Israeli authorities raid Al Jazeera after shutdown order
JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations.…
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Ailing Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa dies in Israeli custody
JERUSALEM: Imprisoned Palestinian novelist and activist Walid Daqqa, who was suffering from cancer, has died in Israel’s Shamir Medical Center, according to the Palestinian Commission of…
Israel reduces troops in south Gaza
JERUSALEM: Israel has withdrawn more soldiers from southern Gaza, leaving just one brigade, as it and Hamas sent teams to Egypt for fresh talks on a potential ceasefire in the six-month…
McDonald’s buys back all franchises in Israel after boycotts
McDonald’s has said it will buy its 30-year-old Israel franchise from Alonyal, taking back ownership of 225 outlets that employ more than 5,000 people.
The US fast-food chain has been…
Biden to Netanyahu: Protect civilians in Gaza or US policy will change
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden threatened to condition support for Israel's offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to…
Israel targeted aid workers ‘systematically, car by car’, says Chef Jose…
Celebrity chef Jose Andres said that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car."
In an emotional interview to…
World court orders Israel to ensure food supplies in Gaza
THE HAGUE: Judges at the International Court of Justice unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the…
Ireland to intervene in South Africa genocide case against Israel
DUBLIN: Ireland will intervene in South Africa's genocide case against Israel, in the strongest signal to date of Dublin's concern about Israeli operations in Gaza since October 7.…
UN expert receives threats after accusing Israel of genocide
GENEVA: A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in Gaza during its military campaign against Hamas said…
Israel strikes north and south of Gaza, dozens killed
GAZA: Israeli air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians at both ends of the Gaza Strip overnight, hitting the area around Al Shifa hospital in the north and Rafah on the southern…
UNRWA says Israel will not allow food convoys to northern Gaza
CAIRO: The head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said Israel had informed the UN that it will no longer approve UNRWA food convoys to the north of Gaza.
"This is outrageous…
Blinken says ‘good progress’ with Saudis on normalizing ties with Israel
CAIRO: The United States and Saudi Arabia have made "good progress" in talks on normalizing ties between the kingdom and Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said without providing a…
Famine imminent in northern Gaza, says UN-backed report
NEW YORK: Famine is imminent and likely to occur by May in northern Gaza and could spread across the enclave by July, a UN-backed report said, after more than five months of war which have…
Israel carries out biggest Ramallah raid in years
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Israeli forces swept into the Palestinians' administrative capital of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank overnight, killing a 16-year-old in a refugee camp during their…
Kamala Harris calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
SELMA: US Vice President Kamala Harris bluntly called out Israel for not doing enough to ease a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza as the Biden administration faces increasing pressure to…