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The incursion into Sheikh Radwan has triggered yet another wave of displacement, with thousands of families fleeing south
Israeli tanks surround Gaza City as EU proposes sanctions amid global outcry
JERUSALEM — Israeli tanks were stationed on the edge of Gaza City on Wednesday ahead of a planned ground operation into the enclave’s largest urban area, according to eyewitnesses and satellite imagery.Amid the military build-up, tens of thousands of Palestinians continued to leave the city, which was estimated to have a total of about one million inhabitants — many of them already displaced multiple times — before Israel announced its plans for a ground incursion.While the Israeli military announced Tuesday that the ground operation had begun, eyewitnesses and satellite images revealed that tanks had yet to enter the city.Israel’s new operation comes in defiance of international condemnation and as the United Nations and others have warned that the assault will worsen an already...
September 18, 2025

Israeli tanks surround Gaza City as EU proposes sanctions amid global outcry

Miki Zohar, wearing a suit and dark red tie, speaks into a microphone on a podium
Israel threatens national film awards after Palestinian story wins top prize
TEL AVIV — Israel's culture minister has threatened to axe funding for the country's national film awards after The Sea, a story about a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, won its top award.The film, which follows a boy from the occupied West Bank who wants to travel to Tel Aviv to see the sea for the first time, won best film at the Ophir Awards — Israel's equivalent of the Oscars.In a statement on X, Miki Zohar said: "There is no greater slap in the face of Israeli citizens than the embarrassing and detached annual Ophir Awards ceremony."As winner of the best film category at the Ophir awards, The Sea now becomes Israel's entry to the international film category at next year's Oscars.It is not yet clear whether Zohar has the authority to defund the awards,...
September 18, 2025

Israel threatens national film awards after Palestinian story wins top prize

The Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood has already suffered massive damage in the war
Israeli tanks push into major Gaza City residential area
ISTANBUL — Local residents and eyewitnesses say dozens of Israeli tanks and military vehicles have pushed into a major residential district of Gaza City, on the second day of Israel's ground offensive aimed at occupying the area.Video footage shows tanks, bulldozers and armoured personnel carriers moving on the edges of Sheikh Radwan, in northern Gaza City. Thick clouds of smoke can be seen as Israeli forces fire artillery shells and smoke bombs to cover their advance.The Sheikh Radwan district was home to tens of thousands of people before the war and is considered one of the city's most densely populated areas.Israel says the aim of its Gaza City offensive is to free hostages held by Hamas and defeat up to 3,000 fighters in what it describes as the group's "last...
September 18, 2025

Israeli tanks push into major Gaza City residential area

Thousands of displaced Palestinians are attempting to move south on Tuesday after Israeli forces launched a ground assault on Gaza City
Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel launches ground assault amid global outcry
JERUSALEM — Israel said it launched an expanded ground assault on Gaza City on Tuesday in defiance of international condemnation, as Palestinians fled the enclave’s largest urban area in waves amid escalating bombardment.The long-anticipated incursion began on the outskirts of the city, Israeli officials said, where Israel’s military has accelerated its airstrikes and the destruction of high-rise towers over the last week.“Gaza is burning,” Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on Tuesday. He said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was “striking terror infrastructures” and working to secure “the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is at a “critical stage” in the war as it attacks Gaza City, which his government...
September 17, 2025

Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel launches ground assault amid global outcry

Sheep walk among the dried-out bed of the Orontes River in Jisr al-Shughour, northern Syria
Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink
DAMASCUS – The wheat fields outside Seqalbia, near the Syrian city of Hama, should be golden and heavy with grain.Instead, Maher Haddad's 40 dunums (10 acres) are dry and empty, barely yielding a third of their usual harvest."This year was disastrous due to drought," said the 46-year-old farmer, reflecting on the land that cost him more to sow than it gave back.His fields delivered only 190kg (418 lbs) of wheat per dunum – far below the 400-500kg he relies on in a normal year."We haven't recovered what we spent on agriculture; we've lost money. I can't finance next year and I can't cover the cost of food and drink," Haddad told the BBC.With two teenage daughters to feed, he is now borrowing money from relatives to survive.Haddad's struggle is...
September 17, 2025

Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink

Palestinians hold out pots and pans at a community kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, July 26, 2025
Top aid groups call on world leaders to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza
JERUSALEM – After an independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the heads of more than 20 aid agencies have called on world leaders to “urgently intervene” in the war in the devastated territory.With an estimated 65,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks so far in Gaza, including more than 20,000 children, the agencies warned early on Wednesday that almost 1 million more people are now “on the precipice of an even deadlier period in Gaza’s story if action is not taken”.“The inhumanity of the situation in Gaza is unconscionable,” the groups said in a joint statement, warning that Israel’s latest efforts to forcibly displace Gaza City’s population through a ground occupation are...
September 17, 2025

Top aid groups call on world leaders to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza

St Hilarion Monastery is considered the oldest historical monument in the Gaza Strip
The frantic race to save historic treasures from Israeli bombs
GAZA – As Israeli bombs were toppling one high-rise building after another in Gaza City, a call came through that Gaza’s top archaeologist, Fadel al-Otol, had long dreaded. The Israeli military was warning it was about to attack a tower storing thousands of ancient treasures.“Honestly, I can hardly speak, for two days I’ve barely slept,” Fadel told me on Friday from Switzerland, where he now lives with most of his family. “I’ve been extremely worried. I’ve felt as if a missile could strike at my heart at any moment.”After international experts pressed Israel to give an extra day for the evacuation, Fadel and others remotely guided Palestinian volunteers and aid workers through an incredible feat. Racing against the clock, they moved away six lorryloads of artefacts –...
September 17, 2025

The frantic race to save historic treasures from Israeli bombs

The UN commission of inquiry says Israel has committed four genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza during the war
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
JERUSALEM – A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.It cites statements by Israeli leaders, and the pattern of conduct by Israeli forces, as evidence of genocidal intent.Israel's foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report, denouncing it as "distorted and false".A spokesperson accused the three experts on the commission of serving as...
September 16, 2025

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion
Rubio in Qatar as Israel launches new Gaza incursion 
JERUSALEM – Israel announced on Tuesday it launched a ground incursion to seize Gaza City, soon after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio left Tel Aviv, escalating its war in defiance of international condemnation and backlash from the families of Israeli hostages.Israel launched what may be its biggest ground operation in Gaza since the initial military incursion at the beginning of the war, marking an unprecedented escalation that has full US backing.Nearly two years into the conflict, the Israeli military says it has begun a new and expanded ground incursion into Gaza City, which Israeli officials have said is one of Hamas’ last remaining strongholds.Since the late hours of Monday, Gaza City has witnessed what could be described as a significant and alarming Israeli military...
September 16, 2025

Rubio in Qatar as Israel launches new Gaza incursion 

An Israeli army flare drifts over buildings during the Israeli ground and air operations in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025
US warns of limited time for Gaza deal as Israel intensifies strikes
JERUSALEM – The Gaza Strip came under heavy bombing overnight on Monday, as Israel launched a barrage of strikes toward Gaza City, the enclave's biggest city.Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X on Tuesday that "Gaza is burning," reaffirming Israel's stance that it will not back down until the completion of the mission.The Shifa Hospital received the bodies of 12 people killed, and at least 90 others were injured, after a strike hit multiple houses in the west of the city, the hospital's managing director Dr Rami Mhanna said.It comes amid reports that Israel launched its ground offensive on Gaza's once most populous city, and US top diplomat Marco Rubio warned there is now only a "short window of time in which a deal can happen."“We...
September 16, 2025

US warns of limited time for Gaza deal as Israel intensifies strikes

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