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It’s Monday, so before we start another week of our coverage, here’s everything you need to know as tensions continue to rise in the Middle East… Week of escalation Fears of a wider regional conflict increased over the last week, as cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah reached new heights. On Tuesday and Wednesday,…
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Images are continuing to emerge of the funerals of Hezbollah senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and Hezbollah member Mahmoud Hamad in Beirut on Sunday. The funeral came as Hezbollah and Israel exchanged heavy fire today, as the Lebanese militant group sent rockets deep into northern Israeli territory after facing some of the most intense bombardment in…
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Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims ‘drone attack on Jordan Valley’ The Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) has said it launched a drone attack on a target in the Jordan Valley in the “occupied territories”. The IRI is an umbrella term used by a number of Iran-backed groups in Iraq. In recent months, groups under their…
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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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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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Israel’s military actions had a “catastrophic” impact on children’s rights in Gaza, a UN committee has said. The committee condemned severe violations by Israel since the war began in October last year. “The committee condemns in the strongest terms the severe violations of rights under the convention in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territories], including the…
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At least seven more people have been arrested during protests in Tel Aviv, according to police. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Israel’s major cities in uproar over the deaths of six more hostages inside Gaza. On the second day of demonstrations in Tel Aviv, police confirmed that seven people…
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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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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “trapped in a course of action from which no one can see a way out”. “The [Israeli] government is continuing with its policy of eliminating Hamas absolutely and returning the hostages as well – believing that both could be done,” he says. “But the evidence would suggest that’s not the…
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Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has accused those who went on strike today of “serving the interests of Hamas” and “damaging the Israeli economy”. The far-right minister, who leads the Religious Zionist Party, posted his reaction to the labour court’s ruling that today’s strike must end imminently. He wrote on X: “The court accepted our…
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Qatar’s Foreign Ministry condemned on Sunday the ongoing Israeli military operations in the city of Jenin and its refugee camps in the northern West Bank. The ministry described the operations as “heinous and horrific crimes” and a “flagrant violation of international legitimacy resolutions.” In a statement, the ministry called on the international community to “provide…
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Since a new war broke out between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas on Oct 7, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah has expressed solidarity with Hamas through military action. It has fired missiles, mortars, rockets and explosive drones into northern Israel almost daily, prompting Israel to respond with its own fire. In late August, the fighting…
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The Israeli army began on Wednesday a large-scale military operation in the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Tubas camps in the northern West Bank, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources. “The Israeli forces have begun military operations in Jenin, Tubas, and Tulkarm to thwart terrorism,” Avichai Adraee, spokesman of the Israeli army, said in a statement. Palestinian…
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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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Israel needs to act in self-defence against Hezbollah attacks which have caused areas of the north to become “ghost cities”, the Israeli ambassador to the UK has said. Speaking to Sky News, Tzipi Hotovely compared the scale of evacuations from large areas of northern Israel to major UK cities. “Can you imagine cities like Manchester…
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