Egypt's president says his country has proposed a 2-day cease-fire in Gaza during which 4 hostages would be freed
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president says his country has proposed a 2-day cease-fire in Gaza during which 4 hostages would be freed.
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president says his country has proposed a 2-day cease-fire in Gaza during which 4 hostages would be freed.
The Israeli military said Friday it had killed a senior Hamas official it described as one of the last surviving senior officials in the Gaza militant group. In a statement posted to social media, the Israeli military said Izz al-Din Kassab, the head of national relations in Hamas’s political bureau, was killed in an airstrike in the…
They were killed in two areas, in the deadliest series of rocket attacks on Israel in months.
Minutes from the heart of Beirut, the Lebanese capital's once vibrant southern suburbs lie largely deserted save for black-clad Hezbollah militants standing guard amid the rubble.Hezbollah militants were everywhere, guarding the group's stronghold turned ghost town.
The Lebanese health ministry reported that at least one person was killed and 15 others injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a southern Beirut suburb on Saturday, without prior warning of evacuation by Israel as is normally the custom. Read our liveblog to see how the day's events unfolded. (FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)Read more on FRANCE 24 EnglishRead also:Northern Gaza situation ‘apocalyptic’, UN agency chiefs warnLebanese PM ‘cautiously optimistic’ on a ceasefire with Israel
CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Prospects of a ceasefire between Israel and its foes Hamas and Hezbollah ran aground on Friday as Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 people in the Gaza Strip, according to medics in the Palestinian enclave, and bombed Beirut's southern suburbs. The Israeli military said it killed senior Hamas official Izz al-Din Kassab in an airstrike in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis and described him as one of the last surviving high-ranking members of Hamas responsible for coordinating with other groups in Gaza.
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Perched on a hilltop a short walk from the Israeli border, the tiny southern Lebanese village of Ramyah has almost been wiped off the map. Israeli warplanes and ground forces have blasted a trail of destruction through southern Lebanon the past month. The aim, Israel says, is to debilitate the Hezbollah militant group, push it away from the border and end more than a year of Hezbollah fire into northern Israel.
More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip. In northern Gaza, Hamas militants carry out hit-and-run attacks from bombed-out buildings. Residents say Israeli forces have raided shelters for the displaced, forcing people out at gunpoint.
An attack on a central Israeli town early Saturday injured 11 people as Iran's supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel's attack last week and Israeli airstrikes continued in Gaza and Lebanon. The predawn strike on Tira was one of several barrages fired from Lebanon. The Magen David Adom emergency service said 11 people were hurt by shrapnel and glass shards in a direct strike on a building in Tira, a predominantly Israeli Arab town.
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Israeli naval forces captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, an Israeli military official said Saturday, as the conflict between the Iran-backed group and Israel showed few signs of easing. Earlier on Saturday, Lebanese authorities said it was investigating whether Israel was behind the capture of a Lebanese sea captain who was taken away by a group of armed men who had landed on the coast near the northern town of Batroun on Friday. “The operative has been transferred to Israeli territory and is currently being investigated,” the military official said, without providing the name of the person in detention.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield, and the country's army chief warned that his troops are facing “one of the most powerful offensives” by Moscow since the all-out war started more than two years ago. Zelenskyy raised the prospect of a preemptive Ukrainian strike on camps where the North Korean troops are being trained and said Kyiv knows their location.
The ground shook, windows shattered, and the cries of patients filled the air. An Israeli bomb had just struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in yet another near-nightly attack – this time hitting a building across the street from Lebanon’s biggest public hospital.
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STORY: Injured Palestinians are rushed to the hospital after Israeli fire hit Gaza's Nuseirat camp.At least ten were killed at a school sheltering the displaced, medics said.They said about 60 people were killed and dozens more injured overnight and into Friday (November 1) morning in Israeli strikes, mainly on Deir Al-Balah, Nuseirat and the town of Al-Zawayda, all in central Gaza as a U.S.-led diplomatic push for a ceasefire there and in Lebanon floundered.Salah Abdel Hadi of Gaza's civil defense arrived at one of the sites in the dark to find many dead. “There are a number of martyrs, from three families. Their flesh was all mixed together, the families, the martyrs, no one knew who was who. There are still some martyrs under the rubble and we lack capabilities, bulldozers and fuel.”The Israeli military said its troops had killed what it called armed terrorists in central Gaza and northern Gaza's Jabalia area. It had no immediate comment on the reported school strike, although it habitually denies targeting civilians.Israeli offensives against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon have continued despite the truce efforts. And hope is fading that one can be reached before next Tuesday's U.S. election.In Beirut, smoke billowed from the site of renewed Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs on Friday morning - the first bombardment in nearly a week on what was once a densely packed district and Hezbollah stronghold.Israel issued evacuation orders for 10 separate neighborhoods but the attacks began before the last ones were published.Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel in solidarity with Palestinians a day after Hamas-led militants attacked Israel last October 7.Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati accused Israel of "stubbornness" in the latest negotiations, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his priority was to enforce security "despite any pressure or constraints."
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GAZA (Reuters) -Forty seven Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, most of them children and women, in overnight Israeli bombardment of the the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Friday. The Israeli military said its troops had identified and eliminated "several armed terrorists" in central Gaza and had eliminated "dozens of terrorists" in targeted raids in northern Gaza's Jabalia area. The Gaza war began after Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
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