5 h. ago Israel intensifies Gaza bloodshed as soldiers blown up amid ceasefire talks

Five Israeli soldiers were killed in roadside bomb as war on Gaza intensifies - even as White House talks between Israel and the US took place and hopes for a ceasefire within days were raised

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11 h. ago Gaza health system overwhelmed by casualties at aid distributions, says Red Cross – Israel

The ICRC said ‘the scale and frequency of these incidents are without precedent’The IDF has issued a new evacuation order for the Khan Younis area in Gaza, instructing Palestinian who live there to head west as the no-go zone expands.Col Avichay Adraee, the military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, wrote on X: “Due to terror activities in the area, the IDF with its maneuvering troops and intensive firepower is expanding actions in your area.”Physiotherapists support nurses, cleaning and dressing wounds and taking vitals. Cleaners now serve as orderlies, carrying stretchers wherever they are needed. Midwives have stepped into palliative care. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel peace prize at White House meeting expected to focus on Gaza

The prime minister made the announcement at a dinner with the president, with the US expected to push Israel to agree a Gaza ceasefireBenjamin Netanyahu told Donald Trump that he would nominate him for the Nobel peace prize on Monday, as the two leaders met for the first time since the US launched strikes on Iran’s nuclear program as part of a short-lived war between Israel and Iran.Trump was expected to press Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire in Israel’s 21-month-old war against Hamas in Gaza amid an outcry over the humanitarian cost of an offensive that has led to nearly 60,000 deaths, most of them Palestinian. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Iran's president admits nuke facilities WERE 'severely damaged' in US military strikes and claims in interview with Tucker Carlson that Israel tried to assassinate him in 12

The remarks came less than a month after Israel launched its unprecedented June 13 bombing campaign against Iran , killing top military commanders and nuclear scientists.

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63 h. ago Iran's Supreme Leader makes first public appearance since the 12

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended a mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashoura - a significant day in Islam marking the death of Husayn ibn Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.

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64 h. ago Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iran’s supreme leader makes first public appearance since Israel war

People burst into cheers and chanted slogans as Ayatollah Khamenei entered a mosque in Tehran, state TV showed

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69 h. ago Disturbed's frontman David Draiman is BOOED as he plays support slot at Ozzy Osbourne's Back to the Beginning finale

A video shared on TikTok shows a crowd jeering at Draiman as he sings in a star-studded supergroup at the Back to The Beginning farewell concert on Saturday night.

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4 d. ago Hamas says it is ready to enter ceasefire negotiations in ‘positive spirit’

Group said to want stronger guarantees of permanent end to war as Netanyahu prepares to meet Trump in USHamas said it had responded on Friday in “a positive spirit” to a US-brokered Gaza ceasefire proposal and was prepared to enter into talks on implementing the deal which envisages a release of hostages and negotiations on ending the conflict.US President Donald Trump earlier announced a “final proposal” for a 60-day ceasefire in the nearly 21-month-old war between Israel and Hamas, stating he anticipated a reply from the parties in coming hours. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Macron branded 'naive' and accused of risking UK lives after 'botched' call with Iran

Emmanuel Macron has been branded 'naive' after holding a phone call with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian - the first time the two leaders have spoken since the end of the 12-day war with Israel

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5 d. ago Airstrikes and shootings kill 94 Palestinians in Gaza including dozens trying to get aid, officials say

Israel is facing ongoing criticism of its handling of food aid in the war-torn enclave, as efforts to forge a ceasefire continue

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5 d. ago Amnesty International says Israel and aid system use starvation to commit Gaza genocide

Amnesty International has issued a report saying a controversial system to distribute aid in Gaza uses starvation tactics against Palestinians to continue to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s war with Hamas

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6 d. ago If Trump wants to earn the Nobel Peace Prize, he needs to get a grip on Israel

If Trump wants to earn the Nobel Peace Prize – which he thinks he already richly deserves – he needs to end the subsidies that allow Israel to make war, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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6 d. ago Trump’s Gaza ceasefire boasts will mean nothing unless he can get a grip on Israel

If Trump wants to earn the Nobel Peace Prize which he thinks he already richly deserves, he needs to end the subsidies that allow Israel to make war, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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6 d. ago Caution has turned to cowardice – the BBC is failing viewers with its Gaza coverage | Karishma Patel

The craven failure to broadcast Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is just the latest example of skewed journalistic values over Israel’s warTonight, audiences can finally watch Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on Channel 4 and Zeteo. This timely film was originally produced for the BBC by award-winning production company Basement Films. The BBC has been delaying it since February, arguing it couldn’t go out before a review into an entirely different film, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, had culminated. That was a poor editorial decision with no precedent. But poorer still: after months of leaving the film in limbo, last week the BBC announced it wouldn’t air it – leaving it for Channel 4 to pick up.Why? The BBC said it might create “the perception of partiality”. You’d be forgiven for thinking this was lifted from a dystopian novel. Perception, after all, has nothing to do with impartiality – at least in an ideal world. The BBC seems to have said the quiet part out loud. Impartiality, as far as ...

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6 d. ago Trump claims Israel ready for Gaza peace deal in bid to boost Hamas ceasefire talks

US president says Qatar and Egypt will deliver ‘final proposal’ to Hamas, whom he urged to accept deal ‘because it will not get better’Israel-Gaza war: latest updatesDonald Trump has claimed that Israel is ready to agree to a peace deal with Hamas as he seeks to broker a ceasefire to the war in Gaza that has claimed almost 60,000 lives.In a post on Truth Social, the US president wrote: “Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we will work with all parties to end the War.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago In Gaza we watched Iranian missiles go by, heading for Israel. That war is over – it seems ours will never end | Hassan Abo Qamar

For two years, we’ve waited for a final ceasefire that has never come. Peace will be delayed as long as our lives are considered disposableLast Tuesday night, Donald Trump announced on social media that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire, ending what he called a “12-day war”. It was the second war this year, after India and Pakistan’s four-day conflict, to start and end under Trump’s watch. They followed another, earlier conflict between Lebanon and Israel during President Joe Biden’s term.Here in Gaza, all eyes were fixed on the Iran-Israel conflict. Even cut off from the internet, people found ways to follow the news – on the radio, or by catching weak phone signals by climbing to high rooftops or walking near the sea, or just by staying up all night watching the sky, where some of the missiles launched from Iran could be seen from Gaza. Many wondered if Trump, the man who once promised to stop “endless wars”, would seize the moment to stop not only war on Iran but also the...

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7 d. ago Twelve days in Gaza: what happened while the world looked away?

One of the consequences of Israel’s 12-day conflict with Iran was a drop-off in attention paid to the war in Gaza, where a terrible humanitarian situation deteriorated even further. This is a timeline of what happenedIn the weeks leading up to Israel’s war with Iran, which it launched on 13 June, there had been little let up in its offensive in Gaza. A tenuous ceasefire had broken down in March, followed by a wave of airstrikes, as well as an 11-week blockade on all aid. Though some humanitarian assistance was allowed in from late-May, military action intensified at the same time.Growing numbers of desperate Palestinians were being killed as they sought scarce food either from looted aid convoys or from distribution hubs set up by the new, secretive Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a group backed by Israel and the US as an alternative to the existing, much more comprehensive UN-led system. Rolling IDF “evacuation orders” covered much of the territory. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trust in UN’s nuclear watchdog is broken, Iranian president says

European nations defend IAEA chief as Tehran accuses him of failing to condemn Israeli and US attacks on nuclear sitesTrust in the UN nuclear inspectorate is broken inside Iran, the country’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has told Emmanuel Macron, as European nations issued a statement in defence of its head.The two men spoke as Iranian officials said the total number of Iranian deaths during the 12-day air war with Israel and the US had risen to 935 people, including 38 children and 132 women. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Iran raises death toll from war with Israel to more than 900

Iran has raised the official death toll for its war with Israel, with official media reporting 935 people were killed in the country during the 12-day conflict

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8 d. ago New satellite images show work at Iran’s Fordow nuclear site after US bombing

Images from Maxar Technologies show construction vehicles including an excavator near one of the shafts, which was struck with US bunker buster bombs last week

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