Israel says it launched a preemptive attack on positions in Lebanon from which Hezbollah was preparing to attack Israel. Hezbollah launched its own attack on Israel later on Sunday morning, targeting several military and intelligence targets. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said the operation was ordered after Israel crossed all “red lines” in attacking Beirut’s southern …
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Israel says it attacked southern Lebanon to ‘preempt’ a Hezbollah attack on northern Israeli towns. Hezbollah says it has completed the first phase of its attack on Israel with “a large number of missiles” in response to the killing of commander Fuad Shukr at the end of July. The Lebanese group said in …
The Sounion was on its way from Iraq to Athens when it was attacked by more than a dozen people in two small boats. A Greek-flagged oil tanker with 25 crew members on board has caught fire after multiple attacks and is adrift in the Red Sea. The Sounion was attacked by more than a …
The retrieval of the bodies of six Israeli captives by the Israeli military from Gaza this week has increased pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure the release of those who remain. On October 7, 239 people were taken captive during the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel. As part of a temporary truce in …
Israeli crowds have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, as well as villages in the occupied West Bank, as they marked a Jewish holiday. Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led a crowd of thousands into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday and performed prayers. Despite Jewish religious rites …
EXCLUSIVE The Israeli attack on the school in Gaza City that killed more than 100 displaced Palestinians was ‘calculated’ to cause widespread loss of life, Al Jazeera probe finds. Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency has probed the details of Israel’s Saturday morning attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin School, which killed more than 100 people, including …
Iran says the request by France, Germany and Britain ‘lacks political logic’ and it is determined to deter Israel. Iran has dismissed calls by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to stand down its threat against Israel after the assassination of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month. Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of …
Five Western countries have called on Iran and its allies to refrain from anticipated attacks on Israel in retaliation for the recent killings of senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah. The leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy issued a joint statement on Monday expressing their “support for ongoing efforts …
Last Updated: August 04, 2024, 15:37 IST Wadie Haddad, the chief of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was involved in several high-profile attacks, including the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane, known as the Entebbe Hijacking. (Shay_Cormac__/X) Mossad’s assassination of Palestinian commander Wadie Haddad using poisoned toothpaste sheds light on Israel’s …
At least two people have been killed and two others wounded in a stabbing attack near Tel Aviv, Israeli officials say, with police reporting a Palestinian suspect was “neutralised” and later died in hospital. The stabbings took place during morning rush hour near a gas station and a park in the city of Holon in …