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Tehran, Iran | AFP | Monday 4/17/2023 Iran said Monday it has formally invited Saudi King Salman to visit Tehran, following a reconciliation agreement reached last month between the two sides. Saudi Arabia severed relations with Iran in 2016, after its embassy in Tehran and consulate in the northwestern city of Mashhad were attacked during protests over Riyadh’s execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr. The two Middle East powerhouses had held several rounds of dialogue […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates | AFP | Sunday 4/16/2023 A fire in a residential building in Dubai killed 16 people and injured nine others in the wealthy Gulf emirate, local media reported. The fire broke out at midday Saturday on the fourth floor of the building in the Al-Ras neighbourhood in the old part of the city. The civil defence force, in a statement quoted by UAE media, said that preliminary investigations showed the fire […]
by Alexandra VARDI Agence France-Presse TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to restore security “on all fronts” after surging violence that included rocket fire from Lebanon and Syria and two more deaths on Monday. Netanyahu also reinstated the defense minister whose firing he announced last month. Heavy clashes, shootings, rocket strikes and a car-ramming attack have marred a period when the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coincides with the Jewish […]
Jericho, Palestinian Territories | AFP | Monday 4/10/2023 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Monday claimed the lives of a Palestinian teenager and a British-Israeli mother who succumbed to injuries from a West Bank gun attack that earlier killed her two daughters. Tensions have flared into bloodshed since last week, with heavy clashes, shootings, rocket strikes and a suspected car-ramming attack marring a period when the Muslim holy month of Ramadan coincides with the Jewish Passover and […]
Jericho, Palestinian Territories | AFP | Monday 4/10/2023 Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager and injured two other people in the West Bank Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army described as a raid to arrest a “terror suspect”. It comes amid surging violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent days, coinciding with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jewish Passover and Catholic Easter. Mohammed Fayez Balhan, 15, was killed after being […]
by Claire Gounon Israel began calling up police and army reservists Saturday after separate attacks killed three people, including an Italian tourist, in Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank. Despite appeals for restraint, violence has surged since Israeli police clashed with Palestinians inside Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday, with Israel bombarding both Gaza and Lebanon in response to rocket fire by Palestinian militants. The Italian was killed and seven other tourists wounded when an […]
Tehran, Iran | AFP | Saturday 4/8/2023 Dozens of schoolgirls were poisoned Saturday in several schools across Iran, local media reported, in continuation of the mysterious phenomenon that has shaken the country for months. Since late November many schools, mostly for girls, have been affected by sudden poisoning incidents from gases or toxic substances, in some cases causing fainting and hospitalisation among the students. At least “60 students were poisoned in a girls’ school in […]
TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) — At least three explosions were heard in southern Lebanon’s Tyre region at dawn on Friday, according to AFP reporters, as Israel announced it was carrying out strikes in response to rocket fire. “At least two shells fell near” a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyre city, said camp resident Abu Ahmad, who told AFP he “heard explosions”. A missile fell on a farmer’s house near the camp, causing material damage, an AFP […]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — Israel launched air strikes against Hamas in the Gaza Strip late Thursday after vowing retaliation for a barrage of cross-border rockets fired from Lebanon, which it blamed on Palestinian groups. Tensions have soared between Israel and Palestinians during what is both the Jewish Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, prompting condemnations and calls for restraint from abroad. The latest flare-up of violence comes after Israeli police clashed […]
by Ahmad GHARABLI with Mai YAGHI in Gaza Agence France-Presse JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Global criticism and concern mounted Wednesday after Israeli police clashed with Palestinians inside Islam’s third-holiest site, sparking a military exchange of rockets and air strikes, with fears of further escalation. Two more rockets were fired late Wednesday from the Israel-blockaded Gaza Strip towards Israel, the army and witnesses said, and fresh altercations broke out at Al-Aqsa mosque during the Jewish Passover […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) — Clashes erupted inside the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem early Wednesday as Israeli police said they had entered to dislodge “agitators”, in a move denounced as an “unprecedented crime” by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, called on Palestinians in the West Bank “to go en masse to the Al-Aqsa mosque to defend it”. Israeli police said they had entered the mosque to dislodge “agitators” who had […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — Two Syrian civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike Tuesday, state media reported, the fourth such attack on government-held areas of the war-torn country in less than a week. “At 00:15 (2115 GMT Monday) the Israeli enemy carried out an air strike… and the attack resulted in the death of two civilians,” state news agency SANA said, quoting a military source. The strike came from the direction of “the occupied […]
