Israel approves plans for nearly 5,300 homes in West Bank settlements, a settlement monitor says
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel approves plans for nearly 5,300 homes in West Bank settlements, a settlement monitor says.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel approves plans for nearly 5,300 homes in West Bank settlements, a settlement monitor says.
Pro-Ukraine partisans claim they have blown up a railway line deep inside Russia that was being used to transport North Korean ammunition to the front line.
Israel and Hezbollah have regularly exchanged fire for months, but increasingly escalatory rhetoric has raised fears of a wider conflict.
Protesters have descended on Downing Street and been ordered to dispers
Kyiv has not yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, although Ukraine has previously struck Russian energy sites and targeted its infrastructure.
BÉLOKO, Central African Republic—They were all wearing military fatigues and armed with Kalashnikovs when they showed up suddenly at about 5 o’clock one Friday evening at the start of December. The four men were soldiers from the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) who drove right up to where I was interviewing about a dozen people hoping to get cross the border.Among those I was interviewing were a couple of artisanal miners who had gathered in front of a security checkpoint in the Central Afri
Tens of thousands of protesters called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in central London on Saturday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out an airstrike on Friday, July 5, on what they alleged to be a Hezbollah military building in Markaba, south Lebanon, after “a terrorist” was spotted entering the building.Aerial footage released by the IDF shows a figure outside a building in Markaba’s main square. Due to the poor quality of the footage, the figure cannot be identified. The video then cuts to a wider shot of the same location and shows a large explosion at the front of the building, where the figure had been observed.Storyful could not independently verify if the building was occupied by Hezbollah, or if the person entering was a member of the organization.Lebanese officials said one person was wounded in the attack. Credit: IDF via Storyful
Spanish authorities said on July 5 that they had arrested eight young people in four cities who were allegedly linked to the Islamic State terrorist group.Communications revealed an interest in making explosives and committing violent acts in Spain, local news reported.The Guardia Civil said the arrests were in Melilla, Madrid, Malaga, and Barcelona. Credit: Guardia Civil via Storyful
A newly elected MP who won his seat on a pro-Palestinian ticket once told a Gaza rally “let’s make Israel burn”.
Israel’s ground offensive is nearing its conclusion amid the threat of indefinite occupation and a continuing insurgency
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Hamas has given its initial approval of a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel commit up front to a complete end to the war, a Hamas official and an Egyptian official said Saturday. The apparent compromise by the militant group, which controlled Gaza before triggering the war with an Oct. 7 attack on Israel, could deliver the first pause in fighting since November and set the stage for further talks on ending a devastating nine months of fighting. Inside Gaza, the Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 50 others in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
At least five people were killed on Friday during an Israeli military raid in a Jenin refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Authority health ministry. The clashes in Jenin came a day after the Israeli monitoring group Peace Now said the Israeli government plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements across the occupied West Bank. An Israeli military raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Friday left five people dead, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said.At least 12 Pal
A former spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces has sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct of the war against Hamas, in the latest sign of growing tensions between the military and the government.
Blindfolded, beaten and sometimes bitten by dogs, Gazans released from Israeli prisons allege being tortured amid the Israel-Hamas war, which rights groups say has worsened conditions for detainees.While the United Nations and others have long raised concerns about conditions for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, rights groups say legal changes since the Gaza war erupted have aggravated the situation.
Since the Taliban's seizure of Afghanistan in 2021, relations have grown tense over the disputed border and other issues.
Hamas says amendments it proposed to the most recent U.S. plan for a cease-fire in Gaza “have been met with a positive response by the mediators.” Cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas appear to be reviving after having stalled for weeks, as U.S., Qatari and Egyptian mediators try to overcome differences that have repeatedly thwarted a deal. Late Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he was sending negotiators to Qatar next week, but “there are still gaps between the parties.”
A roadside bomb planted on a bridge struck a rickshaw in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least three people and wounding seven others, officials said. The attack happened in Mardan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police official Sabir Khan said. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and other government officials denounced the bombing.
Israel on Friday said it would send a delegation to Doha next week to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. "There are still gaps between the parties," Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s spokesman said after a first round of talks that were held earlier in the day. The statement from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's spokesman came after a delegation led by the head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, held a first round of talks with mediators in Doha
The U.S. will remove all its forces and equipment from a small base in Niger this weekend and fewer than 500 remaining troops will leave a critical drone base in the West African country in August, ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline set in an agreement with the new ruling junta, the American commander there said Friday. Air Force Maj. Gen. Kenneth Ekman said in an interview that a number of small teams of 10-20 U.S. troops, including special operations forces, have moved to other countries in West Africa. Niger's ouster of American troops following a coup last year has broad ramifications for the U.S. because it is forcing troops to abandon the critical drone base that was used for counterterrorism missions in the Sahel, a vast region south of the Sahara desert where groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group operate.
Scuffles between Israeli police and protesters erupted in Tel Aviv on Saturday after thousands of people blocked a highway to demonstrate against the government. The protesters gathered on a busy road, lit fires and flares as police tried to control the demonstration with water cannons and horseback officers attempted to clear the streets.