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The explosion happened when the market was crowded with shoppers preparing for a religious holiday. — courtesy X / @SyriaCivilDef
Syria: Seven dead after car bomb tears through market in Azaz
DAMASCUS — At least seven people have been killed in a car bombing which targeted a busy market in northern Syria.Several more were injured in the attack in the town of Azaz in Aleppo province, near the Turkish border.It is unclear who carried out the attack in the town which is run by pro-Turkish militias fighting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.Turkish forces and their proxies control large areas of Syria along the border the two countries share.When the bomb went off the market was busy with shoppers buying new clothes for their children ahead of Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan next month.The White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group which operates in Syria, said two children were among the dead.Footage of the aftermath showed bodies lying on...
March 31, 2024

Syria: Seven dead after car bomb tears through market in Azaz

The Christian village of Rmeish in Lebanon. — courtesy Reuters
UN observers wounded by shelling in southern Lebanon
BEIRUT — Three United Nations observers and a translator have been wounded by shelling in Rmeish, southern Lebanon, the UN peacekeeping mission said.Lebanon's state news agency reported that an Israeli drone strike was behind the explosion, but the Israeli military denied it was responsible.The UN mission, UNIFIL, said those hurt were receiving treatment and that it was investigating the blast's origin.It comes after rising tensions along the unofficial Israel-Lebanon border.In a statement, UNIFIL said a shell had exploded near the group who had been on a foot patrol along the UN-demarcated Blue Line that divides southern Lebanon from Israel.It described the targeting of peacekeepers as "unacceptable".No details have been given about the nationality of the observers or...
March 30, 2024

UN observers wounded by shelling in southern Lebanon

Hezbollah fighters are reported to be among the dead (file image)
Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s Aleppo result in civilian and military casualties
DAMASCUS — A series of Israeli airstrikes targeting areas close to the Syrian city of Aleppo have led to casualties among both civilians and military personnel on Friday, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA.Thirty-eight people were killed, according to Reuters, including five members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. One of the Hezbollah fighters was a local field commander whose brother was killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon in November, Reuters said.Israeli warplanes initiated an attack around 1:45 a.m., local time from the direction of Athriya, southeast of Aleppo, according to a military source quoted by SANA.The Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on the attack.Israel has previously launched attacks on Aleppo and the Syrian capital Damascus,...
March 29, 2024

Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s Aleppo result in civilian and military casualties

Children with empty pots wait as aid workers distribute food in Gaza City earlier this month
Top UN court orders Israel to allow food and medical aid into Gaza
THE HAGUE — The UN's top court has unanimously ordered Israel to enable the unhindered flow of aid into Gaza in order to avert a famine.The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel must act "without delay" to allow the "provision... of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance".This follows warnings that famine could hit Gaza within weeks.Israel has called allegations it is blocking aid "wholly unfounded".It has also denied allegations of genocide lodged at the ICJ by South Africa and has blamed the UN for problems with the distribution of aid.The latest ruling by the court in The Hague comes after South Africa asked it to bolster an order issued to Israel in January to take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza.Although...
March 29, 2024

Top UN court orders Israel to allow food and medical aid into Gaza

Noora Mohammed can't get the treatment she needs in a Gaza hospital
Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief says
JERUSALEM — After months of warnings, a recent UN-backed report offered hard statistical evidence that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is turning into a man-made famine.It has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfill its legal responsibilities to protect Palestinian civilians, and to allow adequate supplies of humanitarian aid to reach the people who need it.The UN's most senior human rights official, Volker Türk, said in a BBC interview that Israel bore significant blame, and that there was a "plausible" case that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.Mr Türk, who is the UN high commissioner for human rights, said that if intent was proven, that would amount to a war crime.Israel's economy minister, Nir Barkat, a senior politician in Benjamin...
March 28, 2024

Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief says

Until 2019, President Erdogan's AK Party had been in charge of Istanbul and Ankara for 25 years
Turkish vote: Battle to run Istanbul becomes key to country's future
ISTANBUL — Millions of Turks vote in elections on Sunday to decide who runs their biggest cities — and whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can wrest back control from the opposition.Turkey's economic and social powerhouse, Istanbul, was won by a united opposition five years ago under popular mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, shattering the president's long run of electoral success.Now Erdogan, who was born in this megacity of 16 million people, wants it back and the vote is on a knife-edge.Whatever happens in Istanbul is being seen as a crucial test of whether the opposition can pose a serious threat to Erdogan and his AK Party in the next presidential elections in four years' time."Istanbul is his home. Losing Istanbul to the opposition in the 2019 local elections was...
March 28, 2024

Turkish vote: Battle to run Istanbul becomes key to country's future

US President Joe Biden and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seated next to each other at a press conference.
Jeremy Bowen: Biden has decided strong words with Israel are not enough
WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Joe Biden and his senior officials have been losing patience with the way that Israel is fighting the war in Gaza.They have used increasingly stiff language to convey their displeasure to Israel and the wider world.The decision to allow the latest ceasefire resolution through the Security Council shows that President Biden has decided that strong words are not enough.Removing diplomatic protection from Israel's conduct of the war is a significant step.It shows the depth of the rift that has opened between the White House and Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.Prime Minister Netanyahu responded with a broadside directed at Israel's most important ally.He condemned the US decision not to use its veto, saying it had harmed the war...
March 26, 2024

Jeremy Bowen: Biden has decided strong words with Israel are not enough

Settler numbers are rising fast under Benjamin Netanyahu's government
Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront
By Orla GuerinWEST BANK — Who wouldn't want a house on the beach? For some on Israel's far-right, desirable beachfront now includes the sands of Gaza.Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel's settler movement, who says she already has a list of 500 families ready to move to Gaza immediately."I have friends in Tel Aviv," she says, "so they say, 'Don't forget to keep for me a plot near the coast in Gaza,' because it's a beautiful, beautiful coast, beautiful golden sand".She tells them the plots on the coast are already booked.Mrs Weiss heads a radical settler organization called Nachala, or homeland. For decades, she has been kickstarting Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, on Palestinian...
March 25, 2024

Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront

Demonstrators call for the release of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas during a protest in Tel Aviv on March 17, 2024
Israel agrees to US proposal on prisoner-hostage exchange
JERUSALEM — Israel has agreed to a US proposal on a prisoner-hostage exchange that would release around 700 Palestinian prisoners, among them 100 serving life sentences for killing Israeli nationals, in exchange for the release of 40 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, according to CNN analyst Barak Ravid’s reporting on the recent round of talks in Doha, Qatar.CNN affiliate Channel 11 (Kan News) on Sunday also reported on Israel’s agreement to the US prisoner-hostage exchange proposal. Kan News cited a senior Israeli official, saying that Israel is ready to make “significant compromises in order to return the abductees home.”Earlier in the weekend, Ravid, citing an unnamed Israeli official, tweeted that Israel agreed to a US “bridging proposal” on the number of...
March 25, 2024

Israel agrees to US proposal on prisoner-hostage exchange

Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit strongly condemned the terrorist attack that took place near Moscow.
Arab League, GCC denounce terrorist attack near Moscow
CAIRO — The Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit strongly condemned the terrorist attack that took place near Moscow.He described the attack as an act that cannot be justified under any pretext.In a statement, Aboul Gheit expressed his deepest condolences to the Russian government and the families of the victims of the attack and also wished a speedy recovery to the injured.The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Jasem Al-Budaiwi too strongly condemned the recent shooting incident that occurred in the Russian capital, Moscow.In his statement issued Friday, Al-Budaiwi expressed the unwavering stance of the GCC against all acts of violence, extremism, and terrorism, emphasizing their detrimental impact on global security and stability.Al-Budaiwi extended condolences...
March 23, 2024

Arab League, GCC denounce terrorist attack near Moscow

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