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Israel kills a top Hamas military official Mourners carry the body of Bassem Issa, front, top Hamas’ commander in Gaza City and other bodies, during a funeral of thirteen Hamas militants outside the mosque in Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 9:01 AM PT – Friday, May 14, 2021 A member of Hamas’ military council, Bassem Issa, was eliminated by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in an airstrike. The operation was carried out on Wednesday with both Hamas ...

Just when it seems that The New York Times might finally set aside, at least for the moment, its unrelenting... Additionally, the Gaza Health Ministry and the “human rights” NGOs in Gaza (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — PCHR, and Al Mezan) downplay any mention of terrorist casualties, and often call terrorists “civilians” when they report the circumstances of those who have died. (Amnesty International’s obscenely dishonest “Gaza Platform” with statistics from the 2014 war...

Hamas has also managed to insert itself into the ongoing domestic strife in Israel, in which Arab and Jewish mobs have taken to the streets in recent days, wantonly and viciously attacking members of the other ethnic group. Hamas’s rocket launches at Jerusalem on Monday evening were widely seen as an intelligence failure by the Israel Defense Forces, as Israeli military officials for weeks prior to the attack had maintained that Hamas was not interested in a war. IDF Military Intelligence rej...

Article content LOD, Israel — Israel’s prime minister declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to riots spreading across the country that led to schools, synagogues and cars being set ablaze in Jewish neighbourhoods, as the president blamed the chaos on a “bloodthirsty Arab mob.” A curfew was imposed in the central city of Lod, and the wave of violence spread to cities including Haifa, Acre and Ramla, as Hamas fired hundreds of rockets and Israel continued to bomb the crowded...

But analysts say the White House has little in the way of a coherent strategy to cool the soaring tensions in Gaza, and appears to have been caught off guard by the current Israeli-Palestinian escalation, which is now reverberating dangerously through the wider Middle East. The crisis is showing signs of spreading, as Israeli officials blame their Arab counterparts across the region for not doing enough to help quell increasingly ugly anti-Israel protests in mixed communities across the country...

Updated: 13 May 2021, 1:18 Invalid Date, DISTURBING footage shows a mob of Israelis battering an "Arab" driver in the street after he was pulled from his car. The video comes amid escalating violence between Israel and Hamas with the UN warning the two sides are heading for "all out war" as the death toll reaches 72 including 16 children. �� Read our Israel-Gaza live blog for the very latest updates... 23 23 23 23 23 23 A bloodied bandage at the scene of the mob attackCredit: Getty Filmed ...

At least 65 killed in Gaza, 7 in Israel as clashes intensify ANI | Updated: May 13, 2021 04:55 IST Gaza [Palestine], May 13 (ANI): Amid the deepening unrest between Israel and Palestine, the death toll in Gaza has reached 65, and 7 in Israel as the Hamas group launched a new barrage of airstrikes. Al Jazeera reported that heavy bombardment on the Gaza Strip continued, killing Hamas Gaza City commander, Bassem Issa, in one of the Israeli airstrikes along wit...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians as Israel signals a widening military campaign:

Advertisement Australians have been warned not to import the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Down Under after a Sydney woman was arrested for allegedly burning the Israeli flag during protests - as the United Nations warns the violence in the Middle East could explode into a full-scale war.  At least 200 protestors gathered in Lakemba, Sydneys Muslim heartland, on Tuesday night for an unauthorised anti-Israel rally at the reserve on The Boulevarde.  The ugly scenes on the streets of the citys ...

GAZA CITY: Heavy smoke and fire rise from Al-Sharouk tower as it collapses after being hit during an Israeli air raid.—AFP TEL AVIV: Heavy exchanges of rocket fire and air strikes, and rioting in mixed Jewish-Arab towns, fuelled fears on Wednesday that deadly acts, mostly by Israel, could spiral into “full-scale war”. Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz vowed more attacks on Hamas and other Muslim militant groups in Gaza to bring “total, long-term quiet” before considering a ceas...