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Israeli attacks on Gaza killed 39,550 since start of war: Health Ministry

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The Israeli army killed 31 more Palestinians in fresh attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall Palestinian death toll to 39,550 since last October, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave reported on Saturday.
Middle East

5 Palestinians, including Qassam Brigades local commander, killed in Israel airstrike in West Bank

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At least five people, including a local commander of Hamas’s military wing, have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a car in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
Middle East

Situation in West Bank ‘worsening daily’: UNRWA

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The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the situation in the occupied West Bank is deteriorating amid ongoing Israeli raids.
Americas

Pentagon rescinds plea agreement for accused plotters of 9/11 attacks

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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a plea deal that would have taken the death penalty off the table for three prisoners accused of helping to plot the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Middle East

Eyewitnesses say Haniyeh killed by a projectile fired at his room, not planted bomb

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Three individuals who were in the heavily guarded building in Tehran where Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated have told Middle East Eye that the Hamas leader was killed by a projectile fired at his room and not a planted bomb.
Middle East

Debris in Gaza amounts to 41.95 million metric tonnes: UN

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The UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) has announced that the total debris in the Gaza Strip generated by the Israeli war amounts to approximately 41.95 million metric tonnes.
Americas

US sending fighter jets, to keep carrier group in West Asia for Israel defense

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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a fighter jet squadron, Navy ships and air defenses to the Middle East amid heightened regional tensions due to Israeli attacks in Iran and Lebanon.
Security

IRGC chief to Hezbollah leader: ‘Enemies of the nation’ will pay for assassination of military commander

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In a message to Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the commander of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, warned that “the enemies of the nation, especially the Zionist gang and its supporters”, should expect revenge from the resistance groups in West Asia for the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander.
Americas

Biden warns Netanyahu against escalation of tensions in West Asia

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US President Joe Biden has privately demanded in a "tough" call Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stop escalating tensions in the region and move immediately toward a Gaza ceasefire deal, two U.S. officials told Axios on Friday.
Middle East

Slain Hamas political chief buried in Qatar amid vows of revenge against Israel

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Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was buried in Qatar on Friday following his assassination in the Iranian capital Tehran.
Security

Acting FM: Iran wants EU pressure against Israel

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Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri, in a phone conversation with the European Union foreign policy chief, called for the bloc's pressure against Israel to prevent the continuation of the regime's crimes.
Middle East

Israel at ‘very high level of readiness’ for retaliation: Netanyahu

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated “Israel is at a very high level of readiness for any scenario – both defensively and offensively”, amid expectations of a response following the Beirut and Tehran attacks.
Middle East

Sources say Turkey blocked NATO-Israel cooperation over Gaza war

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Ankara has blocked cooperation between NATO and Israel since last October because of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, saying the alliance should not engage with Israel as a partner until there is an end to the conflict, sources familiar with the process have said.
Middle East

Hezbollah leader vows response to Israeli assassination of top military commander

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Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has warned that Hezbollah will respond to Israel’s killing of the Lebanese  movement ’s most senior military commander, Fuad Shukr, in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs earlier this week.
Foreign Policy

Pezeshkian: Iran will continue to support resistance with firmer determination

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The newly-elected Iranian president says the assassination of Hamas’ political chief in Tehran by the Israeli regime will not dent Iran’s determination to support the resistance movement.
Foreign Policy

Iran urges OIC emergency meeting after Haniyeh assassination

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Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri has called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and collective condemnation by the regional countries of Israel's assassination of Hamas political head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Middle East

Israel purchases $11bn worth of US weapons since onset of Gaza war: Report

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Israel has purchased $11 billion worth of US arms and military equipment since the start of its war on the Gaza Strip last October, the Defense Ministry has announced.
Americas

US reaches plea deals with 9/11 planners at Guantanamo

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The United States has reached a plea agreement with three prisoners accused of helping to plan the 9/11 attacks, who are being held at the infamous Guantanamo Bay facility.
Middle East

Lebanon lodges complaint at UN over Israeli cyberattacks

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Beirut on Thursday filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council and the UN chief through its permanent mission in New York, requesting the council members to condemn the Israeli cyber-attacks on Lebanon.
Middle East

Israel claims Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif killed in Gaza

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Israel’s military has claimed it has intelligence confirming that Hamas commander Mohammed Deif was killed in a July 13 airstrike targeting him in the Gaza Strip.
Foreign Policy

Report: Saudi king sends letter to Iran’s new president, underlines enhanced ties

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a letter to Iran’s newly-elected President Massoud Pezeshkian on the expansion of bilateral ties between the two major powerhouses in the region, the kingdom’s SPA news agency reported.
Int'l Relations

UN Security Council members fear all-out war after assassination of Haniyeh

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Member states of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have condemned the assassination of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and called for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to prevent an all-out war in the Middle East.
Middle East

UN experts urge targeted sanctions and arms embargo on Israel amid regional tensions

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A group of 38 independent United Nations human rights experts, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva as part of its special procedures, have called on the UN member states to impose an arms embargo and targeted sanctions on Tel Aviv.
Middle East

Haniyeh hit ‘directly’ by missile: Hamas official

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The missile that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh struck him "directly", Hamas deputy chief Khalil al-Hayya told reporters at a press conference in Tehran, citing witnesses who were with Haniyeh in Iran. Al-Hayya warned the Zionist regime will pay a heavy price for this crime.
Middle East

Body of Hezbollah military commander found in rubble in Beirut

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The body of Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr has been found in the rubble in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
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