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Yasser Abu Shabab, pictured in an image posted on the Popular Forces’ Facebook page
Leader of anti-Hamas militia armed by Israel killed in Gaza
GAZA — The leader of an anti-Hamas group that was armed and backed by Israel has been killed in Gaza, the group confirmed Thursday, in a potential blow to Israel’s post-war plans in the shattered territory.Yasser Abu Shabab, who led a militia controlling a patch of territory in Rafah in southern Gaza, was killed while trying to “de-escalate a conflict” between members of a family in a public square, the organization said. One Israeli source said earlier the death resulted from “internal clashes.”Two Israeli sources said that Israel tried to evacuate Abu Shabab to a hospital in the country’s south before he was pronounced dead.Abu Shabab was the leader of the most prominent of several Israeli-backed armed groups in Gaza, and his death could prove to be a setback to Israel’s...
December 05, 2025

Leader of anti-Hamas militia armed by Israel killed in Gaza

Lebanese Civil Defence personnel deployed to the scene of a reported strike in the southern town of Jbaa
Israel strikes south Lebanon after first direct talks in decades
BEIRUT — The Israeli military has carried out a new round of air strikes in southern Lebanon, less than a day after Israel and Lebanon held their first direct talks in decades.Residents of the towns of Mjadel, Baraachit, Jbaa and Mahrouna were told to evacuate areas around locations that the Israeli military alleged were weapons warehouses belonging to the Iranian-backed group. No casualties have been reported.An Israeli military spokesman said the sites constituted a ceasefire violation and warned that it would continue to operate "to remove any threat" to Israel.Israel has carried out near-daily strikes on Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect in November 2024, following 13 months of conflict.There was no immediate comment from Lebanon's leaders in response to Thursday's...
December 05, 2025

Israel strikes south Lebanon after first direct talks in decades

Palestinian Islamic Jihad said it had found the body of a hostage in northern Gaza
Israel says Palestinian groups returned body of Thai hostage held in Gaza
TEL AVIV — Israel says the remains of a hostage it received from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) via the Red Cross in Gaza on Wednesday have been identified as belonging to Thai agricultural worker Suthisak Rintalak.The return of the 43-year-old's body means that only one more dead hostage's body due to be handed over under the terms of the ceasefire deal now remains in Gaza.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the Israeli government shared "in the deep sorrow of the Rintalak family, the Thai people, and all of [the] fallen hostages' families".It also vowed to work tirelessly to bring home the body of the last hostage, Israeli police officer Master Sgt Ran Gvili, 24.Suthisak Rintalak was from the town of Rattanawapi in north-eastern Thailand.He...
December 04, 2025

Israel says Palestinian groups returned body of Thai hostage held in Gaza

Tents near Khan Younis last week
Five killed in Israeli air strikes on tents near Khan Younis, medics say
GAZA — Five Palestinians were killed, including two children, and several wounded when Israeli aircraft struck tents for displaced people west of Khan Younis, according to medics at the Kuwait Field Hospital.The strikes hit Gaza's coastal al-Mawasi area.Medical teams said the dead were two women aged 46 and 30, a 36-year-old man, and two boys, aged eight and 10.Some 32 injured people were treated in hospital, the medics said.Rescue workers told the BBC they recovered the bodies from al-Najaat camp, a cluster of tents that has housed hundreds of displaced people in recent months.The Israeli military said it had "struck a Hamas terrorist" after five of its soldiers were wounded earlier on Wednesday."The Hamas terrorist organization carried out a blatant violation of the ceasefire...
December 04, 2025

Five killed in Israeli air strikes on tents near Khan Younis, medics say

Aid lorries passing through the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing face an inspection in Israel before entering Gaza. — EPA
Israel says Rafah crossing to open soon to let Palestinians leave Gaza via Egypt
JERUSALEM — Israel has announced it will open the key Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the coming days to allow Palestinians to leave the territory.Israeli military body Cogat said exits would be "facilitated through co-ordination with Egypt, following security approval by Israel and under the supervision of the European Union mission". It added that this would be "similar to the mechanism that operated in January", when the crossing opened during a previous ceasefire.An Israeli security official said it was an expression of Israel's support for the current ceasefire with Hamas, which began seven weeks ago.However, Egypt denied it was co-ordinating with Israel to reopen the Rafah crossing.The State Information Service cited an official Egyptian source as saying that "if an...
December 04, 2025

Israel says Rafah crossing to open soon to let Palestinians leave Gaza via Egypt

Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are positioned on the tarmac at an undisclosed base in the US Central Command operating area, on November 23, 2025
US sets up one-way attack drone squadron after reverse-engineering Iranian drone
WASHINGTON — Having faced continuous drone attacks by Iran and its proxies over the last two years, the US military is responding by standing up its first one-way attack drone squadron in the Middle East — and using drones that borrow design and technology directly from Iran.The squadron falls under the control of a task force set up by US Central Command just months ago, Task Force Scorpion Strike, and will use drones called Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System, or LUCAS drones. The LUCAS drones were created after developers reverse-engineered a Shahed drone from Iran, which the US captured a few years ago, a US defense official said.The Shahed drones have also been employed by Russia in its attacks on Ukraine.“LUCAS drones deployed by CENTCOM have an extensive range and are...
December 04, 2025

US sets up one-way attack drone squadron after reverse-engineering Iranian drone

Syrian army fighters walk past an abandoned cinema in downtown Homs, 21 November, 2025
EU updates asylum guidance for Syrian refugees a year after fall of Bashar al-Assad
BRUSSLES — The European Union issued updated guidance for asylum applications by Syrian nationals on Wednesday that reflects new conditions in Syria a year after the fall of former long-time leader, Bashar al-Assad.The changes may influence the result of asylum requests of some 110,000 Syrians who were still awaiting an asylum decision at the end of September.The European Union Agency for Asylum said opponents of al-Assad and military service evaders "are no longer at risk of persecution."But the agency said other groups may be considered at risk in the post-Assad Syria, including people affiliated with the former government and members of the Alawites, Christians, and Druze ethnic-religious groups.While decisions on asylum applications are made at a national level, the agency's...
December 04, 2025

EU updates asylum guidance for Syrian refugees a year after fall of Bashar al-Assad

The push to conscript more ultra-Orthodox men triggered a huge protest in Jerusalem last month. — EPA
Crisis looms in Israel over ultra-Orthodox conscription bill
JERUSALEM — An impending crisis over conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli army is threatening to undermine Israel's government and split the country.Public opinion on the issue has shifted dramatically in Israel after two years of war, and this is now perhaps the most explosive political risk facing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Lawmakers are currently considering a draft bill to end the exemption granted to ultra-Orthodox men enrolled in full-time religious study, established when the State of Israel was declared in 1948.That exemption was ruled illegal by Israel's High Court of Justice almost 20 years ago. Temporary arrangements to continue it were formally ended by the court last year, forcing the government to begin drafting the community.Some 24,000 draft...
December 03, 2025

Crisis looms in Israel over ultra-Orthodox conscription bill

Demonstrators hold a banner reading 'Gaza, let the internationals journalists enter' during a protest in Paris, 20 November, 2025
French journalist unions file legal complaint accusing Israel of obstructing press freedom
PARIS — The National Union of Journalists (SNJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have filed a complaint with France's national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (Pnat), accusing Israeli authorities of "obstructions to press freedoms" in the Palestinian territories.The two organisations — the largest journalist union in France and the largest journalist union worldwide — announced the move on Tuesday.Their complaint denounces what they describe as "an organised, systematic and prolonged" effort to prevent journalists, including French reporters, from accessing Gaza and carrying out their work safely.According to the complaint, no foreign journalist has been allowed to enter Gaza freely since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.The...
December 03, 2025

French journalist unions file legal complaint accusing Israel of obstructing press freedom

Displaced Palestinian women and children live at a temporary makeshift camp set up in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 01 December 2025. — EPA
UK criticizes Gaza aid delays as tents take year to arrive
LONDON — The UK government has criticized delays in aid being allowed into Gaza after a consignment of more than 1,100 tents it sent to the strip took more than a year to arrive.The foreign secretary has also raised concerns that other UK-funded aid had been unable to reach residents, despite the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.Yvette Cooper said the situation in Gaza remains "dire" as the United Nations warned that 1.5 million people are in need of urgent shelter amid worsening rains and plummeting temperatures ahead of winter.The BBC has asked the Israeli government for a response.The tents — each capable of housing a family of five — reached Gaza on Monday, with more expected to arrive this week.Government sources said the tents will provide shelter to as many as 12,000 people...
December 02, 2025

UK criticizes Gaza aid delays as tents take year to arrive

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