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Israelis take cover as a siren warns of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, t a cemetery in Holon, central Israel, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023
Poll finds 49% Israelis want to hold off on Gaza invasion
TEL AVIV — Almost half of Israelis support holding off on an invasion of the Gaza Strip, a poll published on Friday has found.The results could show public reluctance to escalate the offensive against Hamas, as Israeli leaders ready their forces.Israel vowed to annihilate the Palestinian militant group after it killed 1,400 people in a surprise assault on 7 October.It unleashed a relentless bombardment on Gaza, which so far has killed more than 7,000 Palestinians, and stepped up tank and infantry raids on the besieged enclave.In the poll published by the Maariv newspaper, 29% of Israelis agreed the military should launch a large-scale ground offensive immediately, 49% said "it would be better to wait", while 22% were undecided.Its poll from 19 October found that 65% supported a...
October 27, 2023

Poll finds 49% Israelis want to hold off on Gaza invasion

Lloyd Austin
US strikes 2 militia facilities in Syria following attacks on US forces in Middle East
WASHINGTON — The US carried out airstrikes targeting two facilities linked to Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria on Thursday, according to a statement from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, following a series of drone and rocket attacks against US forces in the region.The statement said the facilities have been used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups.The strikes, carried out by a pair of F-16 fighter jets using precision-guided munitions, targeted a weapons and ammunition storage facility in Abu Kamal near the border between Syria and Iraq.Austin described the strikes, which were ordered by President Joe Biden, as “narrowly tailored in self-defense” and emphasized they are separate from the ongoing conflict in Gaza. He directly accused Iran...
October 27, 2023

US strikes 2 militia facilities in Syria following attacks on US forces in Middle East

Wael Al-Dahdouh (left) at the funeral for his family members.
Al Jazeera reporter's family killed in Gaza strike
GAZA CITY — The family of an Al Jazeera news reporter has been killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, the network has confirmed.Wael Al-Dahdouh's wife, teenage son and young daughter were all killed at a refugee camp in central Gaza on Wednesday, Al Jazeera said in a statement.It later reported that his grandson had died as well.Al Jazeera condemned the killings and Israel's "indiscriminate attack".According to the news organization, Al-Dahdouh's family was living in a house at the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza after being displaced from northern Gaza following Israel's warning to residents to move south due to ongoing military action.Fifteen-year-old Mahmoud was in his final year at high school, Al Jazeera said, while his daughter, Sham, was seven years old...
October 26, 2023

Al Jazeera reporter's family killed in Gaza strike

Some 40% of Palestinians killed in Gaza are reported to be children
Humanity blasted and broken: Gaza through a medic's eyes
By Fergal KeaneJERUSALEM — There is nothing on his face to convey what he has seen.The lifeless bodies of children pulled from the rubble. The tents filled with the dead wrapped in white shrouds. Buildings flattened by the devastating force of air strikes. Mahmoud Badawi has seen humanity blasted, burned and broken."There are many hard situations," he says. "As an ambulance driver you get used to what is happening. Whether it's hands, heads or bodies that are cut... we are used to this."His ambulance races from one scene of carnage to another. In a narrow alley in Gaza, he stops to collect two child casualties of an air strike. A man approaches holding a bundle in his arms. It is a boy who has been badly wounded.He calls out to a friend who is helping the...
October 26, 2023

Humanity blasted and broken: Gaza through a medic's eyes

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan says Hamas are 'liberators'
ISTANBUL — Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called Hamas "liberators" and condemned the West for not stopping Israel's assault on Gaza.Erdogan said on Wednesday he was abandoning plans to go to Israel, vowing "we will not go".Referring to a past meeting with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, he said: “I shook this man’s hand, we had good intentions but he abused us.”Erdogan was speaking in front of Turkish lawmakers, who chanted “down with Israel” and “Allah Abkar” (God is great).“Relations could have been different but that will no longer happen, unfortunately,” added the Turkish president.Erdogan condemned Israel, claiming “you will not find any other state whose army behaves with such inhumanity.”Since...
October 26, 2023

Erdogan says Hamas are 'liberators'

A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl after recovering her from the rubble of a destroyed area following Israeli air strikes in Gaza City, Tuesday. — courtesy EPA
Gaza's hospitals treating emergency cases only as fuel runs low
GAZA — Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are taking emergency cases only, the UN says, amid fears fuel supplies will run out across the territory in the coming hours.UN facilities are also overwhelmed by 600,000 displaced Palestinians seeking shelter — four times their capacity.The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza meanwhile says that more than 700 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes for a second day in a row.Israel's military says it is targeting Hamas fighters and infrastructure.It launched a bombing campaign against Hamas — which Israel, the UK, US and other powers class as a terrorist organization — in response to an unprecedented cross-border assault on Oct. 7 in which at least 1,400 people were killed and 222 others were taken hostage.Israel is also blocking new fuel...
October 25, 2023

Gaza's hospitals treating emergency cases only as fuel runs low

Nearly 600,000 internally displaced people are sheltering in 150 UNRWA facilities across Gaza.
UN agency says Gaza relief operations could halt by Wednesday night 
GAZA CITY — Relief operations in Gaza may be forced to halt by Wednesday night if no fuel is delivered to the territory, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said.Vital fuel supplies needed to run hospitals, pump and desalinate water and power bakeries are on the verge of running out, with the main aid agency in Gaza warning the deep humanitarian crisis is getting worse by the hour.“If we do not get fuel urgently, we will be forced to halt our operations in the #GazaStrip as of tomorrow night,” UNRWA wrote on X, formerly Twitter on Tuesday. "Fuel deliveries must be let in to ensure people have clean drinking water, hospitals can remain open and life-saving aid operations can continue," UNRWA also said.Nearly 600,000 internally displaced people are sheltering...
October 25, 2023

UN agency says Gaza relief operations could halt by Wednesday night 

Australian Defense Richard Marles (L) holds a meeting with his Japanese counterpart Minoru Kihara at the Defense Ministry in Shinjuku Ward in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2023. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
Australia calls for 'humanitarian pauses on hostilities' in Israel-Hamas conflict
CANBERRA — Australia called for “humanitarian pauses on hostilities” in Gaza to allow supplies to get in and for civilians to get to safety, a statement from the country’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Wednesday.“We call for humanitarian pauses on hostilities, so food, water, medicine and other essential assistance can reach people in desperate need, and so civilians can get to safety,” Wong said in a statement posted on her official X account, formerly Twitter.Acknowledging that there’s been limited access to aid for Gaza residents in recent days, Wong said it was “nowhere near enough.”Her comments come as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) warned Tuesday that only eight of the 20 aid trucks that were originally...
October 25, 2023

Australia calls for 'humanitarian pauses on hostilities' in Israel-Hamas conflict

Antonio Guterres
UN secretary-general: Hamas attacks on Israel 'did not happen in a vacuum'
NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Hamas' October 7 attacks on Israel “did not happen in a vacuum” during his remarks to the Security Council on the Middle East Tuesday.“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” Guterres said, adding that Palestinians “have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence.”At the same time, Guterres noted that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas.” He added that Palestinian people should not be collectively punished for Hamas' attacks, either.Therefore, according to Guterres, all parties of the...
October 25, 2023

UN secretary-general: Hamas attacks on Israel 'did not happen in a vacuum'

A view of buildings reduced to rubble and ruins by Israeli airstrikes are seen in Gaza on October 23, 2023
US military advisers invoke lessons of Iraq in urging Israelis to avoid all-out ground assault in Gaza
WASHINGTON — American military officials are trying to steer Israel away from the type of brutal, urban combat the US engaged in during the Iraq War, in an effort to keep the Israelis from getting bogged down in bloody, house-by-house fighting as they prepare for an assault on Gaza, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.In helping the Israel Defense Forces game out a number of different strategies to defeat Hamas, US military advisers on the ground in Israel are invoking lessons learned specifically from Fallujah in 2004, one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq War.Instead of launching a full-scale ground assault on Gaza, which could endanger hostages, civilians, and further inflame tensions in the region, US military advisers are urging Israelis to use a combination of...
October 25, 2023

US military advisers invoke lessons of Iraq in urging Israelis to avoid all-out ground assault in Gaza

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