Israel
10 Oct 2023
Israel kept up its deadly bombardment of Hamas-controlled Gaza Tuesday after the Palestinian militant group threatened to execute some of the around 150 hostages it abducted in a weekend assault if air strikes continue without warning.
9 Oct 2023
Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip Monday and cut off the water supply as it kept bombing targets in the Palestinian enclave in response to the Hamas surprise assault it has likened to the 9/11 attacks.
9 Oct 2023
If the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine escalates further, setting off a chain reaction, Nigeria, yet to recover from the economic crisis that followed the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, may have to deal with another energy crisis that may force the government...
8 Oct 2023
The federal government of Nigeria has called for de-escalation of hostilities in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
7 Oct 2023
Brazil, which holds the UN Security Council presidency, announced Saturday that it would call an emergency meeting of the body to address the escalating violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip.
7 Oct 2023
Palestinian militants had begun a "war" against Israel which they infiltrated by air, sea and land from the blockaded Gaza Strip on Saturday, Israeli officials said, a major escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
7 Oct 2023
Israel's army said it was fighting Gaza militants who entered Israel by land, sea and air using paragliders on Saturday, after a barrage of rockets was fired at Israel from the Palestinian enclave.
7 Oct 2023
Western capitals on Saturday roundly condemned a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israel -- a sharp spike in violence that has been surging for two years.
7 Oct 2023
Barrages of rockets were fired at Israel from the blockaded Gaza Strip at dawn on Saturday as militants from the Palestinian enclave infiltrated Israel, with at least one person killed, the army and medics said.
4 Oct 2023
Five suspects have been arrested following video footage of ultra-orthodox Jews spitting on Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem’s Old City, police said.
24 Sep 2023
It is quite clear that indeed power has changed from the hand of the lanky, foxy and taciturn one to the hand of a very artful dodger who actually prepared for a strategic state capture.
20 Sep 2023
Israeli troops killed a 19-year-old Palestinian in a pre-dawn raid in the West Bank Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence in the occupied territory showed no sign of any letup. The ministry said Durgham al-Akhras was killed in a clash with Israeli soldiers raiding Aqabat Jaber refugee camp near the city of Jericho…
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Iran has dismissed as akin to child's play the reported Israeli retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, as both sides on Saturday appeared to step back from wider conflict stemming from the war in Gaza.