Israel PM visited Gaza Monday, vows to 'intensify' fighting
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Gaza Strip on Monday and vowed to step up the army's assault on the Palestinian territory, his party said. "I just...
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Israel budget planners sees Gaza war lasting through February at least, widening deficit
Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza will likely cost it at least another 50 billion shekels ($14 billion) in 2024 and result in a near-tripling of its budget deficit, the Finance Ministry said on...
25 December 2023
20,674 killed, 54,536 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7
20,674 people have been killed and 54,536 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct.7, the Gazan health ministry said on Monday. The ministry added that 250 Palestinians were...
25 December 2023
Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject giving up power in return for permanent cease-fire
Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian proposal that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip in return for a permanent cease-fire, two Egyptian security sources told...
25 December 2023
Pope deplores 'desperate humanitarian situation' in Gaza
Pope Francis on Monday deplored the desperate humanitarian situation of Palestinians in Gaza and called for an immediate cease-fire and the freeing of hostages in his Christmas message....
25 December 2023
Desperation rising amid acute hunger at Gaza hospitals
The World Health Organization said it led missions to barely functioning hospitals in northern Gaza at the weekend, describing growing desperation and starving people stripping an aid truck of...
25 December 2023
Kidney patient, 10, separated from family in Gaza, fears he won't see them again
Nassem Mohra, a 10-year-old kidney patient, fears he may never see his family again after Israeli forces arrested his father while he was taking the boy to a hospital in southern Gaza for urgent...
25 December 2023
Iran says Swedish court ruling against ex-official 'unjust,' to seek his release
Iran said on Monday it would continue efforts to gain the release of a former Iranian official sentenced in Sweden to life in prison for his part in a mass execution of political prisoners in...
25 December 2023
Turkey retaliates at home, abroad after troops killed in Iraq
Turkey said on Monday its air force "neutralized" 26 Kurdish militants in strikes in Syria and Iraq in response to the killing of soldiers at the weekend, while authorities also detained dozens...
25 December 2023
West Bank Christian village prays for peace in Gaza
An unusual silence fell over the streets of Zababdeh, a Palestinian village that is home to one of the biggest Christian communities in the occupied West Bank. On any other...
25 December 2023
Iran denies US claim it targeted tanker near India
A spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry on Monday called a US claim that Iran had attacked a chemical ship near India "baseless." The Pentagon said on Saturday that a drone...
25 December 2023
Saudi foreign ministry welcomes roadmap to peace by UN special envoy for Yemen
Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry welcomed a statement issued by the United Nations special envoy for Yemen regarding a roadmap to peace, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Sunday....
25 December 2023
Prominent IRGC commander in Syria killed in Israeli strike; Over 20,600 Palestinians killed in Gaza, health ministry: Day 80 of Hamas-Israel war
17:22 Beirut Time This concludes our live coverage for today. We will be back tomorrow with more live coverage of the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. Merry Christmas!...
Muntasser Abdallah, 25 December 2023
Gaza war makes for sombre Christmas in the Holy Land
Sadness over the war in Gaza subdued the holiday cheer in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, when the biblical town would usually be decked out in festive finery. There was no...
25 December 2023
Jewish seminary hopes to revive Israeli town deserted in Gaza war
Most residents have left Sderot, an Israeli town near Gaza, since war erupted with the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, but a reopened Jewish seminary hopes to bring life there back on course....
25 December 2023
Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says Israel strike kills 70 in refugee camp
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said at least 70 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike that late Sunday hit a number of houses in a refugee camp. The...
