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Istanbul Bar Association on Thursday submitted a file of evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) through a delegation of Turkish legal experts, including photos and videos from Anadolu, proving Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. The delegation, consisting of Turkish legal experts, including Cuneyt Yuksel, Chairman of the Justice Commission of the Turkish Grand National…
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Three people, including two journalists, have been killed in a rocket strike in Lebanon, the Lebanese state news agency has reported. The incident took place near the town of Tir Harfa – about a mile from the country’s border with Israel, it added. It did not provide any further details. News organisation Al Mayadeen named…
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Plans to evacuate three hospitals in Gaza are under way, the World Health Organisation has said. Al Shifa, Indonesian Hospital and al Ahli Hospital requested the assistance, asking for help evacuating patients, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said. It comes after Gaza’s Hamas-led health ministry reported at least 12 people had been killed and dozens wounded…
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A deal between Hamas and Israel could see 50 Israeli hostages released and fighting paused for days, according to a source close to the negotiations. An unspecified number of Palestinian women and children would also be released from jails in Israel under the terms of the agreement, the source told the Reuters news agency. The…
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More than 5,000 children have died in Gaza since the start of the conflict, according to the latest reported figures. Catherine Russell, the executive director of the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF, said in a post on X: “Another horrifying milestone. “The reported number of children killed in Gaza has now exceeded 5,000. “Each one…
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The prime minister of Qatar has said only “very minor” details remain on a deal between Israel and Hamas to secure the release of some of the 238 hostages held in Gaza. Qatar has acted as a key mediator between the two sides since the war began following the 7 October attacks. Prime Minister Sheikh…
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A bit more on our 4.30am post to bring you now. A team of UN and WHO experts conducted a “high-risk operation” yesterday to get inside al Shifa hospital, despite heavy fighting reported to be ongoing nearby and a mass exodus of patients, doctors and other displaced people sheltering there. One evacuee described a panicked…
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Welcome back to our live coverage of the conflict, as al Shifa was branded “a death zone” by the World Health Organisation in a gruesome report after some of its staff managed to gain access despite yesterday’s confusion. Before we resume our live coverage, here is a recap of yesterday’s key events. School deaths: A video…
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Fifteen Palestinians were killed on Sunday morning in Israeli air bombardments of the central and southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA said. Thirteen of those were killed in an attack on a home in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, while a woman and her child were killed in southern Khan Younis city, WAFA…
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The al Shifa hospital in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip is a “death zone” with a mass grave at the entrance and a “desperate” situation inside, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. A team of UN and WHO experts conducted a “high-risk operation” on Saturday to get inside the hospital, despite heavy fighting reported to…
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Overnight, Israel has said it will allow two truckloads of fuel per day into Gaza, following pressure from the US and concern from the UN. “We will increase the capacity of the humanitarian convoys and trucks as long as there is a need,” Colonel Elad Goren from COGAT, the defence ministry agency that coordinates administrative…
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The Israeli military claims it has destroyed a weapons production facility in Gaza used by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militant group. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it conducted the blast on Thursday after an operation that lasted 12 hours, which saw its troops come under attack. “The post was a major asset for…
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Communication services have been partially restored in Gaza, one of the region’s main telecoms company has said. The besieged enclave has been in a communications blackout for the last two days, with most of its 2.3 million people cut off from one another and the outside world. “We would like to announce the partial restoration…
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At the end of a sixth week of war, a day of burials and death but also signs the conflict is deepening. In the settlement of Modiin, the Marciano family were burying their daughter Noa. Her body was one of two found by Israeli forces near al Shifa hospital in Gaza. She’d been a soldier…
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The Israel Defence Forces is continuing its raid of Gaza’s al Shifa hospital, a military spokesman has said. The IDF has been conducting, what it calls, a “precise and targeted” operation at the facility for the last two days, claiming it is being used by Hamas for military purposes. The militant group has denied this,…
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Israel’s response to Hamas’s brutal attacks last month was immediate. However, it appears that Israel’s military offensive was primarily motivated by anger and a political imperative to “do something, and get on with it”, rather than evolving clear military objectives, and how to enable post-conflict peace. Historically, Israel’s response to Hamas aggression is tolerated by its international partners;…
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