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By Belal AlSabbagh with Jay Deshmukh in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, April 12, 2024 (AFP) – Israel was on alert Thursday after its arch-foe Iran threatened reprisals over a strike in Syria this month that killed two Iranian generals, and as the war against Hamas ground on in Gaza. Days after Israel strengthened its air defences and paused leave for combat units, the United States also warned of the risk of an attack by […]
JERUSALEM, April 8, 2024 (AFP) – The bloodiest ever war in Gaza that broke out exactly six months ago has taken an appalling human toll. At least 33,175 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian territory in Israel’s campaign of retaliation for the October 7 attack, according to Hamas-run Gaza’s health ministry. The unprecedented Hamas raid on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,170 Israelis and foreigners, most of them civilians, according to […]
By Joshua Melvin with Adel Zaanoun in the Gaza Strip and Hossam Ezzedine in the West Bank KIBBUTZ BEERI, Israel, April 5, 2024 (AFP) – The staggering suffering, death and destruction of six months of war since Hamas’s October 7 attack has widened the gulf between Israelis and Palestinians, leaving both feeling that the prospect of peace is ever more elusive. Israeli farmer Yarden Zemach, 38, said he felt safe when picking avocados with Palestinians […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Joshua Melvin in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, April 4, 2024 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to speak on Thursday in their first phone call since an Israeli strike on a humanitarian convoy killed seven aid workers in Gaza. Biden has led a chorus of international anger over the attack on employees of US-based World Central Kitchen, who were distributing desperately needed […]
By Ilan BEN ZION BEIT DAGAN, Israel, March 27, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli scientist Ellen Graber has spent years researching ways to save chocolate crops from climate change. But with the government slashing spending to fund the war in Gaza, her project is one of hundreds now hanging in the balance. Graber’s research had already been hit by the war — she had to abandon her cacao plants when the area where they were grown […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Shaun Tandon in Riyadh US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to fly to Egypt on Tuesday as part of a Middle East crisis tour seeking a new truce and “an enduring end” to the Israel-Hamas war. In Cairo, Blinken is scheduled to met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the day after he held talks in Riyadh with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The trip, Blinken’s fifth to the […]
