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Slovenian FM reiterates necessity of reaching immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Date: 2024-08-04 13:36:02 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:10814933

CAIRO, Aug 4 (MENA) - Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon emphasized the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the region, stating, "She is closely monitoring developments in the Middle East and is deeply concerned about the escalating ....

NYT: Killing of Hamas leader fuels more tension between Biden, Netanyahu

Date: 2024-08-04 12:11:46 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:10814688

NEW YORK, Aug 4 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing back against US President Joe Biden over American concerns about the assassination of the political leader of Hamas and Israel’s approach to cease-fire talks in the latest ....

Navigation apps disrupted in Tel Aviv, causing concern

Date: 2024-08-04 09:31:24 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:10814482

GAZA CITY, Aug 4 (MENA) - Residents in the Tel Aviv and central Israel area, on Sunday reported that their GPS apps told them they were in Beirut, Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported. GPS disruptions caused concern of an imminent attack from Iran ....

Dozens of casualties in continued Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling across Gaza

Date: 2024-08-04 07:56:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10814389

GAZA CITY, Aug 4 (MENA) - Dozens of casualties among innocent Palestinian civilians were reported Sunday morning and overnight as Israeli occupation forces continued their airstrikes and artillery shelling across the Gaza Strip, marking the 303rd ....

Second stabbing victims dies in Holon attack

Date: 2024-08-04 07:53:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:10814376

GAZA, Aug 4 (MENA) - A second victim has died in the stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv, on Sunday morning, Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported. A woman was pronounced dead earlier in the attack carried out by a West ....

France urges its nationals to leave Lebanon as threat of regional war looms

Date: 2024-08-04 06:57:23 GMT - France - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10814305

PARIS, Aug 4 (MENA) - France on Sunday urged its nationals in Lebanon to leave the country as tensions continue to rise in the region after Iran accused Israel of being responsible for the assassination of Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh, ....

Israel organized Haniyeh’s assassination with US support - Tehran

Date: 2024-08-03 15:35:18 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:10813594

TEHRAN, Aug 3 (MENA) - Former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a short-range projectile with a 7-kilogram warhead, which caused a powerful blast outside the guesthouse where he was staying, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ....

Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln heads to Middle East to relieve USS Theodore Roosevelt: Pentagon

Date: 2024-08-03 14:11:24 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:10813449

WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (MENA) - West Coast carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is setting sail to the Middle East from the Pacific to relieve the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and its strike group, the Pentagon said in a ....

Israeli drone strike left 1 killed, 2 injured in southern Lebanon

Date: 2024-08-03 12:27:33 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:10813455

BEIRUT, Aug 3 (MENA) - An Israeli drone strike targeting a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre left one person killed and two others wounded in an area located between the villages of Bazourieh and Wadi Jilou, according to Lebanese health ....

AL condemns Israeli atrocities against Palestinian prisoners, detainees

Date: 2024-08-03 11:59:45 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:10813162

CAIRO, Aug 3 (MENA) – The Arab League (AL) strongly condemned the atrocities and brutal crimes perpetrated by Israeli forces against prisoners and detainees held in Israeli prisons and secret detention camps. In a statement released by its ....