By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Reem Abu Hayyah, just three months old, was the only member of her family to survive an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip late Monday. A few miles (kilometers) to the north, Mohamed Abuel-Qomasan lost his wife and their twin babies … Read more
The International Criminal Court could soon issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with his defense minister and three Hamas leaders. If it does, what are the potential consequences?The government in Tel Aviv has cast a cautious eye toward The Hague, Netherlands, home of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The court’s … Read more
NEW DELHI: The former head of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, allegedly intimidated an international criminal court chief prosecutor in an attempt to persuade her to drop a war crimes probe, the Guardian reported.Yossi Cohencontactedthe ICC‘s then-prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, in a series of secret meetings in the years preceding her decision to launch a … Read more
JERUSALEM: Israel sought Tuesday to contain the fallout from a request by the chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, a move supported by three European countries, including key ally France.Belgium, Slovenia and France each said Monday they backed the decision by International Criminal Court … Read more
NEW DELHI: Israeli soldiers have sparked outrage by sharing photos and videos of themselves handling lingerie found in Palestinian homes, further intensifying scrutiny of Israel’s offensive in Gaza amid a looming famine crisis, as reported by Reuters.In one video, an Israeli soldier is seen sitting in a room in Gaza, holding lingerie and grinning while … Read more
By Illia Novikov | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched missiles against Kyiv for the third time in five days and also targeted other regions Monday as Moscow escalated its aerial bombardment of Ukrainian cities while the front line in the war remains largely stationary. Nine people were injured in the morning strike on … Read more
By Sam Mednick and Michael Biesecker | Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal — Women slain with babies wrapped against their bodies, lifeless children intertwined together, a 2-month-old face-up on the ground with puppies crawling on his tiny frame. The scenes were horrifying, but the 32-year-old farmer felt he had to document them, as proof of the … Read more
By Matthew Lee | Associated Press CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken huddled Thursday with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to discuss post-conflict plans for Gaza as relations between the United States and Israel soured further over Israel’s war against Hamas, notably its intent to mount a major military operation against the southern … Read more
By Hanna Arhirova and Anton Shtuka | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired more than two dozen missiles at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, attacking the Ukrainian capital for the first time in six weeks and sending panicked residents flooding into the relative safety of the subway system in a scene reminiscent of the … Read more
By Abeer Salman, Khader Al Za’anoun, Ibrahim Dahman, Sana Noor Haq, Kareen Khadder, Lauren Izso and Tim Lister | CNN Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers, blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts shared with CNN. Palestinian reporters and hospital staff … Read more