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JERUSALEM, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his government has decided to shut down the Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera, with which his administration has had a long-running feud. The government “unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel”, Netanyahu said on X, formerly Twitter. “There will be no freedom of speech for the Hamas trumpets in Israel,” Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said […]
JERUSALEM, March 31, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli police said a man was shot dead Sunday after stabbing an Israeli soldier at bus station in the southern city of Beersheva. Another soldier was wounded in the attack, police said, and the Israeli army said one of its troops then “neutralised the terrorist”. The Israeli military said an “IDF officer was lightly injured as a result of a stabbing attack” as police said the attacker was killed […]
JERUSALEM, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – The Israeli military said Tuesday a soldier believed to be held captive in Gaza had been killed in the October 7 attack and his body taken to the Palestinian territory. Sergeant Itay Hen, 19, “fell on October 7 and was then kidnapped” to the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants, the military said in a statement. During the attack, Palestinian militants seized around 250 hostages, dozens of whom were released […]
JERUSALEM, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – The Israeli military said Wednesday its fighter jets “began a series of strikes in Lebanon”, raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border fire. The military gave no further details of the air strikes, while Lebanese media reported three villages were hit. The strikes came hours after fire from Lebanon wounded multiple people in northern Israel, according to medics. Seven people were wounded, five […]
By Gregory WALTON NEW YORK, Jan 2, 2024 (AFP) – The president of Harvard University resigned Tuesday after coming under ferocious attack over plagiarism accusations and her response to anti-Semitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. Claudine Gay was criticized in recent months after reports surfaced alleging that she did not properly cite scholarly sources. The most recent accusations came Tuesday, published anonymously in a conservative online outlet. Gay was also engulfed by scandal after […]
JERUSALEM, Nov 30, 2023 (AFP) – Two people were killed and eight wounded, including five left in a serious condition, in a shooting in Jerusalem on Thursday, first responders said. Police said two suspects “implicated in the shootings were neutralised on the spot” after the attack near a bus stop on the western side of Jerusalem, where there are no checkpoints guarding entrance to the city. “Two terrorists arrived in a car, one of them […]
By Valerie Leroux and Claire Gounon JERUSALEM, Oct 24, 2023 (AFP) – An 85-year-old Israeli freed after more than two weeks of captivity by Hamas militants in war-torn Gaza said on Tuesday “I went through hell” during her abduction. International pressure has built for the release of the more than 200 other Israeli and foreign nationals still trapped inside Gaza amid withering Israeli bombardment sparked by the deadly Hamas attacks of October 7. Israel was […]
JERUSALEM, Oct 19, 2023 (AFP) – Israel has threatened that every Hamas member faces death when it invades Gaza but two accused masterminds of the October 7 attacks are at the top of its hit list. Military strategist Mohammed Deif and political leader Yahya Sinwar have already spent time in Israeli or Palestinian jails and been the targets of multiple attempts to kill them. The hunt for the two most senior Hamas leaders in the […]
TEL AVIV, Oct 17, 2023 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden will pay a solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday following the Hamas attacks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced, as he also said Israel and Washington had agreed to develop a plan for aid to Gaza. Blinken spoke after meeting for nearly eight hours at the defence ministry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the top US diplomat’s second visit since the October […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 16, 2023 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden condemned the killing of a six-year-old Muslim boy as a “horrific act of hate” on Sunday, after authorities charged the assailant with murder and hate crimes for an attack allegedly linked to the war between Israel and Hamas. The child was stabbed 26 times by his landlord on Saturday and later died at hospital, while his 32-year-old mother was also wounded but expected to survive, […]
By Jonah Mandel JERUSALEM, Oct 9, 2023 (AFP) – Shocked volunteers spoke on Monday of their horrific work recovering the bodies of up to 250 young Israeli and foreign party-goers gunned down by Hamas militants at a usually joyful music festival near the Gaza border. Thousands of music-lovers had danced through the night at the Supernova festival in a remote area of southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip. But the revellers turned […]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, Oct 8, 2023 (AFP) – Palestinian militant group Hamas said Sunday that the United States’ plan to provide increased military aid to Israel amounts to “aggression” against Palestinians, after Washington ordered navy ships and warplanes closer to Israel. “The announcement of the US that it will provide an aircraft carrier to support the occupation (Israel) is actual participation in the aggression against our people,” Hamas, which on Saturday launched the deadliest […]
