fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip during a single incident in which one other soldier was severely wounded. “During the incident in which Captain Yehonatan (Joni) Keren, Staff Sergeant Aviv Gilboa, Staff Sergeant Nisim Meytal...

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) condemned Israel’s decision Monday to ban it from operating in the country, calling the passage of the legislation “unprecedented” and warning of severe repercussions for Palestinians, particularly in Gaza.  “The vote by the...

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan discussed in a phone call with Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi the importance of avoiding anything that might destabilize the region’s security, following Israel’s Saturday strikes on Iran, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Monday....

Lebanon said Monday it had submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over an Israeli strike last week that killed three journalists in the country’s south. The strike early Friday hit a complex in the Druze-majority town of Hasbaya in south Lebanon where more than a dozen...

Hezbollah said its fighters targeted Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Monday, after earlier claiming repeated attacks on troops in the same area near the border. Hezbollah fighters targeted “an Israeli enemy troop gathering” near Wazzani village “with a rocket salvo,” the Iran-backed...