Israel moves into north Gaza Hamas stronghold, pounds Rafah without advancing
Cairo, Egypt/Jerusalem Reuters Israel’s tanks pushed into the heart of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Thursday, facing anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs from militants concentrated there, while in the south, its forces pounded Rafah without advancing, Palestinian residents and militants said. The slow progress of Israel’s offensive, more than seven months after it was prompted […]
Gaza fighting intensifies, Israel asks why armed men were at UN site
Cairo, Egypt/Jerusalem Reuters Israeli troops battled militants across Gaza on Wednesday, including in the southern city of Rafah that had been a refuge for civilians, in an upsurge of the more than seven-month-old war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. Antagonism between Israel and the United Nations worsened as the Israeli army sought […]
Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, battles rage in northern Gaza
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli tanks pushed deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern Gazan border city where more than a million people had been sheltering and stoking fears of further civilian casualties. Israel’s international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into refugee-packed Rafah, where […]
Israeli forces press Gaza offensive from north and south
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli forces pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza’s northern edge on Monday to recapture an area from Hamas fighters, while in the south tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah, leaving Palestinian civilians scrambling to find safety. Some of the most intense fighting for weeks is raging in both […]
Israel lacks “credible plan” to safeguard Rafah civilians, says Blinken
Washington DC, US Reuters US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said Israel lacked a “credible plan” to protect some 1.4 million Palestinian civilians in Rafah and warned an Israeli attack could create an insurgency by failing to kill all Hamas fighters in the southern Gaza city. “Israel is on a trajectory potentially to […]
Israel pushes back into northern Gaza, ups military pressure on Rafah
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israel sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip early on Sunday after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments, killing 19 people and wounding dozens of others, Palestinian health officials said. The death toll in Israel’s military operation in Gaza has now passed at least 35,000 Palestinians, according […]
Israel orders Palestinians to evacuate from more areas of Gaza’s Rafah
Cairo, Egypt/Jerusalem Reuters Israel called on Saturday for Palestinians in more areas of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah to evacuate and head to what it calls an expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi, in a further indication that the military is pressing ahead with its plans for a ground attack on Rafah. The Israeli military also […]
US working to keep Israel, Hamas engaged in Gaza truce efforts
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Washington said it was trying to keep Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas engaged “if only virtually” in Gaza truce efforts as a UN agency warned that humanitarian aid stocks in the devastated enclave have hit “the bottom of the barrel”. Hamas said on Friday it would consult with other militant […]
US says Israel’s use of weapons may have violated international law
Washington DC, US Reuters The Biden administration on Friday said Israel’s use of US-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during its military operation in Gaza, a major step up in criticism of its key ally. But the administration also said that due to the chaos of the war in Gaza it could not […]
Israelis ready to fight with their fingernails, Netanyahu says in veiled Biden rebuff
Jerusalem Reuters Israelis are ready to fight with their “fingernails”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday in a thinly veiled rebuff to US President Joe Biden’s warning that arms supplies could be withheld over a planned operation in Gaza. Israel’s long-threatened move against Rafah, where it says thousands of Hamas fighters and potentially dozens […]