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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicIsrael-Gaza violence

Topic: Israel-Gaza violence

UNICEF says Gaza ‘most dangerous place’ in world for children, over 5,300 kids killed since 7 Oct

At a briefing, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told UNSC that the true cost of this latest war in Palestine and Israel will be 'measured in children's lives'.

Premature babies evacuated from Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital for urgent treatment in Egypt

The babies had been transported Sunday to a hospital in Rafah, on the southern border of Hamas-ruled Gaza, so their condition could be stabilised ahead of transfer to Egypt.

Hamas battles Israeli forces in Gaza’s largest refugee camp, hostage deal report denied

Jabalia has come under repeated Israeli bombardment that has killed scores of civilians, Palestinian medics say, with Israel saying the strikes have killed many militants harbouring there.

‘No more warmongering lies’: NYT poetry editor Anne Boyer quits over paper’s Israel-Hamas coverage

Boyer, a Pulitzer-winning essayist & poet whose resignation letter has gone viral, said the Gaza war’s ‘only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers’.

Israel says it recovered body of captive soldier shown in Hamas video from near al-Shifa hospital

Noa Marciano, 19, was serving at the Nahal Oz IDF base when it was overrun by Hamas militants on 7 October.

Modi condemns civilian deaths in Israel-Hamas conflict, calls for dialogue, restraint

Virtually addressing the 2nd Voice of Global South Summit on Friday, Modi urged leaders to unite in the face of the challenges that were emerging from the events in West Asia.

As Gaza weeps, Kolkata sleeps. What happened to the ‘city of protests’?

Kolkata, it now seems, is a city without thought. A far cry from the city that roared for Vietnam, Nandigram, it has now misplaced its conscience.

Israeli PM says attempts to minimise Palestinian civilian casualties ‘not successful,’ blames Hamas

Israel claims Hamas has stored arms & ammunition and is holding hostages in a network of tunnels under hospitals like al-Shifa, using patients & thousands of displaced people as human shields.

‘For your safety’: Israel tells people in east of Gaza’s Khan Younis to ‘evacuate immediately’

Two thirds of the Gaza Strip's population of 2.3 million have been made homeless by the war and every available space in Khan Younis and other southern towns is already crammed.

Man arrested after car rams barricade near Israel embassy in Tokyo

The incident happened at an area near the embassy which has been the site of a handful of pro-Palestinian demonstrations against Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip in recent weeks.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?