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Damage following an Israeli strike in Damascus is seen on November 14. Syrian state media said at least 15 people were killed
Fifteen killed in Israeli strikes on Damascus, Syrian state media say
DAMASCUS — Fifteen people were killed and 16 others injured in Israeli strikes on Damascus in Syria marking one of the deadliest strikes in months to hit the Syrian capital, state media SANA said citing a military source andThe strikes targeted several residential buildings in the upscale Mezzah neighborhood in the capital and the Qudsaya area in the Damascus countryside, Syrian state media reported. Among those killed were women and children, Syrian state media added.The Israeli military said in a statement it was striking Islamic Jihad in Syria earlier Thursday and had “inflicted significant damage to the terrorist organization’s command center and to its operatives.” Islamic Jihad is the second-largest militant group in Gaza.Syrian state media said: “The Israeli enemy launched...
November 15, 2024

Fifteen killed in Israeli strikes on Damascus, Syrian state media say

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi during a joint press conference with Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation head Mohammad Eslami in Tehran, 14 November, 2024 -
Rafael Grossi visits Iran in bid to restore inspectors' access to nuclear program
TEHRAN — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has warned that the "space for negotiation and diplomacy...is getting smaller" over Iran's advancing atomic program as conflicts in the Middle East rage on and Donald Trump gears up to return to the White House.Rafael Grossi was visiting Tehran in an effort to restore his inspectors' access to the country's nuclear program and get answers to outstanding questions.However, the remarks from both Grossi and his Iranian counterpart at a news conference suggested sizeable gaps still exist, even as some countries are pushing to take action against Iran at an upcoming IAEA Board of Governors' meeting."We know that it is indispensable to get, at this point of time, to get some concrete, tangible and...
November 15, 2024

Rafael Grossi visits Iran in bid to restore inspectors' access to nuclear program

Palestinians displaced from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross into Jabalia, northern Gaza following Israeli army evacuation orders on November 12, 2024
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of mass displacement in Gaza amounting to war crime
WASHINGTON — Israel has overseen the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza in a deliberate and systematic campaign that amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.The 154-page report, published by the US-based advocacy group on Thursday, details more than 13 months of widespread destruction in Gaza that, according to the United Nations, has seen the displacement of about 1.9 million Palestinians – more than 90% of the territory’s population.In a statement, Human Rights Watch (HRW) cited the illegal and “deliberate, controlled demolitions of homes and civilian infrastructure,” by Israeli forces in Gaza “where they have apparent aims of creating ‘buffer zones’ and security ‘corridors,’ from which...
November 14, 2024

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of mass displacement in Gaza amounting to war crime

Josep Borrell
Borrell proposes to suspend EU-Israel political talks over Gaza war
BRUSSELS — Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy chief, has proposed to formally suspend political dialogue with Israel over the country's alleged violations of human rights and international law in the Gaza Strip.Borrell's proposal was first raised during a meeting of ambassadors on Wednesday and will be officially submitted next Monday, when foreign affairs ministers meet in Brussels, an EU official and three diplomats with knowledge of the process told Euronews.The suspension of political dialogue depends on unanimity among member states, and so the plan is almost certain to fail given sharp divisions over the Israel-Hamas war.The majority of voices who took the floor during the meeting expressed a negative opinion, although not every envoy spoke up, the...
November 14, 2024

Borrell proposes to suspend EU-Israel political talks over Gaza war

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Israeli forces digging along the Alpha Line separating the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from a demilitarized zone in Syria patrolled by United Nations forces on Nov. 5, 2024
UN sounds alarm at Israel’s ‘severe violations’ at key buffer zone with Syria
DAMASCUS — The United Nations has accused Israel of “severe violations” of a 50-year-old agreement with Syria, saying it has engaged in “engineering groundwork activities” that encroach on a key buffer zone in the Golan Heights.“Violations of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement have occurred where engineering works have encroached into the AoS (the area of separation),” the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which has maintained the ceasefire between Israel and Syria since 1974, said in a statement Tuesday.Satellite imagery from Planet Labs and the European Space Agency shows that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been conducting excavation activity near Jubata Al Khashab, Syria since mid-August. A large earthen berm, roughly 40 feet (12 meters) wide, is being dug.The...
November 14, 2024

UN sounds alarm at Israel’s ‘severe violations’ at key buffer zone with Syria

Two women stand next to destruction in the city center of Tyre, following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese port city
Israel says it has expanded its military ground operation in Lebanon
TEL AVIV — Israel’s military ground operation in southern Lebanon has been expanded, the country’s defense minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday.Katz did not clarify when the decision to expand operations was taken and did not offer any details on what the expansion entails. Israel launched what it described as a “limited ground operation” to expel Hezbollah from southern Lebanon early last month.“We have expanded the ground maneuver in southern Lebanon and we are operating against Hezbollah targets in the Dahiyeh district in Beirut and wherever necessary,” Katz told soldiers during his first visit to Israel’s Northern Command.There were nearly 20 Israeli airstrikes against what the Israeli military described as Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Beirut on Tuesday and...
November 14, 2024

Israel says it has expanded its military ground operation in Lebanon

Iraqis line up outside Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, while they wait to get information about their relatives held inside, on May 16, 2004
US defense contractor to pay former Iraqi detainees $42m for role in Abu Ghraib torture 
WASHINGTON — A federal jury on Tuesday awarded a total of $42 million to three Iraqi men who endured torture at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison over two decades ago –– holding a US government contractor accountable for contributing to the abuse.The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed on behalf of former detainees in 2008 against Virginia-based defense company CACI Premier Technology Inc., according to a press release from the Center for Constitutional Rights – the organization representing the plaintiffs.The plaintiffs alleged the company was hired by the US government following the US invasion of Iraq to provide interrogation services at Abu Ghraib, a US Army detention facility where Iraqi detainees were brutally tortured.The plaintiffs, Suhail Al Shimari, a middle school principal,...
November 13, 2024

US defense contractor to pay former Iraqi detainees $42m for role in Abu Ghraib torture 

UNWRA Director in Gaza, Scott Anderson
There is nowhere safe in Gaza, UNRWA director says
GAZA — The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains critical and could deteriorate further, warns the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA).Speaking to Euronews in Brussels, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza Scott Anderson called on all parties to the conflict to respect the sanctity of safe places for civilians."There's nowhere safe in Gaza. Including the safe zones. And unfortunately, all parties to the conflict are not respecting the sanctity of sites that should be safe for civilians, including hospitals and schools," said Anderson.He stressed that both UNRWA facilities and Palestinian schools have been targeted, appealing to the protection of these locations so civilians can find safety for themselves and their families.Anderson also responded to...
November 13, 2024

There is nowhere safe in Gaza, UNRWA director says

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital where displaced people live in tents, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Nov. 9, 2024
US says it will not limit arms transfers to Israel 
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said on Tuesday that Israel made good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and that it, therefore, would not limit arms transfers to Israel as it threatened to do a month ago.However, relief groups say conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-old war.State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said on Tuesday the progress to date must be supplemented and sustained but that “we at this time have not made an assessment that the Israelis are in violation of US law.”This law requires recipients of military assistance to adhere to international humanitarian law and not impede the provision of such aid.“We are not giving Israel a pass,” Patel said, adding that “we want to see the totality of the...
November 13, 2024

US says it will not limit arms transfers to Israel 

A residential building near Baalchmay that was destroyed in one of the Israeli strikes
Israeli strikes in Mount Lebanon villages kill 23
BEIRUT — At least 23 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on two houses in central Lebanon where displaced families were reportedly living, the Lebanese health ministry says.Fifteen people, mostly women and children, were killed in Joun and eight others were killed near Baalchmay. Both villages are in the Mount Lebanon region and outside areas where the armed group Hezbollah has a strong presence.The Israeli military said it was looking into the strikes, which came after it hit what it said were a number of Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs.Meanwhile, two people were killed by Hezbollah rocket fire in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya.It came a day after Israel’s defense minister ruled out a ceasefire with Hezbollah until its war goals were met.The Israeli...
November 13, 2024

Israeli strikes in Mount Lebanon villages kill 23

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