7 h. ago 5 Israeli soldiers killed overnight in northern Gaza, military says

The Israeli military says five Israeli soldiers were killed overnight in northern Gaza

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4 d. ago ‘No other explanation’: children of slain Gaza doctor say he was deliberately targeted

Family of Dr Marwan al-Sultan says the Israeli airstrike ‘precisely’ hit the apartment block the cardiologist and his relatives occupiedThe children of Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of Gaza’s Indonesian hospital and one of the territory’s most senior doctors, said they believed their father was deliberately targeted in the Israeli airstrike that killed him on Wednesday.Sultan died when an Israeli missile was fired into the apartment block in Gaza City where he and his extended family were staying after their displacement from northern Gaza. His wife, daughter, sister and son-in-law were also killed in the attack. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Gaza death toll hits at least 300 in just two days after horror Israel overnight attacks

Hundreds were killed in Gaza overnight even as ceasefire proposals are underway, and Hamas demands talks about ending the war as part of any agreement for a two month, phased pause in fighting

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4 d. ago Israel steps up deadly bombardment of Gaza before ceasefire talks

Officials say about 90 people killed since Wednesday night as Israeli security cabinet prepares for meetingIsrael has escalated its offensive in Gaza before imminent talks about a ceasefire, with warships and artillery launching one of the deadliest and most intense bombardments in the devastated Palestinian territory for many months.Medics and officials in Gaza reported that about 90 people were killed overnight and on Thursday, including many women and children. On Tuesday night and Wednesday the toll was higher, they said. Casualties included Marwan al-Sultan, a cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, who died in an airstrike that also killed his wife and five children. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Four dead and 14 injured in shooting at Chicago party for rapper Mello Buckzz

Album launch party was ending when three people in an SUV began firing on a crowd outside a nightclubFour people were killed by gunfire and 14 others hospitalized overnight after a drive-by shooting outside a private nightclub event in Chicago, police said on Thursday.At least three were in critical condition and city news outlets reported that the incident happened after a launch party for the new album by local rap star Mello Buckzz and that her boyfriend was one of those shot. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Contractors say ‘unqualified’ colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza

American analysts and Israeli soldiers work side by side, contractors say

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5 d. ago Photos show people mourning after airstrikes and shooting in Gaza overnight

Airstrikes and shootings in Gaza have killed 94 Palestinians overnight, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry on Thursday.

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5 d. ago 82 Palestinians killed in Gaza, including 38 people waiting for aid, authorities say

Airstrikes and shootings killed 82 Palestinians in Gaza overnight, including 38 while attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said Thursday

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7 d. ago BBC chief faces questions over failure to pull live stream of Bob Vylan IDF chant

Tim Davie was informed of incident while at Glastonbury but live stream of stage continued to be aired in hours afterThe BBC’s director general is facing questions over why he did not pull the live-stream footage of Bob Vylan after being informed during a visit to Glastonbury of the chants calling for the death of Israeli soldiers.Tim Davie, who has led the BBC for nearly five years, was told of the chanting of “death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]” by Bob Vylan’s vocalist after it had been broadcast live on the BBC on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago PETER TATCHELL: How can chanting five words provoke more outrage than Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza? 

No-one at Glastonbury is going to kill an Israeli soldier as a result of Bob Vylan’s words. It’s protest rhetoric - says human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell

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7 d. ago Glastonbury stars Bob Vylan have US visas REVOKED after 'death to IDF' chants

Bob Vylan led the sick chant at Glastonbury , the UK's biggest festival, as crowds waved Palestine flags and joined in with the call for the deaths of Israeli soldiers.

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8 d. ago BBC chiefs 'should face charges' over Glastonbury... Outrage led by Keir Starmer grows after broadcast of vile 'death to Israeli soldiers' chants

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the corporation 'appears to have broken the law' by transmitting a punk duo's calls for the deaths of Israeli soldiers.

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8 d. ago BBC chiefs have blood on their hands, says family of man murdered at Nova music festival by Hamas terrorists in October 7 massacre

Yoram Yehudaj, who lost his 24-year-old son Ron when the Nova music festival was attacked, said the broadcaster should be 'ashamed' for televising the chanting about the death of Israeli soldiers.

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer demands BBC explanation for broadcasting Bob Vylan’s 'appalling' chant

Chanting on a stage at Glastonbury, Bob Vylan called for the death of Israeli soldiers, footage which was available on BBC iPlayer until the corporation took it down

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8 d. ago BBC chiefs 'should face charges' over Glastonbury... Outrage grows after broadcast of vile 'death to Israeli soldiers' chants

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the corporation 'appears to have broken the law' by transmitting a punk duo's calls for the deaths of Israeli soldiers.

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9 d. ago Israeli strikes kill more than 60 people in Gaza, health officials say

Latest deaths come amid worsening humanitarian situation despite renewed hope for ceasefireAt least 62 people have been killed in Gaza by overnight Israeli strikes, according to health officials, as the humanitarian situation worsens in the besieged strip despite renewed hope for a ceasefire.Airstrikes began overnight on Friday and continued into Saturday morning, killing a dozen people near a displacement shelter near Palestine Stadium in Gaza City. A strike at midday on Saturday killed at least 11 people. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Israel airstrikes in Gaza kill 49 overnight including refugees and some in homes

The strikes began late Friday and continued into Saturday morning, among others killing 12 people near the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, which was sheltering displaced people, and eight more living in apartments, according to staff at Shifa hospital where the bodies were brought

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1 week ago Netanyahu denounces report that Israeli soldiers have orders to shoot at Palestinians seeking aid

Israeli leaders are denying claims that soldiers were ordered to shoot at Palestinians approaching aid sites in Gaza

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1 week ago The Guardian view on annihilation in Gaza: the deaths mount, but the pressure has ebbed | Editorial

Israel’s attack on Iran overshadowed the ongoing carnage. Its allies are complicit in the horror; they must instead help to build a future for Palestinians“We cannot be asking civilians to go into a combat zone so that then they can be killed with the justification that they are in a combat zone.” It defies belief that the Unicef spokesperson, James Elder, should have needed to spell that out this week. And yet each day Palestinians continue to be killed while attempting to collect aid for their families from food hubs in Gaza, forced to make a lethal choice between risking being shot and letting their families slowly starve. More than 500 have died around the centres since the system was introduced – yet, with attention fixed on Israel’s attacks on Iran, there has been little to spare for recent deaths.The Israeli military has given shifting accounts of events. But soldiers told the newspaper Haaretz that commanders ordered troops to shoot at crowds that posed no threat. The Israel...

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1 week ago Israel closes the most direct route for aid to Palestinians in Gaza

Blockade will increase diplomatic pressure on Israel as Spain PM Pedro Sánchez describes situation as ‘genocide’Israel has closed crossings into northern Gaza, cutting the most direct route for aid to reach hundreds of thousands of people at risk of famine, as airstrikes and shelling killed dozens more people in the devastated Palestinian territory.The move to close the crossings on Thursday will increase diplomatic pressure on Israel as attention shifts from its brief conflict with Iran, back to the violence and grave humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Continue reading...

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