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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said on Monday that a new election victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition would bring about “the end of Zionism and the collapse of Israel.”

 Speaking at his Yesh Atid party conference, Lapid stated: “if we don’t save the country now, in two years, there will be nothing left to save. The window of opportunity will close,” according to The Time of Israel.

He stressed the need to adopt a…

By Emily Rose, Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of reservists started to report for duty on Tuesday ahead of a new Israeli offensive in Gaza City, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to speed up, despite warnings from senior ranks.

Israeli Army Radio said that some 40,000 reservists would report for duty on Tuesday for the Gaza City offensive. The military said it was readying logistically for the intake of reservists ahead of the…

The Palestinian Presidency warned Monday that Israel’s plan to annex the occupied West Bank would “close the doors to stability and security in the region and the world,” urging the United States to intervene and stop the move.

Presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh, in a statement carried by the official WAFA news agency, stressed that “any annexation process, like settlement activity, has no legitimacy. All of them are condemned and rejected, and…

(Reuters) -Blocked road access to people hit by Afghanistan’s earthquake have been the biggest challenge for response teams and rescue efforts in the impacted mountainous regions are relying on helicopters, a United Nations official said on Tuesday.

“There’s been lots of landslides and rock falls, and access has been very limited to everybody in the first 24 hours,” Indrika Ratwatte, the United Nations’ humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, said in a press briefing, speaking from…

Tears streamed down the faces of some of the hundreds of people gathered in a synagogue in Johannesburg as Or Levy described his release after 491 days as a hostage of Hamas.

Levy was brought to South Africa, the country that filed a case of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice, by the local branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a state-linked Israeli organisation.

Since May 2024, local Jewish groups have organised at least 16 similar events with former captives,…