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Israelis stage largest protest since war began to increase pressure on Netanyahu
Israelis stage largest protest since war began to increase pressure on Netanyahu
Israel has assassinated two dozen Hezbollah commanders in Lebanon since last fall amid an intelligence war employing cellphones, drones and fake rocks.
Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be "silent" on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave."As I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done," she said.
Indian soldiers and top brass gathered Friday in the remote Himalayan foothills to commemorate a battle fondly remembered among compatriots for imposing a humiliating military defeat on arch-rival Pakistan.The high-altitude confrontation began when Pakistan-backed militants crossed into Indian territory at Kargil, a remote and high-altitude outpost on the countries' shared frontier.
French intelligence sources hinted that the massive sabotage attack on rail lines leading to Paris on Friday may have been the work of Left-wing radicals.
Sheikh Hasina was seen wiping away tears in pictures taken during her visit to a metro station in Mirpur
Senior figures in Israel's government have said it is closing in on its war aims of defeating Hamas militarily and the return of hostages seized on Oct. 7. After nine months of pummelling by one of the most powerful militaries in the Middle East, Hamas is much weakened from the force that carried out the cross-border attack on Israel on Oct. 7. Early in the war, Hamas propaganda videos showed well-drilled fighters in body armour and battle fatigues, their torsos wrapped with ammunition belts.
“I served in many countries in the world, many friendly countries,” said Naor Gilon, Israel’s ambassador to India, in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 terror attacks on his home country. “This wide support, strong support is unprecedented. I am really moved and touched.”
Myanmar's junta and an ethnic minority armed group both claimed on Thursday they were in control of a town and regional military command in northern Shan state following days of clashes. Northern Shan state has been rocked by fighting since late last month when an alliance of ethnic armed groups renewed an offensive against the military along the highway to China's Yunnan province.
Israeli forces retrieved the remains of five Israelis, killed during Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel, whose bodies had been taken to the Gaza Strip, the military said Thursday.The military said the soldiers were killed in combat while fighting the militants on October 7.
The first time President Joe Biden's administration considered ordering the U.S. military to build a floating pier off Gaza to deliver aid in late 2023, it was put on the backburner. The United States was under pressure to ease the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn Palestinian enclave, which had been worsened by Israel's closure of many land border crossings, and sea deliveries were seen as a possible solution. U.S. Admiral Christopher Grady, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a career Navy surface warfare officer, told a meeting that he was very concerned that the sea could become too rough for a pier to deliver humanitarian aid and laid out weather-related risks, a former U.S. official and a current U.S. official said.
Ukrainian forces said they destroyed 25 Russian attack drones out of 38 launched overnight
Israel’s foreign minister has reportedly warned French authorities of a possible Iran-backed plot to attack the country’s athletes at the Olympics.
Former President Trump said there should be a one-year jail sentence for anyone who desecrates the American flag in the wake of anti-Israel protests over the war in Gaza outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., that included a group burning an American flag. Trump, who has previously called for criminalizing burning the flag, scoffed at…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Nigeria's armed forces on Thursday warned against Kenya-style violence in protests planned for next week over soaring living costs, with the military saying it would head off "anarchy".President Tinubu touched on the concerns in a statement late Thursday, saying: "We are not afraid of protests.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk Thursday demanded Bangladesh disclose details surrounding the crackdown on anti-job quota protests last week that killed 193 people. Turk also called on the government to restore internet connection, which was cut off Friday in response to the student-led demonstrations. Thousands of military personnel continue to patrol the country where protests have subsided after the Supreme Court scrapped most of the government-imposed quotas. The UN rights chief called Thu
President Vladimir Putin held talks with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Moscow amid calls for Russian mediation to cool tensions between Turkey and Syria.Since 2022, top Syrian and Turkish officials have met for Russia-mediated talks.
Bangladesh further eased a nationwide curfew Thursday as students weighed the future of their protest campaign against civil service hiring rules that sparked days of deadly unrest last week.Student leaders were set to meet later Thursday to decide whether or not to again extend their protest moratorium, which is due to expire on Friday.
Israeli strikes hit Gaza on Thursday, causing deaths and injuries according to Palestinian medical sources, as a group supporting Israeli hostages held by Palestinian militants alleged "sabotage" of efforts to free them.The accusation from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum came with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a visit to Washington and after Israel's military said it had recovered from Gaza the bodies of five Israelis killed on the day the war began.Netanyahu -- whose critics accuse him of prolonging the fighting -- is to hold talks Thursday with US President Joe Biden, who has been pushing a truce and hostage-release deal.In a speech to the United States Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu downplayed Palestinian civilian casualties during the more than nine months of war between Israeli forces and Hamas militants.He again vowed to destroy Hamas and bring home the hostages.The Hamas attack that started the war on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. Out of 251 people taken hostage that day, 111 are still held in Gaza, including 39 the military says are dead.At least 39,175 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's military campaign in Gaza since the war began, according to the health ministry of the Hamas-run territory, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.The latest toll includes 30 deaths over the previous 24 hours.Palestinian medical services on Thursday said their teams transported four dead and 12 wounded after a strike on a house in the Gaza City area of the territory's north.- 'Crisis of trust' -An AFP correspondent reported air strikes and machine gun fire from tanks in Gaza City. To the south, witnesses reported artillery fire in the Khan Yunis city and Rafah areas, as well as air strikes in Al-Qarara, near Khan Yunis.Israel's military said the five hostage bodies recovered from Gaza had been returned to Israel following a rescue operation.All had previously been announced dead, and the military as well as the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said militants had killed them on October 7.The Forum has regularly protested in Israel for a deal to get the remaining captives home.On Thursday it demanded an urgent meeting with Israel's team for negotiating a ceasefire and hostage-release deal, saying a "crisis of trust" had emerged."It has now become apparent that the information provided to the hostages' families did not accurately reflect the situation's reality," the group said in a statement. "This foot-dragging is a deliberate sabotage of the chance to bring our loved ones back. It effectively undermines the negotiations and indicates a serious moral failure."Anti-government protesters who have also regularly demonstrated, sometimes by the tens of thousands, have similarly accused Netanyahu of dragging out the war, as have some analysts.Far-right members of Netanyahu's ruling coalition oppose a truce.After Netanyahu's speech to Congress, Hamas issued a statement saying he "thwarted all efforts aimed at ending the war and concluding a deal to release the prisoners, despite the continuous efforts of mediators from our brothers in Egypt and Qatar".- Delegation delayed -A senior US administration official said on Wednesday that negotiations on a Gaza deal were in the last stretch and Biden would try to close some "final gaps" with Netanyahu.But a source with knowledge of the talks said separately that the arrival of an Israeli delegation in Doha for talks on Israeli demands for a deal had been postponed from Thursday to next week.Washington has been increasingly alarmed by the humanitarian toll of the Gaza war, but in his speech to Congress, Netanyahu dismissed "all the lies" about civilian fatalities.He said "the war in Gaza has one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non-combatant casualties in the history of urban warfare".AFP correspondents in Gaza have daily witnessed children and women brought in to hospitals injured or dead.In May, the United Nations said women and children made up at least 56 percent of those killed during the war, based on a breakdown provided by Gaza's health ministry at that time.The United States on Wednesday criticised an Israeli bill that would declare the UN agency for Palestinian refugees -- the main aid agency in Gaza -- a terrorist organisation."UNRWA is not a terrorist organisation," said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, urging a halt to the legislation.In January, Israel accused some of UNRWA's 13,000 Gaza employees of involvement in Hamas's October attack, and later said the agency employs more than 400 "terrorists".A subsequent independent review of UNRWA found some "neutrality-related issues" but said Israel had yet to provide evidence for its allegations.bur-it/jsa
Pro-Palestinian protest leaders, and other critics of Israel’s war in Gaza, distance themselves from vandalism and violence by some protesters.
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