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July 26, 2024 9:44 PM

Envoy Naor Gilon lauds India-Israel ties, calls PM Modi and Netanyahu’s visits “game changer”

Israel's Ambassador to India, Naor Gilon, has lauded the robust relationship between India and Israel, emphasizing the strength of their ties across all fronts. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Gilon highlighted the landmark visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Israel in 2017 and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to India in 2018 as "game changers" for bilateral relations. Ambassador Gilon emphasized the unique "secret ingredient" in India-Israel relations: the strong people-to-people conne...

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 25: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands before the start of a meeting in the Vice President's ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on July 25, 2024 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu’s visit occurs as the Israel-Hamas war reaches nearly ten months. In addition to meeting with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, Netanyahu also met with U.S. President Joe BIden and families of American Hostages held by Hamas. (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

July 26, 2024 9:41 AM

I will not be silent: Harris pushes Netanyahu to ease suffering in Gaza

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to help reach a Gaza ceasefire deal that would ease the suffering of Palestinian civilians, striking a tougher tone than President Joe Biden. "It is time for this war to end," Harris said in a televised statement after she held face-to-face talks with Netanyahu. Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee after Biden dropped out of the election race on Sunday, did not mince words about t...

July 25, 2024 7:18 PM

Israeli forces advance in southern Gaza, tanks active in Rafah

Israeli forces advanced deeper into some towns on the eastern side of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Thursday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. lawmakers he was actively engaged in bringing hostages home. Fighting in recent days has centred around the eastern towns of Bani Suaila, Al-Zanna, and Al-Karara, where the army said on Wednesday it had found the bodies of five Israelis who were killed in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel and held in Gaza since. Hamas milit...

A line of tanks headed to battle, with a blue sky overhead available for copy space.

July 23, 2024 10:15 AM

Israel sends tanks back into Khan Younis area, 70 killed after new evacuation order

Israel sent tanks back into the greater Khan Younis area after ordering evacuations of some districts it said had been used for renewed attacks by militants and at least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, Gaza medics said on Monday. The Palestinians were killed by tank salvoes in the town of Bani Suhaila and other towns fringing the eastern side of Khan Younis, with the area also bombarded from the air, they said. Residents of the densely built-up area of southern Gaza said the tanks...

JERUSALEM - JULY 20: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT - 'ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Herzi Halevi (R), and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (not seen) follow the attack by Israeli warplanes Hudaydah Port in Yemen, controlled by the Iran-backed Houthis on the Red Sea coast, from the operations center in Jerusalem on July 20, 2024. (Photo by Israeli Prime Minister's Office / Handout /Anadolu via Getty Images)

July 21, 2024 12:17 PM

Israeli jets strike Houthi targets in Yemen after Tel Aviv attack

Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets near Yemen's Hodeidah port on Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding 87, a day after a drone launched by the Iranian-backed group hit Israeli economic hub Tel Aviv. Most of the wounded suffered severe burns in air strikes that targeted oil facilities and a power station, Al-Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by Yemen's Houthi movement, quoted the health ministry as saying. Hodeidah residents told Reuters by phone th...

TULKARM, WEST BANK, PALESTINE - 2024/07/09: Smoke billows during an Israeli army raid in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

July 19, 2024 11:29 PM

Top UN court says Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal

The United Nations' highest court said on Friday that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its strongest findings to date on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The advisory opinion by judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), known as the World Court, was not binding but carries weight under international law and may weaken support for Israel. "Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerus...

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 13: Palestinians inspect the area after an Israeli attack hits displaced people's camps in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, Gaza on July 13, 2024. Over 70 Palestinians killed, nearly 300 injured in Israeli attack on displaced people's tents in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis: Gaza Health Ministry (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

July 16, 2024 11:19 PM

Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 57, Palestinian health officials say

Israeli forces battled Hamas-led fighters in several parts of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and Palestinian health officials said at least 57 people were killed in Israeli bombardments of southern and central areas. The Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas has accused Israel of stepping up attacks in Gaza to try to derail efforts by Arab mediators and the United States to reach a ceasefire deal. Israel says it is trying to root out Hamas fighters. In Rafah, a southern border city where Israe...

July 16, 2024 1:07 PM

Israel launches new Gaza strikes after weekend attack kills scores in safe zone

Israel struck the southern and central Gaza Strip on Monday to put more pressure on Hamas, following a weekend strike targeting the militant group's leadership, which killed scores of Palestinians who had sought shelter in a makeshift camp. Two days after the Israeli strike turned a crowded swathe of Mawasi near the Mediterranean coast into a charred wasteland littered with burning cars and mangled bodies, displaced survivors said they had no idea where they should go next. "Those moments as t...

July 12, 2024 4:04 PM

Israeli forces pull back after Gaza City offensive, leaving dozens of bodies, rescue service says

Israeli forces retreated from some Gaza City districts overnight after a fierce, week-long military offensive, leaving dozens of dead and wrecked homes and roads in the Palestinian enclave's biggest urban area, residents and rescue service said on Friday. The offensive, 10 months into Israel's campaign to eliminate Hamas militants, took place as U.S.-backed mediators sought to finalise a peace deal that would free remaining hostages taken by the militants in their cross-border rampage on Oct. 7...

GAZA CITY, GAZA - FEBRUARY 10: Palestinians look at the damaged car in which 6-year-old Hind Rajab and five members of her family died, whom Israeli forces targeted 12 days ago in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza on February 10, 2024. After the Israeli forces withdrew from the region, it was seen that an ambulance going to the region to help the Rajab family, who was shot in the Israeli attack, was also targeted by the Israeli forces. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said six-year-old girl Hind Rajab, who was trapped in her family car after it came under Israeli army in Gaza City, was found dead after nearly two weeks of uncertainty. The non-profit in a statement late Friday said the bodies of the child, and two of its paramedics, Youssef Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoon, who went out on a mission to rescue the little girl on Jan. 29 had been found. (Photo by Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

July 11, 2024 5:21 PM

Bodies trapped in Gaza City under Israeli assault as mediators push for truce

Residents of Gaza City were trapped in houses and bodies lay uncollected in the streets under an intense new Israeli assault on Thursday, even as Washington pushed for a peace deal at talks in Egypt and Qatar. Hamas militants say a heavy Israeli assault on Gaza City this week could wreck efforts to finally end the war just as negotiations have entered the home stretch. Home to more than a quarter of Gaza's residents before the war, Gaza City was destroyed during the firs...