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Evening StandardHezbollah 'attacks kibbutz in northern Israel' after rocket strike on occupied Golan Heights
Militant group says attack on Manara kibbutz led to ‘burning and injury’ of those inside it
- The Telegraph
Hamas sends hostage torture video with direct warning to Israeli minister
Hamas is filming the torture of Israeli hostages in an attempt to force Israel to ease conditions for Palestinian prisoners.
- CNN
Dozens of Russian mercenaries killed in rebel ambush in Mali, in their worst known loss in Africa
The video is as triumphant as it is gruesome. Rebel fighters, rifles slung over their shoulders, step among more than a dozen bodies strewn across the sand and rocks. Off camera, the pop of gunshots can be heard.
- BBC
What is Hezbollah in Lebanon and will it go to war with Israel?
A deadly attack on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights has heightened fears of full-on fighting.
- CNN
Israel says Hezbollah will ‘pay the price’ after blaming it for attack on soccer field that killed 12 children
Israel vowed Hezbollah will “pay the price” after blaming the Lebanese militant group for a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 people, including children, touching off fears once again that an all-out war would envelop the region.
- The Independent
Israel kills Hezbollah fighters as West warns against escalation into all-out war
Two Israeli drone strikes killed two people and wounded three more close to the de facto border between Israel and Lebanon
- CNN
‘They were just kids. What did they do wrong?’: In Majdal Shams, a town caught between Israel and Hezbollah mourns its young
The Syrian Druze community of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights are united in grief following the deaths of 12 children in a rocket strike on Saturday.
- Associated Press
Turkish official accuses Israel of targeting Erdogan after he seemed to threaten to invade over Gaza
A senior Turkish official on Monday accused the Israeli government of trying to “hide your war crimes” by targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after he seemingly threatened to invade Israel. The post criticized Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza. In televised remarks to ruling party officials late Sunday, Erdogan had commented on Israel’s military operations.
- Associated Press
How did the strike on a Golan Heights soccer field happen? Here’s what we know
Two days after a rocket slammed into a soccer pitch in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights, killing 12 children, many questions remain about the attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams. Israel accused Hezbollah in Lebanon of deliberately targeting civilians, while Hezbollah quickly issued a rare denial of any responsibility for the attack. With Israel vowing retaliation for the highest civilian death toll in Israel-held territory since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, diplomats rushed to prevent an escalation that could spiral into an all-out war after months of exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah over the border.
- AFP News
Lebanon on alert as Israel vows 'severe' response to rocket deaths
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed a "severe" response to a deadly strike that killed 12 youths in the annexed Golan Heights, as diplomats raced to contain escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.On a visit to the site of the deadly rocket strike in the town of Majdal Shams, Netanyahu said: "The State of Israel will not, and cannot, let this pass.
- The Independent
Two killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon as West pushes to avoid all-out war with Hezbollah
Israel’s foreign minister says country is ‘approaching the moment of an all-out war against Hezbollah and Lebanon’
- CNN
The Israel-Hezbollah war that no one wants could finally blow up
Back in May, Amos Hochstein, US President Joe Biden’s point-man for keeping a lid on tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, spoke in a webinar.
- INSIDER
How bombing Gaza to rubble created headaches and a tough fight for invading Israeli tanks and troops
Conflict analysts at the Royal United Services Institute think tank described the challenges Israel faced in Gaza during fall 2023.
- CNN
‘You criminal, you murderer’: Residents berate Israeli official at site of deadly rocket attack
Residents of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights village Majdal Shams berated far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich after the funeral of 12 children who died in a strike the previous day.
- AFP News
Bangladesh protests to resume after ultimatum ignored
Bangladeshi students called new street protests for Monday after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government ignored an ultimatum to release their leaders and apologise for those killed in deadly unrest.Students Against Discrimination leaders had vowed to end a week-long moratorium on new demonstrations if police failed to release their leaders by Sunday evening.
- AFP News
Israel army says 9 soldiers held over suspected abuse of detainee
The Israeli military said Monday nine soldiers were being held in a case of suspected abuse of a Palestinian detainee at a facility holding Palestinians arrested from Gaza during the war.The military said it has opened an investigation into the "suspected abuse" of a detainee at the Sde Teiman base set up for holding Palestinians arrested in Gaza since the war broke out.
- The Telegraph
Mourners heckle Israeli ministers at funerals of 12 children killed by Hezbollah rockets
Israeli ministers were met with jeers and heckles at the funerals of 12 children killed in a suspected Hezbollah rocket attack on Saturday.
- The Telegraph
Watch: Holidaymakers step over Just Stop Oil protesters at Gatwick airport
Just Stop Oil protesters have failed in an attempt to block the entrance to departures at Gatwick airport, with holidaymakers simply stepping over them.
- Reuters
Israeli forces battle Palestinian fighters in southern Gaza
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli troops backed by air strikes battled groups of Palestinian fighters around Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, as they continued a week-long operation they said was meant to clear Islamist Hamas militants. A week after ordering civilians to evacuate the area, tanks pushed into the towns of Al-Karara, Al-Zanna, and Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis, where medics said at least 34 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes. Residents reported fierce fighting as thousands of Palestinians, many displaced multiple times, headed to the overcrowded areas in Al-Mawasi southwest of Khan Younis, and northwards to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
- BBC
'Unjustified': Videos reveal brutality during Bangladesh protests
A UN expert describes the violence seen in videos analysed by the BBC as "unlawful".