Netanyahu says Israel ‘prepared for very intense operation’ near Lebanon | Hezbollah News

Netanyahu says Israel ‘prepared for very intense operation’ near Lebanon | Hezbollah News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is “prepared for a very intense operation” along its border with Lebanon, where Israeli troops have exchanged near daily fire with Hezbollah fighters for almost eight months. The fighting between Israel and the Lebanese armed group, a Hamas ally, has intensified over the past…

War is over in Iraq, but it continues to claim victims | The Iraq War: 20 years on

War is over in Iraq, but it continues to claim victims | The Iraq War: 20 years on

More than five years after the defeat of ISIL (ISIS) and decades of conflict, Iraq remains scarred by war. A journey through the country is punctuated with checkpoints, with armed soldiers standing watch at every crossroads. In Mosul, the country’s second city and former capital for the ISIL group, children…

At least 15 killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza refugee camps | Gaza News

At least 15 killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza refugee camps | Gaza News

Dozens wounded in attacks on Bureij, Maghazi as only remaining working hospital in area ‘overflowing’ with patients, health official says. At least 15 people have been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks on the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza, a Palestinian health official has said. “More…

There is a measure of desperation in Biden’s ceasefire plan | Israel-Palestine conflict

There is a measure of desperation in Biden’s ceasefire plan | Israel-Palestine conflict

On Friday, US President Joe Biden outlined a ceasefire proposal for the war in Gaza. The plan is comprised of three stages in which Israel and Hamas would negotiate an exchange of captives, an eventual permanent cessation of hostilities and rebuilding of homes and public facilities. He called on Israel…

UN rights chief condemns ‘unprecedented bloodshed’ in occupied West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict News

UN rights chief condemns ‘unprecedented bloodshed’ in occupied West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli forces kill, injure and arrest many Palestinians every day during numerous raids in the occupied territory. The United Nations has renewed its call for an end to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Volker Turk said in a statement released on Tuesday that in addition to the…

Iran parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announces presidential bid | News

Iran parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf announces presidential bid | News

Ghalibaf is among presidential hopefuls seeking approval to run for the June 28 snap elections. The conservative speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has registered his candidacy for the snap presidential election on June 28. At the end of the five-day registration period on Monday evening, Interior Minister Ahmad…

‘No one will hold Israel accountable’ as it targets medics in south Lebanon | Benjamin Netanyahu News

‘No one will hold Israel accountable’ as it targets medics in south Lebanon | Benjamin Netanyahu News

Most evenings in al-Habbariyeh, a small town in southern Lebanon’s verdant hills, the young volunteers of the Lebanese Emergency and Relief Corps centre liked to get together to play cards or share an argileh (hookah). On March 26, a clear, brisk night, Abdullah Sharif Atwi, Abdulrahman al-Shaar, Ahmad al-Shaar, Baraa…