The Israeli army said that 21 soldiers have been killed in the central Gaza Strip, marking the deadliest single incident for the troops in the more than three-month-old war against Hamas militants. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari, speaking after a news blackout was lifted on Tuesday morning, said the...
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Palestinian militant group Hamas on Sunday defended its October 7 attacks against Israel but admitted to “faults” and called for an end to “Israeli aggression” in Gaza, where the health ministry said the death toll passed 25,000. Southern Gaza is the latest focus of Israel’s battle to...
The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullah Shawesh has called on the United Nations to focus on a bilateral recognition of the State of Palestine by Europe and the United States. Shawesh who made this known in a statement noted that it is important to put an end to Israeli’s...
Israel on Thursday faces accusations of genocide over the war in Gaza before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. The ICJ, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, will hear a case brought by South Africa that accuses Israel of violating the UN Genocide Convention due...
Israel is to face accusation of genocide before an international court, with hearings based on a South African complaint scheduled for January 11 and 12. The dates were announced Wednesday evening by the International Court of Justice, the highest UN court, in The Hague. According to the court,...
Hamas-controlled health authority said that the number of Gaza Strip residents killed in Israeli attacks had risen to 22,185. The authority, on Tuesday announced that it was 207 more than the previous day’s figure, while 57,035 people have been injured since the start of the war. However,...
Israel’s war cabinet is to discuss a proposal from Egypt to end the Gaza war, according to the Jerusalem Post newspaper. This is coming as Palestinians and Israelis continue to count the cost of the conflict. While Gazans searched for bodies after the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health said...
There have been renewed rocket alerts in Israel in the early hours of Tuesday, the Israeli army reported, with sirens sounding in communities along the border with the Gaza Strip. An Israeli website which gives live rocket alert updates corroborated the army’s information. Israel’s army has...
There are 195 recognised countries in the world, according to the United Nations. 193 of these are member states of the United Nations, while two countries are non-member observer states. These are the Vatican City and the State of Palestine. As the year 2023 gradually draws to a close,...
Israel on Saturday mourned the deaths of three Gaza hostages killed when troops mistook them for a threat, with the military expressing remorse over a “tragic” incident that sparked protests in Tel Aviv. The Israeli army said Yotam Haim, Alon Shamriz and Samer El-Talalqa — all aged...
The Israeli army will keep up its air and ground campaign to crush Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in spite of growing calls for a ceasefire and the calamitous humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory. “We are continuing until the end. There is...
Several Arab and Islamic countries have called on the United States to play a “broader role” in pressuring Israel into accepting a ceasefire in the Gaza war, according to the Qatari Foreign Ministry. In a statement, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said the call was made at a meeting in...
Israel has assembled a system of large pumps with which it could flood the extensive tunnel network of the Islamist movement Hamas under the Gaza Strip with seawater, according to media reports. The U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. government officials, that it is...
The U.S. has said it is committed to promoting sustainable peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people as well as the adoption of a two-state solution to the conflict between them. Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S, Embassy in Nigeria, Mr David Greene, expressed the commitment in an interview...
Israeli warplanes resumed the pounding of Gaza, Palestinian civilians fled for shelter, and rocket sirens blared in southern Israel on Friday as war resumed after a week-long truce collapsed with no deal to extend it. The Israeli military announced it had “resumed combat operations”, accusing Hamas of violating...
Another 42 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to be released on Saturday as part of the agreement between the Israeli government and the Islamist Hamas movement, according to the Times of Israel newspaper. Israel will initially transfer the detainees to Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank...
A total of 24 hostages — 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino — were handed over Friday to the Red Cross in Gaza by Hamas, Qatar, which mediated the deal, said. “Those released include 13 Israeli citizens, some of whom are dual citizens, in addition...
An agreed ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas came into force on Friday morning. The first pause in fighting in nearly seven weeks of war began at 7:00 am (0500 GMT) and was set to last at least four days. An extension of up to 10...
Pope Francis on Wednesday met separately with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinians with family in Gaza and said the conflict had gone beyond war to become “terrorism”. Speaking in unscripted remarks at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square shortly after the early...
Israeli Army on Tuesday said it has broken open the sealed blast-door at the end of a suspected Hamas tunnel under the al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip. The military published two pictures on social media platform X, formerly called Twitter, Tuesday evening showing the open door in...