At least 31 people were killed during Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says aims to prevent Hamas regrouping. Palestinians said the new aerial and...

The Israeli army claimed Sunday to have killed two senior Hezbollah commanders in an airstrike in southern Lebanon.  A military statement said Israeli warplanes killed Farouq Amin al-Ashi and Yusuf Ahmad Nun in the border town of Khiam. The army accused Ashi and Nun of being responsible...

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...