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Best Hamas respectable Saleh Arouri killed in Beirut as Lebanon-Israel pressure soars

BEIRUT/NEW YORK — An explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Tuesday, killing Saleh Arouri, the deputy political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.The explosion took place around 5:45 p.m. local time in the Mashrifiyah area in...

Israel troops kill 4 Palestinians in West Financial institution raid

Israeli troops killed four Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, sources on both sides said, with the army describing the four as "terrorists"."Four Palestinians were martyred by occupation bullets in the town of...

Riad Turk, the ‘Syrian Mandela’, useless at 93 in France

Syrian dissident Riad Turk, who has been compared to Nelson Mandela for spending years in prison for his staunch opposition to the government, died Monday in exile in France, his daughter said."My father died peacefully and satisfied of...

Tens of 1000’s grasp anti-Israeli protest in Istanbul

Tens of thousands marched in Istanbul Monday to protest "murderer" Israel's war in Gaza and the killing of Turkish soldiers by outlawed Kurdish militants in Iraq. The rally, called by a foundation which counts Bilal Erdogan, the son...

Israel starts new 12 months underneath rockets barrage as military kilos Gaza

The war in Gaza ground into the new year on Monday, with Hamas firing a barrage of rockets at Israel just as the clock struck midnight and two dozen people killed overnight in Israeli strikes on the Palestinian...

International rings in 2024 after conflict, bots and Barbie

Jubilant crowds bid farewell on Sunday to the hottest year on record, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises and devastating wars in Gaza and Ukraine.Much of the world's population -- now more than...

Israelis and Palestinians finish darkish yr, endlessly to struggle

Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday as both sides near the end of a dark year and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack will last for "many months". At least 40...

Israelis and Palestinians finish darkish yr, with no sign of ending to struggle

Israelis and Palestinians end a dark year on Sunday, with no end in sight to the deadliest military offensive on Gaza, triggered by Hamas' bloodiest attack on Israel.There has been no respite from Israel's air raids, artillery fire...

US approves ’emergency’ sale of munitions to Israel

The United States on Friday announced the approval of a $147.5 million sale of 155mm high-explosive artillery munitions and related equipment to Israel under an emergency provision that waives the usual congressional review.The same provision was used earlier...

Gazans ‘exhausted’ as Israel-Hamas battle rages on

Fighting raged Saturday across Gaza, where displaced Palestinians are "exhausted" with no end in sight to war between the besieged territory's Hamas rulers and Israel, now in its 13th week.Smoke billowed over the Gaza Strip's southern city of...