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“God wants our job to be simply clearing the land,” an Israeli bulldozer operator told Haaretz in a recent interview, a remark seen as encapsulating the ideological zeal driving the scale of unprecedented destruction now unfolding in the besieged Gaza Strip.

According to new satellite analysis by the Hebrew University’s Geographic Information System (GIS) Centre, nearly 70 per cent of buildings across Gaza have been levelled or severely damaged, surpassing…

Prominent Tunisian human rights activist Kamel Jendoubi has criticized the harsh prison sentences issued last week against opponents including leader of Tunisia’s Nahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, accusing them of committing “slow- motion assassination” against the 84-year-old man suffering from Parkinson’s disease. 

On 8 July, Tunis’s primary court issued new prison sentences in the so-called “Conspiracy Case 2”, with rulings ranging between 12 and…

Israel has described the bombing of Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Church, the very church the late Pope Francis used to call daily, as “a mistake.” 

In a phone call with US President Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu said he expressed “deep regret” over the attack that killed three Palestinians and wounded ten others, including the church’s priest, Father Gabriele Romanelli, the same priest Pope Francis used to speak with directly each evening during…

CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas’ armed wing spokesperson said on Friday that while the group favours reaching an interim truce in the Gaza war, if such an agreement is not reached in current negotiations it could revert to insisting on a full package deal to end the conflict.

Hamas has repeatedly offered to release all the hostages held in Gaza and conclude a permanent ceasefire agreement, and Israel has refused, Abu Ubaida added in a televised speech.

Arab mediators Qatar and Egypt, backed by the…

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Friday called for an immediate end to Israel’s ban on international media access to Gaza, warning that the information blackout is fueling disinformation and undermining trust in eyewitness and humanitarian accounts, Anadolu reports.

Philippe Lazzarini said on X that the media ban has persisted for over 650 days amid what he described as “atrocities against civilians.”

“The ban on the entry of…