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‘We are at war, enemy will pay price’: Israel PM after Hamas attack
Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that hundreds of rockets fired by Hamas militants hit Israel today. “Citizens of Israel, we are at war. Not an operation not…
- India
Situation not normal, but Israel will prevail: Israel Ambassador to India
New Delhi: Following a massive attack from the Gaza strip against Israel, Naor Gilon, Israel’s Ambassador to India on Saturday said that the “situation is not normal” but “Israel will prevail”. In…
- Middle East
Over 300 Israelis, 256 Palestinians killed as war escalates
Dozens of rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Saturday morning, October 7, in which more than 300 Israelis were reportedly killed and 1,864 wounded. Medical sources in Gaza…
- Middle East
Israel accuses Hezbollah of border incursion amid rising tensions
Jerusalem: Israel accused Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based armed group and political party, of constructing a concrete infrastructure near the disputed Lebanon-Israel border that extends into Israeli territory. The Israeli military said on Thursday…
- Middle East
Israeli FM condemns spitting attack on Christians
Jerusalem: Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has condemned a recent wave of street attacks on Christian worshippers in the country. “I condemn the ugly phenomenon of spitting on Christians and harming any…
- World
Blinken to visit Israel, Saudi Arabia later this month
Tel Aviv: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel and Saudi Arabia later this month amid a diplomatic push to bring the Sunni kingdom into the Abraham Accords. The trip,…
- Middle East
Iran will not stop Israeli-Saudi normalisation: Netanyahu
Jerusalem: Iran will not stop Israel from realising normalisation of ties with Saudi Arabia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, responding to a statement from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran will…
- Middle East
Normalizing ties with Israel betrayal of Palestinians: Hezbollah
The secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah urged Muslims across the globe to strongly oppose and condemn any kind of normal ties with Israel, Press TV reported. The leader of the…
- Middle East
Second Israeli minister visits Saudi Arabia in a week
In the second visit to Saudi Arabia by an Israeli minister within a week, the Israeli Minister of Communications, Shlomo Karai, on Monday, October 2, arrived in Riyadh to participate in the “Universal Postal…
- Middle East
Netanyahu corruption hearings postponed after judge’s father dies
Tel Aviv: Next week’s Jerusalem District Court hearings in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial have been postponed following the death of the father of Justice Rivka Friedman-Feldman, one of the presiding…
- Middle East
Israel searching for survivors as empty migrant boat washes ashore
Tel Aviv: Israeli authorities were searching for survivors after a migrant rubber boat containing documents and equipment washed up on a beach near Netanya — but no people — on Sunday morning.…
- Middle East
NATO military commander visits Israel
Tel Aviv: The chairman of the military committee of the NATO alliance, Admiral Rob Bauer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, came to visit as the official guest of the IDF Chief of…
- Middle East
Israel holds 1,264 Palestinians in administrative detention, highest in a decade
Israel is currently holding a total of 1,264 Palestinians in administrative detention, according to a UN official. The number of administrative detainees is the highest in more than a decade, UN Middle…
- Middle East
Israel SC hears challenges to law aimed at protecting Netanyahu from removal
Jerusalem: Israel’s Supreme Court has heard arguments challenging a controversial law that makes it harder to remove an incumbent prime minister. An 11-judge panel of the court’s 15 judges convened for the…
- Middle East
Syrian boxer withdraws from Asian Games over Israeli referee
In solidarity with Palestinians and rejection of normalization with Israel, Syrian boxer Mohammad Mlaiyes has withdrawn from the Asian Games currently being held in China, due to the presence of Israeli referee.…