The US military said Tuesday that it shot down 12 drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two land-attack cruise missiles fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels at ships in the southern Red Sea.  ''U.S. assets, to include the USS LABOON (DDG 58) and F/A-18 Super Hornets from...

About 18 missiles were fired from the Lebanese border, targeting the Ras al-Naqoura area in northeast Israel, army radio said. Eight missiles were intercepted, the radio said, adding no injuries or damage were reported. The radio also reported multiple instances of sirens sounding in Ras...

The Israeli army on Tuesday said two more of its soldiers were killed in battles in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian resistance groups. Israeli public broadcaster KAN identified the slain soldiers as Staff Sgt. Elisha Yehonatan Lober, 24, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Joseph Yosef Gitarts, 25,...

Hamas fighters are inflicting heavy losses on the Israeli military and will not submit to their conditions, the group's leader in Gaza, Yahya al-Sinwar, said in a message to the group's members outside of the territory.  In a letter shared by Al Jazeera Arabic on Monday, Sinwar...

JERUSALEM (AA) – A former Israeli opposition leader has demanded an investigation into the Israeli army's attack on a house near the Gaza Strip, which killed all 12 hostages, saying they were killed under the "Hannibal Protocol" that says a dead Israeli is preferable to enemy-held captives....

At least 166 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry said on Sunday. An additional 384 people were wounded in that time. That brings the death toll of Palestinians killed in Gaza since 7 October to 20,424,...

Israeli forces on Sunday killed a child in a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis. “A 13-year-old child, displaced, has been martyred at the PRCS Al-Amal Hospital, in Khan Younis due to being shot by an Israeli drone while inside the hospital building,” the Palestinian Red...

Voting for Tunisia's first local council elections began on Sunday. Voting started at 8 a.m. local time (0700GMT) and will last for 10 hours in 4,685 election centers set up in 2,155 regions across the North African country. More than 9 million voters are expected to cast their ballots...

The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has risen to 20,258, with 53,688 injuries, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Friday. In a statement, the ministry said 201 more people were killed and 368 others injured over the...

Hamas’ armed wing on Saturday said that five Israeli hostages might have been killed in Israeli attack, as it lost contact with a group holding the hostages. In a statement on Telegram, Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said: “As a result of the brutal Zionist...

Grief and desperation have overtaken the Gaza Strip in a season that is usually marked by merriment, as Israel continues its unrelenting attacks on the besieged enclave, where one Palestinian Christian Ibrahim Al-Amash summarized the somber situation by saying: “There is no holiday spirit here...

Some two-thirds of Israelis, or 67%, support a new deal to release Israeli hostages from Gaza in exchange for a cease-fire in the strip, says a new public opinion poll.  Only 22% of Israelis opposed a deal to return the hostages in exchange for a cease-fire, while 11% had no view, said...

The Lebanese Hezbollah group on Thursday struck several Israeli army locations and settlements in northern Israel in response to the Israeli targeting of Lebanese homes in southern Lebanon. In a statement, the Hezbollah said it targeted the settlements of Doviv and Avivim with appropriate...

Hamas demands the release of three top Palestinian leaders in any hostage swap deal with Israel, according to Israeli media on Thursday. Hamas insists Marwan Barghouti, Ahmed Saadat and Abdullah Barghouti be on the list of prisoners to be released in any new deal, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper...

Israel is preparing its public for possible tough decisions, including releasing "dangerous" Palestinian prisoners as part of a new prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas, Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) said Wednesday.  Tel Aviv is discussing with mediators the release of...

The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has left 26,700 people dead and missing since Oct. 7, the government media office in the enclave said Wednesday. “Around 20,000 dead people have been admitted to hospitals, including 8,000 children and 6,200 women,” the media office said in a statement....

At least 66% of employment in the besieged Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip has been wiped out by the ongoing war, the UN labor agency said on Wednesday. This is equivalent to a loss of 192,000 jobs since Oct. 7, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said, citing a joint bulletin...

Intensive Qatari and Egyptian-mediated talks are under way for a possible second Gaza truce, under which Hamas would return some captives in exchange for Israel releasing Palestinian prisoners, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. According to the source, envoys are...

Since the start of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, pro-Palestine supporters across the globe have been facing a growing wave of repercussions, ranging from harassment and threats to being fired from their jobs. Prominent cases of sackings include journalist Zahraa Al-Akhrass, who was fired...

The Yemeni Houthi group vowed on Tuesday to continue its attacks on Israeli ships passing through nearby waters, despite the announcement of a US-led international coalition against it in the Red Sea. Senior Houthi member Mohammad Abdulsalam said in a statement on X that the attacks aim to...