Israel launched a series of strikes in Gaza on Sunday in response to attacks on its forces, the military said, shaking an already fragile ceasefire in the shattered enclave as it traded blame with Hamas for violating the truce. Residents in Gaza and local health authorities said that Israeli airstrikes and tank fire across the […]
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Ex-senator back in Pakistan after being released from Israeli detention
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader and former Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan arrived in Pakistan on Thursday after being released from Israeli detention. He had been a part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which came under attack by Israeli forces while en route to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. He received a warm and enthusiastic welcome at the […]
Ex-senator Mushtaq released from Israeli custody
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Tuesday that former Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, who was detained by Israel last week after it intercepted a flotilla of boats carrying aid for Gaza, had arrived at the Pakistan embassy in Amman, Jordan and was in “good health and high spirits”. Mushtaq […]
Gaza Rescuers Report 100 Killed in Latest Israeli Airstrikes
The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached alarming levels following Israel’s reimposition of a full blockade in early March, just days before the collapse of a fragile two-month ceasefire with Hamas. Acute shortages of basic goods, such as food, clean water, gasoline, and medication, are being warned about by aid organisations. During a press appearance […]
Israeli missile strikes building in central Damascus, five dead
AMMAN, Feb 19 (Reuters) – An Israeli rocket strike early on Sunday hit a building in central Damascus’s Kafr Sousa neighbourhood near a large, heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, killing five people, witnesses and officials said. The rare, targeted strike damaged several buildings in the densely populated district close to Omayyad square […]
US envoy, in interview, does not rule out Israeli annexation in West Bank
The US ambassador to Israel did not rule out an Israeli move to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, land that the Palestinians seek for a state, in an interview with the New York Times published on Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the run-up to an April election that he plans […]
First Israeli casualty by Gaza rockets since 2014
Israeli medical officials say an early morning rocket from Gaza has killed an Israeli man outside a home in the coastal city of Ashkelon. After being struck by shrapnel Sunday, 58-year-old Moshe Agadi has died of his wounds, marking the first Israeli casualty from rocket fire since the 2014 war with Hamas militants. Gaza militants […]
Israeli army says closed field hospital for Syrians
Israel has closed a field hospital set up near the Syrian border to treat the sick and those wounded in the conflict ravaging the neighbouring country, the army said Friday. The day clinic was set up in August 2017 and since then had provided medical care to some 6,800 Syrians, the army said in a […]