UN official says Israeli fire has wounded two peacekeepers in Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — UN official says Israeli fire has wounded two peacekeepers in Lebanon.
BEIRUT (AP) — UN official says Israeli fire has wounded two peacekeepers in Lebanon.
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.
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.
Israeli police have arrested a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over allegedly leaking classified information to foreign media.
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.
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean state media released a white paper on Sunday accusing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol of exposing his country to the danger of nuclear war through his policies toward the North. The document, compiled by North Korea’s Institute of Enemy State Studies and released by state news agency KCNA, criticised Yoon’s “reckless remarks” about war, abandoning elements of an inter-Korean agreement, engaging in nuclear war planning with the United States, and seeking closer ties with Japan and NATO.
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…
Two of Iran's Revolutionary Guards have died in a helicopter crash during an anti-terror operation in the country's restive southeast, state media said Monday, adding that the fatalities included a general in the elite force. An Iranian Revolutionary Guards general and pilot were killed in a helicopter crash during an anti-terror operation in the country's restive southeast, state media reported on Monday.The "ultra-light gyroplane" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "had an accident while
US says North Korea has deployed 10,000 troops in Russia, with more than half of them in the Kursk region
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.
Israel formally notified the United Nations it was cutting ties with the agency supporting Palestinian refugees, it said Monday, after lawmakers voted to ban the organisation vital to the occupied territories.Hezbollah has said it is acting in support of Hamas in Gaza, though many in both Lebanon and the Palestinian territory are clamouring for a ceasefire as the humanitarian situation worsens.
Iran's supreme leader vowed retaliation on Saturday for attacks by Israel, as an Israeli military official confirmed naval commandos seized a suspected Hezbollah operative in a raid in Lebanon.Israeli naval commandos seized a trainee mariner a military official described as a "senior operative" of Hezbollah in a raid in Lebanon and brought him to Israel for questioning.
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.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in Gaza on Monday and residents said they feared new air and ground attacks and forced evacuations were aimed at emptying areas in the enclave's north to create buffer zones against Hamas militants. The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said Israel was scaling back the number of aid trucks allowed into Gaza, compounding shortages of food, medicine and other essential supplies. Israel denied this.
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.
Increasingly violent siege of north raises suspicions about Netanyahu’s war aims
RISHON LE-ZION, Israel (Reuters) - A suspected leak of classified Gaza documents involving an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has jolted Israeli politics and outraged the families of hostages held by Hamas who have been pushing for a deal to get their loved ones home. Details of the case have trickled out slowly because of a gag order. But a magistrate's ruling partly lifting the order has provided an initial glimpse of the case that the court said had compromised security sources and may have harmed Israel's efforts to release the hostages.
UN chief says North Korean boots in Russia ‘represent a very dangerous escalation’
More than 30 people were on Sunday killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said. Nearly half of the deaths were recorded in the enclave's north. Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, visited the Lebanese border amid his country’s fight against Hezbollah. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. This liveblog is no longer being updated. For more coverage on the war in the Middle East, click here.Yesterday's key developments: Iran's supreme leade
Two Lebanese military officials confirmed that a naval force landed in Batroun, about 30 kilometres north of the capital Beirut, and captured a Lebanese citizen.View on euronews