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More than 21,800 people have been killed in Gaza, mostly children and women
Israel says war in Gaza expected to continue throughout 2024
TEL AVIV — The Israeli military has said it expects the conflict in Gaza to continue throughout 2024.In a new year's message, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said troop deployments were being adjusted to prepare for "prolonged fighting".He said some troops -- especially reservists -- would be withdrawn to allow them to regroup."These adaptations are intended to ensure the planning and preparation for continuing the war in 2024," he said."The IDF must plan ahead out of an understanding that there will be additional missions and the fighting will continue the rest of the year."He said that some reservists would leave Gaza "as soon as this week" to allow them to "re-energise ahead of the coming operations".More than 21,800...
January 01, 2024

Israel says war in Gaza expected to continue throughout 2024

British destroyer HMS Diamond shot down a suspected drone attack last month
UK defense secretary says British forces will repel Houthi attacks
LONDON — UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps has said British forces are ready to act against Houthi rebels that target cargo ships in the Red Sea.In a newspaper article, he said the UK was "willing to take direct action" to protect the key shipping lane.Highlighting how a British warship shot down a suspected attack drone in the Red Sea in December, Shapps said "we won't hesitate to take further action".The Houthis have targeted foreign ships since the Israel-Hamas war started.The Iran-backed rebel group has declared support for Hamas and has said it targets ships travelling to Israel, launching more than 100 drone and missile attacks.The US and British warships have been shooting down these missiles and drones, at huge cost, but are now warning the Houthis to stop...
January 01, 2024

UK defense secretary says British forces will repel Houthi attacks

In this image provided by the US Navy, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall and amphibious assault ship USS Bataan transit the Bab al-Mandeb strait on August 9, 2023
White House says it is not seeking wider conflict after US helicopters sink Houthi boats in Red Sea
WASHINGTON — The White House said Sunday it is not seeking a wider conflict in the Middle East after US helicopters sank three Houthi boats in the Red Sea after coming under fire.The helicopters sank the boats and killed those aboard, marking the first time since tensions broke out earlier this year that the US has killed members of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group, which has been targeting commercial and merchant vessels in the Red Sea.The US has avoided directly striking the group inside Yemen as it seeks to avoid escalating the crisis further. But a National Security Council spokesman said Sunday that the US would continue acting in self-defense.“We don’t seek a conflict wider in the region and we’re not looking for a conflict with the Houthis. The best outcome here would...
January 01, 2024

White House says it is not seeking wider conflict after US helicopters sink Houthi boats in Red Sea

Baby pulled alive from rubble after Israeli air strike on Rafah.
Baby pulled alive from Gaza rubble after Israeli air strike on Rafah
GAZA CITY — Rescuers in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza, have pulled a baby girl alive from the rubble after an Israeli air strike.People used their hands to free Mariam Abu Akel from the debris, before a rescuer ran with her to a nearby hospital.Doctors there swabbed her cuts.The baby had been sheltering in a house with her family when the strike took place, which killed her mother and sister, Reuters reported.Her father and young brother survived.The air strike killed 20 people and injured 55, according to a Hamas-run Health Ministry spokesperson.More than 21,500 people — mostly children and women — have been killed during Israeli retaliatory attacks on Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.Thousands more are believed to be still under rubble of buildings destroyed by...
December 30, 2023

Baby pulled alive from Gaza rubble after Israeli air strike on Rafah

Israeli youth in Jerusalem demonstrating for the return of hostages
Israeli military report reveals new failures in mission to rescue mistakenly killed hostages
TEL AVIV — Israel’s army chief said troops failed in their mission to rescue three hostages mistakenly killed in Gaza earlier this month as the military on Thursday published its report into the incident.Herzi Halevi, chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said the shootings “could have been prevented,” but he determined there was “no malice in the event and the soldiers carried out the right action to the best of their understanding of the event at that moment.”Yotam Haim, Alon Shamriz and Samer Talalka were captured by Hamas on October 7 and taken to Gaza. The three men were accidentally killed during an IDF operation around the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya on December 15 in an incident that shocked Israeli society.The report into their deaths...
December 29, 2023

Israeli military report reveals new failures in mission to rescue mistakenly killed hostages

Gaza hospital in chaos after nearby air strike
Thousands flee central Gaza as Israeli troops advance
JERUSALEM — An estimated 150,000 Palestinians are being forced to flee areas of central Gaza, the UN has said, as Israeli forces advance on refugee camps there.Witnesses and Hamas's armed wing reported that tanks had reached the eastern outskirts of Bureij camp.Israel's military recently expanded its ground offensive to target Bureij and nearby Nuseirat and Maghazi camps.Israeli bombardment also killed dozens of people across Gaza on Thursday, the Hamas-run health ministry said.Egypt has confirmed that it has put forward a three-stage proposal to stop the fighting which ends with a ceasefire.A Hamas delegation is said to have arrived in Cairo to give its response to the plan.The war was triggered by an unprecedented cross-border attack by Hamas gunmen on southern Israel on 7...
December 29, 2023

Thousands flee central Gaza as Israeli troops advance

A still from a video appears to show Palestinian women and men blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs as they sit on the grass in front of a soccer goal in the stadium
Video shows at least two children among men stripped and detained by Israeli troops in Gaza stadium
RAFAH — An edited video circulating on social media appears to show Palestinian men and at least two children detained and stripped by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a stadium in northern Gaza.Clips in the video show what appear to be two young boys in one frame, stripped down to their underwear, walking and holding both their hands up as the IDF directs them into the stadium.In another clip, two figures who appear to be the same young boys stripped of their clothing are seen with their hands above their heads, as they are lined up in single file lines with other males who appear to be teens and adults.CNN is unable to verify when the video was shot. A CNN geolocation of the video shows it was filmed in Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza City, where NGO Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor...
December 28, 2023

Video shows at least two children among men stripped and detained by Israeli troops in Gaza stadium

Neither Qatar nor India has revealed the specific charges against the men
Qatar commutes Indian ex-navy officers' death penalty
KOCHI — A court in Qatar has commuted the death sentences of eight former Indian naval officers, India's foreign ministry has said.A ministry statement said the "sentences have been reduced" but did not specify the new quantum of punishment.Neither Qatar nor India have revealed the specific charges against the men.But FT and Reuters have reported, citing unnamed sources, that the men were charged with spying for Israel."Due to the confidential and sensitive nature of proceedings of this case, it would not be appropriate to make any further comment at this juncture," India's foreign ministry said on Thursday.In October, India said it was "deeply shocked" after the men were sentenced to death. It later filed an appeal against the court verdict.The...
December 28, 2023

Qatar commutes Indian ex-navy officers' death penalty

Fighting on the Israeli-Lebanese border earlier this week
Israeli minister warns Hezbollah over border fighting
BEIRUT — Israel's military will act to remove Hezbollah from the border with Lebanon if its attacks continue, an Israeli minister has warned.Benny Gantz said the Israel Defense Forces would intervene if the world and the Lebanese government did not stop militants from firing on northern Israel.Time for a diplomatic solution was running out, he added.Cross-border exchanges of fire have been escalating since Hamas's 7 October attacks on Israel.It has led to concerns the conflict in Gaza could become wider across the region."The situation on Israel's northern border demands change," Mr Gantz told a press conference on Wednesday night."The stopwatch for a diplomatic solution is running out. If the world and the Lebanese government don't act to prevent the...
December 28, 2023

Israeli minister warns Hezbollah over border fighting

Smoke rising from Gaza is seen from Israel as the Israeli army's air, sea and land attacks continue on December 26, 2023
Fears are rising of a widened Middle East war and US troops are in the firing line
WASHINGTON — Escalating attacks on US troops and commercial shipping and incidents often involving Iran and its proxies are causing new concerns that Israel’s war in Gaza could widen into a regional conflagration with grave political and economic consequences.With American service personnel increasingly in a dangerous firing line and with US and allied naval assets on high alert after multiple drone attacks, the deteriorating situation is leading to a tense holiday period for the White House.The rising possibility of US combat deaths and the worsening security situation from the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea and stretching through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Israel represents an unwelcome new foreign crisis as President Joe Biden’s reelection year dawns. And it is becoming a petri dish...
December 27, 2023

Fears are rising of a widened Middle East war and US troops are in the firing line

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