A drone strike damaged a ship off the coast of India on Saturday but caused no casualties, two maritime agencies said, with one reporting the merchant vessel was linked to Israel.

Israeli police have questioned 19 prison guards as part of an investigation into the death of a Palestinian inmate, authorities said Thursday, following allegations of torture. Thaer Abu Assab, 38, from Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, died last month after being beaten by prison guards in southern Israel, according to the official Palestinian news…

An Israeli strike killed the head of the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday, Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip said. Crossing director Bassem Ghaben and three other people were killed as Israeli aircraft targeted the infrastructure, the crossings authority and the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory said. The…

Israel kept up heavy bombing of Gaza on Monday as it faced accusations from a human rights group that it is deliberately starving Palestinians in its campaign sparked by the October 7 Hamas attacks.

The group Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Israeli government of intentionally starving civilians in Gaza as part of its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.

A court in the Netherlands will rule Friday on whether to force the Dutch government to stop supplying parts for F-35 fighter jets being used by Israel over the Gaza Strip.

Israel's ambassador to Britain said Thursday that Israel would not accept a two-state solution with the Palestinians after the war with Hamas in Gaza ends. The conflict, now in its third month, began after the Palestinian group's unprecedented October 7 attacks on Israel that Israeli officials say killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians. In response,…

Iraq said Thursday it had arrested several attackers who fired rockets at the US embassy last week amid high tensions over the Israel-Hamas war and found some had links to security services. A salvo of rockets was launched early Friday at the US embassy in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, the latest in a flurry…

As the war between Israel and Palestine continues, there is apprehension that if not curtailed, it may snowball into a religious war. But the Ambassador of Israel to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, who spoke to Bridget Chiedu Onochie, dismissed that, saying that the activities of Hamas violate Islamic tenets. He maintained that until Hamas surrenders, calls for ceasefire remain unacceptable.

The United States and Britain on Wednesday announced a fresh round of sanctions on Hamas over its deadly October 7 attack on Israel. The measure "targets key officials who perpetuate Hamas's violent agenda by representing the group's interests abroad and managing its finances," the US Treasury Department said. The United States has been ratcheting up…

The Ambassador of Israel to Nigeria and Permanent Representative of Israel to ECOWAS, Michael Freeman, has said that whatever Israel is doing to protect its citizens in the war against Hamas is exactly what any normal country will do. He however stated that Israel and Palestine will eventually make peace and become friends again since…

The World Health Organization said Tuesday that a patient had died in an emergency convoy en route to a Gaza City hospital, during repeated and lengthy Israeli checks. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the weekend that the UN health agency and its partners had managed to deliver essential trauma and surgical supplies to…