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Israel is reportedly unable to agree on a response to an overnight barrage of more than 300 Iranian drones and missiles, launched in response to Israel’s own strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1. According to the Israeli army, 99 percent of the projectiles were intercepted by its jets and those of its allies, including the United States and Jordan. Others were stopped by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system, acquired and operated with US help. While Western diplomats and US President Joe Biden have reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu they will not support further…

Washington, DC – The response from US President Joe Biden’s administration to Iran’s historic missile and drone attack on Israel has been two-fold: Washington has re-upped its pledge to always stand by its “ironclad” ally Israel, while also appealing to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu not to take further action that could drag the region into wider war. The days ahead will show if those two options are compatible, or if the two governments’ priorities are on collision course, analysts told Al Jazeera. In the short term, the Iranian attack is a coup for both Israel and its backers in…

A year since it started, the war in Sudan has spiralled into one of the world’s largest and most complex displacement crises. Since April 15, 2023, more than 8.6 million people have fled their homes, with 1.8 million people, mostly women and children, crossing to neighbouring countries. Civilians suffer indiscriminate attacks – including widespread sexual violence. Communities are shattered, with families broken and separated or desperate to provide for those still in their care. Youth have had their lives turned upside down, completely uncertain about the future. Sudan’s urban middle class is now nearly destroyed: architects, doctors, teachers, nurses, engineers,…

EXPLAINERIran has launched a massive aerial attack on Israel, two weeks after a deadly strike on its consulate in Syria.Iran unleashed a barrage of missiles and drones on Saturday and during the early hours of Sunday, targeting Israel in retaliation for last week’s suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Damascus that killed 13 people. Here is what happened, and what analysts say could happen next. What happened in Israel and when? Iran launched a massive aerial attack on Israel, two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria. This marks the first-ever direct attack by Iran on…

The US president reiterates support for Israel in call with Netanyahu amid reports that he is also opposed to a counterattack against Iran.US President Joe Biden has condemned Iranian attacks on military facilities in Israel, pledging a coordinated Group of Seven (G7) diplomatic response while highlighting the United States’s help in taking down “nearly all” of the attacking drones and missiles. Biden, who cut short a trip to Delaware and returned to Washington, DC to meet advisers over the late Saturday night attack, said in a statement released by the White House that the US forces and facilities had not…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Iran says it launched the attack on Israel in response to an Israeli raid on the Iranian consulate in Syria and says ‘the matter can be deemed concluded’. Source link

Fears of a wider regional conflict in­ten­si­fy as the Is­rael military and Lebanon’s Hezbol­lah es­ca­late at­tacks.Here’s how things stand on Saturday, April 13, 2024: Bombardments and fighting Dozens of Israeli air strikes have hit central Gaza, including in the area of Deir el-Balah, with several casualties reported. Israel’s military said its aircraft struck more than 60 targets in Gaza over the previous day. Authorities in the enclave said at least 25 people were taken to hospital after a house was hit. Five Palestinians have been killed and more than 30 injured overnight after the Israeli army bombed a residential building…

A Palestinian man has been killed in an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, where tensions remain high amid fears of more violence. Dozens of settlers stormed the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, killing one Palestinian and wounding at least 25 people after a 14-year-old Israeli settler went missing. The attacks that started on Friday, with several Palestinian homes also set on fire, continued into Saturday in al-Mughayyir, as well as in Duma, Beit Furik and Qusra, Al Jazeera’s correspondents said. One Palestinian was wounded in al-Mughayyir, and at least four others in Duma after they were…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said the drones would take hours before reaching Israel’s airspace.Israel’s military says Iran has launched a number of drones at Israel, and it will take hours to arrive. Iran’s press TV, citing Iranian sources, also reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched extensive drone strikes against targets in Israel on Saturday. This comes nearly two weeks after an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria killed seven IRGC members. “Iran launched UAVs from its territory towards the territory of the state of Israel,” Israel’s army’s spokesman, Daniel Hagari, said late on Saturday. “We…

After an operation lasting almost 24 hours, 184 people stranded in midair since Friday afternoon have been rescued.One person has been killed and 17 others injured in the southern Turkish province of Antalya after a cable car cabin collided with a broken pole, according to the country’s health and justice ministers. The injured people “were transferred to hospitals and their treatment continues”, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on the social media platform X on Saturday. People who were rescued and stated that they did not need hospital transportation had the health checks performed in ambulances, he added. The accident happened late on…