WASHINGTON: Israel has confirmed it is allowing more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, just hours after President Biden said future US support for the war on Hamas depended on Israel taking more action to protect civilians and aid workers. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the plans. They include reopening a key border […]
Read MoreUS looking at report that Israel used AI to identify bombing targets in Gaza
Washington: The United States was looking into a media report that the Israeli military has been using artificial intelligence to help identify bombing targets in Gaza, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told CNN. Kirby, in the CNN interview on Thursday (Washington-time), said the US had not verified the content of the media report […]
Read MoreIsrael must ‘come clean’ on killing of Gaza aid workers, says White House
Washington: The US says it is outraged by the Israeli airstrike that killed several aid workers delivering food to starving people in Gaza, declaring Israel’s military must “come clean” on what happened and demanding full accountability for the tragedy. One American was among the seven identified victims so far, alongside Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, […]
Read MoreYes, Prince William is outspoken. He may be a royal but he’s also a millennial
“Everyone is horrified by what they’re seeing. It’s really horrifying. The news every day, it’s just, it’s almost unfathomable,” the Prince of Wales said as he waded into controversial waters about a war in a foreign land. This wasn’t his statement from Tuesday, though, in which he spoke of the horrors of the situation in […]
Read MoreUS says claims UN aid staff took part in Hamas attack ‘credible’
A new US intelligence assessment found it is likely some employees of a UN agency that distributes aid to Palestinians took part in Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel, but says it can’t verify Israeli allegations that a larger number of UN workers have links to militant groups. Washington and other Western capitals last month […]
Read MoreIsrael-Hamas war: Gaza truce plan fails at UN, Israel detains 500 terrorists at hospital
Washington has failed to pass a UN resolution on an “immediate” ceasefire as Israeli forces detained “hundreds” of Hamas fighters during a raid into Gaza’s main hospital. Israel plans to send troops into Gaza’s Rafah even without US support, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday local time, as […]
Read MoreBan on Palestinian workers grinds Israel’s construction sites to a halt
Tel Aviv: For Fadi Sajdia, a construction labourer from the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan should be a time of daily fasting and nightly feasting. But like 150,000 other Palestinians who worked in Israel until the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, he’s out of a job. […]
Read MoreRussia, China veto UN resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
New York: Russia and China on Friday vetoed a US-sponsored United Nations resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained ceasefire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians. The vote in the 15-member Security Council saw 11 members vote in […]
Read MorePalestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas names adviser Mohammed Mustafa as Prime Minister
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has appointed Mohammed Mustafa, a long-trusted adviser on economic affairs, as prime minister. Mustafa’s appointment comes less than three weeks after his predecessor, Mohammed Shtayyeh, resigned, citing the need for change after the Hamas attack of October 7 triggered war with Israel in Gaza. The 69-year-old now faces the […]
Read MoreUS wants to see Israel plan for Rafah operation
The White House said it wanted to see Israel’s plan for an operation in Gaza’s Rafah that protects civilians, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the military’s proposal for an offensive. “We haven’t seen it. We certainly would welcome the opportunity to see it,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Friday (Saturday AEDT), […]
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