Category: 2. Middle East

The Israeli military intensified its airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, leaving more than 100 Palestinians killed even as ceasefire talks resumed in Qatar.

What happened: The Palestinian Quds News Network cited medical sources saying that 115 Palestinians, mostly women and children, had been killed since dawn on Thursday in a wave of Israeli attacks on residential areas and displaced camps.

The total casualties include at least 61 people killed in a series of strikes in Khan Younis,…

Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation army fire in the West Bank today amid rising escalation in the occupied territory, security sources said.

The four lost their lives when Israeli occupation forces besieged and opened fire on a house in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas in northwestern West Bank, the sources told the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Israeli forces seized the bodies of the four Palestinians, the sources said.

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Israeli troops killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Tammun Thursday, in a raid the military described as targeting buildings suspected of being used to plan terror attacks.

“The occupation forces killed five young men after besieging a house in the centre of the village,” Tammun mayor Samir Qteishat told AFP.

“The (Israeli) army took four bodies, and we found a fifth martyr, the charred body, after the (Israeli) forces left,” he added.

The Israeli military meanwhile…

Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza today, bringing to 216 the number of media personnel killed since October 2023, local authorities said.

Hassan Sammour, an anchor for Al-Aqsa Voice Radio, and his family were killed in the pre-dawn strike that hit eastern Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, the government media office said in a statement.

The media office denounced Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists and called on…

Palestinian rescuers reported more than 100 people killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.

In the occupied West Bank, raids were ongoing and roads blocked after Israel’s military chief vowed to find the perpetrators of an attack that killed a pregnant Israeli woman.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said the death toll from Israeli bombardment since dawn on Thursday had risen to 103….

Lasting peace in Syria depends on the country building a strong judicial system giving justice to the victims of all crimes committed during the Assad era, a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer told AFP.

“We believe that the Syrians who paid the heavy cost to reach this moment will not accept changing one dictatorship into another,” Mazen Darwish said in an interview.

Darwish, who was in Stockholm with his wife Yara Bader to receive an award for their work running the Syrian Center for Media…

Palestinian rescuers reported 94 people killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.

In the occupied West Bank, raids were ongoing and roads blocked after Israel’s military chief vowed to find the perpetrators of an attack that killed a pregnant Israeli woman.

“Ninety-four martyrs have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn today,” civil defence agency spokesman…

Palestinian rescuers reported more than 100 people killed on Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.

Aid to Gaza has been cut off since March 2, a tactic Israel has said is intended to force concessions from Hamas, but the group insisted on Thursday that the restoration of humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged territory was “the minimum requirement” for talks.

It also warned that Gaza…

The Sudanese government yesterday extended the opening of the Adre border crossing with Chad for an additional three months to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to those affected by the war in Darfur, Anadolu reported.

A statement by the Foreign Ministry said “the Sudanese government has decided to extend the opening of the Adre crossing for the delivery of humanitarian aid and assistance to those affected by the war in the country for an additional…