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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...

July 26, 2024 4:36 PM

WHO sends over 1 mln polio vaccines to Gaza to protect children

The World Health Organization is sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples, its chief said on Friday. "While no cases of polio have been recorded yet, without immediate action, it is just a matter of time before it reaches the thousands of children who have been left unprotected," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an opinion piece in Britain's T...

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...

DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA - JULY 21: Smoke and dust rise from the area after the Israeli army attack a building in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on July 21, 2024. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

July 24, 2024 5:07 PM

Israel launches new raids in Gaza as Netanyahu visits U.S.

Israeli forces carried out new raids in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to address the U.S. Congress. The latest Israeli attacks destroyed homes in towns east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and thousands of people were forced to head west to seek shelter, residents said. The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said it had received distress calls from residents trapped in their homes in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis, but were unable to re...

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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...

July 22, 2024 12:51 PM

Israel issues evacuation orders in southern Gaza, kills 16 Palestinians

Israeli strikes killed at least 16 Palestinians in eastern areas of Khan Younis, Gaza health officials said on Monday, shortly after Israel issued new orders to evacuate some neighbourhoods after what it said was renewed attacks from those zones. To allow this, the military said it was adjusting the borders of a humanitarian zone in Al-Mawasi to keep the civilian population away from areas of combat. Palestinian health officials said at least 16 Palestinians were killed in Israeli tank shellin...

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...

GAZA CITY, GAZA - MAY 27: A view damaged floating pier, set up by US to facilitate quicker delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians, after it has been suspended due to adverse weather conditions and rising sea levels in Gaza City, Gaza on May 27, 2024. The pier could only function for 11 days out of its 23-day lifespan. (Photo by Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

July 18, 2024 2:09 PM

US military ends Gaza floating pier mission to bring aid to Palestinians by sea

The U.S. military announced on Wednesday that its mission to install and operate a temporary, floating pier off the coast of Gaza was complete, formally ending an extraordinary but troubled effort to bring humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The pier, announced by President Joe Biden during a televised address to Congress in March, was a massive endeavor that took about 1,000 U.S. forces to execute. Aid began flowing via the pier to Gaza in May, an operation aimed at helping avert famine after mo...