Israeli air strikes hammered the Gaza Strip Monday, after a week of violence between the Jewish state and Palestinian militants left more than 200 people dead as international calls for de-escalation went unheeded. Overnight Sunday to Monday, Israel launched dozens of strikes in the space of a few minutes across the crowded coastal Palestinian enclave … Read more
Israel claims to have shared ‘smoking gun’ evidence with the US that Hamas used the destroyed building that housed The Associated Press and Al Jazeera in Gaza City, as news organisations demand answers. Government officials said the Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu shared a ‘smoking gun’ with US President Joe Biden in their phone call on Saturday. … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended his attacks on the Gaza strip, saying a country has a right to defend itself, and argued the United States knows ‘d**n well’ it would do the same thing. In a defiant interview on CBS’ Face the Nation, Netanyahu denied any political motivation for the attacks that have … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended his attacks on the Gaza strip, saying a country has a right to defend itself, and argued the United States knows ‘d**n well’ it would do the same thing. In a defiant interview on CBS’ Face the Nation, Netanyahu denied any political motivation for the attacks that have … Read more
A five-month-old baby boy has been pulled alive from rubble after an overnight Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in Gaza City killed 10 members of his family. Harrowing pictures show nurses holding the boy, who was reported to have been found next to the body of his deceased mother, at Al-Shifa Hospital. Israel’s bombardment … Read more
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Friday to crush Hamas with unrelenting bombardments as the death toll in Gaza rose to over 120, including 31 children and 20 women, with 900 people wounded. The leader’s fiery comments came amid growing fears of a Lebanese incursion into Israel, with residents in the country’s northern region told … Read more
BY SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE Gaza is a coastal strip of land that lay on ancient trading and maritime routes along the Mediterranean shore. Held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, it passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule over the last century and is now a fenced-in enclave inhabited by two million … Read more
Israel stepped up its attacks on the Gaza Strip overnight with the heaviest bombardment yet by land, sea and air amid fears of a ground invasion with thousands of troops moved to the border. Helicopters, gun boats and artillery pounded northern and eastern parts of Gaza with more than 1,000 bombs and shells overnight Thursday … Read more
Israeli ground troops have stormed into Gaza as its air force bombarded targets and officials ordered everyone living within miles of the border to go to bunkers amid fears of fierce retaliation from Hamas. The Israel Defense Force tweeted from its official account on Thursday night: ‘IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in … Read more
Israelis have described being attacked by Arab mobs ‘like something out of The Purge’ films amid escalating violence between the two sides that has pushed the region to the brink of all-out war. People in the city of Lod, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, say they have been forced to take up positions on … Read more