At least 10 people, including two children, were killed and five wounded in an Israeli air strike on a residential building in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatia, the state-run NNA news agency reported on Saturday. The dead were all Syrian nationals, the NNA said, adding that a final number would be announced after DNA…
CNN has reported, citing officials familiar with the matter, that the United States will release $3.5 billion to Israel for weapons and military equipment. The money is part of a $14.1 billion spending bill passed by Congress in April. CNN also reported that “the funding is primarily money that Israel can use to purchase advanced…
Sheikh Ekrama Sabri, the current head of its Supreme Islamic Council, called the Hamas leader a ‘martyr’ during a sermon. A senior Muslim cleric was detained Friday on suspicion of inciting “terrorism” after he mourned slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, his lawyer told AFP. Sheikh Ekrama Sabri, 85, Jerusalem’s…
Haniyeh was killed by a missile that directly hit him at a government guesthouse in Tehran where he was staying. The funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was held in Qatar on Friday, two days after he was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran – the latest in a series of deaths of senior figures…
According to the New York Times, citing three Iranian officials, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has ordered direct targeting of several military sites in Israel in retaliation for the deadly attack on Ismail Haniyeh. The directive was reportedly issued during an emergency meeting of Iran’s National Security Council on Wednesday morning, shortly after Haniyeh’s assassination. The…
A senior Hamas leader was killed on Wednesday morning. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, 62, was killed in an early morning attack in Iran. His killing threatens the region’s stability and increases the risk of the Gaza war escalating into a regional conflict. What happened to Hania and when? At around 2 a.m. local time (22:30…
Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on Wednesday against the war in Gaza and protested a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, chanting “free, free Palestine” before marching to the Capitol before police dispersed some of the crowd. But did pepper spray. Protesters calling for an end to the war that has killed more…
The long-time leader of the Qassam Brigades is among Israel’s most wanted men and has been the target of several airstrikes. Mohammed Deif, the military commander of Hamas in Gaza, has survived another Israeli assassination attempt and is “recovering”, a senior official with the Palestinian group says. The statement by a Hamas official on Sunday…
‘The children were reading the Holy Book of Muslims Quran in the class when the attack took place’. Palestinian officials say that at least 16 people have been killed and dozens injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school run by the United Nations in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Bisal, spokesman of the Gaza Civil…