Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since the ceasefire
- 07-May-2026
BEIRUT: Israel struck Beirut on Wednesday for the first time since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last month, with Israel saying it targeted a commander of the militant group’s elite Radwan force in the city’s southern suburbs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the action in a joint statement. […]
Israel approves plan to buy F-35 and F-15IA fighter jets from Lockheed, Boeing
- 04-May-2026
JERUSALEM – Israel gave final approval for a plan to purchase two new combat squadrons of F-35 and F-15IA advanced fighter aircraft from Lockheed Martin and Boeing in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars, the defence ministry said on Sunday. The deal, approved by Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Procurement, is a first step […]
Israel using water access as ‘weapon’ in Gaza: MSF
- 28-Apr-2026
GENEVA, Switzerland: Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday, decrying a campaign of “collective punishment” against Palestinians. The extensive destruction of civilian water infrastructure in Gaza coupled with obstruction of access constitutes “an integral part of Israel’s genocide”, said the medical charity, […]
Israeli fire kills two in Gaza, Hamas clashes with Israeli-backed militia
- 20-Apr-2026
CAIRO: Israeli strikes killed at least two Palestinians in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials said, and fighters from Hamas clashed with gunmen from an Israeli-backed militia, witnesses said. Medics said one man was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Bureij camp in the central area of the enclave, while […]
Lebanese return to ‘unliveable’ areas as ceasefire with Israel mostly holds
- 17-Apr-2026
People uprooted by the war in Lebanon began returning to devastated towns and neighbourhoods on Friday, with many finding their homes destroyed or uninhabitable and hesitant to stay for fear a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel could unravel. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the 10-day ceasefire agreement between the governments of Lebanon and Israel on […]
Israeli attacks prevent Lebanese from burying their dead in ancestral lands
- 16-Apr-2026
BEIRUT: Brothers Ali and Wael Sabbagh stood facing the remains of the building that contained their family home for more than 50 years. The site was pounded into rubble by Israeli strikes last week in an attack that killed their mother, brother, and the family’s helper. Their grief has been compounded by their inability to […]
Israel seeks to declare Turkey ‘new enemy’
- 13-Apr-2026
ISTANBUL: Israel “cannot live without an enemy” and its government is now trying to portray Turkey as one, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday. Tensions between Turkey and Israel have steadily escalated since the Gaza war erupted following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack. The dispute entered a new phase over the weekend after […]
Jailed Palestinians fear death by hanging without due process under new Israeli law
- 01-Apr-2026
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voiced fears on Tuesday that their jailed relatives could be hanged without due process after Israel adopted a new law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks. The law would also apply to Israeli citizens, but by defining the lethal attacks in question […]
Israel parliament approves death penalty bill for Palestinians
- 31-Mar-2026
Israel’s parliament approved a bill on Monday that would allow the execution of Palestinians convicted on terror charges for deadly attacks, a move that has been criticised as discriminatory and immediately drew a court challenge. Sixty-two lawmakers, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, voted in favour and 48 against the bill, championed by far-right National Security […]
Missile hits fuel tanker at Israel’s Oil Refineries
- 30-Mar-2026
An industrial building and a fuel tanker at Israel’s Oil Refineries in the northern city of Haifa was hit by debris from an intercepted missile, Israel’s Fire and Rescue Service said on Monday. It was not immediately clear whether the missile was fired from Iran or Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, who were both firing […]