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Moody’s warns of significant ratings impact for Israel from all-out conflict
Credit ratings agency Moody’s has said that an all-out military conflict with Hezbollah or Iran could have significant “credit consequences” for Israeli debt issuers, Reuters reports.
“We continue to assume that the ongoing tensions will not escalate into an all-out military conflict between the two sides or extend to involve Iran, thus limiting the immediate credit-negative impact on the region,” the ratings agency said in a statement.
“However, an all-out military conflict with Hezbollah or Iran could have significant credit consequences for Israeli debt issuers.”
Palestinians can’t be treated for treatable conditions: UNRWA
Louise Wateridge, senior communications officer at UNRWA, says Israel’s latest evacuation orders in Gaza have forced UN staff over the past 48 hours to move and “reconfigure operations”.
She told Al Jazeera from az-Zawayda in Gaza that UN operations have not stopped despite the huge challenges created by the Israeli forces imposing “new rules”.
“It is nothing short of a struggle to provide what people need here because we don’t have enough aid. We don’t have enough supplies coming in; we don’t have enough access to distribute to people,” Wateridge said.
Netanyahu congratulates military, Shin Bet after captive rescued
The Israeli prime minister has congratulated the Israeli military and Shin Bet on another successful operation, following the rescue of an Israeli captive, in a post on X.
According to Al Jazeera, he said his government is working “tirelessly” to secure the release of the remaining captives through two methods: negotiations and operations.
Israeli military says Gaza hostage rescued in complex operation
The Israeli military has said its troops have rescued a hostage in the southern Gaza Strip, Reuters reports.
It said Qaid Farhan Alkadi was recovered in “a complex rescue operation” and said his medical condition was normal.
40 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza
At least 40 Palestinians have been killed, including five children, and many others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, Anadolu reports.
According to the daily statistical statement from Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal, 36 Palestinians were initially reported killed in various airstrikes. Subsequently, a statement announced the deaths of four children from the Zainou family in Gaza City, bringing the death toll to 40.
Young boy’s life shattered by Israeli attack
A young Palestinian boy, identified as Akram, lost an arm and a leg in an Israeli attack.
He also lost part of his vision, sustained a head injury and suffered multiple injuries to his body.
Israel denies medical sector fuel
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia says Isreal is denying the medical sector fuel and aims for its complete destruction.
Israeli strikes in Gaza claim 41 lives, injure 113 in 24 hours
Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 41 people and injured 113 in the last 24 hours, according to the enclave’s health ministry.
The latest casualties bring the total number of people killed in the war to 40,476, with an additional 93,647 injured, the ministry said.
Innocent lives at stake as Gaza conflict rages on
Despite the ceasefire efforts, the atrocities continue to fly under the radar as Israel's action against innocent Palestinians increase, with children becoming the major victims in this war launched on October 7.
Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip have led to the deaths of more than 40,000 Palestinians, nearly 17,000 of whom are children. This horrifying death toll is still not enough to shake the tree for world leaders to bridle Israel's cruel conducts.
The deaths of children account for a staggering figure-- 2.6 percent of all children in Gaza.
On average, since Oct 7, Israeli strikes have killed at least 53 children every day, along with 72 men and women.
Media reports indicate that at least 10,000 people are missing, believed to be trapped under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli forces.
These trapped people are presumed dead.
Israeli minister provokes tensions
Israeli soldiers and settlers killed six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced that he would “put an Israeli flag” on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Gaza ceasefire hopes dim, families flee after new evacuation orders
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) – Israel issued new evacuation orders for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip late on Sunday, forcing more families to flee, saying its forces intended to act against militant group Hamas and others operating in the area.
In recent days, Israel has issued several evacuation orders across Gaza, the most since the beginning of the 10-month war, prompting an outcry from Palestinians, the United Nations and relief officials over the reduction of humanitarian zones and the absence of safe areas.
Top US general says risk of broader war eases a bit after Israel-Hezbollah exchange
ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) – The near-term risk of a broader war in the Middle East has eased somewhat after Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah exchanged fire without further escalation but Iran still poses a significant danger as it weighs a strike on Israel, America's top general said on Monday.
Air Force General C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke to Reuters after emerging from a three-day trip to the Middle East that saw him fly into Israel just hours after Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel, and Israel's military struck Lebanon to thwart a larger attack.
Israeli settlers kill Palestinian in West Bank, military strike kills 5 others
(Reuters) – Israeli settlers shot dead one Palestinian and wounded three others in the occupied West Bank's Bethlehem, while five others were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nur Shams refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The Israeli military said its aircraft struck a fighters operations centre in the camp, and that troops were separately blocking routes and conducting searches in the West Bank following reports of an abduction.
UN pauses aid operations in Gaza
The United Nations has paused its aid operations in Gaza.
Israel's order for the mass evacuation of Deir el-Balah, where the UN had established its operations centre after relocating from Rafah, forced the organization to pause its aid operations.
The UN had to relocate from Rafah earlier this year as Israeli forces launched a ground invasion.
Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza refugee camp, three killed
Israeli aircraft bombed the Maghazi refugee camp, killing three Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the forces tanks advanced on Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas reaches Riyadh
RIYADH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Riyadh on Monday, Saudi Press Agency reported.
He was received at King Khalid International Airport by the Deputy Governor of Riyadh Region Prince Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and other officials.
Israel launches more strikes on Lebanon, state media and witnesses say
(AP) -- After a short-lived calm following a heavy exchange of strikes between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, fighting resumed Monday.
State media and witnesses reported that Israeli strikes targeted the Lebanese border village of Tair Harfa and an area of the coastal city of Sidon on Monday afternoon. A car was hit in the latter strike.
