April 24, 2024 10:10 pm | Updated 10:10 pm IST – Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories Israel pounded Gaza with air strikes and artillery fire in its war against Hamas on Wednesday after the U.S. Congress approved $13 billion in military aid. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the Senate’s approval of the aid package already … Read more
Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on April 22 as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped … Read more
Palestinian children sit next to the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 18 people, including 14 … Read more
Israel last week pulled its troops from Khan Yunis city after months of fighting (File) Residents reported heavy Israeli fire in central Gaza on Friday, with regional tensions soaring after Iran threatened reprisals over a strike in Syria this month that killed two Iranian generals. As ceasefire talks aiming to pause the six-month-old war dragged … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli general leading troops in Gaza has delivered rare public criticism of the country’s political leadership, demanding it “be worthy” of the soldiers fighting against Hamas in the Palestinian territory. Brigadier General Dan Goldfus, head of the 98th division deployed in Gaza’s main southern city … Read more
Israel-Gaza war has been going on since October 7, 2023 (File) Washington: Joe Biden said Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in an interview aired Saturday, as the US leader’s impatience with his Israeli counterpart grows increasingly visible. With Gaza’s humanitarian crisis growing more dire and … Read more
Gaza health authorities said Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for an aid delivery, but Israel blamed the deaths on crowds that surrounded aid trucks, saying victims had been trampled or run over. At least 112 people were killed and more than 280 wounded in the incident near … Read more
A Palestinian flag flaps in the air by a message reading “Stop bombs” projected on The Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the clock’s bell “Big Ben”, at the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, during a Pro-Palestinian demonstration in Parliament Square in London on February 21, 2024. | Photo … Read more