The Israeli military said yesterday that its air force had struck Houthi targets in Yemen, including a power station and ports on the western coast.
Research published in The Lancet medical journal yesterday estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of Israeli offensive was around 40 percent higher than recorded by the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.
US and Arab mediators have made some progress in their efforts to reach a ceasefire accord between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, but not enough to seal a deal, Palestinian sources close to the talks said yesterday.
Israeli military strikes across Gaza killed at least 27 people yesterday, Palestinian medics said, as international mediators stepped up efforts to seal a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
The UN’s World Food Programme has accused Israel of firing on one of its aid convoys in the war-torn Gaza Strip, saying at least 16 bullets hit the clearly marked vehicles but no staff were injured.
Iran’s military has begun drills near the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in the centre of the country, state media reported yesterday, as part of exercises planned nationwide.
Israel and Hamas have wrangled over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home, as Palestinian officials said intensified Israeli bombardments had killed more than 100 people over the weekend.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said yesterday that 88 people were killed in the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll of the offensive to 45,805.
The new school year in the Palestinian territories officially began yesterday, with all schools in Gaza shut after 11 months of war and no sign of a ceasefire.
A truck driver shot dead three Israeli guards at a border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan yesterday before being “eliminated”, Israel’s military said, as it pounded Gaza with new strikes.
Hamas yesterday accused Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to “thwart” a Gaza truce deal, after the Israeli premier said the Palestinian militant group has “rejected everything” in negotiations.
At least 41 people were killed and more than 180 wounded yesterday when Russia struck a military institute in the central town of Poltava with two missiles, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, the war’s deadliest single attack so far this year.
UN experts voiced alarm Monday at a surge in executions in Iran last month that pushed the total in the country so far this year to over 400
Israeli forces killed at least 48 Palestinians in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip as they battled Hamas-led militants, Palestinian officials said yesterday, while medics conducted a second day of polio vaccinations for children in the enclave.
Israel yesterday announced its troops had found six dead hostages in a Gaza tunnel, as Israeli police said a “shooting attack” in the occupied West Bank killed three officers.
A joint operation by US and Iraqi forces killed 15 Islamic State group fighters in Iraq’s western desert, with seven US troops hurt during the operation, US Central Command said.
Israeli strikes yesterday killed at least 48 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health authorities said, as clashes took place in central and southern areas of the enclave ahead of the planned start of a polio vaccination campaign.
Palestinians displaced by fighting in the Gaza Strip crowded onto the seashore as Israeli forces continued to battle Hamas fighters in central and southern areas, with health officials reporting at least 22 people killed in strikes yesterday.
