Rafah
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The United Nations assembled a fact-finding panel to investigate an attack that killed one staff member and injured another in Rafah, in southern Gaza. A vehicle branded with UN insignia was targeted on Monday, prompting swift condemnation from international leaders. Initial assessments suggest the fatal shot was fired from a tank in the neighborhood, striking the back…
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Israel says it is conducting what it describes as a “precise counterterrorism operation in specific areas of eastern Rafah”. The IDF said in a statement it was carrying out the operation “eliminate Hamas terrorists and dismantle Hamas terrorist infrastructure within specific areas of eastern Rafah”. “The troops have started the process of dismantling the terrorist…
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Israel’s special envoy for antisemitism has warned there is a “tsunami” of antisemitism in the US that has increased since the Hamas attacks on 7 October. Michal Cotler-Wunsh told Sky News people have been trying to “attack Jews around the world on university campuses, online, on the streets elsewhere”. She said the fact antisemitism had…
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Israeli airstrikes are continuing in Rafah after the IDF took control of the Palestinian side of the nearby crossing. At least 27 people, including six women and nine children, have been killed in Rafah since Monday evening, CNN has reported. These photos give a sense of what’s happening in the city, where reports suggest well…
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Israel says it has reopened the Kerem Shalom border crossing and that aid trucks from Egypt are already undergoing inspections ahead of their arrival in Gaza. The reopening will allow humanitarian aid to enter the Palestinian enclave, the IDF said in a statement. Concerns were raised by the UN and other humanitarian organisations yesterday that…
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As the gulf between the US and Israel widens, it has emerged the Biden administration paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns Israel would imminently attack the southern Gaza city of Rafah. A senior administration official said the shipment would have consisted of 1,800 2,000-pound (900kg) bombs and 1,700 500-pound (225kg)…
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The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Tuesday called on the U.S. administration and the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop the storming of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Hamas said in a statement the attack is “a dangerous escalation against a civilian facility protected by international law, aiming to exacerbate the…
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The US Secretary of State has refused to comment on reports of an Israeli strike in Iran last night. “I’m not going to speak to these reported events,” Antony Blinken said in Capri. He added: “All I can say is that for our part, and for the entire G7, our focus has been on de-escalation,…
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Joe Biden’s remarks don’t so much represent a shift in tone but a strengthening of his criticism of the Israeli approach. It’s clear also from the undertone that there is now no love lost between the American president and the prime minster of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. The comments, it should be noted, were recorded last…
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Israel’s war in Gaza is on borrowed time if Egypt sticks to threat to suspend 1978 deal Israel’s worst-ever security disaster happened on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s watch on 7 October. He may now preside over one of the most grave diplomatic setbacks in its history. The Egyptian-Israeli peace deal forged between sworn enemies in…
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Israel says UN agencies should help it evacuate civilians from Gaza war zones Israel has called on UN relief agencies to help with its plan to evacuate civilians from war zones in Gaza. It comes ahead of an expected ground offensive by Israeli troops in Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled in…
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‘Why did you kill my family while they were sleeping?’ A man who lost family members in overnight airstrikes on Rafah says he has been collecting their body parts since the morning. The southernmost city in Gaza is the last place of refuge for roughly 1 million displaced Palestinians. “Why did you kill my family…
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Cameron says Israel should ‘stop and think seriously’ before further action in Rafah Lord Cameron says the UK is “very concerned” about the situation in Rafah and has called for Israel to “stop and think seriously” before taking further action. The UK foreign secretary said “it’s impossible to see how you can fight a war…
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Egypt has threatened to suspend a key peace treaty with Israel should its forces move into Rafah, two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat have told the Reuters news agency. Fighting in the southern city could force the closure of the enclave’s main aid supply route – the Rafah crossing. The treaty – known as…
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Germany has warned an IDF offensive in the southern city of Rafah, Gaza, would cause “a humanitarian catastrophe”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to develop a plan to evacuate the population of Rafah and destroy four Hamas battalions it says are deployed there. But the German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said the…
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Palestinians in the southern city of Rafah are facing a “bloodbath” when Israeli forces move in – as nearly one million people await evacuation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night he had ordered the military to develop a dual plan to evacuate civilians from the city – the last neighbourhood where Gazans have…
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