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Captives’ families angry after meeting with Netanyahu
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met families of captives freed from Gaza in an encounter described as tense by the Israeli media.Tuesday’s meeting came amid intensified fighting in the besieged Gaza Strip following the end of a seven-day pause in hostilities that enabled the return of more than 100 captives, who had been taken by the Palestinian armed group Hamas during its October 7 attack on Israel, in exchange for some 240 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.Israel said on Tuesday that some 138 captives remained in the territory.Several of the relatives who attended the meeting left bitterly critical of the government.Dani Miran, whose son Omri was among those taken captive, said he was so disgusted he had walked out in the middle of the meeting.“I won’t...
December 06, 2023

Captives’ families angry after meeting with Netanyahu

Person using phone to check stock market data. — courtesy Getty Images
Israel probes claims share traders knew of Hamas attack in advance
TEL AVIV — Israel says it is investigating claims that some investors may have known of Hamas's attack on Israel before it took place on Oct. 7.An academic study suggests investors betting against the Israeli economy may have made large sums.Researchers found significant short-selling in the run-up to the attacks.Short-selling is when investors try to make money on shares, bonds or other financial instruments that they think will fall in price.They arrange to sell shares they do not yet own at the current price, hoping to buy them later at a cheaper price before the shares change hands, so they can then bank the difference."Days before the attack, traders appeared to anticipate the events to come," say researchers Robert Jackson Jr from New York University and Joshua Mitts...
December 05, 2023

Israel probes claims share traders knew of Hamas attack in advance

An injured Palestinian child is rushed to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. (file). — courtesy WHO
Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’
GAZA STRIP — The situation for Gazans is “getting worse by the hour”, the UN health agency WHO said on Tuesday, after some the heaviest Israeli shelling in the enclave since Hamas militants massacred some 1,200 people in southern Israel and took around 240 hostages on Oct. 7.Speaking from the southern city of Rafah, Dr. Rick Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, described further bloodshed after the resumption of Israeli bombing last Friday.“The situation is getting worse by the hour,” Dr. Peeperkorn told journalists in Geneva via video link. “I mean...there’s intensified bombing going on all around and including here in the southern areas, Khan Younis and even in Rafah.”The WHO medic noted that in the last couple...
December 05, 2023

Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’

A Palestinian boy carrying a baby stands at a site of a destroyed building in Rafah, in southern Gaza, December 4, 2023
UN warns of ‘blatant disregard for basic humanity’ in Gaza warfare
NEW YORK — Top officials at the United Nations are warning of an “apocalyptic” situation in war-torn Gaza with “no place safe to go” for civilians, as Israel’s war with Hamas spreads into the south, where many had previously sought refuge.“Every time we think things cannot get any more apocalyptic in Gaza, they do,” said Martin Griffiths, the top UN emergency relief official, in a statement on Monday. “People are being ordered to move again, with little to survive on, forced to make one impossible choice after another,” he said.“Such blatant disregard for basic humanity must stop,” he also said.Israel has been intensifying its aerial bombardment of southern Gaza in pursuit of Palestinian militant group Hamas and said over the weekend that it will expand ground...
December 05, 2023

UN warns of ‘blatant disregard for basic humanity’ in Gaza warfare

Rushdi Abualouf, reporting for the BBC in Gaza
'It's so much harder to watch Gaza from the outside'
The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf, who has reported from Gaza for decades, left the territory with his family on 20 November for the sake of their safety. It was six weeks after the Hamas attacks on southern Israel that has led to weeks of Israeli bombardment within Gaza. He is now in Istanbul, Turkey. Speaking on the BBC's Newshour program, he described how it felt to leave his home and observe Gaza from the outside.ISTANBUL — My family and I grew up in Gaza, we were born in Gaza.I really feel sad that I have had to leave in this way.I have a memory from every corner of my house, and from every corner of my neighbourhood.The rest of my wife's family — her father, mother and brother — are still there, while my father, brothers and sisters also remain in Gaza.To be honest,...
December 05, 2023

'It's so much harder to watch Gaza from the outside'

Israeli air strikes have intensified in the south, including Khan Younis, since the collapse of a truce last Friday
Israel orders evacuations from city in south Gaza as offensive widens
KHAN YOUNIS — Israel's military has ordered the evacuation of a fifth of the main city in southern Gaza, as it expands its ground offensive against Hamas.A map showed six northern and central areas of Khan Younis where an estimated 167,000 people needed to leave.Witnesses also reported seeing tanks to the east, and a doctor said a local hospital was overwhelmed by casualties.In Gaza City, an unconfirmed report says 50 people were killed when Israeli air strikes hit two schools.According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, they died in schools sheltering displaced people in the city's Daraj neighborhood.Reuters news agency has said that the strikes are still to be independently verified and that the Hamas-run health ministry could not be reached for comment. The Israeli army said...
December 05, 2023

Israel orders evacuations from city in south Gaza as offensive widens

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are brought to the hospital in Deir al Balah on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023
Israel army pushes into refugee-crowded south Gaza
GAZA — Israel's military expanded its operation in the Gaza Strip on Monday, as the Palestinian death toll continues to climb.The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) "operates wherever Hamas has strongholds,” army spokesperson Daniel Hagari said late Sunday evening.Israeli soldiers launched a ground offensive on 27 October in Gaza, taking control of several sectors in the north. Since fighting resumed on Friday following the end of a week-long truce with Hamas, the army has mainly conducted air raids. Now its troops and tanks are pushing south where hundreds of thousands of refugees have sought sanctuary from the fighting.An overnight airstrike hit the entrance of Kamal Adwan hospital, in northern Gaza, killing several people, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency. Hamas...
December 04, 2023

Israel army pushes into refugee-crowded south Gaza

Palestinian women mourning the loss of a family member at Al-Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis, southern the Gaza Strip. — curtesy UNICEF/UNI472270/Zaqout
Gaza: UN rights chief appeals for end to violence and a return to dialogue
GAZA — The brutal resumption of hostilities in Gaza and its terrifying impact on civilians underscore the need for the violence end and a political solution between Palestinians and Israelis to be found, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Sunday.“Silence the guns and return to dialogue – the suffering inflicted on civilians is too much to bear. More violence is not the answer. It will bring neither peace nor security,” Volker Türk said in a statement, voicing deep concern that negotiations towards a continuation of last week’s pause had reportedly stalled.Fighting resumed on Friday and hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardments, he said, citing the Gaza Ministry of Health.No aid entered the enclave via the Rafah crossing with Egypt on...
December 03, 2023

Gaza: UN rights chief appeals for end to violence and a return to dialogue

Displaced Palestinians take refuge in a school in Khan Younis. — courtesy Reuters
US sets clearer red lines for Israel as ceasefire ends
GAZA — In the end it was a diplomatic achievement that the ceasefire lasted as long as it did. Now, after a seven-day pause, Israel and Hamas are facing their greatest military and political challenges.For Hamas, it is the fight to survive. As long as a Hamas gunman can pull a trigger or launch a rocket into Israel it will claim to be undefeated.For all its overwhelming military power, Israel’s task is more complicated.Its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu swore “mighty vengeance” after Hamas breached the border and killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians, on Oct. 7.In the first hours after the Israeli military went back on the offensive, the government recommitted itself to its war aims in a WhatsApp post: “Releasing the hostages, eliminating Hamas and ensuring that...
December 02, 2023

US sets clearer red lines for Israel as ceasefire ends

Minutes after the truce expired, Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire hit Gaza City
Israel resumes Gaza bombing after truce expires
GAZA — Israel said on Friday its fighter jets had bombed the Gaza Strip, in the clearest sign yet the war has resumed with full force after a week-long truce. The announcement came shortly after the ceasefire expired at 05:00 GMT Friday.Earlier Friday, Israel accused Hamas of violating the terms of the ceasefire, including by firing rockets toward Israel from Gaza. The Palestinian militant group did not claim any attack.Minutes after the truce expired, an AFP journalist on the scene said Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire hit Gaza City.Six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air raid on Rafah, in southern Gaza, according to Gaza's health ministry.Two children were killed in air raids on Gaza City, a doctor at Ahli Arab hospital told AFP.With the resumption of conflict, Israeli...
December 01, 2023

Israel resumes Gaza bombing after truce expires

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