•Israeli airstrike on Lebanese village of Houla on September 16, 2024 Japan “unequivocally condemned” the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel but said today it was “gravely concerned” by the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip one year on, reports AFP. “Japan has consistently and unequivocally condemned the terror attacks by Hamas and other...
•Destruction at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike on Beirut on October 1. Israel began its commemorations today of the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ deadly October 7 attack, with an outpouring of emotion at vigils at massacre sites and rallies calling for the return of hostages. Ceremonies and events are planned across Israel and [&h...
•Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike at a Lebanese village today Gaza medics and rescuers today said Israeli strikes on several homes killed at least 18 people, as Hamas claimed it had ample resources to sustain its fight nearly a year into the war. The latest strikes came as Israeli Defence Minister […]
•Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment of Khiam in south Lebanon Hamas said today its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an Israeli strike in Iran, where he had been attending the inauguration of the country’s new president. Haniyeh’s killing came after Israel yesterday struck a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, killing ...
•Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said today that 60 per cent of Hamas fighters had been “eliminated or wounded” in the Gaza war since the militant group’s October 7 attacks. In a statement to parliament on the first nine months of the conflict, Gallant said that the military was “determined” [&hell...
•Pro-Palestinian student protestors and activists applaud during a demonstration Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh today informed mediators Qatar and Egypt that his Palestinian militant group had accepted their Gaza truce proposal after nearly seven months of war. Haniyeh had spoken on the phone with Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulr...
•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...

