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Heavy Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza as UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are hit again
Heavy Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza as UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are hit again
Kim Jong-un has called his army the ‘strongest in the world’ but they are vulnerable to malnutrition, and none have seen combat or know the terrain in Russia’s war
A Lebanese ship captain abducted by Israeli special forces may have been acting as a double agent.
An Israeli court on Sunday loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information suspected to involve one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s media advisers. Critics say the leaks were aimed at giving Netanyahu political cover as Gaza cease-fire talks ground to a halt. Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing, downplaying the affair and publicly calling for the gag order to be lifted.
Israel's Air Force said on Monday that it struck Hezbollah intelligence assets near Damascus in an attack on key infrastructure in Syria. The news came as Israel's army bombarded the last partially functioning hospital in north Gaza, the area of intense Israeli military operations for the past month, according to the enclave's health ministry. Read our live blog to see how the day's events unfolded. (FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)Read more on FRANCE 24 EnglishRead also:Dozens dead in fresh
The Israeli military said Sunday it has carried out a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks. It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory. Israel has carried out airstrikes in Syria multiple times over the past year, targeting members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and officials from Iran, the close ally of both Hezbollah and Syria.
Canadian authorities charged three people on Monday following violence at a Hindu temple which provoked angry condemnation from India and sent already frosty bilateral ties between the two nations to a fresh low. Peel Regional Police, who cover Brampton, said Monday that three people had been arrested and charged in connection with protests at a place of worship.
Israeli police have arrested a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over allegedly leaking classified information to foreign media.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman has been arrested over allegedly leaking intelligence documents that may have hindered a potential Israeli hostage release deal.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others, U.N. experts said in a new report. The Iranian-backed Houthis have exploited the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and worked to enhance their status in Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance” to gain popularity in the region and beyond, the experts monitoring sanctions against the Houthis said in the 537-page report to the U.N. Security Council.
Israeli naval commandos abducted a senior Hezbollah operative in an operation in the northern Lebanese town of Batroun, officials said Saturday. Lebanese authorities said earlier Saturday they were investigating whether Israel was behind the capture of a sea captain who was taken by a group of armed men near the coastal town of Batroun, The…
Hamas-run Gaza's health ministry said Monday Israeli forces were bombarding the last partially functioning hospital in the territory's north, as Israel formally notified the UN it is cutting ties with the main aid agency for Palestinians.Gaza's health ministry said Israeli forces were "continuing to violently bombard and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital".
STORY: ::Iranians burn US and Israeli flags at a rallyas ties worsen over Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza::Tehran, Iran::November 3 2024::The rally marks 45 years since the storming of the US embassy in Tehran during the Islamic RevolutionRally-goers cheered as American and Israeli flags were burned on the street, while a crowd marched with anti-U.S. banners alongside Iranian flags. Many also carried images of the late General Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike in 2020.Speaking at the event, Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander General Hossein Salami described the U.S. and Israel as acting like "collapsing regimes" in regards to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.On Saturday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the U.S. and Israel will "undoubtedly receive a crushing response" for what they do against his country, state media reported.It came as Axios reported that the U.S. has warned Iran against launching another attack on Israel, saying Washington will not be able to restrain Israel if it attacks again, citing a U.S. official and a former Israeli official.Axios previously reported that Israeli intelligence suggests Iran is preparing to attack Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming days, possibly before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5.
A U.S. Army soldier who was in critical condition after suffering non-combat injuries while supporting the military's pier off the coast of Gaza has died, the U.S. military said on Monday. Sergeant Quandarius Davon Stanley, who recently retired from the military, suffered critical injuries in May while supporting operations at sea of the U.S.-built pier designed to increase flows of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the U.S. Army confirmed that Stanley had died, though it did not specify when.
Social media videos show a student walking around outside the Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, stripped to her underwear. According to students and activist groups from the university, the woman was protesting Iran’s strict Islamic dress code. A student social media channel, Amir Kabir newsletter, says members of an Iranian volunteer paramilitary group ripped the woman’s headscarf and clothes, whereas state-run Fars news agency says she took off her clothes after security personal “calmly talked” to her about flouting the dress code. But, the university’s spokesman said the woman was suffering from mental health issues. CNN has been unable to independently establish the circumstances behind the incident.
Bombardment is pounding around them as Israel wages a new offensive against Hamas fighters that it says have regrouped nearby. As staff scramble to treat waves of wounded, they remain haunted by a war that has seen hospitals targeted with an intensity and overtness rarely seen in modern warfare. All three were besieged and raided by Israeli troops some 10 months ago.
Iran’s supreme leader issues new threat after initially playing down Israeli strikes on Iranian military facilities
Angry protesters hit the streets of several cities in mainly-Kurdish southeastern Turkey on Monday after the authorities sacked three mayors on "terrorism" charges, sparking a rebuke from Europe's leading rights organisation.Despite the authorities quickly banning any protests, more than 2,000 people hit the streets of the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir, shouting: "Get out, trustees!"
Since Israel began a military onslaught in Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack, Israeli restrictions in the waters off the enclave have made life almost impossible for fishermen, who no longer sail out to sea and instead must stay by the shore. In Khan Younis, Ibrahim Ghurab, 71, and Waseem Al Masry, 24, fish for sardines from the shoreline in front of a encampment of tents and makeshift shelters for those displaced by the war. Fishermen like Ghurab and Al Masry struggle daily to bring in even a modest catch to feed their families.
US warns Pyongyang’s troops fighting inside Putin’s ‘meat grinder’ war would be legitimate targets
Lying in her hospital bed, wearing a yellow t-shirt covered in lions, leopards and toucans, little Ivana Skayki is the very definition of innocence. "There's been so much pressure on us," Hadi Mushref, a nurse in the burns unit, told Sky News.