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Many European leaders on Monday called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip while repeating their support for the two-state solution. Since Israel launched a large-scale offensive in Gaza to retaliate against a surprise attack by Hamas on the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7 last year, 41,909 Palestinians have been killed, and 97,303…
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The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel. An additional $4.86…
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The Iranian supreme leader has called on Muslim nations to “strap the belt of defence” from Afghanistan to Yemen and from Iran to Gaza and Lebanon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as he led Friday prayers in Iran for the first time in four years, standing near a rifle. He added the 7 October attack by…
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Joe Biden has said he will be talking to Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu but has not given details on when. The US president avoided a question on what the leaders would talk about, saying: “I’ll tell you what I say to him when I talk to him.” Asked whether all-out war in the Middle East could…
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The Canadian federal government Friday announced new funding for the eradication of polio worldwide. According to a news release issued by Global Affairs Canada, a total of 151 million Canadian dollars (111 million U.S. dollars) was earmarked to support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), bringing Canada’s historical contribution to over 1 billion Canadian dollars…
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Israel will keep up military action against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, though the new phase of fighting does include significant risks, the country’s defence minister has said. “In the new phase of the war there are significant opportunities but also significant risks. Hezbollah feels that it is being persecuted and the sequence of military actions…
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Explosions in booby-trapped radios and pagers in Lebanon this week seriously disrupted its fragile health sector, the World Health Organization chief said today. The United Nations health agency cited the 37 people killed and more than 3,000 injured, according to Lebanese health authorities’ toll, in the pager blasts that detonated in areas considered strongholds of the anti-Israel…
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The blowing up of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies was a “very sophisticated, very accurate” attack, an Israeli intelligence expert says. Major Avraham Levine, from the Alma Center, tells Sky News the “blame was immediately put on Israel” and the “surgical” strike suggests “someone is deep into Hezbollah’s communications systems”. It was assumed the blasts were…
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Bulgaria’s state security agency has said it will investigate a company linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah. DANS is working with the interior ministry to investigate the role of a company registered in Bulgaria, the agency said, without naming the company. Bulgarian media reports allege a Sofia-based company facilitated the sale of the…
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Thousands of people have been left with “almost identical injuries” after pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, a doctor has said. “Almost exclusively the pager explodes in the hand while people are trying to read the message, so we’re getting mangled hands and penetrating injuries and blast injuries to the face…
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Foreign secretary David Lammy has announced the UK will halt some arms sales to Israel. Making a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Lammy said around 30 of roughly 350 exports to Israel would be suspended. The exports include equipment intended for use in the war in Gaza, such as components for military jets,…
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A senior Hamas official says Joe Biden’s comments about Benjamin Netanyahu point to acknowledgement by the US that the Israeli prime minister was undermining efforts to secure a ceasefire. Sami Abu Zuhri said any proposal for a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal would be received positively. But senior Israeli sources have told the Reuters news…
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The funeral of one the six Israeli hostages found murdered inside Gaza last week is being held this afternoon. Family and friends of Hersh Goldberg-Polin will gather in Jerusalem after he was confirmed dead on Sunday. The 23-year-old was born in the US and was at the Nova music festival when he was taken by…
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The situation in the Middle East has reached a “critical level of dangerosity”, the EU’s foreign affairs chief has said. Josep Borrell said in a social media post that he supported calls for a UN Security Council resolution which urges a full end to hostilities at the shared border between Israel and Lebanon. Officials have been…
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More now from Hassan Nasrallah, who has been making a public address after Israeli’s military carried out what it called pre-emptive strikes in southern Lebanon. The Hezbollah leader said the attack went “as planned”, dismissing statements by the IDF that its preemptive strikes had stopped a larger attack. He said the group would assess the…
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The Israeli military said Tuesday that it recovered the bodies of six hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that started the war in Gaza, as U.S. and Arab mediators tried to advance an agreement to halt the fighting and release scores of other militant-held captives. The military said its forces recovered the bodies in an…
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