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UAE Moments
3 hours ago
- UAE Moments
Israel Kills 43 Palestinians, Including Those Getting Aid
Israeli attacks killed at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza, including 26 who were collecting aid, on Friday, June 20, according to the enclave's civil defence agency. Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp, north-east of Deir Al Balah in central Gaza, received 23 bodies after Israeli forces fired at the people gathering aid at the 'Martyrs' Junction' north of the camp. Dozens of people were injured in these attacks. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported the deaths of another 11 Palestinians after Israeli forces bombed a house in the Al Maaskar area, west of Deir Al Balah. Many people were injured in this attack as well. Israel continues to attack Palestinians collecting aid in Gaza; on Thursday, the Israeli forces killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza.
The National
13 hours ago
- Health
- The National
At least 26 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli attack while waiting for aid
At least 43 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza on Friday, including 26 who had gathered to collect aid, the Palestinian territory's civil defence agency said. Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp, north-east of Deir Al Balah in central Gaza, said it received 23 bodies after Israeli forces fired on people gathered to collect aid near the 'Martyrs' Junction' north of the camp, in addition to dozens of wounded. Medical sources from the Palestinian Red Crescent reported the deaths of another 11 Palestinians, and many others injured, after the Israeli military bombed a house in the Al Maaskar area, west of Deir Al Balah. The wounded were transferred to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city, they said. "Forty-three martyrs have fallen as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 26 of whom were waiting for humanitarian aid," Mohammad Al-Mughayyir, director of medical supply at the civil defence agency, told AFP. Attacks on civilians collecting aid and continued strikes on populated areas are a daily occurrence in Gaza. On Thursday, at least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire and military strikes, Gazan civil defence said, including 12 people who had been trying to approach an aid site operated by the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The system has been widely criticised. 'Palestinian lives have been so devalued. It is now the routine to shoot and kill desperate and starving people while they try to collect little food from a company made of mercenaries,' Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said in a post on Wednesday, after more than 300 Palestinians had been killed collecting aid since the start of GHF deliveries last month. The centres are regularly overrun by Gazans desperate for food after a nearly three-month total blockade of aid deliveries imposed by Israel in March. Crowds start gathering near the distribution sites before dawn, despite a warning from the Israeli military that these areas are considered combat zones between 6pm and 6am. The recently created GHF, whose four distribution centres are guarded by private security contractors and surrounded by Israeli forces, began deliveries to replace the aid delivery system operated by the UN. Since October, 2023, the Palestinian death toll from Israel's war in Gaza has passed 55,700, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, and the number injured has risen to more than 130,100. Israel's strikes and ground offensive followed a Hamas-led attack on Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and about 250 abducted.
The Herald Scotland
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
'Tehran will burn,' Israel's defense minister warns
Iranian state TV reported that around 60 people, including 20 children, had been killed in an attack on a housing complex, with more strikes reported across the country as Israel said it had attacked more than 150 targets. Air raid sirens sent Israelis into shelters as missiles streaked across the sky and interceptors rose to meet them, killing at least three people. An Israeli official said Iran had fired around 200 ballistic missiles in four waves. Despite U.S. help in shooting down incoming missiles, Iranian fire hit residential districts. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran had crossed a line. "If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn," he said in a statement, singling out Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. President Donald Trump has lauded Israel's strikes and warned of much worse to come unless Iran quickly accepts the sharp downgrading of its nuclear program the U.S. has demanded in talks that had been due to resume on June 15. But with Israel saying its operation could last weeks, and urging Iranians to rise up against their Islamist clerical rulers, fears have grown of a regional war dragging in outside powers, with global economic and financial repercussions. Iran had vowed to avenge the June 13 Israeli onslaught, which gutted Tehran's nuclear and military leadership and damaged nuclear plants and military bases, killing 78 people - including civilians, according to Iran's U.N. envoy. Tehran warned Israel's allies that their regional military bases would come under fire too if they help shoot down Iranian missiles, Iranian state television reported. Iran's allies falter Iran's own ally, the Yemeni Houthi group, fired missiles at Israel the night of June 13; at least one appeared to go astray, injuring five Palestinians, including three children, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. However, 20 months of war in Gaza and a conflict in Lebanon last year have decimated Tehran's strongest allies, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, reducing its ability to project power across the region along with its options for retaliation. "Iran spent decades building up its so-called Axis of Resistance that was supposed to be the vanguard that made Israel think twice about attacking Iran," Mohamad Bazzi, director of New York University's Middle East center, told USA TODAY. "That's disappeared." Iranian proxy Hezbollah, once considered the most powerful non-state actor in the world, "raced to announce it was staying on the sidelines" in its sponsor's current conflict with Israel, Bazzi noted. Gulf Arab states that have long mistrusted Iran but fear coming under attack in any wider conflict have urged calm as the price of crude rose by about 7% on June 13. Blasts and fear in Israel and Iran Iran's overnight fusillade included hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones, an Israeli official said. Three people, including a man and a woman, were killed and dozens wounded, the ambulance service said. In Rishon LeZion, south of Tel Aviv, emergency services rescued a baby girl trapped in a house hit by a missile, police said. Video showed teams searching through the rubble of one home. And in the western suburb of Ramat Gan, near Ben Gurion airport, Linda Grinfeld described her apartment being damaged: "We were sitting in the shelter, and then we heard such a boom. It was awful." The Israeli military said it had intercepted surface-to-surface Iranian missiles as well as drones, and that two rockets had been fired from Gaza. With Iran's air defences heavily damaged, Israeli Air Force chief Tomer Bar said "the road to Iran has been paved." In preparation for possible further escalation, reservists were being deployed across Israel. Army Radio reported units had been positioned along the Lebanese and Jordanian borders. In Iran, explosions were heard overnight across the capital, state media reported. State television reported that a 14-story housing complex, Shahid Chamran, had been flattened by a missile. It said 60 people were been killed, though there was no immediate official confirmation. Israel's military did not immediately comment on that report. Iran's U.N. envoy Amir Saeid Iravani said 78 people had been killed in Israel's June 13 strikes and more than 320 wounded, most of them civilians. Iran nuclear sites damaged Israel sees Iran's nuclear programme as a threat to its existence, and said the bombardment was designed to avert the last steps to production of a nuclear weapon - even though U.S. intelligence says it has seen no sign that this is imminent. Israeli U.N. envoy Danny Danon called the strikes "an act of national preservation." Israel said it had killed nine Iranian nuclear scientists, and that the damage to the nuclear facilities at Esfahan and Natanz would take "more than a few weeks" to repair. Tehran insists the program is entirely civilian in line with its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and that it does not seek an atomic bomb. However, it has repeatedly hidden parts of its program from international inspectors, and the International Atomic Energy Agency has reported it's in violation of the NPT. Israel, which is not an NPT signatory and is widely understood to have developed a nuclear bomb, has said it cannot let its main regional foe gain atomic weapons. Iranian talks with the United States to resolve the nuclear dispute have stuttered this year. Tehran implied that it would not attend the round that was scheduled for June 15 in Oman, but without definitively refusing. "The other side (the U.S.) acted in a way that makes dialogue meaningless. You cannot claim to negotiate and at the same time divide work by allowing the Zionist regime (Israel) to target Iran's territory," state media quoted foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei as saying. "It is still unclear what decision we will make on Sunday in this regard." In Rome, Pope Leo appealed "to responsibility and to reason." Contributing: Reuters
Saba Yemen
6 days ago
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Palestinian child injured by enemy bullets during 139th day of its aggression on Tulkarm
Tulkarm – Saba: Israeli enemy forces continued their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp in occupied Palestine Saturday, for the 139th consecutive day, and for the 126th day on the Nur Shams camp, amid widespread field escalation, including a campaign of arrests and the ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes. The official Palestinian News Agency reported that enemy forces continued to impose a tight siege on Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps and their surroundings. Infantry units and vehicles are deployed in the alleys, neighborhoods, and entrances, preventing residents from reaching their homes to inspect them or retrieve their belongings, while directly shooting at anyone who attempts to approach. This morning, a 16-year-old child was injured by enemy bullets in the foot while trying to enter Tulkarm camp. He was transported in a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance to Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital. For eight consecutive days, Tulkarm camp has witnessed the demolition of residential buildings in Balawneh, Akasha, and Nadi neighborhoods, using heavy bulldozers. This is part of the enemy's plan to demolish 106 buildings in both Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, including 58 buildings in Tulkarm camp alone, comprising more than 250 housing units and dozens of commercial establishments. Over the past few weeks, Nur Shams camp has witnessed continuous demolitions of residential buildings, resulting in the demolition of more than 20 buildings. This is part of the enemy's plan to demolish 48 buildings in Nur Shams, under the pretext of opening roads and changing the geographical features of the two camps. Israeli enemy forces continue to transform Nablus Street into military barracks by continuing to seize a number of residential buildings there, along with parts of the northern neighborhood of the city, specifically those facing Tulkarm camp, after forcibly evacuating their residents. Some of these buildings have been under enemy control for more than four months, while Israeli enemy forces have deployed heavy machinery and bulldozers in their surroundings. Nablus Street, which connects Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, has also suffered significant damage due to the earth mounds erected by Israeli enemy forces several months ago. Their heavy presence and the installation of flying and sudden checkpoints impede vehicle movement and increase the suffering of Palestinian civilians. The city of Tulkarm and its suburbs are also witnessing intense activity by Israeli vehicles and infantry units, with military reinforcements deployed around the clock. These forces deliberately obstruct the movement of citizens and vehicles, provocatively sounding their horns and driving against traffic. Israeli enemy forces arrested Palestinian citizens Bahaa Bassam Shadid and Muhammad Ibrahim Sakr after raiding their homes in the northern neighborhood of the city. Israeli enemy forces also continued to close the iron gate at Anab military checkpoint at the eastern entrance to the city, preventing vehicles from passing. They are also present from time to time at the southern entrance to the city, specifically around Jabara Bridge gate, obstructing traffic and often closing the gate. The ongoing Israeli aggression on the city and its two camps has so far resulted in the deaths of 13 civilians, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant. Dozens of injuries and arrests have also been reported, as well as widespread destruction of infrastructure, homes, shops, and vehicles. According to the latest data, the escalation has displaced more than 5,000 families from the two camps, representing more than 25,000 citizens. At least 400 homes have been completely destroyed, and 2,573 others have been partially damaged. The entrances to the camps remain blocked with barricades, transforming them into almost lifeless areas. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
Yemen Online
6 days ago
- Politics
- Yemen Online
Israel says missile launched from Yemen fell in Hebron, 5 injured
The Israeli military said on Friday a missile that was launched from Yemen towards Israel fell to earth inside the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, adding that no interceptors were involved. At least five Palestinians, including three children, sustained injuries from the missile's sharpnel that fell in Hebron, the Palestinian Red Crescent said in a later statement. The incident occurred amid an ongoing Israeli military campaign targeting nuclear sites in Iran that wiped out that country's entire top echelon of military commanders and also killed nuclear scientists. Yemen's Houthis, who usually claim responsibility for missiles launched towards Israel from Yemen, are allied to Iran.
