JERUSALEM, April 18, 2024 (AFP) – Israel considered carrying out a strike on Iran in retaliation for last weekend’s unprecedented attack but then aborted the plan, according to Israeli and US media reports. Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles against Israel over the weekend in an attack that caused little damage after most of the projectiles were intercepted. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to respond to the attack, prompting global powers, […]
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Six months of bloodshed: the Gaza war in numbers
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 […]
UN rights council considers call for halt to arms sales to Israel
The UN Human Rights Council was on Friday debating whether to demand a halt in arms sales to Israel, whose war in Gaza has killed more than 33,000 people, mostly civilians. If the text is adopted, it would mark the first time that the United Nations’ top rights body has taken a position on the bloodiest-ever war to beset the besieged Palestinian territory. The draft text calls on countries to “cease the sale, transfer and […]
Fighting at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital: what we know
Israel’s army was on Thursday four days into a raid at Gaza’s largest hospital, where the military says Hamas was operating from among patients and displaced civilians. Here is what we know about the fighting at and around Al-Shifa medical centre that the Israeli army says has killed more than 140 Palestinian militants. – The raid – The Israeli army announced at 0100 GMT on Monday that it had launched an operation on the Gaza City hospital […]





