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Israel-Hamas war: Dozens killed in Jabalia camp; latest updates

Israeli airstrikes hit a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing dozens and a Hamas commander. Jabalia is the largest of the Gaza Strip’s refugee camps. Watch the video.

IDF kills Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari, leader of Barbaric Oct 7 attack

He was also responsible for directing rocket fire at Israel and advancing numerous attacks against the IDF over the last two decades

Gaza's phone, internet cut off again as Israeli troops battle Hamas

Palestinians reported another widespread outage of internet and phone service in Gaza early Wednesday, hours after Israeli air strikes levelled apartment buildings near Gaza City and as ground troops battled Hamas militants inside the besieged territory. The Palestinian telecoms company Paltel reported a complete disruption of internet and mobile phone services in Gaza, marking the second time in five days that residents were largely cut off from the world. Communications also went down over the weekend, as Israeli troops pushed into Gaza in larger numbers. Humanitarian aid agencies have warned that such blackouts severely disrupt their work in an already dire situation in Gaza, where more than half of the population of 2.3 million Palestinians has been displaced and basic supplies are running low more than three weeks into the war triggered by Hamas' bloody October 7 rampage into southern Israel. Attempts to reach Gaza residents by phone were unsuccessful early Wednesday. ...

Critical to ensure Palestinians not forcibly displaced: US to Jordan

As Israel defends its citizens and fights terrorists, Biden emphasised the significance of upholding international humanitarian law and preserving civilian life

Asian factories grapple with rising costs amid ongoing Israel-Hamas war

The data are a discouraging sign for the global economy, which has seen its bid for recovery threatened by uncertainty over the Israel-Hamas war and the prospect of wider conflict in the region

US, Israel weigh peacekeepers for Gaza strip after Hamas amid war

"Between those shoals are a variety of possible permutations that we're looking at very closely now, as are other countries," Blinken said

US to send 300 additional troops to Middle East amid ongoing war: Pentagon

The region monitored by US encompasses 20 countries, including Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the countries of the Arabian Peninsula and northern Red Sea, and the five republics of Central Asia

US State Secy Blinken to visit Israel on Friday as war with Hamas continues

On October 16, Antony Blinken arrived in Israel, the second time within a few days, to pledge support for the country as it continued its counter-offensive against Hamas

FBI director warns about threats to Americans from those inspired by Hamas

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that Hamas' rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the US, telling lawmakers that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in recent weeks. We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven't seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate years ago, Wray said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. In his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Wray gave his most detailed and ominous assessment of potential threats to the US since the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli soldiers and civilians. His reference to the Islamic State, a reminder of when the FBI scrambled to disrupt hastily developed plots of violence by people inspired by the group's ascendancy, underscores the bureau's concerns that the current Middle East conflict could create a similarly dangerous dynamic. Though the FBI isn't currently track

Int'l humanitarian law no a la carte menu, can't be applied selectively: UN

He reiterated his call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and humanitarian access to be granted consistently to meet the urgent needs created by the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza

Israel's name disappears from digital maps in China, says report

As the battle inside the tiny Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory intensified, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed international calls for a halt to the fighting

LIVE: As geopolitical tensions rise, divisions becoming deeper, says UN

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Hamas are modern-day Nazis, they are rulers of Gaza: Israeli envoy at UN

Erdan stressed that the world is "deafeningly silent" just like in the rise of Nazism

Israel-Hamas war spilling into Syria, which already has instability: Envoy

The Israel-Hamas war is spilling into Syria, fuelled by growing instability, violence and a lack of progress toward a political solution to its 12-year conflict, the United Nations special envoy for the country said Monday. Geir Pedersen told the Security Council that, on top of violence from the Syrian conflict, the Syrian people now face a terrifying prospect of a potential wider escalation following Hamas' October 7 attacks on Israel and the ongoing retaliatory military action. Spillover into Syria is not just a risk; it has already begun, the U.N. envoy for Syria said. Pedersen pointed to air strikes attributed to Israel hitting Syria's airports in Aleppo and Damascus several times, and retaliation by the United States against what it said were multiple attacks on its forces "by groups that it claims are backed by Iran, including on Syrian territory." With the region at its most dangerous and tense, he said, fuel is being added to a tinderbox that was already beginning to ignit

Cyprus prepares for potential migrant influx due to Israel-Hamas war

Cyprus is doubling the existing 1,153-person capacity of its main migrant reception camp as the island nation prepares for potentially a large influx of people if the crisis in neighbouring Israel and Gaza escalates, authorities said Monday. The Pournara reception camp on the outskirts of the capital Nicosia will see an increase in staffing to adequately provide needed care to new arrivals and expedite asylum application processing, Cypriot Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said in a statement. Authorities have evaluated different venues where migrants could be accommodated if arrivals exceed the capacity of the centre and would immediately ask the European Union to dispatch more personnel to help process asylum applications, the statement said. Nearly 200 migrants arrived in Cyprus aboard four separate boats on Saturday alone, likely setting sail from Lebanon which is 108 miles (174 km) from the country's eastern coastline - reported state broadcaster CyBC. Regular clashes

Israeli ministry proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Egypt's Sinai

An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people to Egypt's Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office played down the report compiled by the Intelligence Ministry as a hypothetical exercise a concept paper. But its conclusions deepened long-standing Egyptian fears that Israel wants to make Gaza into Egypt's problem, and revived for Palestinians memories of their greatest trauma the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of people who fled or were forced from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel's creation in 1948. We are against transfer to any place, in any form, and we consider it a red line that we will not allow to be crossed," Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said of the report. What happened in 1948 will not be allowed to happen again." A mass displacement, Rudeineh said, .

Israel pushes deeper into Gaza; Netanyahu rejects calls for cease-fire

Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armoured vehicles on the territory's main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli prime minister rejected calls for a cease-fire, even as airstrikes landed near hospitals where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering beside the wounded. The military said a female soldier captured during Hamas' brutal October 7 incursion was rescued in Gaza the first since the weekslong war began. It provided few details, but said in a statement that Pvt. Ori Megidish is doing well and had met with her family. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed her home, saying the achievement by Israel's security forces illustrates our commitment to free all the hostages. He also rejected calls for a cease-fire to facilitate the release of captives or end the war, which he has said will be long and difficult. Calls for a cease-fire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, he told a pres

Strongly opposed to India's abstention on Israel-Hamas war: Sonia Gandhi

The Congress is "strongly opposed" to India's abstention on the recent UN resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict, former party chief Sonia Gandhi said on Monday, asserting that while her party had unequivocally condemned Hamas' attacks, the tragedy is compounded with the Israeli state now focused on exacting revenge from a population that is largely as helpless as it is blameless. She also said her party's longstanding position has been to support direct negotiations for a sovereign independent, viable and secure state of Palestine coexisting in peace with Israel. In an article in The Hindu, Gandhi said "humanity is on trial now", as she called for the loudest and most powerful voices to be for a cessation of military activity. "We were collectively diminished by the brutal attacks on Israel. We are now all diminished by Israel's disproportionate and equally brutal response. How many more lives will have to be taken before our collective conscience is stirred and awakened?" she ...

Reaction to Hamas attack leaves some Jews in Hollywood feeling unmoored

For the most part, people in the entertainment world could trust that they were on the same political page

Who is Khaled Mashal, the man who once haunted Israel?

Khaled Mashal, once labelled "The Man Who Haunts Israel" by Time Magazine, addressed a pro-Palestine rally in Kerala, India, via video, calling for Palestinian unity against Israel. His speech came am