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Thousands of displaced Palestinians are attempting to move south on Tuesday after Israeli forces launched a ground assault on Gaza City
Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel launches ground assault amid global outcry
JERUSALEM — Israel said it launched an expanded ground assault on Gaza City on Tuesday in defiance of international condemnation, as Palestinians fled the enclave’s largest urban area in waves amid escalating bombardment.The long-anticipated incursion began on the outskirts of the city, Israeli officials said, where Israel’s military has accelerated its airstrikes and the destruction of high-rise towers over the last week.“Gaza is burning,” Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on Tuesday. He said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was “striking terror infrastructures” and working to secure “the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is at a “critical stage” in the war as it attacks Gaza City, which his government...
September 17, 2025

Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel launches ground assault amid global outcry

Sheep walk among the dried-out bed of the Orontes River in Jisr al-Shughour, northern Syria
Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink
DAMASCUS – The wheat fields outside Seqalbia, near the Syrian city of Hama, should be golden and heavy with grain.Instead, Maher Haddad's 40 dunums (10 acres) are dry and empty, barely yielding a third of their usual harvest."This year was disastrous due to drought," said the 46-year-old farmer, reflecting on the land that cost him more to sow than it gave back.His fields delivered only 190kg (418 lbs) of wheat per dunum – far below the 400-500kg he relies on in a normal year."We haven't recovered what we spent on agriculture; we've lost money. I can't finance next year and I can't cover the cost of food and drink," Haddad told the BBC.With two teenage daughters to feed, he is now borrowing money from relatives to survive.Haddad's struggle is...
September 17, 2025

Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink

Palestinians hold out pots and pans at a community kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, July 26, 2025
Top aid groups call on world leaders to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza
JERUSALEM – After an independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the heads of more than 20 aid agencies have called on world leaders to “urgently intervene” in the war in the devastated territory.With an estimated 65,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks so far in Gaza, including more than 20,000 children, the agencies warned early on Wednesday that almost 1 million more people are now “on the precipice of an even deadlier period in Gaza’s story if action is not taken”.“The inhumanity of the situation in Gaza is unconscionable,” the groups said in a joint statement, warning that Israel’s latest efforts to forcibly displace Gaza City’s population through a ground occupation are...
September 17, 2025

Top aid groups call on world leaders to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza

St Hilarion Monastery is considered the oldest historical monument in the Gaza Strip
The frantic race to save historic treasures from Israeli bombs
GAZA – As Israeli bombs were toppling one high-rise building after another in Gaza City, a call came through that Gaza’s top archaeologist, Fadel al-Otol, had long dreaded. The Israeli military was warning it was about to attack a tower storing thousands of ancient treasures.“Honestly, I can hardly speak, for two days I’ve barely slept,” Fadel told me on Friday from Switzerland, where he now lives with most of his family. “I’ve been extremely worried. I’ve felt as if a missile could strike at my heart at any moment.”After international experts pressed Israel to give an extra day for the evacuation, Fadel and others remotely guided Palestinian volunteers and aid workers through an incredible feat. Racing against the clock, they moved away six lorryloads of artefacts –...
September 17, 2025

The frantic race to save historic treasures from Israeli bombs

The UN commission of inquiry says Israel has committed four genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza during the war
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
JERUSALEM – A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.It cites statements by Israeli leaders, and the pattern of conduct by Israeli forces, as evidence of genocidal intent.Israel's foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report, denouncing it as "distorted and false".A spokesperson accused the three experts on the commission of serving as...
September 16, 2025

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion
Rubio in Qatar as Israel launches new Gaza incursion 
JERUSALEM – Israel announced on Tuesday it launched a ground incursion to seize Gaza City, soon after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio left Tel Aviv, escalating its war in defiance of international condemnation and backlash from the families of Israeli hostages.Israel launched what may be its biggest ground operation in Gaza since the initial military incursion at the beginning of the war, marking an unprecedented escalation that has full US backing.Nearly two years into the conflict, the Israeli military says it has begun a new and expanded ground incursion into Gaza City, which Israeli officials have said is one of Hamas’ last remaining strongholds.Since the late hours of Monday, Gaza City has witnessed what could be described as a significant and alarming Israeli military...
September 16, 2025

Rubio in Qatar as Israel launches new Gaza incursion 

An Israeli army flare drifts over buildings during the Israeli ground and air operations in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025
US warns of limited time for Gaza deal as Israel intensifies strikes
JERUSALEM – The Gaza Strip came under heavy bombing overnight on Monday, as Israel launched a barrage of strikes toward Gaza City, the enclave's biggest city.Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote on X on Tuesday that "Gaza is burning," reaffirming Israel's stance that it will not back down until the completion of the mission.The Shifa Hospital received the bodies of 12 people killed, and at least 90 others were injured, after a strike hit multiple houses in the west of the city, the hospital's managing director Dr Rami Mhanna said.It comes amid reports that Israel launched its ground offensive on Gaza's once most populous city, and US top diplomat Marco Rubio warned there is now only a "short window of time in which a deal can happen."“We...
September 16, 2025

US warns of limited time for Gaza deal as Israel intensifies strikes

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez looks on during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street
Spain's PM Sánchez calls for Israel to be banned from sports events over war in Gaza
MADRID – Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called for Israel to be banned from sports events on Monday after pro-Palestinian activists disrupted the final stage of the Vuelta cycle race in chaotic scenes in Madrid.Tensions between the two countries have escalated in recent weeks as Spain's left-wing government expressed support for protesters who interrupted several stages of the Vuelta, including Sunday's final stage in Madrid, because an Israeli team was taking part.Speaking to members of his Socialist Party, Sánchez said Israel, just like Russia, should not be allowed to compete in international sports events because of its military campaign in Gaza."The sports organisations should consider whether it’s ethical for Israel to keep participating in international...
September 16, 2025

Spain's PM Sánchez calls for Israel to be banned from sports events over war in Gaza

Israelis call for the return of the remaining hostages held in Gaza at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Saturday
Netanyahu admits Israel faces prolonged ‘isolation’ over war in Gaza
TEL AVIV – With global anger mounting over the nearly two-year war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that Israel is facing a “kind of isolation” that could last for years, and has no choice but to stand on its own.Speaking at a finance ministry conference, Netanyahu said Israel’s economy would need to adapt to “autarkic characteristics” – becoming more self-sufficient and less reliant on external trade.“It’s a word I hate,” Netanyahu said, adding that it was he who had brought a “free-market revolution to Israel.”One of the key industries facing isolation is weapons trade, he said, which may force Israel to avoid reliance on foreign arms imports.“We’ll need to develop our weapons industry – we’re going to be Athens and super...
September 16, 2025

Netanyahu admits Israel faces prolonged ‘isolation’ over war in Gaza

A drone picture shows the destruction after an explosion at the seaport of Beirut, 5 August, 2020
Bulgaria arrests Russian owner of ship at center of Beirut port blast that killed 218
BEIRUT – The Russian owner of a cargo ship linked to a supply of ammonium nitrate at the centre of the massive Beirut port explosion in 2020 has been arrested in Bulgaria, Lebanese judicial officials said on Monday.The arrest of Igor Grechushkin comes nearly five years after a Lebanese investigative judge issued two arrest warrants through Interpol for him and the vessel's captain, Boris Prokoshev, also a Russian national.The judicial officials said papers are being prepared requesting the transfer of Grechushkin to Lebanon for questioning.They said that if Grechushkin is not handed over, Lebanese investigators could travel to Bulgaria to question him there.The four Lebanese judicial officials said Grechushkin, who also has Cypriot nationality, was arrested last week at Vasil Levski...
September 16, 2025

Bulgaria arrests Russian owner of ship at center of Beirut port blast that killed 218

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