Israeli forces order evacuation for most of Rafah
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Israel has said it would intensify its military operations until Hamas releases the remaining 59 hostages in its custody, including 24 who are believed to be alive.
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The Israeli military has issued sweeping evacuation orders covering most of Rafah — the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip — during Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive Muslim holiday marking the end of t...
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The attack was the second in less than a week, raising fears that a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah could unravel.
The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut's southern suburbs early Tuesday, saying it targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group. (AP Video by Fadi Tawil)
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians held funerals Monday for 15 medics and emergency responders killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza, after their bodies and mangled ambulances were found buried in an impromptu mass grave, apparently plowed over by Israeli military bulldozers.
Israel's military said Tuesday it carried out a strike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut targeting a Hezbollah operative, the second such strike since a November ceasefire. Israel has continued to carry out strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon in the months since the ceasefire,
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.
The Israeli military murdered and then bulldozed the bodies and ambulances of Palestinian and UN aid workers, who attempted to retrieve casualties after Israeli forces launched an offensive in the Tel al-Sultan district of the southern city of Rafah.
The Israeli military said early on Tuesday that it attacked a Hezbollah militant in Beirut's southern suburbs, a few days after it had carried out a strike there, further testing a shaky four-month ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-aligned group.
Israeli forces are trying a new tactic in a major hub for militants: emptying them out.
Last May, Israel launched a major operation in Rafah, on the border with Egypt, leaving large parts of it in ruins. The military seized a strategic corridor along the border as well as the Rafah crossing with Egypt, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world that was not controlled by Israel.
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