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Iran is accusing Israel of killing two senior commanders in a strike on its consulate in Damascus, Syria. Tehran promised a “decisive” response to the strike. The attack may be the most dangerous escalation outside of Gaza since the start of the Hamas-Israel war nearly six months ago. The New York Times reported that four unnamed Israeli officials acknowledged that Israel carried out the attack. CNN cannot verify the report and has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment.The military hasn’t commented publicly on the strike, but IDF spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, disputed that the building was a…

Bethlehem and Jerusalem CNN  —  At least six Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military on Tuesday, making it the deadliest day of violence in the occupied West Bank this year, CNN analysis of official Palestinian data showed. Five were killed in the old city of Nablus during an Israeli raid there, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. A sixth person was killed in Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah, by Israeli live fire, the Ministry added, when Palestinian protestors took to the streets in response to the Nablus military operation. The raid in Nablus also left some 20 people…

A drone view shows protesters calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to resign, near the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem on March 31. Ilan Rosenberg/ReutersSome of the anti-government protesters who took to the streets of Jerusalem on Sunday, calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign, were family members of the hostages being held in Gaza.Former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, the current opposition leader, called on the Israeli government to pay attention to the ongoing demonstrations and the protesters’ demands. “Present here in the crowd are families of hostages. They stood outside the Kirya (the Israel Defense…

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A screen grab from a video obtained by Al Jazeera shows a man walking along a beach in Gaza before being killed by IDF forces. Obtained by Al JazeeraThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has admitted killing two Palestinian men and burying their bodies with a bulldozer after Al Jazeera published a video purportedly showing the incident Wednesday. The men approached its “operational area” in central Gaza “in a suspicious manner” and didn’t respond to a warning shot, the IDF said in a statement to CNN. The Israelis killed them and bulldozed their bodies fearing they carried explosives, it said.What the video shows: In the video, which is filmed from…

A screen grab from a video obtained by Al Jazeera shows a man walking along a beach in Gaza before being killed by IDF forces. Obtained by Al JazeeraThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has admitted killing two Palestinian men and burying their bodies with a bulldozer after Al Jazeera published a video purportedly showing the incident Wednesday. The men approached its “operational area” in central Gaza “in a suspicious manner” and didn’t respond to a warning shot, the IDF said in a statement to CNN. The Israelis killed them and bulldozed their bodies fearing they carried explosives, it said.What the video shows: In the video, which is filmed from…

Mohammad Mershid, 25, pictured in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in central Gaza, says he was detained and tortured by the Israeli military, during an ongoing raid near Al-Shifa Hospital, in the north. CNNA Palestinian man who was detained by the Israeli military for three days near Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, during the IDF’s operation there, says he was forced into torture positions, spat on and threatened with execution.   Mohammad Mershid, 25, spoke to CNN while being treated for a head injury at another hospital, Al-Asqa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. He said Israeli troops stormed a house where…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will launch a ground attack on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip even without American support. Source link

Law enforcement officers are seen deployed outside the burning Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 22. Stringer/AFP/Getty ImagesBarely a week since Vladimir Putin secured his fifth presidential term, Russia has been plunged into carnage and disarray.The attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue and shopping complex near Moscow, which has been claimed by ISIS, has left hundreds of people killed or injured.This is hardly the stability and security for which so many Russians voted for President Putin. For years, the Kremlin strongman has been cast as a leader able to guarantee order in this vast, turbulent…