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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last yea
Netanyahu offers $5 million and safe passage out of Gaza to anyone returning a hostage
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday offered $5 million and safe passage out of Gaza to anyone returning a hostage.“To those who want to leave this entanglement, I say: Whoever brings us a hostage will find a safe way out for himself and his family. We will also give $5 million for every hostage,” Netanyahu said.“Choose, the choice is yours, but the result will be the same. We will bring them all back.”Speaking at the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza alongside Defense Minister Israel Katz, Netanyahu added that whoever harmed a hostage would “pay the price.”Critics of the prime minister have accused him of deliberately stalling negotiations for a hostage release deal, alleging it serves to extend the war and prolong his hold on power – claims...
November 21, 2024

Netanyahu offers $5 million and safe passage out of Gaza to anyone returning a hostage

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Jerusalem protest a Supreme Court ruling that they cannot be exempt from military service in June, 2024
Israel issues more than 1,000 arrest warrants for ultra-Orthodox draft avoiders
TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has issued 1,126 arrest warrants for ultra-Orthodox conscripts who have not responded to drafting orders, in a move likely to fuel discontent over a controversial decision to remove their decades-long exemption from service.Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb announced the arrest warrants to a parliamentary committee Tuesday, saying that conscripts who had ignored their orders would initially be called and reminded of their duty.Those who continued not to cooperate, he said, would be summoned immediately or risk being declared a draft dodger – after which they would be banned from foreign travel and risk arrest if stopped by police.The move is likely to fuel the discontent that has roiled the country since a Supreme Court ruling in June that ultra-Orthodox Jews could...
November 20, 2024

Israel issues more than 1,000 arrest warrants for ultra-Orthodox draft avoiders

The olive harvest is a vital activity for the Palestianian economy in the West Bank
Palestinian olive harvest under threat from Israeli attacks and restrictions
UMM SAFA, West Bank — On a Thursday afternoon toward the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank.It was something that Hanan Abu Salameh had done for decades.Within minutes, the mother of seven and grandmother of 14 lay dying in the dust of the olive grove, with a bullet wound in her chest – she’d been shot by an Israeli soldier.Even though the family had coordinated their intention to pick olives with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), according to her son Fares and husband Hossam, the soldier fired several shots as other family members fled for cover.The IDF says it’s investigating the incident, but Hanan’s grieving relatives have little hope or...
November 20, 2024

Palestinian olive harvest under threat from Israeli attacks and restrictions

People living in Hassakeh now rely on deliveries of water transported by tanker
Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people
LONDON — Turkish air strikes in drought-struck north-east Syria have cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people, in what experts say may be a violation of international law.Turkey carried out more than 100 attacks between October 2019 and January 2024 on oil fields, gas facilities and power stations in the Kurdish-held Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), according to data collated by the BBC World Service.The attacks have added to the humanitarian crisis in a region reeling from a years-long civil war and four years of extreme drought exacerbated by climate change.Water had already been scarce, but attacks on electricity infrastructure in October last year shut off power to the region’s main water station, in Alouk, and it has not been...
November 19, 2024

Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people

Ninety-seven lorries were lost after entering southern Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing (file photo)
Almost 100 Gaza food aid lorries violently looted, UN agency says
GAZA — A convoy of 109 UN aid lorries carrying food was violently looted in Gaza on Saturday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says.Ninety-seven of the lorries were lost and their drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload their aid after passing through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing with southern Gaza, in what is believed to have been one of the worst incidents of its kind.Eyewitnesses said the convoy was attacked by masked men who threw grenades.Unrwa commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini did not identify the perpetrators, but he said the “total breakdown of civil order” in Gaza meant it had “become an impossible environment to operate in”.Without immediate intervention, severe food shortages are set to worsen for the two million people depending...
November 19, 2024

Almost 100 Gaza food aid lorries violently looted, UN agency says

Men mourn over the bodies of victims from an Israeli airstrike before their funeral outside a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Sunday Nov. 17, 2024.
Pope calls for probe into whether Israel's attacks in Gaza amount to genocide
BRUSSELS — It's the first time that Francis has openly urged for an investigation of genocide allegations over Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip. In September, he said Israel's attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate, and that its military has gone beyond the rules of war.The book, by Hernán Reyes Alcaide and based on interviews with the Pope, is entitled “Hope never disappoints. Pilgrims towards a better world." It will be released on Tuesday ahead of the pope's 2025 jubilee. Francis’ year-long jubilee is expected to bring more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome to celebrate the Holy Year.“According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” the pope said in excerpts published on Sunday...
November 19, 2024

Pope calls for probe into whether Israel's attacks in Gaza amount to genocide

An Israeli strike on the Mar Elias area of Beirut on Sunday night killed two people
US awaits Lebanon response to Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire plan
BEIRUT — Efforts for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah have intensified, with Lebanon's government expected to respond to a draft deal presented by the US, amid an escalation of Israel’s air attacks across the country.The strikes in the past week, which have killed dozens of people in Lebanon, appear aimed at putting pressure on both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government to accept an agreement to end more than a year of conflict.Details of the proposal remained unclear, after it was delivered last week by the US ambassador to Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who has been backed by Hezbollah to negotiate.Lebanese media reported the text had been received “positively”.Israel has stepped up its air attacks on Lebanon’s south, where it also appears to be expanding...
November 19, 2024

US awaits Lebanon response to Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire plan

People go through the rubble looking for survivors after a residential building was flattened in an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza
At least 34 killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza
GAZA — An Israeli air strike on a five-story residential block in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza has killed at least 34 people, the local civil defense agency says.The agency, quoted by AFP, said many of the dead were women and children, with dozens still feared to be under the rubble. Seven people were also injured.The Israeli military said it had been striking militant targets in northern Gaza, including Beit Lahia, in an attempt to stop Hamas from regrouping.Elsewhere, in central Gaza three separate attacks on refugee camps killed 15 people, while five more were killed in an Israeli drone attack on Rafah in the south, the civil defense added."The chances of rescuing more wounded are decreasing because of the continuous shooting and artillery shelling," civil defense spokesman...
November 18, 2024

At least 34 killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza

Mohammed Afif
Hezbollah media chief killed in Israeli strike in Beirut
LONDON — Hezbollah's media chief Mohammed Afif has been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut, the Lebanese militant group has confirmed.A strike hit the headquarters of the Baath political party in the densely populated Ras al-Naba neighborhood on Sunday, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency.The country's health ministry said four people were killed, but did not name the victims.Afif, one of the few remaining public faces of the group, was last seen on Monday, when he gave a press conference in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where the group is based.Hezbollah confirmed the death on Sunday evening, several hours after it was first reported.Most of the headquarters of the Lebanese branch of the Syrian Baath party was destroyed in the strike, as rescue...
November 18, 2024

Hezbollah media chief killed in Israeli strike in Beirut

Lebanon's health ministry says nearly 200 emergency and health workers have been killed since September
At least 15 rescue workers killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon
BEIRUT — An Israeli air strike on an emergency response center in north-eastern Lebanon on Thursday killed at least 15 rescue workers, officials say, in one of the deadliest attacks of its kind involving Lebanese emergency responders in the war.The strike in Douris, near the city of Baalbek, destroyed a building of the civil defense agency, which is linked to the Lebanese government and not affiliated with the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah. The regional governor, Bachir Khodr, said the victims included the city’s civil defense chief, Bilal Raad.The Israeli military has not commented on the attack, which was described by the Lebanese health ministry as “barbaric”.The Lebanese civil defence carries out emergency services including search and rescue work and fire-fighting response.In...
November 15, 2024

At least 15 rescue workers killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon

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