•Policemen push away the friends of the abductee Hersh Goldberg-Polin Palestinian militant group Hamas released today a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza and seen alive in the footage. Israeli media identified him as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas atta...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said Israel will increase “military pressure” on Palestinian militant group Hamas in a bid to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza. “In the coming days we will increase the military and political pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to free ...
•Mourners carry coffin of late Hamas deputy leader, Saleh al-Aruri Hundreds of people attended the funeral in Beirut today of Hamas number two Saleh al-Aruri who was killed in a Lebanon strike blamed on Israel. Calling on Hamas to avenge his death and the killing of five other members of the Palestinian militant group on […]
•Fighters of Lebanese Shiite movement, Hezbollah Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group warned that Israel’s killing yesterday of the deputy Hamas leader in a Beirut suburb they control “will not go unanswered or unpunished”. Hezbollah called it “a serious assault on Lebanon”, reports AFP. “We, Hezbollah, affirm that this crime will not go unan...
Hamas deputy leader, Saleh al-Arouri, has been killed in an attack on Hamas office in Beirut. Hamas’ Al Aqsa Radio and Lebanon’s pro-Iranian Mayadeen TV confirmed word from security sources that Arouri, a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement’s politburo based abroad and a co-founder of Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades, was kill...
Israel’s army chief warned its war with Hamas will last “many more months” as the military stepped up strikes inside the Gaza Strip, where more than 20,000 people have already been reported killed. Concerns over a spiralling humanitarian crisis inside the besieged territory have amplified calls for an end to the hostilities, while incidents li...
•Israeli bombardment in southern Gaza Strip today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted peace can only be achieved in Gaza if Hamas is destroyed, the territory demilitarised and Palestinian society “deradicalised”, after warning the war is set to intensify. The declarations came as the World Health Organization yesterday repor...
•Late Nelson Mandela Senior Hamas officials today joined the family of Nelson Mandela to mark the 10th anniversary of his death and cast the spotlight on the bitter conflict in Gaza. South Africa has strongly condemned Israel’s response to the unprecedented October 7 Hamas attacks that unleashed a war in which thousands have died, reports [&he...
Fighting resumed in Gaza today immediately after the expiry of a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, with the first fatalities reported minutes later, according to health officials in the Palestinian territory. A live cam showed a heavy cloud of grey smoke rolling over northern Gaza, and apparent sounds of automatic weapons fire and expl...
•A helicopter carrying two Israeli-Russian hostages taken by Hamas militants A senior Hamas official said yesterday the Islamist movement was ready to release all the Israeli soldiers it is holding captive in exchange for all Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, amid negotiations to extend a truce over Gaza. Hamas official and former Gaza hea...