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A picture shows a view from an apartment in a residential building that was hit in Israeli strikes in Gaza City's Yarmuk street on April 24
Hamas executes Palestinians for looting as desperation grows under Israeli blockade
GAZA — Hamas has executed six Palestinians in Gaza and shot 13 others in the legs for alleged looting, the militant group said in a statement, as desperation grows under a complete Israeli blockade that has now entered its third month.In a statement issued Friday, Hamas said it would carry out more executions against “every criminal we can reach in the next two days.”Since last week, armed gangs have increasingly taken to the streets of Gaza City, going after some of the remaining food supplies and challenging Hamas’ control of the territory, according to CNN journalists in Gaza. Hamas claims some of these “criminal gangs” are collaborating with Israel.“A warning has been issued — those who ignore it bear full responsibility,” Hamas said in the statement.The executions...
May 05, 2025

Hamas executes Palestinians for looting as desperation grows under Israeli blockade

Israeli security forces inspect the site where a projectile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels landed, near Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday
Failure to intercept Houthi missile exposes Israel’s vulnerabilities and limits of US campaign
JERUSALEM — A failed interception of a missile fired from Yemen forced Israel to briefly shut down its main international airport on Sunday, exposing the country’s vulnerabilities and the Houthi rebels’ continued ability to strike distant targets despite a sustained US military campaign.Flights were halted at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv for about 30 minutes on Sunday morning after a missile landed in the airport’s vicinity, following what the Israeli military said were “several attempts” at interception. “The results of the interception are under review,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.The military fired its long-range Arrow interceptor at the incoming missile, an IDF spokesperson said. The US also has an advanced THAAD anti-missile system deployed in Israel.The...
May 05, 2025

Failure to intercept Houthi missile exposes Israel’s vulnerabilities and limits of US campaign

A tug boat assists Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessel Conscience off the coast of Malta.
Aid ship bound for Gaza catches fire after alleged drone attack off Malta
JERUSALEM — A Gaza-bound activist aid ship caught fire and issued an SOS, after what its organizers claimed was a drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters in the early hours of Friday.The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which is campaigning to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza, told CNN activists were aboard its ship carrying humanitarian aid when the alleged attack happened just after midnight local time (6 p.m. ET Thursday).“There is a hole in the vessel right now and the ship is sinking,” Yasemin Acar, the coalition’s press officer, told CNN by phone from Malta on Friday morning.Malta’s government said the ship was carrying 16 people – 12 crew members and four civilian passengers. But FFC earlier gave CNN a higher figure of 30 people on board the...
May 02, 2025

Aid ship bound for Gaza catches fire after alleged drone attack off Malta

Anera's community kitchens in Khan Younis feeds some 6,000 people each day
Gaza kitchens warn food will run out in days after two months of Israeli blockade
JERUSALEM — A hot meal is hard to come by in the Gaza Strip, but a lunch for needy families in the south is about to be delivered by donkey and cart.Today's dish is koshari — made with lentils, rice and a zesty tomato sauce — in a set of huge cooking pots in one of two community kitchens run by American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera), a US-based humanitarian organisation."People rely on our meals; they have no source of income to buy what's left in the local markets and many foods are not available," says Sami Matar, who leads the Anera team."In the past we used to cook rice with meat — with protein. Now, because of the closure, there's no type of meat, no fresh vegetables."Two months after Israel cut off all supplies from entering Gaza, Matar is...
May 02, 2025

Gaza kitchens warn food will run out in days after two months of Israeli blockade

Aid trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, 2 March, 2025
UN official urges Israel to lift 'cruel' aid blockade on Gaza
GAZA — The United Nations' emergency relief coordinator has urged Israel to lift its blockade of aid into Gaza, saying the halting of humanitarian aid amounts to "cruel collective punishment."The UN said thousands of Palestinians had breached a humanitarian field office in Gaza late on Wednesday looking for aid.They took medicine and damaged vehicles in the melee but caused no injuries to staff.Israel has blocked any humanitarian aid from entering the territory since the end of a ceasefire in March, throwing Gaza into what is believed to be the worst humanitarian crisis in nearly 19 months of war.Israel has said the blockade and its renewed military campaign are intended to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages it still holds.Tom Fletcher, the UN...
May 02, 2025

UN official urges Israel to lift 'cruel' aid blockade on Gaza

This garden shop in Mesilat Zion was left charred and in ruins
Israel fires largely controlled after mass evacuations
TEL AVIV — Fires that have ravaged large parts of central Israel since Wednesday have largely been extinguished, the country's Fire and Rescue Authority says.More than 150 teams have been battling the blaze, which has scorched around 20 sq km (7.7 sq miles) of land in the Latrun area — between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.Israel's ambulance service said at least 12 people had been treated for smoke inhalation, but no fatalities have been reported. Seventeen firefighters were injured, according to Israeli broadcaster Kan.Authorities said hot and dry conditions, with strong winds, made controlling the fires more challenging, and a senior official warned they could flare up again."I've been in the service for 24 years, and I've been through many fires," said Shlomi...
May 02, 2025

Israel fires largely controlled after mass evacuations

A man, on the floor, is pulled away by plain-clothed officers
Hundreds arrested in crackdown on May Day protests in Istanbul
ISTANBUL — Hundreds of people have been arrested in Istanbul, with 50,000 police officers deployed to the city as authorities attempt to crack down on May Day protests.Public transport was shut down to stop people reaching Taksim Square, where demonstrations have been banned since 2013.Footage from the Turkish capital showed clashes between riot police and protesters with demonstrators chanting as police forcefully move detainees onto buses.The city saw huge protests in March after the arrest of the opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu — the main rival to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.On 1 May each year, marches led by workers and unions are held as part of International Labour Day celebrations in many countries.Taksim Square – the heart of Istanbul – was under a tight...
May 02, 2025

Hundreds arrested in crackdown on May Day protests in Istanbul

Members of Syria's security forces deploy in an area near Damascus on April 30, 2025, amid deadly sectarian clashes
Syria condemns foreign intervention after Israeli strike amid sectarian tensions 
DAMASCUS — Syria strongly condemned foreign intervention in the country following a rare Israeli strike near Damascus on Wednesday amid deadly sectarian violence.Syria said the Israeli strike killed at least one security officer and injured several other people.Earlier on Wednesday Israel’s military said it had carried out a strike on the outskirts of the Syrian capital saying it was targeting an “extremist group” that had attacked the Druze community, a religious minority in the country.In a joint statement on Wednesday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said the operation in the town of Sahnaya, southwest of Damascus, was a “warning action” against an unidentified armed group “preparing to continue attacking the Druze...
May 01, 2025

Syria condemns foreign intervention after Israeli strike amid sectarian tensions 

US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday in Washington, DC
Iran woos Trump with a ‘trillion-dollar’ opportunity
WASHINGTON — Iran is crafting a potential nuclear agreement with the United States, wrapping it in language designed to flatter US President Donald Trump’s favorite persona: the dealmaker-in-chief.Officials in Tehran have seized on Trump’s anti-war, pro-business image to pitch an Iran-US nuclear agreement as a way to help Trump fulfill his pledge to “make America rich again.”Tehran’s argument is that a war with Iran would bleed American coffers, while diplomacy could open the door to economic prosperity.To that point, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi presented his country as being open for American business in a Washington Post opinion article last month.“Many in Washington portray Iran as a closed country from an economic point of view. The truth is that we are open...
May 01, 2025

Iran woos Trump with a ‘trillion-dollar’ opportunity

Police were forced to back down from a proposed ban on displaying images of children killed in Gaza at a Tel Aviv protest last month
Israeli reservists speak out against Gaza war as pressure on Netanyahu grows
JERUSALEM — Israel's war in Gaza grinds on, but opposition is growing.In recent weeks, thousands of Israeli reservists – from all branches of the military – have signed letters demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government stop the fighting and concentrate instead on reaching a deal to bring back the remaining 59 hostages being held by Hamas.Eighteen months ago, few Israelis doubted the war's logic: to defeat Hamas and return the hostages.For many, the January ceasefire and subsequent return of more than 30 hostages raised hopes that the war might soon end.But after Israel broke the ceasefire and returned to war in mid-March, those hopes were dashed."We came to the conclusion that Israel is going to a very bad place," Danny Yatom, a former head...
May 01, 2025

Israeli reservists speak out against Gaza war as pressure on Netanyahu grows

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