Latest deaths in the Israeli campaign resulted from separate strikes in Khan Younis in the south, Jabalia in the north and Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, medics said.
In August 2024, Israel announced that it had killed the Hamas leader in a July 13 air strike in the Khan Younis area. Hamas also confirmed the deaths of Ghazi Abu Tama’a and Raad Thabet.
5 were killed & 20 wounded in an airstrike on a house in Gaza City’s Zeitoun, medics reported, warning that the death toll could rise. 5 journalists were killed in Nuseirat in central Gaza.
The Israeli military, which has been fighting Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza since October 2023, said it conducted strikes on ‘terrorist targets’ in Beit Lahiya.
US ambassador to Lebanon Thursday submitted a draft truce proposal to parliament speaker, its 1st written proposal to halt fighting between ally Israel & the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Naim Qassem said Hezbollah's fighters had continued to fire rockets as deep as 150 kilometres into Israeli territory, and were ready to face any possible Israeli ground incursion.
The killings were the latest in a two-week surge of Israeli attacks on militant targets in Lebanon, amid a conflict spreading from Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, and within Israel.
Francis did not specifically identify Israel, but said he was ‘saddened by news from Lebanon that bombardments have caused much destruction and many victims’.
Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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