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Gaza live: Several dead including Hezbollah commander after Israeli strike on southern Beirut
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1 year ago

An official spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza has reported that at least three people were killed and 20 others injured in an attack on the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.

The attack targeted the Amr Ibn al-Aas school in the Abu Iskandar area of Sheikh Radwan, located in the northern part of Gaza City.

Separately, Al Jazeera has reported that at least five people were killed in the east of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza due to Israeli shelling, with three women and two children among the victims.

1 year ago

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Islamic nations on Saturday to unite against "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel.

His statement followed reports by Palestinian and Turkish officials of Israeli troops killing a Turkish-American woman who was protesting against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday.

"The only step that will stop Israeli arrogance, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state terrorism is the alliance of Islamic countries," Erdogan stated at an Islamic schools' association event near Istanbul.

Erdogan also emphasised that Turkey's recent efforts to strengthen ties with Egypt and Syria were aimed at "building a line of solidarity against the growing threat of expansionism", which he said also posed a threat to Lebanon and Syria.

1 year ago

At least four people, including two women and two children, have been killed in another Israeli strike on Nuseirat refugee camp, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting.

1 year ago

Tens of thousands of protesters marched for Palestine in central London on Saturday as Israel continues its attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Organisers held a series of speeches at the start of the march on Regent Street before walking through the heart of west London towards the Israeli embassy in South Kensington.

Flanked by an army of volunteers in green vests, protesters held Palestine flags and placards that called on Britain to impose a full arms embargo on Israel and for the Israeli military to end its war in Gaza.

Iqbal Mohamed, one of the independent MPs elected in July who stood on a pro-Palestine platform, joined the march.

Mohamed told Middle East Eye that Britain’s decision to cut 30 out of 350 arms contracts with Israel and the decision to restore partial funding to Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was a “drop in the ocean”.

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1 year ago

An Israeli air strike targeting a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City has killed at least four Palestinians and injured 25 others, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.

According to the sources, Israeli fighter jets bombed the Amr Ibn al-As school, in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City. 

Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed 24 Palestinians since this morning - including an attack on Halimah al-Saadiyah school in Jabalia which killed eight people, and strikes on the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.

According to Al Jazeera, 61 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the last 48 hours.

1 year ago

The head of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency, Richard Moore, said that he believes Iran is still preparing to retaliate for the Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

"I suspect they will try and we won't be able to let our guard down for the type of activity that the Iranians might try and prosecute in that direction," Moore said at a Financial Times event on Saturday.

1 year ago

The Israeli army has said that its fighter jets have targeted Hezbollah military sites and a rocket launch platform in the southern Lebanese town of Qabrikha.

The military also claimed attacks on Aita al-Shaab and Kfarchouba.

1 year ago

Another Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has resulted in more casualties, Al Jazeera is reporting. The attack targeted a home north of the camp.

Earlier today we reported that eight Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli strike in the western part of the camp this morning.

1 year ago

CIA director William Burns, the chief US negotiator in the truce talks between Hamas and Israel, has said at an event in London that a "more detailed" ceasefire proposal would be made in the coming days.

Burns said that achieving an agreement soon was possible, but that it was "a matter of political will".

His comments followed the first joint statement by the US and UK intelligence agencies, which emphasised that the two are "working tirelessly towards a ceasefire".

In an opinion piece for the Financial Times, Burns and MI6 chief Richard Moore said that their agencies had "exploited our intelligence channels to push hard for restraint and de-escalation".

1 year ago

Two Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces in separate incidents in Rafah and the Nuseirat refugee camp, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.

According to eyewitnesses, Israeli forces shot a young Palestinian man near the Kerem Shalom crossing, southeast of Rafah, while another man was killed at the Wadi Gaza Bridge, north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

1 year ago

Lebanon's Hezbollah has said in a statement on Telegram that its fighters had targeted the Israeli Raheb military site with artillery shelling, hitting it directly.

In a separate statement, the group claimed another attack on surveillance equipment at the Misgav Am site, also achieving a direct hit.

The group launched several attacks on Israeli targets on Saturday, including the launch of a barrage of Katyusha rockets towards western Galilee.

1 year ago

The Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing has said its teams have opened 70 percent of the Tulkarm refugee camp's roads, after clearing the rubble following a days-long Israeli incursion.

The ministry added that in the coming days the teams would continue to repair the damage inflicted by Israeli forces on the camp's roads, buildings and infrastructure.

1 year ago

At least eight Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli strike on central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, the Palestinian civil defence is reporting.

This is up from the five deaths we reported earlier today.

1 year ago

The Palestinian Prisoner's Society has said that the Israeli authorities are "deliberately" leaking images and footage of the torture of Palestinian detainees.

The rights group said in a statement that this was “part of the competition between the ministers of the current government over who tortures and kills Palestinians more".

“The other goal… is to influence the image of the Palestinian prisoner in the collective consciousness… in addition to using them as an additional tool for intimidation operations and spreading terror among Palestinian citizens,” it added.

In August, the Israeli rights group B'tselem released a report accusing the government of conducting a policy of institutionalised abuse and torture against all Palestinians detained since 7 October. 

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The death toll of Palestinians killed since this morning has risen from 18 to 24, Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting, citing medical sources.