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A massive military build-up of Israeli forces is continuing on Gaza's border
No end in sight for Israeli-Palestinian conflict
BRUSSELS — The conflict between Israel and Hamas has reached unprecedented levels in the wake of last weekend's attack on Israeli territory, with no light at the end of the tunnel for the local population. For decades, they have watched helplessly as hopes fade for a solution that could stabilize the region in the short term.Hugh Lovatt is an expert on the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations.He said: "I don't think either side has the will to end the fighting at the moment. And I don't think going back to the way things were before that fighting is an option for either side right now."The European Union and the United States have tried unsuccessfully to bring Israel and the Palestinians closer together. Now, after Saturday's...
October 11, 2023

No end in sight for Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Hamas launched a salvo of rockets from Gaza towards the Israeli city of Ashkelon, October 10, 2023
Israel bolsters troops at border with Gaza as details of Hamas attacks emerge
TEL AVIV — Israel is hammering Gaza with airstrikes, hitting hundreds of targets and reducing neighborhoods to rubble, as new atrocities are uncovered in its territory after a devastating surprise attack by Hamas militants.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had “more or less” secured the border with Gaza by Tuesday, after Hamas sent fighters pouring into Israeli territory on Saturday. At least 1,200 people were killed in Israel and thousands more injured in the militant group’s onslaught, according to public broadcaster Kan.During an inspection of the front line along Israel’s border with Gaza on Tuesday, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said he has “released all restraints” for the IDF troops in their fight against Hamas.“They will regret this moment - Gaza...
October 11, 2023

Israel bolsters troops at border with Gaza as details of Hamas attacks emerge

Smoke rises over buildings as the Israeli airstrikes continue in Gaza City, Gaza, on Monday. — courtesy Getty Images
IDF conducting ‘wide-scale strikes’ on Hamas centers in Gaza
TEL AVIV/ GAZA STRIP — After more than 48 hours of the type of intense, door-to-door fighting unseen in Israel for decades, the country's military has retaken control of all the communities around Gaza that gunmen from Hamas had infiltrated, the Israeli military said.Israeli forces are currently conducting "wide-scale strikes" on several "strategic" centers in Gaza belonging to Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement Monday.The militant group began its assault early Saturday morning, firing rockets into Israel and then sending gunmen over the border from Gaza.More than 700 people were killed, including foreign nationals and dual citizens from Brazil, France, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States.Many of those...
October 09, 2023

IDF conducting ‘wide-scale strikes’ on Hamas centers in Gaza

Cars are seen on fire following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel
12 Thais killed and 11 kidnapped by Hamas fighters
BANGKOK — Twelve Thais have been killed and another 11 kidnapped by Palestinian Hamas militants who launched a mass assault from Gaza on Israel.Another eight Thai nationals have been injured in the violence since Saturday, said Thailand's foreign ministry.It said air force planes were on standby to fly its citizens home.There are some 30,000 Thais in Israel working in agriculture, many near the Gaza border. Nepal said 10 of its citizens had been killed.Other countries which have reported citizens killed, abducted or missing in the violence in Israel include the US, UK and Germany.Thailand's labor minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn told AFP news agency that some 5,000 Thai labourers work in the zone where fighting has been taking place, but that Israeli forces had begun moving them...
October 09, 2023

12 Thais killed and 11 kidnapped by Hamas fighters

Relatives carry the bodies of children from the Abu Quta family who were killed in Israeli strikes on the Palestinian city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Death toll continues to climb as Israel pummels Gaza
TEL AVIV — Some 1,100 people have been killed in Israel and Gaza as Israel's military battled to drive Hamas fighters out of southern towns and seal its borders Monday following a large-scale assault by the militant group that began early Saturday.Fears of a ground invasion of Gaza are growing after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to turn the besieged Palestinian enclave into a “deserted island”. The Israeli military says it has gathered 100,000 reserve troops near the border.Hamas’s operation came after widespread Israeli settler attacks, increased tensions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and a record number of Palestinians killed.At least 700 people have reportedly been killed in Israel — a staggering toll on a scale the country has not...
October 09, 2023

Death toll continues to climb as Israel pummels Gaza

People run across an empty field away from gunshots at a music festival near the Gaza-Israel border on October 7, 2023.
Desert horror: At least 260 bodies found at dance-party site in Israel
TEL AVIV — The rockets began around 6:30 a.m., Tal Gibly told CNN. Thirty minutes later, she and hundreds of others attending an Israeli music festival were running as Gaza militants fired at them.The terrifying attack was just one of multiple locations hit on Saturday morning by the most sustained and coordinated assault inside Israel ever carried out by Hamas militants.At least 260 bodies would later be found at the festival site, according to Israeli rescue service Zaka. Some attendees were taken hostage, seen in social media videos being seized by their armed captors.The outdoor Nova Festival event in a rural farmland area near the Gaza-Israel border was supposed to be an all-night dance party, celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. But as dawn broke, Gibly said they began hearing...
October 09, 2023

Desert horror: At least 260 bodies found at dance-party site in Israel

Rachel Ezra is distraught as she pleads for help to find her missing son Oz and his girlfriend Naomi
'Nobody could help us' — Shock and anger in Israel's Ashkelon
ASHKELON — Sunday should have been the start of the working week and the return to school in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, with the end of the Jewish high holidays.Instead, the streets were virtually empty.Just a day ago, some of the hundreds of Palestinian gunmen who from Gaza were at large here and shocking events have continued to unfold nearby.Social media video shows Israeli forces pursuing militants who had stolen a car. They were killed in a dramatic shootout on the roadside.The only small crowds we encounter are by the Barzilai Medical Center. Weary medics stand by the entrance to the emergency ward. They have treated more than 400 patients because of the surprise attack by Hamas, the militant group which governs Gaza."It was very difficult, a lot of casualties have...
October 09, 2023

'Nobody could help us' — Shock and anger in Israel's Ashkelon

A worker stands in the technical zone at Saudi national oil company Aramco in Saudi Arabia
Oil prices rally on fear of Middle East supply disruptions
LONDON — Oil prices jumped by 4% on Monday on concerns that the situation in Israel and Gaza could disrupt output from the Middle East.West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, rose to more than $86 (£70) a barrel.The price of Brent crude also surged in early Asian trading.The Israel and Palestinian territories are not oil producers. But the Middle Eastern region accounts for almost a third of global supply.A wave of attacks launched by the Hamas militant group on Saturday was the biggest escalation between the two sides for decades.Western nations condemned the attacks but a spokesperson for Hamas told the BBC that the group had direct backing for the attack from Iran.Iran denied involvement in the attack at at UN Security Council meeting in New York on Sunday, Reuters...
October 09, 2023

Oil prices rally on fear of Middle East supply disruptions

The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is heading to the region
US moves warships closer to Israel after Hamas attack
WASHINGTON — The US says it is moving an aircraft carrier, ships and jets to the eastern Mediterranean and will also give Israel additional equipment and ammunition.It follows the Hamas attack on southern Israel, which President Biden called an "unprecedented and appalling assault".The US was also working to verify reports its citizens were among those killed and taken captive, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.Israel says more than 700 people have been killed and 100 kidnapped.In Gaza, more than 400 people have been killed following retaliatory Israeli air strikes, according to Palestinian officials.US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, a missile cruiser and four missile destroyers were heading to the region. US fighter jets would...
October 09, 2023

US moves warships closer to Israel after Hamas attack

Screengrab purportedly shows captured Israeli tank in Gaza.
Hamas attack shocks Israel, but what comes next?
JERUSALEM — Fifty years on from the Yom Kippur War, which began with a surprise attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria, Palestinian militants have launched a major assault.This too was unexpected, on another Jewish holiday.Tensions had recently risen in the Gaza Strip, but the conventional wisdom was that neither Hamas, the Islamist group which governs there, nor Israel wanted an escalation.Instead, Hamas had been planning a sophisticated, coordinated operation. Early this morning, as an intense barrage of rockets was launched with some reaching as far away as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Palestinian fighters entered southern Israel by sea, land and air.They have held Israeli towns and army posts under siege for hours, killed many people and taken away an unknown number of Israeli civilians and...
October 08, 2023

Hamas attack shocks Israel, but what comes next?

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