Live updates: Middle East crisis

  • Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza rises to 45,227 Palestinians
  • Palestinians feared trapped under rubble of bombed home in Jabalia
  • Yemen missile lands near Tel Aviv, 14 lightly injured, says Israel
  • Amnesty slams Hezbollah for unguided rocket fire at Israeli towns
  • Saturday Dec 21 2024 | 04:35 PM

    45,227 Palestinians killed in Israel's military offensive on Gaza

    By: Reuters

    At least 45,227 Palestinians have been killed and 107,573 wounded in an Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7,2023, Gaza health ministry said on Saturday.

  • Saturday Dec 21 2024 | 03:32 PM

    Palestinians feared trapped under rubble of bombed home in Jabalia

    By: Web Desk

    Search efforts continue to find more of the missing under the rubble of the bombed home in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, reported Al Jazeera.

    Witnesses described what happened as more of a massive explosion that led to what felt like an earthquake.

  • Saturday Dec 21 2024 | 02:31 PM

    'Cruelty' of strike killing Gaza children slammed by Pope

    By: Reuters

    Pope Francis on Saturday condemned the bombing of children in Gaza as "cruelty", a day after the territory's rescue agency said an Israeli air strike killed seven children from one family.

    "Yesterday children were bombed. This is cruelty, this is not war. I want to say it because it touches my heart," he told an audience of members of the government of the Holy See.

  • Saturday Dec 21 2024 | 11:58 AM

    Injured toll in Tel Aviv missile attack rises to 16

    By: Web Desk

    Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service now reports that at least 16 people have been lightly injured by the missile strike in the Tel Aviv area, mostly as a result of broken glass, according to Al Jazeera.

    Israeli emergency services work at the scene of a missile strike that, according to Israel’s military, was launched from Yemen and landed in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, Israel, December 21, 2024. — Reuters


  • Saturday Dec 21 2024 | 10:51 AM

    Israel's military says Yemen missile lands near Tel Aviv, 14 lightly injured, says ambulance service

    By: Reuters

    The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, and the ambulance service said 14 people received mild injuries.

    Paramedics were treating 14 people with minor shrapnel injuries and some were taken to hospital, the ambulance service said in a statement.

  • Saturday Dec 21 2024 | 08:44 AM

    Israel's forces target towns across occupied West Bank

    By: Web Desk

    Local media reports that Israeli forces have carried out raids in several locations across the occupied West Bank over recent hours, including:

    • The town of Silat ad-Dhahr, south of Jenin, where a Palestinian man has been arrested
    • The town of Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin
    • The town of Abwein, northwest of Ramallah
    • The town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah
  • Saturday Dec 21 2024 | 07:16 AM

    Amnesty slams Hezbollah for unguided rocket fire at Israeli towns

    By: AFP

    Human rights group Amnesty International on Friday condemned Hezbollah for firing salvos of unguided rockets at civilian areas of Israel during the latest conflict.

    "Hezbollah’s reckless use of unguided rocket salvos has killed and wounded civilians, and destroyed and damaged civilian homes in Israel," said Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard.

    Relatives and supporters of the hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas hold a protest performance promoting a deal that would bring the hostages home, in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 17, 2024. — Reuters 

    "The use of these inherently inaccurate weapons in or near populated civilian areas amounts to prima facie violations of international humanitarian law," she said.

    "Direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects and indiscriminate attacks that kill and injure civilians must be investigated as war crimes."

    Amnesty said it had documented three Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli towns and cities that killed eight civilians and wounded at least 16 others following the escalation of the conflict in late September.

  • Saturday Dec 21 2024 | 01:09 AM

    Seven children of single family killed in airstrike in Gaza

    By: Reuters

    Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that an Israeli air strike killed 10 members of a family on Friday in the northern part of the territory, including seven children.

    Palestinians carry a body at the site of an Israeli strike on an apartment, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, December 20, 2024. — Reuters

    "There are 10 martyrs ... all targeted by an air strike on their home in Jabalia al-Nazla, southwest of Jabalia.. All of the martyrs are from the same family, including seven children, the oldest aged six," civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

  • Friday Dec 20 2024 | 11:33 PM

    Israeli strikes all over Gaza kill at least 25 Palestinians

    By: Reuters

    Israeli airstrikes killed at least 25 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, including at least eight in an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp and at least ten in the town of Jabalia.

    Mediators have yet to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after more than a year of conflict.

  • Friday Dec 20 2024 | 10:28 PM

    WHO says health workers in Lebanon 'stretched thin' as thousands displaced

    By: Web Desk
    — X/@WHO