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NewsFeedHezbollah and the Israeli army confirm a commander of the armed group was killed in a drone strike on a car in southern Lebanon. The strike on Ismail Yusaf Baz comes as Hezbollah claims to have hit an Israeli Iron Dome battery, causing casualties among the Israeli crew.Published On 16 Apr 202416 Apr 2024 Source link

UN spokesperson says Israel has a duty to protect Palestinians from settler attacks, which have been on the rise since October 7.The United Nations human rights office has called on Israel to halt its support of attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank. The call on Tuesday came a day after Israeli settlers shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank following the killing of a Palestinian teenager during a military raid. Separately on Saturday, dozens of settlers stormed the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, killing one Palestinian and wounding at least 25 others after a 14-year-old Israeli…

‘I stay here to help our people’: A doctor in Gaza talks to Marc Lamont Hill about the health crisis in the enclave.Half a year into Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, much of the enclave has been reduced to rubble, its largest hospital is inoperable and the number of casualties keeps mounting with nearly 34,000 people killed and more than 76,000 injured. Al-Shifa Hospital has continuously been at the centre of hostilities. Israeli forces have raided it multiple times, and a two-week siege in March was the latest. The World Health Organization declared this month that the Gaza City…

Uri Berliner quits broadcaster days after being suspended over essay accusing network of lacking viewpoint diversity.A senior editor at a public broadcaster in the United States who accused his employer of liberal bias, igniting heated debate about standards in journalism, has resigned. Uri Berliner, an editor with National Public Radio (NPR), announced his resignation on Wednesday just over a week after he published an essay accusing the outlet of being fixated on race and identity and lacking “viewpoint diversity”. “I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years. I don’t support calls to…

Abdoulaye Bathily says ‘lack of political will and good faith’ on the part of Libyan leaders are making UN governance efforts in Libya futile.The UN’s special envoy for Libya says he is his resigning as the world body cannot successfully support the country’s political transition when its leaders put their own interests above finding a solution. “I tendered my resignation to the secretary-general,” Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily told reporters on Tuesday after briefing the Security Council on the situation in the North African country. The UN support mission in Libya (UNSMIL) “made a lot of efforts under my leadership over…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini tells UN Security Council that children in Gaza are being ‘killed, injured, and starved’ and warns that ‘a man-made famine’ is taking hold. Source link

At least 20 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on homes in Rafah, Maghazi and Gaza City since Tuesday.Here’s how things stand on Wednesday, April 17, 2024: Fighting and humanitarian crisis At least 20 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on homes in Rafah, Maghazi and Gaza City since Tuesday afternoon. Separately, at least seven law enforcement officials tasked with protecting aid and two bystanders have been killed in an Israeli army attack in Gaza City, Gaza’s Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday. Fighters in Gaza continue to launch rockets into southern Israel. Two missiles fired from the…

A torrential downpour has left Dubai’s highways clogged by floodwaters and passengers were urged to stay away from the airport as the glitzy financial centre reeled from record rains. The United Arab Emirates witnessed unprecedented rainfall with 254mm (10 inches) falling in Al Ain on Tuesday in less than 24 hours, according to the National Centre of Meteorology. That was the most since records began in 1949, before the country was established in 1971. Although the heavy rains had eased by late Tuesday, disruptions were continuing on Wednesday with Dubai’s flagship Emirates airlines suspending check-in for passengers departing Dubai airport…

In July 2020, the Israeli army stormed Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank and arrested Nada* while she was attending a cultural event. She was accused of plotting “acts of terrorism” against Israeli forces and sentenced to 20 months in prison. But Nada says she neither committed a crime nor engaged in acts of ‘‘resistance” that would provoke her arrest. “If you are Palestinian then you are always living in danger,” Nada, 24, told Al Jazeera. “You don’t have to do any acts of resistance. As a Palestinian, I’m always thinking that the occupation forces see us all as…

At least 14 Israeli soldiers are wounded in an attack launched from Lebanon as regional tensions escalate.The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for an attack on a military facility in northern Israel that wounded at least 14 soldiers, saying it was carried out in retaliation for Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah members. The Iran-aligned group said it launched “a combined attack with guided missiles and explosive drones on a new military reconnaissance command centre in Arab al-Aramshe,” an Arab-majority village of northern Israel near the Lebanese border. The Israeli military said 14 of its soldiers were wounded in…