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An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on August 4, killing at least 30 people, Palestinian officials said, while the Israeli military said it struck a Hamas military compound embedded in the schools. An Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza earlier in the...
The leader of Hezbollah on August 6 pledged a "strong and effective" response to the killing of its military commander by Israel last week and said it would act either alone or with its regional allies. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah would wait for the right moment to respond but did not...
The United Nations says nine employees of UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas, adding that they have been fired. “We have sufficient information in order to take the actions that we’re taking — – which is to say...
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran early on July 31, an attack that drew threats of revenge on Israel and fueled further concern that the conflict in Gaza was turning into a wider Middle East war. The Palestinian militant group and Iran's Revolutionary Guards...
Israel carried out a rare strike on Beirut on July 31, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The strike in the Lebanese capital killed at least one woman and two children...
The top United Nations court said on July 19 that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years...
Israel said it targeted Hamas’ shadowy military commander in a massive strike on July 13 in the crowded southern Gaza Strip that killed at least 90 people including children, according to local health officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “there still isn’t absolute certainty”...
A new Israeli assault on Gaza on July 8 threatened ceasefire talks at a crucial moment, the head of Hamas said, as Israeli tanks pressed into the heart of Gaza City and ordered residents out after a night of massive bombardment. Residents said the airstrikes and artillery barrages were among the...
Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing their homes in Gaza’s Khan Younis as Israeli forces pound the area with bombs and artillery fire after issuing a new evacuation order for the embattled southern city. The latest strikes on July 2 killed at least eight people and wounded more than 30 in several...
The Israeli military’s “deliberate” use of heavy weapons in the Gaza Strip has been an “intentional and direct attack on the civilian population,” a new report by a United Nations-backed independent commission has found. Navi Pillay, chairperson of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry...