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Friday, January 16, 2026
TopicIsrael-Gaza violence

Topic: Israel-Gaza violence

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.

Israeli troops deepen search at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital for evidence of Hamas

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas, but has not put forward a plan for after the war as to who would govern Gaza.

Erdogan calls Israel ‘terrorist state’. Netanyahu hits back, says ‘Turkey supports terror state of Hamas’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also vowed to take steps to ensure that Israel’s political & military leaders face trial in international courts for their actions in Gaza.

On Camera

Trump tariffs, import dependence are holding back America’s manufacturing renaissance

Better tax, regulatory, and monetary policy should indeed provide a tailwind for manufacturing, but the sector will probably continue to struggle.

Designed to oversee corn & crude futures, Wall Street regulator grapples with crypto, sports gambling

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is on the precipice of gaining new crypto oversight as lawmakers continue to negotiate major legislation.

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 ‘orders’

Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.