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Fazl calls for Al Aqsa’s liberation in meeting with top Hamas leadership in Qatar
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has met with the top leadership of Palestinian group Hamas in Qatar.
Fazl called for the liberation of Al Aqsa mosque in his meeting and paid tribute to recently slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
US urges its citizens to leave Lebanon
The US embassy in Lebanon has urged its citizens to leave Lebanon on “any ticket available”, Al Jazeera reports
In a statement, the embassy said, “We encourage those who wish to depart Lebanon to book any ticket available to them, even if that flight does not depart immediately or does not follow their first-choice route.”
“We recommend that US citizens who choose not to depart Lebanon prepare contingency plans for emergency situations and be prepared to shelter in place for an extended period of time,” the statement read.
Israeli airstrikes kill nine in West Bank, including a Hamas commander
An Israeli airstrike in the occupied West Bank killed a Hamas commander and four Islamic Jihad fighters on Saturday, the militant groups' media reported, and the Israeli military said it had killed four more gunmen in a separate strike.
The Israeli military said the first airstrike hit a vehicle in a town near the city of Tulkarm, targeting a militant cell it said was on its way to carry out an attack. A Hamas media outlet said a vehicle carrying fighters had been struck and that one of those killed was a commander of its Tulkarm brigades.
Haniyeh was killed by a ‘short-range projectile’: IRGC
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) say that Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed by “a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kilograms accompanied by a severe explosion from outside his room”, Al Jazeera reports.
In a statement, the IRGC said his assassination had been “planned and carried out by the Zionist regime” and supported by the “criminal government of the US”.
It says Tehran’s response will be “severe and at the appropriate time, place and manner”.
Israeli forces storm Tulkarem camp
Israeli military vehicles are bulldozing and destroying the streets inside the Tulkarem refugee camp.
The forces raided the camp and carrying out arrests creating a tense atmosphere inside the area.
Media reported that sporadic gunshots heard from Palestinian fighters still stationed inside the camp.
Israel has increased velocity of its raids, now averaging 40 raids per day in the occupied West Bank-- an exceptional increase since the war started.
Gaza's grim toll: A nation reeling from the aftermath
Since October 7, the Israeli onslaught on Gaza led to the killing of 39,550 people, Health Ministry.
The ministry in the Gaza Strip has added that at least 91,280 people have sustained injuries during the war.
Gaza devastation: Israel's military strikes raise concerns
Israel’s military claims to have destroyed missile launch sites in Gaza.
Attacks on such sites were carried out yesterday.
Issuing the details, military said that a tunnel and missile launch site in Rafah, and a Hamas weapons depot and another missile launch site in central Gaza were targeted.
Israel’s military preferred to remain tight-lipped over the number of deaths following the attacks.
However, Al Jazeera claimed that Israeli forces carried out a series of overnight strikes in Gaza, killing civilians, including a mother and her child in Bureij refugee camp.
Five people snuffed out in drone strike
Israeli drone strike on a car killed five people in occupied West Bank.
Israeli attacks leave Gaza in shambles, UN reports
Since October 7, the Israeli forces' attacks have destroyed or damaged at least 151,000 structures, which accounts for nearly two-thirds of all buildings in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations says.
Thousands turn out to honor Ismael Haniyeh
Thousands of people turned up on roads in different countries to pay tribute to Ismael Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran, Iran.
The mourners rallied in Lebanon, Yemen and Jordan. The Hamas leader Haniyeh was laid to rest in Qatar.
US military reinforces forces as Iran vows revenge
The Pentagon says that the US military will deploy additional jet fighters and warships to the region following growing tension between Iran and Israel.
Iran has announced to avenge the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was targeted in Tehran.
The slain Hamas leader was in Tehran in connection with the oat taking ceremony of Iranian president.
Israel advances most West Bank settlements in decades: EU
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel advanced last year to the highest number of settlements in the occupied West Bank since the Oslo Accords of the 1990s, the European Union's representative office in the Palestinian territories said on Friday (Aug 2).
Plans for 12,349 housing units moved towards approval in the West Bank, the EU office said, warning of the impact on a potential two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Cleric held over Haniyeh sermon at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque: lawyer
JERUSALEM (AFP) – A senior Muslim cleric was detained on suspicion of inciting "terrorism" on Friday after he mourned slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque, his lawyer told AFP.
Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, 85, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem and current head of its Supreme Islamic Council, called Haniyeh a "martyr" in his sermon at the mosque in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, the lawyer said.
Hezbollah resumes steady rocket, artillery fire against Israel
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah forces resumed rocket and artillery attacks against Israel on Friday (Aug 2), ending the lull along the border following Israel's killing of the Lebanese group's military commander in Beirut.
Hezbollah said it had fired a surface-to-air missile at an Israeli warplane flying in Lebanese airspace overnight and forced it to turn back. Its forces also carried out two artillery attacks and two rocket strikes at military positions in northern Israel, it said.
After Haniyeh's killing, who will lead Hamas?
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Palestinian group Hamas is preparing to choose a political leader after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in a Wednesday attack in Tehran blamed on Israel.
Speculation is swirling over the crucial succession almost 10 months into the Gaza war which erupted following Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
US to send more warships, fighter jets to Middle East to bolster defences
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US military will deploy additional fighter jets and Navy warships to the Middle East, the Pentagon said on Friday (Aug 2), as Washington seeks to bolster defences following threats from Iran and its allies Hamas and Hezbollah.
The US is bracing for Iran to make good on its vow to respond to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh two days ago in Tehran - one in a series of killings of senior figures in the Palestinian group as the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza rages.
