Hezbollah confirmed Israel's strike on Tuesday had killed the top commander Fuad Shukr. But Israel has not confirmed if it was behind the killing of Hamas' political leader, Ismael Haniyeh, in Iran.
Israel has concluded a home front preparedness exercise for a full-fledged war scenario along the country's northern borders with Lebanon and Syria, Gallant noted. "The Air Force jets that are now flying above Lebanon have more massive bombs," he said, adding that Israel can attack 50 km de...
not all of them. Even in the best-case scenario all the hostages can be expected to return only after the IDF zeros in on the exact location of Hamas’s top three leaders: Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif, and Marwan Issa, along with the hostages themselves. ...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his frenetic Mideast diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his latest bid to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and begin to sketch out a post-conf...
Senior Hamas member Saleh al-Arouri told Al Jazeera Arabic on Saturday that Hamas is ready “for all options, including a war and an escalation on all levels.” “We are ready for the worst-case scenario, including a ground invasion, which will be the best for us to decide the ending ...
“If possible, an even more hellish scenario is about to unfold, one in which humanitarian operations may not be able to respond,” Hastings said. The use of only the Rafah crossing to bring trucks of aid does not work, the UN said, despite the efforts of its agencies, the Egyptian ...
“The IDF is in a very high state of readiness in all arenas, in defense and offense. We are highly prepared for any scenario,” Hagari said. His remarks came after Hamas said Tuesday that Arouri — one of its senior officials — had been killed in an attack in southern Beirut that...
In addition to providing more aid to the enclave, the prime minister also reiterated to Biden his country’s commitment to achieving its goals in the war which include “the elimination of Hamas, the release of all our hostages, and the promise that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to I...
But for now, this remains a "comparatively distant scenario," Tricaud said, "with many escalatory steps likely to take place before the confrontation reaches such a level of intensity." Leaders on both sides say they do not want all-out war. Their tit-for-tat strikes over the last severa...
JERUSALEM, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Israel's army said on Wednesday it has completed a large-scale exercise to simulate a full-fledged war against Hamas. The four-day-long drill simulated a scenario of war with Hamas, an Islamist Palestinian movement that runs the Gaza Strip, and another scenar...