Huge explosion in northern Gaza as Israeli bombardment continues
A large smoke plume from an explosion in Gaza could be seen on the skyline on Sunday. The smoke rose from northern Gaza, as filmed by The Associated Press from Southern Israel.
A large smoke plume from an explosion in Gaza could be seen on the skyline on Sunday. The smoke rose from northern Gaza, as filmed by The Associated Press from Southern Israel.
Eden Golan performed the Ballard Hurricane on Saturday evening at the Eurovision Song Contest as protests continued outside the venue
ReutersAt least 15 people were killed when an apartment building in Russia was hit by the fragments of a downed Ukrainian missile, Russian officials said Monday, in one of the deadliest attacks on the border Belgorod region so far in the war.The strike Sunday caused part of the building to collapse, with regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov saying that 15 bodies were ultimately pulled from the rubble while another 27 people were wounded in attacks throughout the region. Russia’s Defense Ministry sai
Turkey’s president has said that more than 1,000 members of Hamas are being treated in Turkish hospitals.
JERUSALEM — Hamas leader Yehia Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in the Gaza Strip that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times. The unit, known as the General Security Service, relied on a network of Gaza informants, some of whom reported their own neighbors to police. People landed in
Hardline Israeli activists ransacked a convoy of lorries bringing vital aid to the sealed-off Gaza Strip, on Monday.
Ukraine’s military chief says the situation in the northeast Kharkiv region bordering Russia has ‘significantly worsened’ over the week
JERUSALEM — After Hamas attacked Israel in October, igniting the war in the Gaza Strip, Israeli leaders described the group’s most senior official in the territory, Yehia Sinwar, as a “dead man walking.” Considering him an architect of the raid, Israel has portrayed Sinwar’s assassination as a major goal of its devastating counterattack. Seven months later, Sinwar’s survival is emblematic of the failures of Israel’s war, which has ravaged much of Gaza but left Hamas’ top leadership largely intac
TT News Agency/Johan Nilsson via ReutersClimate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by Swedish police in Malmö on Saturday for attending a pro-Palestinian protest outside the Eurovision venue.Thunberg, who was wearing a keffiyeh, was escorted away from the event by the cops, according to footage from the incident. Police said in a statement that they had “handled a number of unauthorized public gatherings” and taken several people into custody, but it was not immediately clear if Thunberg was a
Israel battled Hamas in Gaza on Monday, including in far-southern Rafah, despite US warnings against a full-scale invasion of the crowded city and of the threat of post-war "anarchy" across the Palestinian territory.Israel last week defied international warnings, including from its top ally Washington, and sent tanks and soldiers into the east of Rafah, a city on the Egyptian border where some 1.4 million Palestinians had sought shelter.
The exodus of Palestinians from Gaza’s last refuge accelerated Sunday as Israeli forces pushed deeper into the southern city of Rafah. Israel also pounded the territory’s devastated north, where some Hamas militants have regrouped in areas the military said it had cleared months ago. Rafah is considered Hamas' last stronghold.
India's six-week election resumed Monday including in Kashmir, where voters appeared eager to express discontent with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cancellation of their disputed territory's semi-autonomy and the security crackdown that followed.- Nearly one billion voters - India's election is conducted in seven phases over six weeks to ease the immense logistical burden of staging the democratic exercise in the world's most populous country.
A passenger on an El Al Airlines flight said travellers were asked to stand in mid-air as the siren sounded for Israel’s Memorial Day on Monday, May 13.Elli Fischer said he was travelling on El Air flight LY542 and was in the air at 11 am Tel Aviv time, which is when the second siren of the Israeli Memorial Day Yom HaZikaron sounded.“Never experienced this before. On and El Al flight in mid-air, while the siren sounded in Israel, the crew asked us all to stand in silence,” Fischer wrote.People marking Israel’s memorial day normally stop their activities to observe the siren sound. The day commemorates “soldiers and people who lost their lives during the struggle to defend the State of Israel,” according to the Israel Defense Forces. Credit: Elli Fischer via Storyful
Israeli military tanks have ventured into the camp after five Israeli soldiers were killed over the weekend.View on euronews
More than 100,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah, Gaza’s southermost city, ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive in the region
CNN’s Scott McLean reports on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza as Israeli airstrikes across central and northern Gaza that the IDF says targeted Hamas killed scores of civilians.
Some students could be heard booing as they waved Palestinian flags
Democrat warns Hamas could become stronger if Israel wages all-out Rafah assault, while Blinken offers more measured comments
Georgian riot police are currently locked in a tense stand-off with protesters, demonstrating against a controversial “foreign agents” law, outside the parliament in Tbilisi.
Ukrainian commander admits his forces are on the back foot as Russia claims to have taken more villages
A protest against rising costs of food, fuel and utility bills turned violent in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, leaving a police officer dead and dozens of people injured, officials said Sunday.