Tag: Gaza Strip
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260,000 people displaced in Gaza: UN
“More than 263,934 people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes,” UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in an update on Tuesday. He warned that “this number is expected to increase further”. It said some 3,000 people had been displaced before Saturday “due to previous tensions”. More than 1,000 people have been killed in…
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Israel says 1,500 Hamas militants killed
Key ally the United States – which reported 11 of its own citizens killed and many more missing in the escalating conflict – stressed its full support for Israel, as did Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Five Western powers and several other countries have reported their citizens killed, kidnapped or missing, including Brazil, Cambodia, Canada,…
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More than 123,000 people displaced in Gaza Strip: UN
The United Nations said on Monday that more than 123,000 people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since clashes between Palestinian militants and Israel began. The UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, said, “More than 123,538 people have been internally displaced in Gaza, mostly due to fear, security concerns and the destruction of their homes.” OCHA…
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Israel-Hamas war: Death toll rises above 1,100
Israel-Hamas war: Death toll rises above 1,100
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Maximum 600 deaths on Israeli side, 370 deaths in Gaza
Military spokesman Daniel Hagari said, “We will reach every community until we kill every terrorist in Israel.” A day after hundreds of Hamas fighters attacked Israel using vehicles, boats and even motorized paragliders. There was widespread shock and dismay in Israel after Hamas gunmen captured and abducted at least 100 civilians in Gaza, with images…
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At least 480 Israelis, Palestinians killed in Israeli army clash with Hamas
The United States is seeking a deal to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, seen by the Israelis as the biggest prize so far in their decades-long quest for Arab recognition. Palestinians fear that any such agreement could end their dream of an independent state. Osama Hamdan, leader of Hamas in Lebanon, told Reuters…
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Headline: Israeli security forces face questions after Hamas attack, intelligence lapses revealed
“Intelligence Failure” When the time came, however, Israel’s defenses appeared to collapse as hundreds of Hamas gunmen, according to the military, broke through the security fence and dispersed into the towns. “This was an intelligence failure; it could not have happened otherwise,” said Jonathan Panikoff, a former U.S. government deputy national intelligence official on the…
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At least 198 people killed in Gaza in clashes with Israel: Palestine
At least 198 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday when Hamas militants fired rockets at Israel, which responded with airstrikes, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said. The ministry said that as of 4:20 pm (1320 GMT) “198 were martyred and 1,610 others were injured” in the clashes.
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Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad agree on Gaza ceasefire
The Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group officially went into effect late Saturday, with the deal meant to end the worst cross-border fire since the 10-Day War in 2021. As the fighting subsided, the streets of Gaza, which were largely deserted, filled with Palestinians. Some cheered and honked car horns,…
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Deadly fire on Israeli, Palestinian business in Gaza
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War and its forces regularly operate in Palestinian cities. The Arab League on Wednesday condemned the “aggressive (and) barbaric Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip that targeted civilians, children and women in residential neighborhoods”. Germany meanwhile “strongly” condemned the “indiscriminate” Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel,…
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2 killed in West Bank after Israel strikes Lebanon, Gaza
A flock of sheep was killed when Israeli missiles struck a field near the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyah, according to an Associated Press photographer. Other airstrikes hit a bridge and an electricity transformer in nearby Malia, and damaged an irrigation system providing water to the orchards. In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said…
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Israel strikes Gaza after rocket attack from Lebanese soil
Lebanon rejects ‘increase’ Lebanon’s acting Prime Minister Najib Mikati said he rejected any “escalation” from his country following the rocket attack. Israeli emergency services reported a man with shrapnel injuries and a woman with injuries while running to a shelter during the attack. Inspecting her damaged office in the town of Shlomi, 46-year-old Shlomi Naaman…