War

Jerusalem, Feb 11 (EFE).- After a four-hour security cabinet meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that if Hamas does not release the hostages by noon on Saturday, Israel will resume an armed offensive in the Gaza Strip. «The decision that I unanimously approved in the Cabinet is...

Jerusalem, Feb 9 (EFE).- Three Palestinians were killed on Sunday when the Israel Defense Forces opened fire as they entered the buffer zone, the Netzarim corridor. The IDF confirmed to EFE that its forces opened fire on the group of Palestinians who came within 300 meters of the border in...

Washington, Feb 4 (EFE).- US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States will «take over» and “own” the Gaza Strip in the long term and rebuild it, turning it into the new «Riviera of the Middle East,» after permanently expelling Palestinians to other countries. “I don’t want to...

By Rostyslav Averchuk Lviv, Feb 3 (EFE).- The suggestion by the United States that Ukraine should hold elections already in 2025 finds little support in the invaded country amid preoccupation with security, organizational challenges, and threats that a heightened political competition could pose to the national unity needed for the...

Jerusalem, Jan 30 (EFE).- Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida confirmed on Thursday the death of Mohammed Deif, the former head of Hamas’ military wing, six months after the Israel Defense Forces said it had killed him in a raid on the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone in the southern Gaza Strip. «Our martyred...

Sanaa, Jan 22 (EFE).- Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the Yemen branch of the Palestinian group Hamas on Wednesday linked the release of the crew of the Galaxy Leader vessel to the ceasefire agreement that took effect in Gaza on Sunday. Hamas’s representative in Yemen, Moaz Abu Shamala, said in a...

By Rostyslav Averchuk Lviv, Jan 17 (EFE).- The insistence by the United States that Ukraine should decrease its mobilization age from 25 to 18 meets with little enthusiasm in the invaded country, which focuses on other ways to deal with its shortages in infantry and sees more modern weapons (not...

By Rostyslav Averchuk Lviv, Jan 16 (EFE).- Ukraine considered the latest sanctions introduced by the United States against Russia’s oil exports and energy sector as an important step towards undermining its ability to fund the war yet warns of the need to ensure compliance and take further steps, including bringing...

Jerusalem, Dec 16 (EFE).— The death toll in Gaza has surpassed 45,000 since the war began, with recent Israeli attacks adding dozens to the grim tally of over 14 months. The health ministry of the Hamas-governed enclave Monday said the increasing death toll due to the relentless bombings have compounded...

Jerusalem/Gaza, Dec 12 (EFE).- At least 27 people were killed and 50 others wounded in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, local hospital sources confirmed to EFE. A post office and several houses were hit in the attack, most of the victims were...

Jerusalem, Dec 11 (EFE).- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz told his United States counterpart Lloyd Austin in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that there was a possibility of signing an agreement to free the hostages still in Gaza after 14 months. «At this point, there is a possibility of a...

Beirut, Dec 10 (EFE).- The Lebanese government warned on Tuesday that it would arrest those responsible for the deposed regime of Bashar al-Assad who enter its territory. Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi stressed at a press conference that according to information provided by his country’s General Security (secret services), «currently...