Israel will keep Gaza buffer zone, minister says, as truce bid stalls
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli troops will remain in the buffer zones they have created in Gaza even after any settlement to end the war, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday, as efforts to revive a ceasefire agreement faltered. Since resuming military operations last month, Israeli forces have carved out a broad “security zone” extending […]
Israeli military says killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza caused by “sense of threat”
Cairo, Egypt Reuters The Israeli military said on Monday that an initial investigation into the killing of 15 emergency workers in south Gaza last month showed that the incident occurred “due to a sense of threat”. It said it had identified six Hamas militants as being in the vicinity during the incident in the city […]
Israeli forces seen building positions in Gaza as they take more ground
Cairo, Egypt/Gaza Reuters Israeli troops could be seen clearing ground and building watch towers on Monday in parts of Gaza they have seized in recent days in a renewed offensive that the United Nations says has already captured or depopulated two-thirds of the enclave. The army has issued repeated evacuation warnings to hundreds of thousands […]
Palestinian teenager with US citizenship killed by Israeli forces in West Bank
Ramallah, West Bank Reuters A Palestinian teenager with US citizenship was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, Palestinian officials said on Sunday, with the Israeli military saying it shot a “terrorist” who endangered civilians by hurling rocks. The incident is the latest in a surge of violence and near-daily […]
Israeli military changes initial account of Gaza aid worker killings
Jerusalem Reuters The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last month but said investigators were still examining the evidence. The 15 paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on 23rd March and buried in a shallow […]
Palestinian paramedic says he saw Israeli troops firing on emergency vehicles
Cairo, Egypt Reuters A Palestinian paramedic who was present at an incident in which 15 of his colleagues were killed in southern Gaza last month said he saw Israeli troops firing at emergency vehicles that he later saw stained with blood. After several days of uncertainty about the whereabouts of the paramedics, Red Crescent and […]
Israeli military says it holds special probe into Gaza aid worker deaths
Jerusalem, Israel Reuters The Israeli military is conducting an investigation into an incident in Gaza in which a number of emergency and aid workers were killed, a military spokesperson said on Thursday, rejecting a description of the incident as an “execution”. Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said the military’s Southern Command had transferred the investigation to […]
Bodies of Palestinian medics recovered from grave in Gaza, UN officials say
Reuters Fifteen emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, Palestinian Civil Defense and the United Nations have been recovered from a grave in the sand in the south of the Gaza Strip, UN officials said. UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said in a post on X that the bodies were buried near “wrecked & […]
Truce shaky as Israel strikes Lebanon in response to rocket fire
Beirut, Lebanon/Jerusalem Reuters Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit south Lebanon on Saturday after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fired from across the border, killing at least eight people and endangering a shaky truce that ended a year-long war between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. That conflict marked the deadliest spillover of the Gaza […]
Weary of war?: In Israel, reservist burnout and little public appetite for more war in Gaza
MAAYAN LUBELL, of Reuters, reports as Israel this week launched deadly airstrikes and new ground operations in Gaza…