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UN fires 9 staffers after probe suspects their involvement in Oct 7 attack

The UN says it has fired nine staff members from its agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack against Israel. The UN secretary-general's office announced the move in a brief statement to journalists Monday. It did not elaborate on the UNRWA staffers' likely role in the attack. It said the nine included seven staffers who were fired previously over the claims. The UN's internal watchdog has been investigating the agency since Israel in January accused 12 UNRWA staffers of being involved in the October 7 attack on Israel in which militants killed 1,200 people and abducted some 250 others. Israel's allegations initially led top donor countries to suspend their funding for UNRWA, the main agency providing aid to Palestinians in Gaza amid the 10-month old war there. That caused a cash crunch of about USD 450 million dollars. Since then, all donor countries except for the US have decid

Killing of Hamas leader aimed to prolong Gaza war: Palestinian Prez Abbas

Abbas said that he considers Haniyeh's assassination, a cowardly act and a dangerous development in Israeli politics

US, allies push to avert possible Mideast war amid heightened tensions

The focus has been to prepare for and possibly blunt an attack by Iran, which has warned it will respond after blaming Israel for killing a top Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in a government

Bangladesh crisis updates: Sheikh Hasina lands at Hindon airport in India after resignation

Bangladesh news updates: Sheikh Hasina has left Dhaka after resigning as prime minister amid Bangladesh's violent protests fueled by unemployment. Protestors had stormed the Gono Bhaban.

Israel war may enter 'new phase' today if Iran-Hezbollah strike: Explained

Iran and its allies Hamas and Hezbollah have vowed 'severe revenge' in response to top Hamas leader Ismail Haniye's killing on July 31

Israel braces for Iran attack as US urges Gaza cease-fire as tensions rise

Netanyahu said the problem is that Hamas keeps changing its demands. Others say Israel has done the same, making a deal harder

Strikes on Gaza kill 18, stabbing in Israel kills 2 as tensions escalate

Israeli strikes early Sunday killed 12 people in Gaza, including four who were sheltering in a tent camp for displaced people inside a hospital complex, while a stabbing attack carried out by a Palestinian killed two people in a Tel Aviv suburb. Tensions have soared following nearly 10 months of war in Gaza and the killing of two senior militants in separate strikes in Lebanon and Iran last week. Those killings brought threats of revenge from Iran and its allies and raised fears of an even more destructive regional war. A woman in her 70s and an 80-year-old man were killed in the stabbing attack, according to Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service and a nearby hospital, and two other men were wounded. The police said the attack was carried out by a Palestinian militant, who was neutralised, and that a search was underway for other suspects. The rescuers said the wounded were found in three different locations, each about 500 metres apart, adding to concerns that more than one ...

Israel kills nine militants in West Bank amid ongoing cease-fire talks

Two Israeli airstrikes in the West Bank killed nine Palestinian militants on Saturday, Israel's army said, as violence flared again in the Israeli-occupied territory with tensions high over the war in Gaza and a potential regional escalation. Cease-fire discussions on Gaza continued, with an Israel delegation led by the Mossad chief briefly visiting Cairo, an Egyptian official said. The US has urged Israel to seize the chance for a cease-fire after the shock killing of Hamas' political leader in Iran, which Tehran blames on Israel. That killing and Israel's assassination of a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon have the region holding its breath for retaliation against Israel on either front, or both, after Iran and its proxies vowed to act. Hamas said its command had begun discussions on choosing a new leader. In the northern West Bank, the Israeli army said its forces first struck a vehicle in a rural area outside the city of Tulkarem early Saturday, killing the five occupants. The arm

Hamas commander among nine killed in Israeli airstrike in West Bank

An Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank killed five Palestinians, according to Israel's army and Palestinian media, as violence flares in the Israeli-occupied territory. The Israeli army said its forces struck a vehicle carrying five militants in a rural area northwest of the city of Tulkarem in the northwest West Bank early Saturday morning, as the occupants were on their way to carry out an attack. According to an Associated Press journalist and witnesses, the blast took place along a road connecting the Palestinian villages of Zeita and Qaffin. I was going to work in the morning and I heard an explosion here next to the house, said Taiser Abdullah, a Zeita resident. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the five slain Palestinians were taken to a nearby hospital, and that four of the bodies were burned and charred beyond recognition. The Palestinian health ministry has not commented on the deaths. Over 590 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli f

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Joe Biden tells Netanyahu to accept cease-fire in 'very direct' call

Iran and Hezbollah have vowed revenge against Israel, with Tehran ordering its security forces to assess options for attacking the Jewish state

Israel-Iran tensions: Air India suspends Tel Aviv flights till August 8

The Israeli government has remained silent on Haniyeh's death in Iran's capital, though Palestinian militant group Hamas points the finger at Israel

Air India cancels all flights to Israel till Aug 8 amid fear of conflict

Air India, which operates four weekly flights from Delhi to Israel had earlier cancelled a flight to Tel Aviv as tensions grip West Asia after the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran

Israel admits killing Al Jazeera journalist, says he was Hamas militant

Israel Defence Force (IDF) further said that the journalist, Ismail al-Ghoul, instructed other operatives on how to record operations

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War on peace

Hamas chief's killing will stiffen the 'axis of resistance'

War with Israel in new phase after top militant killings: Hezbollah leader

Hezbollah's leader warned Thursday that the conflict with Israel has entered a "new phase," as he addressed mourners at the funeral of a commander from the group who was killed by an Israeli airstrike this week in Beirut. Meanwhile in Tehran, Iran's supreme leader prayed over the body of Hamas' political leader, who was killed in a presumed Israeli assassination. The back-to-back killings have increased fears of an escalation into a wider war, leaving the region waiting to see how Iran and ally Hezbollah will respond. Iran has vowed retaliation against Israel for the strike that killed Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday in the Iranian capital of Tehran. Israel has not denied or confirmed responsibility for the killing. Israel did confirm it carried out the strike Tuesday in Beirut that killed Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukur, along with an Iranian military adviser and at least five civilians. Israel said Shukur was behind a rocket attack days earlier that hit a soccer field in the

Bomb smuggled into Tehran guesthouse months ago killed Hamas leader: Report

An explosive device hidden in a heavily guarded complex where Ismail Haniyeh was known to stay in Iran was what killed him, according to a Times investigation

Israel confirms Hamas military head Muhammad Deif killed last month in Gaza

Israel Defense Forces confirm death of Hamas military wing commander Muhammad Deif a day after Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran in alleged Israeli operation

Hamas chief's killing: Iran's Khamenei orders strike on Israel, reports NYT

In a major escalation in the region, the New York Times reported that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered its troops to carry out direct strikes against Israel