Nearly three quarters of Israelis want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign over his government’s failures during the October 7 Hamas incursion, according to a survey published by Channel 12 on Friday.
Already suffering rolling blackouts in sweltering summer heat, Egyptians would be plunged into further darkness if tensions between Israel and Lebanon's powerful group Hezbollah break out into war, analysts have told Middle East Eye.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stressed that Hezbollah is undaunted by the prospect of conflict with Israel. The secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement pledged formidable retaliation in case of a potential invasion of Lebanon by the Zionist regime.
Palestinian group Hamas has announced escalating Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip are not helping negotiations to end the war, saying Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is creating obstacles to the truce talks.
The Israeli army has ordered the Hannibal Directive – a controversial Israeli military policy aimed at preventing the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy at any cost – on 7 October 2023 during an attack by Hamas, an investigation by the Israeli daily Haaretz has revealed.
A senior Hamas official has stated that the Palestinian group is ready to hold talks about releasing hostages in the Gaza Strip without the precondition of a “complete and permanent ceasefire”.
Thousands of Israelis have protested in several cities across the occupied territories, demanding a hostage swap deal with Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip and early parliamentary elections, according to Israeli media.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Israel dropped by 74.9 percent in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period last year, according to the figures issued by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics.
Hezbollah has announced a top commander has been killed in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon, at least the third high-ranking official in the group to have been killed in almost nine months of cross-border fighting that has sparked fears of wider regional escalation. In response, the group fired dozens of rockets at Israel's military positions.
Israeli spy agency Mossad says it is studying Hamas's response to a ceasefire proposal that mediators have been trying to finalise for weeks to put an end to Tel Aviv's war on the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of senior Israeli generals want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike a truce deal with Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip so they can prepare for a potential war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to a report.
Iran's acting foreign minister has warned that Lebanon will turn into a ‘hell without return’ for the Israeli regime in case it wages a war against the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah.
Israeli army figures have expressed their frustration with the military operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the Hamas group is able to regain its strength.
Palestinian group Hamas announced that there’s been no progress in ceasefire talks with Israel over the war on the Gaza Strip as tens of thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv, demanding the government save the captives and get a deal done.
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations has dismissed Israel’s threats of waging a war on Lebanon as “psychological warfare”, warning that all options, including full involvement of all resistance groups in West Asia, are on the table in case of such military aggression.
The US intelligence has indicated that a large-scale war is likely to erupt between Israel and Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah in "the next several weeks" if a ceasefire deal in Gaza is not reached, according to a report by Politico.
Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri held separate telephone conversations with Russian and Saudi Foreign Ministers, Sergey Lavrov and Faisal bin Farhan, to discuss regional developments including Israel's threats against Lebanon.
61 percent of people in Europe believe the European Union should suspend free trade with Israel enabled by the EU-Israel Association Agreement and uphold human rights, a survey released by corporate watchdog Eko showed.
A group of senior Lebanese officials, alongside more than a dozen foreign diplomats, visited the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, after The Telegraph daily published an article alleging that Iranian weapons were being stored there.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has walked back from his comments where he appeared to dismiss the latest Tel Aviv ceasefire proposal backed by the United States in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military has confirmed the death of a soldier held hostage by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip for nearly nine months since Hamas’s October 7 attack. It brings the number of captives believed to be dead to 42.
More than half a million Israelis left the occupied territories and did not return during the first six months of the Israeli war on Gaza, according to the Population and Immigration Authority.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that he is open to a “partial” agreement that would facilitate the return of some hostages still held in the Gaza Strip, even if not all. But, the premier stressed that he would not agree to any deal that stipulates an end to Tel Aviv’s war on Gaza.
Hezbollah has released a video showing an array of sensitive sites across the Israeli-occupied territories as Tel Aviv provokes war with the Lebanese group.
