Tuesday December 23, 2025 / 03 , Rajab , 1447
Header Logo
Leading The Way
search-icon
Footer Header
search-icon
SG
Saudi Arabia
Opinion
Discover Saudi
World
Sports
Business
Life
Advertisements
search-logo
  • Home
  • World
  • Mena
World
921 - 930 from 13235 . In "World / Mena"
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system operates for interceptions as rockets are launched from Lebanon towards Israe, as seen from Haifa, Israel, on Thursday, October 3.
Israel says Hezbollah launched about 230 projectiles from Lebanon on Thursday
TEL AVIV — Israel accused Hezbollah of launching approximately 230 projectiles from Lebanon into Israeli territory on Thursday.Hezbollah, meanwhile, claimed to have carried out 32 varied attacks throughout the day, including rocket salvos on Israeli settlements and military bases and attacks on Israeli soldiers carrying out ground operations in southern Lebanon.Hezbollah was not the only Iran-backed group to have claimed to have attacked Israel on Thursday. In a separate incident, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of several Iran-backed militias, claimed responsibility for a drone attack in southern Israel.The Israeli military said it intercepted a drone over southern Israel and no one was injured.The Israeli strikes in Beirut late Thursday into early Friday local time...
October 04, 2024

Israel says Hezbollah launched about 230 projectiles from Lebanon on Thursday

Flames rise from Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, October 4, 2024
Israel issues further evacuation orders in Lebanon raising fears of wider offensive
BEIRUT — Israel and Hezbollah have traded almost daily cross-border fire since October but hostilities have recently ramped up to the extent that many fear a wider regional war in the Middle East.The Israeli military has warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a UN-declared buffer zone, signaling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against the Hezbollah militant group.That announcement comes as a series of massive blasts were heard in the capital Beirut in the early hours of Friday morning.Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported more than 10 consecutive airstrikes in the capital but it was not immediately clear what was targeted or if there had been any casualties.Israeli forces said they had struck around 200...
October 04, 2024

Israel issues further evacuation orders in Lebanon raising fears of wider offensive

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Dozens of medical workers killed in Lebanon as WHO warns health care is 'under attack'
GENEVA — Dozens of medical workers were killed over a 24-hour period in Lebanon, the head of the United Nations’ health agency said Thursday, as he outlined the “difficult and dangerous” conditions in parts of the country under Israeli bombardment.World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 37 health facilities had closed in southern Lebanon and several Beirut hospitals had evacuated staff and patients, with health and humanitarian workers struggling to provide care with limited supplies.“Health care continues to come under attack,” he said at a briefing in Geneva. “In Lebanon alone, 28 health workers have been killed in the last 24 hours.”Many health workers were not reporting for duty after being displaced by ongoing Israeli strikes,...
October 04, 2024

Dozens of medical workers killed in Lebanon as WHO warns health care is 'under attack'

The moment giant explosions seen near Beirut airport
Massive blasts in Beirut after renewed Israeli air strikes
BEIRUT — Israeli bombing caused large explosions just outside Beirut's international airport during a further night of air strikes targeting Hezbollah in the city.The target was unclear but the airport borders Dahieh, Hezbollah's stronghold in the capital. Plumes of smoke could be seen over the city as dawn broke on Friday.Lebanon's public health ministry said 37 people had been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks in the last 24 hours while 151 others had been wounded.Elsewhere, the Lebanese army said two of its soldiers had been killed in the country's south as Israeli forces pressed on with their invasion against Hezbollah and ordered another 20 towns and villages to evacuate.The Israeli military has not commented, but did say its troops had killed Hezbollah...
October 04, 2024

Massive blasts in Beirut after renewed Israeli air strikes

Crowds gathered at a nearby hospital where dead and wounded people were taken
Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank
JERUSALEM — At least 18 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said late on Thursday.The Palestinian Authority-run news agency Wafa said the air strike had hit a cafe in the Tulkarm refugee camp where many civilians had been present.The Israeli military said the air force had conducted a strike in Tulkarm in a joint operation with its Shin Bet security service and had killed the head of Hamas in Tulkarm and "other significant terrorists".There has been a spike in violence in the West Bank since Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on 7 October and the ensuing war in Gaza.Since then more than 700 Palestinians have been killed as Israeli forces have intensified their raids, saying they are trying to...
October 04, 2024

Israeli air strike kills 18 people in occupied West Bank

Biden speaking to reporters on the tarmac
Biden opposes Israeli strikes on Iran nuclear sites
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden has said he does not support any potential Israeli retaliatory strike on Iranian nuclear sites after Iran launched around 180 missiles at Israel.Tensions are high between Iran and Israel after the Iranian attack on Tuesday, which Israel said was mostly repelled by its missile defense system.Iran said the barrage was a response to the killings of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Brig-Gen Abbas Nilforoushan.Its attack also came after Israel announced a ground assault into Lebanon, in an effort to dismantle what it called Iran-backed Hezbollah's “terrorist infrastructure” in border villages.The US has repeatedly called for de-escalation and has also led...
October 03, 2024

Biden opposes Israeli strikes on Iran nuclear sites

The multi-story block in Bachoura housed a Hezbollah-affiliated health center
Five killed in Israeli air strike on central Beirut
BEIRUT — At least five people have been killed and eight wounded in an Israeli air strike on a building in central Beirut, Lebanese officials have said.The multi-story block in Bachoura housed a Hezbollah-affiliated health center, which Israel's military said was hit in a "precision" attack.This is the first Israeli strike close to Beirut's center -- just meters away from Lebanon's parliament. There were five other air strikes overnight against targets in the southern suburb of Dahieh.It comes after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said eight soldiers had been killed in combat in southern Lebanon, its first losses since the start of ground operations against the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah. — BBC
October 03, 2024

Five killed in Israeli air strike on central Beirut

António Guterres
Israel bans UN chief in row over Iran
TEL AVIV — The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has been banned from entering Israel over his response to Iran's ballistic missile bombardment.In a statement, Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz called Guterres an "anti-Israel secretary-general who lends support to terrorists".Writing on social media site X, formerly Twitter, after Iran fired about 180 missiles into Israel, Guterres said he condemned "the broadening of the Middle East conflict with escalation after escalation" and said these "must stop".He said the region "absolutely" needed a ceasefire, but did not specifically mention the Iran attack.In a statement on Wednesday, Katz declared the UN secretary general persona non grata, saying that anyone who...
October 02, 2024

Israel bans UN chief in row over Iran

Missiles launched from Iran toward Israel streak across the night sky as seen from Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.
IDF continues striking Beirut amid Iranian attacks on Israel
TEL AVIV — Explosions were heard in Beirut in the early hours of Wednesday, with fire and smoke visible along the city's skyline, as the Israeli military confirmed it was striking "Hezbollah targets."Earlier, residents in some areas of the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital were warned to evacuate their homes. In a post on X, IDF Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee warned residents that they were "near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah."This comes after Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday night, the latest in a series of escalating attacks in the region.The orange glow of missiles streaked across Israel's night sky as air raid sirens sounded and residents scrambled into bomb shelters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
October 02, 2024

IDF continues striking Beirut amid Iranian attacks on Israel

Israeli policemen take position after a shooting attack in Jaffa
Seven people killed in a shooting in Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV — Israeli police said that two suspects opened fire Tuesday evening on a boulevard in Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv.Seven people were killed and another twelve were wounded, before the two suspects were "neutralized."The attack came moments before a massive barrage of rockets from Iransent citizens across Israel into bomb shelters, according to a post on X made by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).“The police forces are handling the scene under a missile attack,” the police said in a statement about the shooting.Haim Sargarov, the police commander of the Tel Aviv district, told reporters that the attackers were “not Israelis.”The attack occurred just a day after Israel launched a ground incursion into Lebanon, following a wave of...
October 02, 2024

Seven people killed in a shooting in Tel Aviv

< Previous Next >
footer logo
COPYRIGHT © 2025 WWW.SAUDIGAZETTE.COM.SA - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Powered by NewsPress
NEWS CATEGORY
saudi arabia world opinion business sports esports life
COMPANY
advertisements about us Epaper contact us Archive privacy policy