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At least 10 Palestinians killed in major Israeli raids across West Bank
Hundreds of Israeli troops backed by helicopters, drones and armoured personnel carriers have raided the flashpoint cities of Jenin and Tulkarm and other areas in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 10 Palestinians, Reuters reports.
Palestinian health authorities said at least 10 Palestinians have been killed in different areas of the West Bank by Israeli forces during the operation.
The Palestinian health ministry said troops had surrounded Jenin’s main hospital, blocking off access with earth mounds.
UN says Israeli raids risk worsening ‘catastrophic’ West Bank situation
The United Nations has said Israel’s large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank “risks seriously deepening the already catastrophic situation” in the Palestinian territory, AFP reports.
Israel’s operations in the cities “and the killing of at least nine Palestinians, two of them reportedly children, take the overall death toll in the West Bank since October 7 to 637”, UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement.
Fate of Gaza ceasefire deal in Hamas leader’s hands, US intel official says
Deputy CIA Director David Cohen has said that the fate of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is “largely a question that is going to be answered” by the leader of the Palestinian group, Reuters reports.
Cohen did not refer to Hamas’ leader, Yahya Sinwar, by name. The Israelis were showing seriousness in the negotiations, Cohen told an intelligence and national security summit in Washington.
On those efforts, Cohen said: “There may be episodes where people would step back from the brink, but I don’t think anybody can be confident that that effort to control escalation is something that … any party in that region” can control.
Borrell issues warning over Israeli violations of holy sites status quo
The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell has warned that “regional stability is at stake” amid repeated violations of Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem by Israelis, including Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Al Jazeera reports.
Borrell reiterated Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi’s call to the international community “to take effective action to stop the illegal Israeli measures that violate the historical and legal status quo at occupied Jerusalem’s holy sites”.
Israeli forces launch strikes across Gaza, push tanks into central Khan Younis
Israeli forces have sent tanks deeper into Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and launched strikes across the enclave as they battle Hamas, killing at least 34 Palestinians, Reuters reports.
Residents of Khan Younis said Israeli tanks made a surprise advance into the centre of the city, and the military ordered evacuations in the east, forcing many families to run for safety, while others were trapped at home.
Palestinian health officials said the Israeli strikes in Khan Younis killed at least 11 people.
Israeli strike kills four near border: Report
A presumed Israeli strike has hit a car near the Syria-Lebanon border, killing at least four people, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The strike targeted the Lebanon-bound vehicle on Syria’s Zabadani Bridge on the road connecting Damascus to Beirut, the observatory said, without providing information on the victims.
Lebanon’s An-Nahar news site shared photos and footage of the attack’s aftermath, with thick black smoke rising over a pile of wreckage on the road.
The attack would mark the 60th time Israel has hit Syrian territory this year, according to the observatory.
Three killed in Israel's attack on school
Israel’s military has waged an attack on a school where displaced people are sheltering in eastern Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera reproted.
The attack has killed at least three people and wounded others.
During the war, Israel’s military has repeatedly targeted schools, often accusing Hamas fighters of hiding out in them.
An Israeli attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school earlier this month killed more than 100 people, including women, children and the elderly, according to local officials.
UN staff forced to abandon Gaza headquarters
The timing could hardly be worse” says a UN official as staff are forced to abandon Gaza headquarters and halt operations ahead of a polio vaccination campaign.
Gaza conflict claims more lives in West Bank
The Israeli military has launched a large-scale military operation, resulting in the deaths of at least nine Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Media reported that this extensive operation involved hundreds of troops and airstrikes in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem.
Bombardments rage on in Gaza
Israel seems unwilling to stop its bombardments across Gaza and its attacks in the southern and central areas.
Gaza’s Civil Defence says Israeli tank fire prevented its crews from reaching people trapped under the rubble after a home was destroyed in Khan Younis.
Leisure 'forgotten': Gaza war drives children to work
KHAN YUNIS (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Some crush rocks into gravel, others sell cups of coffee: Palestinian children in Gaza are working to support their families across the war-torn territory, where the World Bank says nearly everyone is now poor.
Every morning at 7:00 am, Ahmad ventures out into the ruins of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, picking through the rubble produced by steady Israeli bombardment.
Israeli hostage out of Gaza as truce talks held in Qatar
GAZA STRIP (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – The Israeli military said a hostage was rescued Tuesday from a Gaza tunnel, more than 10 months after the Israeli Bedouin man was seized during the Hamas attack that triggered a devastating war.
Talks aiming to secure a Gaza truce and hostage release deal meanwhile continued in Qatar, a US official said. Neither Israel nor Hamas have confirmed their participation.
Why Hezbollah poses bigger threat to Israel than Hamas
JERUSALEM (Agencies) - Since a new war broke out between Israel and the 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.
Russia warns the United States of the risks of World War III
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said the West was playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western missiles and cautioned the United States on Tuesday (Aug 27) that World War III would not be confined to Europe.
Ukraine attacked Russia's western Kursk region on Aug 6 and has carved out a slice of territory in the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War II. President Vladimir Putin said there would be a worthy response from Russia to the attack.
UN aid operations in Gaza halted after Israel evacuation orders
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations aid operations in Gaza ground to a halt after Israel issued new evacuation orders on Sunday for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip where the UN operations center was located, said a senior UN official.
The evacuation order came as the UN prepares to begin on Saturday a campaign to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in Gaza, where the World Health Organization (WHO) said a 10-month-old baby had been paralyzed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years.
