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Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed during a visit to Tehran
Iran rejects Western calls to refrain from attack on Israel
TEHRAN — Iran has dismissed calls from the UK and other Western countries to refrain from retaliation against Israel for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month.Amid a flurry of international diplomacy to de-escalate tensions, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to "stand down its ongoing threats of a military attack” in a rare telephone conversation on Monday.But Pezeshkian said retaliation was a “way to stop crime” and Iran’s “legal right”, according to Iranian state media.Israel, which did not say it was involved in Haniyeh’s assassination, has meanwhile put its military on its highest alert level.The US has warned that it is preparing for “a significant set of attacks” by Iran or its proxies as soon...
August 13, 2024

Iran rejects Western calls to refrain from attack on Israel

Sir Keir Starmer is among Western leaders urging Iran to refrain from attacking Israel
UK's Starmer urges Iran to refrain from Israel attack
LONDON — UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has urged Iran to "refrain" from attacking Israel during a phone call with Iran's new president.Sir Keir told Masoud Pezeshkian there was a "serious risk of miscalculation and now was the time for calm and careful consideration", Downing Street said.It is the first call between a UK prime minister and an Iranian president since March 2021 when former British leader Boris Johnson spoke to Hassan Rouhani.News of the 30-minute discussion came as the UK issued a joint statement with the US, France, Italy and Germany — urging Iran to end its threats of an attack on Israel.They called on Iran to "stand down its ongoing threats of a military attack against Israel and discussed the serious consequences for regional...
August 13, 2024

UK's Starmer urges Iran to refrain from Israel attack

Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike on a school in Gaza City on Saturday
Israel and US brace for Iranian attack as diplomats push hard for Gaza ceasefire
TEL AVIV — Israel and the United States are preparing for a potential Iranian attack on Israel, as efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza intensify ahead of the expected resumption of formal negotiations this week.Mediators have urged Israel and Hamas to return to the negotiating table in a renewed push to strike a ceasefire deal after the talks risked being derailed by the recent assassinations of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders which Iran and its Lebanese proxy have vowed to avenge.Negotiations are set to resume in the Egyptian capital Cairo or the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday. Last week, the United States, Egypt and Qatar – key mediators in talks between Israel and Hamas – said they will use the meeting to present a “final bridging proposal” and urged both sides to attend.A...
August 13, 2024

Israel and US brace for Iranian attack as diplomats push hard for Gaza ceasefire

The USS Georgia transits the Gulf, outbound from a sustainment and logistics visit in Manama, Bahrain, on December 27, 2020
Defense secretary orders submarine to Middle East
WASHINGTON — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a guided-missile submarine to the Middle East and accelerated the arrival of a carrier strike group to the region ahead of an anticipated Iranian attack against Israel, the Pentagon said in a statement Sunday evening.The USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered submarine armed with cruise missiles, was operating in the Mediterranean Sea in recent days, according to the Navy, having just completed training near Italy.Austin ordered the submarine into the waters of the Middle East, the Pentagon said. The movement of US missile submarines is rarely revealed publicly, and the nuclear-powered vessels operate in near-complete secrecy.The announcement of a submarine’s movement is a clear message of deterrence to Iran and its proxies, who the US and...
August 12, 2024

Defense secretary orders submarine to Middle East

Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip
Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel 
HAIFA — Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets toward northern Israel on Sunday night, as Israeli forces remain on high alert for potential retaliation from Iran and its proxies following the assassination of a top Hamas leader last month.Rocket fire toward Israel by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon has become a near-daily occurrence since the outbreak of war in Gaza, as fears grow over the possibility of an Iranian attack that could escalate into a wider regional conflict.The latest Hezbollah salvo was fired in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza and in retaliation for Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, the militant group said in a statement. It comes after Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that an Israeli strike on the town of Ma’aroub,...
August 12, 2024

Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel 

Israel issued a relocation order for southern Gaza's Khan Younis residents on Sunday, following a deadly air strike on a school in Gaza City
Hamas says Gaza truce talks must be based on Biden plan
ISTANBUL — Hamas has said that any resumption of ceasefire talks about the conflict in Gaza should be based on previous plans rather than holding new rounds of negotiations.Last week, international mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the US urged Israel and Hamas to attend negotiations on a ceasefire and hostage release deal on 15 August.Israel responded on Thursday, saying it would send a team of negotiators to take part in the meeting. Negotiations faltered last month, after new terms were introduced to the framework presented by US President Joe Biden in May.On Monday, the leaders of the UK, France and Germany issued a joint call for talks to resume, saying there "can be no further delay."UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor...
August 12, 2024

Hamas says Gaza truce talks must be based on Biden plan

Palestinians mourn Abdel Nasser during his funeral on 24 July
Policeman's killing part of spiraling West Bank violence
TUBAS, West Bank — When a white van drew up next to the office of the Palestine Customs Police in Tubas, a town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Abdel Nasser Sarhan had no reason to be suspicious.According to Abdel Nasser's colleagues, the van’s driver got out and greeted him in Arabic.It was early in the morning. The 24-year-old uniformed policeman had just come on shift.CCTV pictures show him strolling out past a guard post, his rifle slung casually at his side.Seconds later, a man in jeans and a dark T-shirt emerges from the direction of the white van, uniformed Israeli soldiers behind him.He raises a handgun and shoots Abdel Nasser dead.Soon, the street is full of Israeli soldiers. They retrieve Abdel Nasser's rifle and, as his colleagues try to retrieve his body,...
August 12, 2024

Policeman's killing part of spiraling West Bank violence

Israeli soldiers in a tank driving along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel
US, Egypt and Qatar call on Israel and Hamas to resume talks
WASHINGTON — The United States, Egypt and Qatar have released a joint statement calling on Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations over a ceasefire and hostage-release deal.The statement said the three nations had forged a "framework agreement" that had "only the details of implementation left to conclude”.Israel said it would send negotiators to the proposed talks, which are penciled in for 15 August in Doha or Cairo. Hamas did not immediately respond.The renewed diplomatic push will be seen as an attempt to stop regional tensions from spiraling out of control, after Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated last week. Iran, blaming Israel, has vowed a response - though Israel has not commented directly on the killing.In a joint statement, the three nations...
August 09, 2024

US, Egypt and Qatar call on Israel and Hamas to resume talks

Bilha and Yaakov hid in a safe room during the Hamas attack
Last missing Israeli victim of Hamas attack declared dead
TEL AVIV — The last person listed as missing from the Hamas attack on Israel 10 months ago has been identified as killed, Israeli authorities say.Bilha Yinon, 75, was killed along with her husband, Yaakov, at their home in Netiv Haasara, when hundreds of gunmen from Gaza stormed southern Israel on 7 October.The Yinons' home was burnt to the ground, and while Yaakov's remains were found, there was no trace of Bilha, although she was known to have been with him at the time.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had now determined "after complex testing" of evidence in the area of the house that Bilha was killed.Previously even fingertip searches in the ash and debris had failed to find as much as a trace of Bilha's DNA.The couple's children had long accepted...
August 07, 2024

Last missing Israeli victim of Hamas attack declared dead

People walk amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on April 16, 2024
Why some Israeli reservists refuse to go back to Gaza
JERUSALEM — Every day for two months, Michael Ofer Ziv spent hours watching grainy, black-and-white footage of the Gaza Strip from a tiny room across the border.As an operations commander, he was tracking Israeli forces inside Gaza and approving airstrikes.Every day, he said, his unit had a certain quota to fill.“They will tell us, today you have seven, today you have nine... you sometimes argue for more, but you will never fire less than you’re given,” he told CNN in an interview. CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment on his claims.One by one, buildings blew up on his screen like a hypnotic reel of destruction.At first, it was easy to forget that those images were real, and not just a video game playing on a screen. But the more he stepped out of that war room,...
August 06, 2024

Why some Israeli reservists refuse to go back to Gaza

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