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Palestinians gather to receive cooked meals from a food distribution center in Gaza City on August 13, 2025
Famine confirmed in Gaza City, UN-backed initiative says
JERUSALEM – Parts of Gaza are officially experiencing famine, according to a Friday report by a United Nations-backed initiative, which added it is expected to expand.During nearly two years of war, Israel has at times restricted or cut off the entry of aid to the ravaged enclave.While some people have died of starvation and hunger, others have been killed trying to receive aid at distribution sites run by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which was brought in place to replace a UN system long criticized by Israel.The report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said famine has been confirmed in the Gaza Governorate, which includes Gaza City, also the site of a major new Israeli offensive.It added that “malnutrition...
August 22, 2025

Famine confirmed in Gaza City, UN-backed initiative says

Palestinians carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid unloaded from a World Food Programme convoy in northern Gaza, 16 June, 2025
Israel warns Gaza City could be destroyed if Hamas doesn't accept ceasefire terms
JERUSALEM – Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Gaza City could be destroyed if Hamas does not accept Israel's conditions for ending the war in a post on X on Friday.It comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will give final approval for the occupation of Gaza City while also starting negotiations with Hamas, aimed at returning the hostages and ending the nearly two-year war, but only "on terms acceptable to Israel."Earlier this week, Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire proposal drawn up by mediators from Egypt and Qatar. Egypt and Hamas officials said the proposal is almost identical to the one Israel accepted before talks stalled last month.The proposal would include the release of some hostages in exchange for Palestinians...
August 22, 2025

Israel warns Gaza City could be destroyed if Hamas doesn't accept ceasefire terms

Palestinians inspect the site of an overnight Israeli strike on a house, in Gaza City
Israel says it will start talks to free all hostages as cabinet approves Gaza City assault
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has instructed negotiations to begin for the release of all remaining hostages and an end to the war in Gaza on terms "acceptable to Israel".Netanyahu told Israeli troops on Thursday night that his cabinet had also approved plans for a massive assault on Gaza City in the north of the territory, despite widespread international and domestic opposition.Hamas agreed to a proposal drawn up by Qatari and Egyptian mediators for a 60-day ceasefire on Monday, which according to Qatar would see the release of half of the remaining hostages in Gaza.But responding for the first time, Netanyahu has not accepted the deal currently on the table.Israeli media has cited an Israeli official as saying negotiators will be dispatched...
August 22, 2025

Israel says it will start talks to free all hostages as cabinet approves Gaza City assault

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula von der Leyen 'extremely saddened' by situation of children in Gaza
BRUSSELS — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is "extremely saddened by the situation of the children in Gaza", Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta told reporters on Thursday."She is extremely saddened by the situation children are facing in Gaza. The president has said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is appalling," the spokesperson said in response to a question on the situation in Gaza.Podesta said that Von der Leyen stood for the protection of children everywhere in the world, noting that she had spearheaded a call for the release of abducted Ukrainian children from Russian custody alongside US first lady Melania Trump."She has indeed raised the topic of the Ukrainian children abducted by Russia with President Trump the other day in...
August 22, 2025

Ursula von der Leyen 'extremely saddened' by situation of children in Gaza

Israel said troops were already operating in the Zeitoun and Jabalia areas to lay the groundwork for the offensive
Palestinians flee Gaza City districts as Israel says first stages of offensive have begun
GAZA — Palestinians are fleeing parts of Gaza City after the Israeli military began the first stages of a planned ground offensive, officials in the city say.Israel's troops have established a foothold on the outskirts of the city — which is home to more than a million Palestinians — after days of intense bombing and artillery fire.It has prompted UN Secretary General António Guterres to renew calls for an immediate ceasefire "to avoid the death and destruction" an assault would "inevitably cause".Israel wants to signal that it is pressing ahead with its plan to capture all of Gaza City despite international criticism.Hundreds of Palestinians in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods of Gaza City have left toward the north-western part of the city.Gaza City...
August 21, 2025

Palestinians flee Gaza City districts as Israel says first stages of offensive have begun

India's Agni-5 Missile on display in New Delhi on January 23, 2013
India tests nuclear capable missile a week ahead of Modi’s visit to China
HONG KONG — India has successfully test-fired an indigenously developed intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead deep into the territory of its geopolitical rival, China, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares for his first visit there in years.The Agni-5 was launched in India’s eastern Odisha state and “validated all operational and technical parameters,” the country’s defense ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.The missile has a range of more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies Missile Defense Project. That puts India’s rivals like China and Pakistan well within range of the weapon.India and China are locked in a fierce battle for influence across the Asia-Pacific....
August 21, 2025

India tests nuclear capable missile a week ahead of Modi’s visit to China

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a joint press conference in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023
France hits back after Netanyahu accuses Macron of fueling antisemitism
PARIS — France has hit back after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused President Emmanuel Macron of fuelling antisemitism with his decision to recognize a Palestinian state.Tensions between the two nations have escalated since Macron announced last month that France intends to formally recognise Palestinian statehood in September at the United Nations General Assembly.Netanyahu wrote a letter to Macron earlier this week claiming that antisemitism has "surged" in France since that announcement."Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire," Netanyahu wrote."It is not diplomacy, it is appeasement. It rewards Hamas terror, hardens Hamas’s refusal to free the hostages, emboldens those who menace French Jews and encourages the...
August 21, 2025

France hits back after Netanyahu accuses Macron of fueling antisemitism

Israeli army soldiers look at destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip as they stand on the border with the Palestinian territory on Wednesday
As Israel begins offensive on Gaza City, an exhausted military may face manpower problem
JERUSALEM — As the earliest stages of a massive assault on Gaza City take shape, Israel is calling up tens of thousands of reservists to take part in the impending military operation.The takeover and occupation of the largest city in northern Gaza, which Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was one of the last Hamas strongholds, will require the military to bring in 60,000 more reserve troops and extend the service of another 20,000.Those plans have sparked growing condemnation both internationally and domestically over fears that the spiraling humanitarian and hunger crisis in Gaza will worsen – and that the lives of the remaining hostages will be further at risk from an expanded military operation.The Israeli military is already on the outskirts of Gaza City, Israel...
August 21, 2025

As Israel begins offensive on Gaza City, an exhausted military may face manpower problem

French President Emmanuel Macron, shown on July 10, says his government's recognition of the State of Palestine is intended to revive the two-state solution and bring peace to the Middle East
Israel launches diplomatic attacks on its Western allies ahead of Palestinian statehood recognition
JERUSALEM — In an escalating international dispute, Israel launched a series of diplomatic attacks against several of its Western allies as they prepare to recognize a Palestinian state next month.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent two strongly worded letters to the leaders of France and Australia, accusing both men of fueling antisemitism with their decision to recognize a state of Palestine. In both letters, Netanyahu cited antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents that occurred in recent months, linking them to the governments’ positions on the Gaza war and Palestinian statehood.“Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire”, Netanyahu wrote in a letter obtained by CNN to French President Emanuel Macron on Tuesday.“It is not diplomacy, it is...
August 21, 2025

Israel launches diplomatic attacks on its Western allies ahead of Palestinian statehood recognition

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the plans for 3,400 homes in the E1 area last week
Israel gives final approval for controversial West Bank settlement project
JERUSALEM — Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut off the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem and divide the territory in two.Construction in the E1 area has been frozen for two decades amid fierce international opposition. Critics warn it would put an end to hopes for a viable, contiguous Palestinian state.On Wednesday, a defence ministry committee approved plans for 3,400 homes in E1. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who unveiled them last week, said the idea of a Palestinian state was "being erased".The Palestinian Authority condemned the move, saying it was illegal and would "destroy" the prospects for a two-state solution.It follows declarations by a growing number of countries of their...
August 21, 2025

Israel gives final approval for controversial West Bank settlement project

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