Red Cross says 22 killed in strike near its Gaza office
The International Committee of the Red Cross says its offices in Gaza have been damaged by shelling, which killed 22 people who had sought shelter around its compound. “Heavy-calibre projectiles landed within metres of the office and residences of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Friday afternoon,” an ICRC statement said. It added […]
Netanyahu disbands Israeli war cabinet
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disbanded the country’s war cabinet, an Israeli official has told CNN, just over a week after opposition leader Benny Gantz withdrew from the body. “The security cabinet will continue to decide on matters regarding the war,” the official said, claiming Netanyahu “will hold smaller forums on sensitive matters.” It was […]
Israeli forces rescue four live hostages from Gaza, military says
Israeli forces rescued four hostages alive from two separate locations in the central Gaza area of al-Nuseirat on Saturday, the military said. The four hostages, three males and one female, who were kidnapped by Hamas-led militants from the Nova music festival in southern Israel on October 7 last year were taken to the hospital for […]
Nurse fired for referring to Israel ‘genocide’ in speech
A nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel’s war in Gaza as a “genocide” during a speech accepting an award. Labour and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honoured by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies […]
Israel strikes Rafah as pressure mounts over conflict in Gaza
At least 35 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a camp for displaced people in Rafah on Sunday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Palestinian medics, shortly after Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv for the first time in months. Gazan authorities and medics say the attack hit a displacement camp that had […]
‘It wasn’t us’ – Israeli officials deny links with plane crash involving Iran president
Israeli officials have declared they had nothing to do with the helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Raisi, 63, was confirmed dead by Iranian media today along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province Malek Rahmati and Tabriz’s Friday prayer Imam Mohammad Ali Alehashem. Two pilots and three other Iranian officials […]
Mass arrests made as US students protest over Gaza war
Protests over the war in Gaza have taken hold at a handful of elite US universities as officials scramble to defuse demonstrations. Police moved to break up an encampment at New York University (NYU) on Monday night, making a number of arrests. BBC reports that dozens of students were arrested at Yale earlier in the […]