Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,300 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 2,200 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.
Addressing Friday Prayers in Tehran, chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami described the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation against Israel as the "biggest failure of the Zionist regime since 1948 and the greatest victory for the Palestinian movement."
Millions of Iranians held protest rallies across the country on Friday to condemn Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians as the Tel Aviv regime keeps bombarding the Gaza Strip and imposing a complete siege on the coastal enclave.
The Iranian foreign minister has warned “the unlimited US support for Israel’s ongoing crimes” in Gaza will further exacerbate the situation, adding there are concerns that the war will spill over in the region and new fronts will open.
Human rights group Amnesty International on Friday urged Israel to immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, stressing that the collective punishment of civilians for Hamas's military operation amounts to a war crime.
The Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, says Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza, stressing that Western countries offering military aid to Israel are complicit in the killing of Palestinians instead of seeking a resolution to the conflict and occupation.
At least 36 people have died, and more than 650 have been injured, in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah has announced.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned if the Israeli regime continues its “war crimes” against Palestinians, resistance factions in the region will open up new fronts against the occupying regime.
In a telephone conversation between Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a strong and urgent message emerged with both urging prompt world action to help Palestinians particularly Gazans.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have discussed the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in the first phone call between the two leaders since a China-brokered deal that saw the resumption of Tehran-Riyadh ties.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the recent Israeli defeat following a surprise operation by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is ‘irreparable.”
As the bombs rained down on the Gaza Strip, health care professionals told Middle East Eye that they were battling another crisis inside the besieged enclave's hospitals: The outages.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi engaged in separate phone conversations with Ziad Al-Nakhale, the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movementm, Hamas.
The Israeli military has conducted air attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip, where demonstrators have had confrontations for days with Israeli troops along the separation fence.
The Gaza Strip's Health Ministry has issued a stern warning about the imminent collapse of dialysis services at hospitals due to Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli military has announced it launched an air raid on the Gaza Strip, following violence at a border rally in which, health officials said, multiple Palestinians were wounded.
At least five Palestinians have been killed and 25 others wounded in an explosion next to the separation fence along the Israeli frontier with the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health in the besieged enclave has confirmed. The cause of the blast was not immediately known.
Israel has suspended all commercial goods leaving the Gaza Strip after an alleged attempt to smuggle explosives, the Israeli army announced in a statement.
More than 300,000 students in Gaza return to school in late August, all of them attending facilities set up by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Officials at UN refugee agency warn $200m shortfall in funds could lead to ending the school term earlier than expected.
Students in the Gaza Strip began their new school term on Sunday, but it is unclear if they will be able to complete the year uninterrupted due to a funding crisis at the United Nations' Palestinian refugee agency.
Israel’s army announced it has “disciplined” five officers for their actions during the deadly raid on the besieged Gaza Strip in 2021 but will not file criminal charges against them.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has raised just $107mn in new funds for Palestinians, falling significantly short of the $300mn it needs to continue helping millions of people in Israeli-occupied territories and refugee camps in neighbouring countries. UNRWA provides services to nearly six million Palestinian refugees but is on the verge of financial collapse, the UN chief warns.