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A Palestinian man walks past a destroyed building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 26. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty ImagesDoctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has expressed horror following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah that killed at least 35 people on Sunday night, according to Gaza’s health ministry.MSF said in a statement that the attack “shows once again that nowhere is safe.””Dozens of wounded and more than 15 dead people were brought to the trauma stabilization point that we support,” MSF added. The humanitarian group reiterated its call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza.What…

Police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 25, 2024.  Ariel Schalit/APPolice and protesters clashed in Tel Aviv on Saturday night after a day of rallies calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and for the return of all hostages, according to several videos posted on social media.In the videos, horse-mounted police and water cannons can be seen in Tel Aviv’s Democracy Square attempting to disperse crowds refusing to leave, resulting in violent clashes.At a separate protest, police said they arrested two people “for disorderly conduct”…

At least five Palestinians were killed on Thursday by an Israeli airstrike on al-Zaytoun, in Gaza City, according to local officials.      Several other people were injured by the assault on the northern Gaza neighborhood, which struck just before midnight, the spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense told CNN. One child is still unaccounted for, Mahmoud Bassal said. CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment. Further north, two “huge airstrikes” hit Jabalya at around 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. local time on Friday, Bassal said. The Israel Defense Forces said it launched an “operation” with “intense combat” in Jabalya overnight, claiming to have “eliminated…

A rescue team works following the crash of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in Varzaqan, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, on May 20. West Asia News Agency/ReutersThe chief of staff for the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has revealed new details about the hours after the presidential helicopter went missing.Gholam Hossein Esmaili was in one of three helicopters returning from a dam inauguration ceremony on Iran’s border with Azerbaijan, he said in an interview with IRINN state TV, and reported by Iran’s semi-official news agency Mehr News on Tuesday.The helicopter carrying nine people ran into inclement weather on the way back…

Iran elections have been set for June 28 following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. Follow for live updates. Source link

The Biden administration denounced efforts by the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli officials and Hamas leaders, saying the court’s efforts put the terrorist organization and a top US ally on equivalent footing. Source link

The death of President Ebrahim Raisi couldn’t have come at a “more unstable time” for both Iran and the region, according to CNN’s Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour. International outlookRaisi’s death comes as Israel’s war against Hamas continues into its eighth month, fueling a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe and sending regional tensions soaring.“The perennial shadow war between Israel and Iran that had been going on broke into the open over the last several weeks,” Amanpour said.“You can imagine for the United States, for the west, one of the most important issues is the Iran nuclear issue,” she added.Raisi took the presidency as…

The Israeli military has given more details about its ground operations around the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, which have now entered their second week.The Israeli army said it carried out dozens of strikes in the area to assist forces fighting “armed terrorist cells” on the ground.The army said, “Soldiers found large quantities of weapons, including explosives, anti-tank missiles, AK-47 rifles, drones, and grenades.”Israel says that the Israeli army has returned to parts of northern and central Gaza to confront Hamas’s efforts to re-establish its presence in these areas.Reports from the ground: Displaced Palestinians in Jabalia tell…

Born in 1960, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attended the seminary in Qom and earned a Ph.D in law from Shahid Motahari University.He started his career as a prosecutor in the early 1980s, and rose from being prosecutor general of Tehran in 1994 to chief justice of the country by 2019.His two years as Iran’s chief justice were marked by the intensified repression of dissent and human rights abuses, according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran.Raisi became president of Iran on June 19, 2021, after winning a historically uncompetitive presidential election. Many reform-minded Iranians had refused to take part in an…

Dr. Mahmoud Sobha was among the American doctors evacuated after they were trapped in Gaza this week after an Israeli military offensive in Rafah shut down a vital border crossing where they were planning to exit. Subha, 39, a Dallas-based doctor who specializes in wound care, was on his second humanitarian trip to Gaza, which was supposed to end last Monday. His wife, Dr. Somaya Mushtaq, learned that his plans to leave were on hold last Friday afternoon via voicemail. “He said we weren’t leaving on Monday and I remember listening to him and just saying, ‘No, no, no, no,'”…