Israel's army reported on Friday that intensive fighting continues in the southern city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip as soldiers attacked dozens of targets of the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas. The battles raged on the day the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that Israel risked genocide in its war on Gaza, but stopped short of ordering an immediate cessation. The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry says over 26,000 Gazans have been killed by the Israeli military in th
The Israeli army said that 21 soldiers have been killed in the central Gaza Strip, marking the deadliest single incident for the troops in the war against Hamas militants which began on October 7. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari, speaking after a news blackout was lifted on Tuesday morning, said the soldiers were killed on Monday afternoon when two nearby buildings exploded and collapsed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that it had been "one of the most difficult days since the ou
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Four paramedics were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an ambulance in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. They were hit while transporting injured people in Deir al-Balah in the central section of the coastal strip, the organization wrote on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The office of the UN Human Rights Office in Occupied Palestinian Territory announced on Wednesday that a total of 13 people were killed in an attack on a residential building
Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia said on Thursday it has only shown a fraction of its capabilities since the outbreak of the Gaza war and the violent fighting on the border with Israel, as a US special envoy in Beirut urged a diplomatic solution. "The resistance has used only a tiny part of its capabilities - namely weapons, missiles and expertise - in its operations," said Ali Damoush, deputy chairman of Hezbollah's Executive Council. "If the enemy forces war on us, we will show him all