In 10 months of war in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s military has considerably weakened Hamas, but continued bombings are now yielding diminishing returns and exacerbating civilian suffering, according to senior US officials quoted by The New York Times.
Israel has attacked nearly every part of the Gaza Strip using American-made bombs, according to Jewish Voice for Peace, a US-based advocacy group that created a map showing over 70,000 bombs dropped on Gaza since 7 October, using UN satellite data.
Tel Aviv is pushing the International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay the issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli media.
A new round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations are set to take place in Qatar's Doha on Thursday, involving officials from Israel, Qatar, the United States and Egypt, officials have stated.
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has reported out of nearly 17,000 Palestinian children Israel has killed in the Gaza Strip since October last year virtually 2,100 were babies under the age of two.
Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has told visiting US lawmakers that he is risking assassination by pursuing normalization with Israel, American online news magazine Politico revealed on Wednesday.
The Lebanese Health Ministry has announced the death toll from Israeli strikes on the towns and villages in the southern part of the country following the onset of the Gaza war now stands at nearly 550.
The Israeli army has killed one Palestinian in a dawn raid in the West Bank city of Tubas before launching an airstrike on the nearby town of Tammun that killed four people.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added new conditions in late July to a Gaza ceasefire proposal delivered to the US, Egyptian, and Qatari mediators, which has hardened Israel's position and complicated negotiations, according to documents seen by The New York Times.
The United Nations Security Council members have denounced the Israeli military's recent attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 100 Palestinians, while Russia and China held the US accountable for the incident due to its military support to Israel.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has approved a new batch of arms sales to Israel, totalling over $20bn in military equipment, according to the Pentagon.
President Joe Biden has stated he expects Iran to hold off on possibly attacking Israel if a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal is reached in the next few days.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant's admission that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the one who is creating obstacles to reaching a cease-fire deal in Gaza confirms his “lies and intransigence”, the Palestinian resistance group Hamas has announced.
The United Nations has failed to resolve the Palestinian issue due to pressure from the United States, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated at a meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Israeli settlers have raided occupied East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque with Israeli police protection, the Wafa news agency reported. The Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs Department, also known as the Waqf, announced that thousands of settlers raided the mosque's grounds, and the Israeli police complicated Palestinians' entry to the holy site and were heavily present to ensure the settlers' movement.
Iran has the legitimate right to retaliate after the Israeli regime violated its territorial integrity and assassinated top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, a senior analyst says.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has accused Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of adopting an "anti-Israel narrative in a damning statement" released on Monday.
Five Western countries have urged Iran and its allies to refrain from anticipated attacks on Israel in retaliation for the regime's recent killings of senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah in Tehran and Beirut.
The United Nations has highlighted the extensive nature of the Israeli military’s evacuation orders in the Gaza Strip, saying they cover nearly 84% of the blockaded enclave.
Iran's President Massoud Pezeshkian, in a phone call with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said the inaction of the international assemblies towards the unprecedented crimes by the Zionist regime, and also some Western states' support for the regime, have emboldened it to continue its crimes and jeopardize regional and international peace and security.
Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations Amir-Saeed Iravani has called the United States the primary defender and promoter of terrorism across the region and the world.
