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.
At least 59 people, including seven children of a family, were killed in Israeli air strikes across the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, said the enclave’s health ministry yesterday.
Israel's military reported that it shot down a missile and a drone launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks from the country targeting Israel in recent weeks.
Israel bombed Syrian army positions south of Aleppo later on Thursday, the latest such strikes since the overthrow of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor and local residents said.
Jordan’s army said yesterday it sent eight helicopters loaded with more than seven tonnes of aid to Gaza, which is grappling with a humanitarian crisis after more than a year of Israeli offensive.
A blast from an explosive device yesterday killed three members of Iraq’s security forces and wounded three others in the northern province of Salaheddin, officials said.
Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 foreigners this year, according to an AFP tally indicating a sharp increase which one rights group said was unprecedented.
An Israeli strike on a building in a densely populated district of central Beirut yesterday killed Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammad Afif, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, though there was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman yesterday “categorically” denied The New York Times report on Tehran’s ambassador to the United Nations meeting with US tech billionaire Elon Musk, state media reported.
Israel launched a wave of air strikes on Hezbollah bastions in Beirut and south Lebanon yesterday, a day after Lebanese government officials said they were studying a US truce proposal.
An Iranian court sentenced six men to death for killing a paramilitary force member during 2022 protests over a Kurdish woman’s death in custody, Fars news agency reported.
Israeli forces launched airstrikes on Hezbollah-controlled areas in Beirut for a third consecutive day yesterday, hitting locations in the capital’s southern suburbs early in the morning after a night of heavy bombardments.
Arab and Muslim leaders demanded on Monday that Israel withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories as a precondition for regional peace, while denouncing "shocking" Israeli crimes in war-ravaged Gaza
Iranian security forces yesterday killed at least three people during clashes with jihadists in the country’s restive southeast, state media reported, following a deadly attack on police last month.
