At least 49 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources say, as the Israeli military has sent tanks into areas of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza for the first time since Israel began its assault on the besieged territory in October 2023. Israel on Monday launched the ground offensive on southern and…
At least 85 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest days yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war. There was new alarm as Israel’s military issued evacuation orders for areas of central Gaza, one of the…
At least 20 people have been killed in a crush at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the organisation and a local hospital say. The GHF said 19 were trampled to death and one was stabbed “amid a chaotic and dangerous surge” at its…
The Nasser hospital in southern Gaza has said 24 people have been killed near an aid distribution site. Palestinians who were present at the site said Israeli troops opened fire as people were trying to access food on Saturday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said there were “no known injured individuals” from IDF fire near…
BBC Two of Iman al-Nouri’s five sons were killed on Thursday’s Israeli strike, while a third was seriously wounded Iman al-Nouri’s youngest son, two-year-old Siraj, woke up crying from hunger on Thursday and asked to get some nutritional supplements. Siraj’s 14-year-old cousin, Sama, agreed to take him and two of his older brothers – Omar,…
Tel Aviv — After five days of negotiations in Qatar and two meetings in Washington between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump, there was still no ceasefire agreement for Gaza on Thursday, as Netanyahu prepared to leave Washington to fly back home. At the start of the week, the Trump administration sounded optimistic that a…
Six people accused of witchcraft were killed, burned alive, stoned or beaten by a militia in Burundi, a local official told AFP on Wednesday. The official and witnesses, who all asked for anonymity, said the incident happened on Monday after accusations made by members of the ruling party’s powerful youth movement, known as the Imbonerakure….
Kootenai County Sheriff says law enforcement officials are taking sniper fire as they hunt for the killer. At least two people have been killed in the United States after a gunman shot at firefighters responding to a blaze in the state of Idaho, according to officials. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said that crews responded…
Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel. The caskets of Guard’s chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir…
RIO DE JANEIRO — A hot-air balloon caught fire and tumbled from the sky on Saturday in Brazil ’s southern state of Santa Catarina, killing eight people, firefighters said. Footage shared by local news outlet G1 showed billows of smoke coming from the balloon in flames as it hurtled toward the ground in the municipality…
