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As Gaza patiently waited on an expected delivery of medicine for hostages in return for humanitarian aid Wednesday, Israel ramped up strikes on the southern part of the war-torn Palestinian territory. Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Jan. 17, 2024. (EPA Photo) Airstrikes and artillery fire targeted Khan Younis […]

While turning up the heat on the Yemeni group, the Biden administration also aims to safeguard the interests of ordinary Yemenis and the future of a fragile ceasefire. A fighter, loyal to Yemen’s Houthis, during a protest following US and British forces strikes, in Sanaa on January 12, 2024. (AFP) The Biden administration on Wednesday […]

Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday, the 100th day of the war sparked by the Hamas attack which has claimed a surging civilian death toll and ravaged the besieged Palestinian territory. A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment, as the war between Israel and the […]

Netanyahu was speaking after the International Court of Justice at The Hague held two days of hearings on South Africa’s allegations that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians – a claim that Israel has fully rejected. Israel will pursue its war against Hamas until victory and will not be stopped by anyone, including the world […]

At least 151 people were killed, including 11 from a single household, in the latest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health officials said Friday. Palestinians search for missing people under the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, Khan Yunis, Gaza, Palestine, Jan. 12, 2024. (EPA Photo) Gaza health officials said the 11 […]

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in several cities on Friday to condemn the US and UK strikes on their country, in response to weeks of disruptive attacks on Red Sea shipping by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who say they act in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Supporters of the Houthi movement rally […]

British jets based in Cyprus targeted Houthi missile and drone facilities after weeks of threats to shipping in the Red Sea. Britain and America launched massive airstrikes against more than a dozen sites used by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen overnight. The action involved warship and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles, and fighter jets, officials confirmed. Britain’s […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his latest mission to rein in the Gaza war, told Israeli leaders on Tuesday there was still a chance of winning acceptance from their Arab neighbours, if they create a path to a viable Palestinian state. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks during his week-long trip aimed […]

Drive-by shooting in West Bank An Israeli man was fatally shot at a busy intersection in the West Bank on Sunday, hours after a violent confrontation elsewhere in the Israeli-occupied territory left seven Palestinians and a member of Israel’s paramilitary border police dead. In Sunday’s drive-by shooting in the central West Bank, assailants fired through […]

Doha-based Al Jazeera’s veteran Gaza correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh lost the fifth member of his family Sunday after his son and another journalist were killed in an Israeli airstrike Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza, Wael al-Dahdouh (C) hugs his daughter during the funeral of his son Hamza Wael al-Dahdouh, a journalist with the Al Jazeera […]