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The death of Al-Ghussein is not considered to be a blow to Hamas militarily
Senior Hamas official killed as Israel orders fresh evacuation
GAZA — A senior Hamas administration official was among four people killed in an Israeli air strike at a school in Gaza City, Palestinian sources say.A local official told the BBC that Ehab Al-Ghussein was appointed to manage the affairs of the Hamas government in Gaza City and northern Gaza three months ago.The Israeli army says that it carried out a strike on the area of a school building in Gaza City from which it says "terrorists were operating and hiding".It says that it took steps to minimize the risk of civilians being harmed.Eyewitnesses say the attack targeted the Holy Family School next to the Holy Family Church to the west of Gaza city. A large number of people were sheltering in the building, the BBC understands.The air strike targeted two classrooms on the ground...
July 08, 2024

Senior Hamas official killed as Israel orders fresh evacuation

There has been no progress towards a ceasefire since Biden's announcement five weeks ago
Israel asks Gaza ceasefire negotiators to resume work
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to send a team of negotiators to discuss a hostage release deal with Hamas.US President Joe Biden welcomed the development, which comes a day after Hamas responded to a Gaza ceasefire plan he outlined in late May. The last indirect talks took place in Cairo earlier that month.Details of Hamas's latest response have not been made public, but a Palestinian official told the BBC that the group was no longer demanding a full ceasefire at the outset of the plan presented by Biden.A senior US administration official said Hamas had agreed to "pretty significant adjustments" to its position."We've had a breakthrough on a critical impasse," the US official said, although he stressed that "this does...
July 05, 2024

Israel asks Gaza ceasefire negotiators to resume work

Fires and black smoke rise from between the houses of the northern Israeli border (archive)
Hezbollah launches 200 rockets into Israel after senior commander's killing
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Hezbollah group claimed responsibility for firing over 200 rockets at multiple Israeli military bases in response to an airstrike that killed a senior commander.The Israeli military said “numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets” had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which it said were intercepted. There were no immediate reports of casualties.It acknowledged on Wednesday that it had killed Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who headed one of Hezbollah’s three regional divisions in southern Lebanon, a day earlier.Hours later, Hezbollah launched scores of Katyusha and Falaq rockets with heavy warheads into northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. It launched more rockets on Thursday and said it had also sent exploding drones into several...
July 04, 2024

Hezbollah launches 200 rockets into Israel after senior commander's killing

A view of Jordan Valley near the West Bank city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
Israel approves largest West Bank land seizure in three decades, rights group says
JERUSALEM — Israel’s government has approved a large land seizure in the occupied West Bank – the biggest since the 1993 Oslo Accords set out a path for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, according to the Israeli rights group Peace Now.The Israeli military’s Civil Administration department, which manages civilian matters in the West Bank, issued the declaration on June 25 converting the area into state land, according to a document from the body, but the official notice wasn’t posted until Wednesday, Peace Now said.The declaration covers a 1,270-hectare (3,138 acre) section of the Jordan Valley in the eastern West Bank near Jericho, the document from the Civil Administration shows.Peace Now, an Israeli rights group that monitors illegal Israeli settlement expansion,...
July 04, 2024

Israel approves largest West Bank land seizure in three decades, rights group says

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu rejects report of wanting ceasefire in Gaza with Hamas still in power
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of starting a ceasefire in Gaza while Hamas remains in power, after The New York Times published an article citing six current and former security officials who said a truce would give Israeli troops time to prepare for a potential land war with Hezbollah.The officials, most of whom spoke anonymously to “discuss sensitive security matters,” also said a truce would be the most effective way to secure the release of the Israeli hostages.Former Israeli National Security Advisor Eyal Hulata, who according to the Times maintains regular communication with “senior military officials,” spoke on the record, saying, “The military is in full support of a hostage deal and a ceasefire ... They believe that they can...
July 03, 2024

Netanyahu rejects report of wanting ceasefire in Gaza with Hamas still in power

The UN estimates that around 250,000 people are affected by the Israeli evacuation orders
Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israeli forces strike south Gaza
GAZA — Palestinians have been fleeing districts to the east of Gaza’s second city of Khan Younis after Israel issued evacuation orders.Overnight and into the morning, witnesses reported multiple Israeli strikes in and around Khan Younis. A medical source and the Palestinian Red Crescent said eight people had been killed and more than 30 wounded.Patients and medical staff have also been leaving the European Gaza hospital in the area, as the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza told them to evacuate.The Israeli military has not itself issued an evacuation order for the hospital.The Red Cross is reported to have helped patients in the process of transferring to another hospital.Louise Wateridge, an official with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Gaza, asked where people could...
July 02, 2024

Palestinians flee Khan Younis as Israeli forces strike south Gaza

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in full time study have been exempt from conscription since the beginning of the state
Israel conscription rule stokes ultra-Orthodox fury
JERUSALEM — When Israel’s ultra-Orthodox or Haredi Jewish community gathers in force you realize just how large it is.Thousands of men and boys dressed in black and white are crammed into the streets of Mea Shearim — which is the heart of the ultra-Orthodox community — in Jerusalem for an angry protest against the military draft.It is the latest demonstration since the Supreme Court’s historic ruling that young Haredi men must be conscripted into the Israeli military and are no longer eligible for significant government benefits.Young men who are full-time students in Jewish seminaries, or yeshivas, tell me that their religious lifestyle is in jeopardy. They believe that their prayers and spiritual learning are what protect Israel and the Jewish people.“For 2,000 years we’ve...
July 02, 2024

Israel conscription rule stokes ultra-Orthodox fury

The Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank on the outskirts of Jerusalem
Israel sparks international condemnation over plans to legalize five West Bank settlements
JERUSALEM — Israel has sparked condemnation after the finance minister announced plans to legally recognize five unauthorized Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.As CNN has reported, the Israeli government has been looking to “strengthen” Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank after several countries unilaterally recognized a Palestinian state.The spokesperson for Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, told CNN that the Israeli government had agreed in a late-night cabinet to recognize five Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that were built illegally and that Smotrich will release tax funds to the Palestinian Authority that Israel collects on its behalf.In a statement to CNN on Sunday, Smotrich’s office said the decision to release funds...
July 01, 2024

Israel sparks international condemnation over plans to legalize five West Bank settlements

Growing crowds have attended reformist Massoud Pezeshkian's rallies
Reformist doctor running for presidency gives new hope to young Iranians
TEHRAN — A snap election was called after a deadly helicopter crash. A candidate promising a different approach both at home and abroad. And suddenly there’s an element of suspense and unpredictability in Iran, as voters go to the polls to choose a new president.Elections in the Islamic Republic are tightly controlled affairs — the candidates are all vetted by an influential committee of clerics before they can stand. And recently voter apathy has been widespread.But this time there is a wild card: a reformist former heart surgeon and health minister, Massoud Pezeshkian, who has declared “immoral” the actions of Iran’s morality police, who enforce strict dress codes on women.The rules on wearing the hijab are now being regularly flouted by women and Pezeshkian, 69, has said:...
June 28, 2024

Reformist doctor running for presidency gives new hope to young Iranians

Palestinians inspect the damage a day after Israeli forces launched an operation to rescue four hostages, in Nuseirat, central Gaza, on June 9
‘This is the blood of my son’
GAZA — Bullet holes fleck the bloodstained walls of the Miqdad family home, in Nuseirat camp, central Gaza.CNN footage from the house shows a cream teddy bear perched on a white cupboard, with broken plastic strewn across the shelves. In another room, mother-of-four Rasha Abdel Miqdad shudders with grief, before breaking down in tears.“This is the blood of my son, Yamen. May God bless his soul,” the 32-year-old Palestinian told CNN on June 12. “My son was innocent.“We are civilians, and we have no connection to the resistance or anything or any faction. We have no connection to it at all.”CNN spoke to seven members of the family who described a horror-filled haze of gunfire, tank artillery and aerial bombardment around their home on June 8. Israeli forces stormed through the...
June 26, 2024

‘This is the blood of my son’

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