Tag: Israel

Gunmen wound several in attack near Jerusalem: Israeli police

JERUSALEM, Nov 16, 2023 (AFP) – Three gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem on Thursday, Israeli police said, wounding several people before the attackers were “neutralised”. Four people suffered gunshot wounds, including one who was critically injured, said the emergency medical service Magen David Adom in a statement, with another two people lightly wounded. All those injured were members of security services, according to police. The attack on a checkpoint guarding access to road tunnels […]

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German police raid suspected pro-Hezbollah group

FRANKFURT, Germany, Nov 16, 2023 (AFP) – Hundreds of police Thursday raided properties across Germany over suspected links to the Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah group, authorities said, as Berlin moves to stem a rash of anti-Semitism amid the Israel-Hamas war. The raids targeting 54 sites came after Germany banned Hamas activities and related organisations, in the wake of the deadly October 7 attack carried out by the Islamist group in Israel. “We have the Islamist scene […]

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Israel presses Gaza hospital raid

By Mai Yaghi and Adel Zaanoun GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 16, 2023 (AFP) – Israel renewed its military operation Thursday at Gaza’s largest hospital, targeting what it said was a Hamas command centre hidden beneath thousands of patients, medics and displaced people. “Tonight we conducted a targeted operation into Shifa hospital,” said Major General Yaron Finkelman, the head of army operations in Gaza. “We continue to move forward.” Both Israel and its top ally […]

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Man arrested after car crashes near Israeli embassy in Tokyo: media

TOKYO, Nov 16, 2023 (AFP) – A Japanese man was arrested on Thursday after crashing a car through a barrier near the Israeli embassy in Tokyo, police said. Mor Eliyahu, a spokeswoman for the Israeli embassy, told AFP that the incident “is suspected to be a targeted vehicle ramming attack, and it is currently under investigation by local police”. But police made no comment on the possible motives of the local unemployed man who drove […]

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ASEAN defence chiefs call for end to Myanmar crisis, Israel-Hamas war

JAKARTA, Nov 15, 2023 (AFP) – Southeast Asian defence ministers called for an end to the Myanmar crisis and to the Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday as they gathered for talks that will include meetings with regional counterparts and the Pentagon chief. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings in Jakarta were dominated by issues ranging from the Myanmar crisis to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, as well as Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the […]

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Hamas has command center at Gaza hospital: White House

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Palestinian militants have a command center at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, the White House said Tuesday, backing up a key Israeli justification for military moves on the facility. Hamas and Islamic Jihad operate a “command and control node from Al-Shifa in Gaza City,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters, citing US intelligence sources. “We have information that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals […]

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Israel says carrying out ‘operation’ in Gaza’s main hospital

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 15, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli forces said on Wednesday that they were carrying out an operation in Gaza’s largest hospital, targeting a suspected Hamas command centre located below thousands of ailing and sheltering civilians. After warnings from the United States and others that the Al-Shifa hospital must be protected, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in the early hours that they had entered the compound in Gaza City. “Based on […]

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Israel shows ‘evidence’ Hamas held hostages at hospital

JERUSALEM, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Israel’s army cited a discarded baby bottle, makeshift toilet and bullet-scarred motorbike as evidence Hamas held hostages in a Gaza hospital, as an Israeli soldier was declared killed in captivity Tuesday. On Monday evening, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said troops “found signs that indicate that Hamas held hostages” in the basement of Al-Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza City. AFP was not able to independently confirm the allegation, and Hamas […]

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Gaza’s embattled main hospital buries patients in mass grave

By Adel Zaanoun with Joe Stenson in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Gaza’s main hospital has been forced to bury scores of dead patients in a mass grave, its director said Tuesday, as US President Joe Biden pressed Israel to protect the complex trapped in fierce combat. Israeli forces were at the gates of the sprawling Al-Shifa hospital they say sits atop an underground Hamas command base, but the militants […]

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Israel police probe ‘several cases’ of sexual violence on Oct 7

BET SHEMESH, Israel, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli police said Tuesday they were investigating “several cases” of alleged sexual violence against women by Hamas militants during the October 7 attacks, citing “multiple witnesses” to incidents of rape. Since the Hamas attack, police have been gathering evidence about allegations of sexual violence from witnesses, surveillance footage and the interrogations of Palestinian militants arrested in the aftermath. “We have no living victims who said ‘we have […]

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Israeli tanks at gates of Gaza hospital, Biden urges care

By Adel Zaanoun with Sarah Benhaida in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 14, 2023 (AFP) – With tanks massed at the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital, US President Joe Biden pressed Israeli allies to protect civilians, who on Tuesday were trapped inside with dwindling supplies of fuel and water. After days of heavy air strikes around Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, witnesses said tanks and armoured vehicles were metres from the gate of the besieged […]

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North Gaza hospitals ‘out of service’ as fighting rages

By Adel Zaanoun with Sarah Benhaida in Jerusalem GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – The hospitals in northern Gaza have been forced out of service amid fuel shortages and intense combat, with the death toll inside the territory’s largest facility rising, the Hamas-run health ministry said Monday. Israel argues its Hamas enemies built their military headquarters under the Al-Shifa hospital complex, while UN agencies and doctors in the facility warned a lack […]

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