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Israeli strike on northern Gaza school kills 11, injures 22 others

An Israeli airstrike hit a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 22, including women and children, the territory's Health Ministry said. The Israeli military confirmed it struck the school in the Jabalia refugee camp, saying it was targeting Hamas militants inside who were planning attacks on Israeli troops. The claim couldn't be independently confirmed. Footage from the al-Falouja School showed rescue workers rushing casualties out of the school compound amid widespread debris and crowds of people. One video showed men wrapping a mangled, severed torso in a plastic sheet and putting body parts into a cooler. Gaza's Health Ministry didn't immediately say how many of the casualties were women and children. Israeli forces have repeatedly struck schools, saying Hamas fighters use them as command centres to plan attacks. The military says it uses precision weapons to avoid civilian casualties. The ..

Israeli teams will continue meetings on US ceasefire proposals: Netanyahu

The comments came after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday there would be no ceasefire in the north

Lebanon fears Gaza-like devastation as Israel ramps up airstrikes

When she first heard about the evacuation warnings Israel was sending to residents of Lebanon, Aline Naser's thoughts immediately turned to Gaza. For the past year, the 26-year-old Beirut resident has been following with horror the reports about besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip ordered to move from one place to the other, fleeing to humanitarian zones only to be bombed and ordered to leave again. The Israeli calls for Lebanese citizens to evacuate ahead of a widening air campaign, delivered via mobile phone alerts, calls and leaflets this week, seemed chillingly familiar. It's definitely something on the back of my mind, and we don't really know where exactly is safe, she said. Almost a year after the start of its war in Gaza, Israel has turned its focus on Lebanon, significantly ratcheting up its campaign against its archenemy Hezbollah. Among many in Lebanon, there is fear that Israel's military operations in Lebanon would follow the same Gaza playbook: Evacuation orders,

Israel's Lebanon move frustrates US; Netanyahu to address UN today: Updates

Israeli PM rejects US-backed ceasefire with Hezbollah, raising fears of wider conflict in West Asia amid Gaza war. Netanyahu to address the UN General Assembly in New York today

Leader of Palestinian Authority denounces Israeli Gaza offensive at UN

Mahmoud Abbas used the rostrum of the U.N. General Assembly as he typically does - to criticize Israel

At least 11 people killed in Israeli strike that hit a school in Gaza

An Israeli airstrike hit a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 22, including women and children, the territory's Health Ministry said. The Israeli military confirmed it struck the school in the Jabalia refugee camp, saying it was targeting Hamas militants inside who were planning attacks on Israeli troops. The claim couldn't be independently confirmed. Footage from the al-Falouja School showed rescue workers rushing casualties out of the school compound amid widespread debris and crowds of people. One video showed men wrapping a mangled, severed torso in a plastic sheet and putting body parts into a cooler. Gaza's Health Ministry didn't immediately provide a breakdown of how many of the casualties were women and children. Israeli forces have repeatedly struck schools, saying Hamas fighters use them as command centers to plan attacks. The military says it uses precision weapons to avoid civilian

Explained: Who is Jhumpa Lahiri, why did she refuse Isamu Noguchi award?

The New York-based museum, which was found by Japanese American designer and sculptor, recently told employees not to wear clothes expressing political messages, or slogans

Israeli airstrike killed 23 Syrian workers, family members: Lebanon

An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon hit a building housing Syrian workers and their families, killing 23 people, Lebanese officials said on Thursday. It was one of the deadliest single strikes in an intensified air campaign against the militant Hezbollah group. The strike late Wednesday came as the United States and its allies called for an immediate 21-day cease-fire to provide space for diplomacy. Israel has threatened to launch a ground invasion, and the increasingly heavy exchanges of fire could trigger an all-out war. Lebanon's National News Agency said the strike occurred near the ancient city of Baalbek in Lebanon's northeastern Bekaa Valley, which runs along the Syrian border. It quoted Ali Kassas, mayor of the village of Younine, as saying that the bodies of 23 Syrian citizens were pulled from under the rubble. He said four Syrians and four Lebanese were wounded. Hussein Salloum, a local official in Younine, said most of the dead were women and children, and that rescue effor

US, allies call for 'immediate' 21-day ceasefire between Israel, Hezbollah

France's foreign minister has said that his country and the United States are working on a proposal for a 21-day ceasefire proposal to allow for negotiations in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Jean-Nol Barrot told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that the proposal would be released shortly. We are counting on both parties to accept it without delay, he said. Earlier, President Joe Biden said that fighting between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to become an all-out war as his top diplomat and other advisers worked behind the scenes pressing for a temporary cease-fire to calm an escalating conflict that has killed more than 600 people in Lebanon in recent days. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US administration was "intensely engaged with a number of partners to de-escalate tensions in Lebanon and to work to get a ceasefire agreement that would have so many benefits for all concerned". Blinken and other Biden advisers have spent the past three day

Know about growing conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah

Since mid-September, there has been a dizzying escalation in the nearly yearlong conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah. First came two days of exploding pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah attacks pinned on Israel that killed at least 39 people and maimed thousands more. Hezbollah's leader vowed to retaliate, and on September 20 the militant group launched a wave of rockets into northern Israel. Since then, both sides have fired dozens of rockets on a daily basis, forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis in the north to huddle in air raid shelters, and prompting tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in parts of southern Lebanon where Hezbollah has a strong presence. The United Nations said more than 90,000 Lebanese people have been displaced in recent days. Lebanon said Israeli strikes on Monday killed more than 560 Lebanese and injured almost 2,000 in the deadliest attack since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. Several Hezbollah leaders have been targete

Stock Market Today: Nifty expiry, Israel conflict & Kalana Ispat IPO debut

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Hezbollah missile chief, 2 other leaders killed in Israeli airstrike; latest updates

Hezbollah says it launched rocket targeting Mossad base near Tel Aviv

Warning sirens also sounded in other areas of central Israel, including the city of Netanya

Israeli airstrike kills top Hezbollah Commander Ibrahim Qubaisi in Beirut

The Israel-Hezbollah conflict escalates as the Israeli Defence Forces conducts airstrike targeting a high-ranking Hezbollah commander, resulting in six deaths and 15 injuries

Israel landed heavy blows on Hezbollah, but victory could prove elusive

It has been a devastating week for Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon. Bombs hidden in the group's pagers and walkie-talkies killed dozens of people and wounded thousands many of them Hezbollah members. An Israeli strike in Beirut killed one of its top commanders. And Israel has bombed what it said were 1,600 militant sites across large parts of Lebanon, killing hundreds of people and displacing thousands. Israel says its objective is to secure the border so that tens of thousands of people who fled under Hezbollah fire nearly a year ago can return to their homes. But it's far from clear that its recent operations as tactically successful as they were will bring that about. No one either in or out of the defense establishment has any clue as to how to translate these brilliant operational achievements into political benefit, into a real victory that will stop the war in the north, columnist Nadav Eyal wrote in Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper. As long as Hezbollah retains any

Israel and Hezbollah launch new attacks after deadly day in Lebanon

The strikes have piled pressure on Hezbollah, which last week suffered heavy losses when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded in the worst security breach in its history

China 'firmly supports' Lebanon in safeguarding its security amid strikes

Wang and Habib met in New York where they exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East, according to a statement from China's Foreign Ministry

US urges Israel to extend banking relations with Palestinian banks for year

The banking correspondence authorisation is due to expire on Oct. 31, posing risks to export and import transactions valued at nearly $10 billion, Treasury officials have said

Lebanon sees deadliest conflict day since 2006 as Israeli strikes kill 492

Some 1,650 people were wounded in the strikes and about 100 women and children were among the dead, the Lebanese health ministry said

Iran's president accuses Israel of seeking wider Mideast war, laying traps

Iran's new president accused Israel on Monday of seeking a wider war in the Middle East and laying traps to lead his country into a broader conflict. Masoud Pezeshkian told about two dozen media representatives that Iran doesn't want to see the current war in Gaza and airstrikes across the Israeli-Lebanon border expanded. We don't want to fight, he said. It's Israel that wants to drag everyone into war and destabilize the region. They are dragging us to a point where we do not wish to go. Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and reformer, defeated a hardliner in Iran's July presidential runoff, after the death of the former president in a helicopter crash. He is making his debut on the international stage at this week's annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly, just as Israel steps up attacks on Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The Iranian leader, who will turn 70 on Sunday, said that while Israel insists it doesn't want a wider war, i ts actions show ...