Jerusalem, June 15 (IANS) Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz on Monday said that the country will maintain an indefinite military presence in the security zone it holds in southern Lebanon and will not withdraw despite existing and future pressures.His remarks came despite the highly anticipated signing of a peace agreement between the United States and Iran, which is also expected to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Xinhua news agency reported.Katz said the policy, which…
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United Nations, June 11 (IANS) With the reopening of the Rafah crossing, UN humanitarians said medical evacuations of people seeking treatment outside Gaza are now ready to resume.The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian border reopened for a limited number of people travelling in both directions after a two-day closure imposed by the Israeli authorities. Assistance was also offered to people returning to the Gaza Strip.The Kerem S…
Jerusalem, June 11 (IANS) The Ramat David Air Base in northern Israel was hit by missile fragments during the latest escalation with Iran, the Israeli military has confirmed. The hit caused minor damage to the base but did not disrupt flight operations, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) official told Israel’s state-owned Army Radio on Wednesday (local time).Previously, Israeli media reports, citing satellite imagery, have said that the key Israeli military base appeared to have been hit, according …
Seoul, May 25 (IANS) The foreign ministry os South Korea on Monday said it has pressed Israel to conduct a thorough investigation into claims by two South Korean activists that they were assaulted by Israeli forces after being detained aboard aid vessels bound for the Gaza Strip.The ministry said it called in the deputy Israeli ambassador to South Korea to its office on Saturday and conveyed its concerns over those allegations, Yonhap news agency reported.The two activists, Kim Ah-hyun and Kim D…
Seoul, May 21 (IANS) Israel has released two South Korean nationals captured while heading for the Gaza Strip aboard humanitarian aid vessels, the South Korean presidential office said Thursday, welcoming their release.Presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung announced their release at a press briefing a day after the Lina Al Nabulsi, carrying South Korean activist Kim Ah-hyun and Korean American activist Jonathan Victor Lee, was intercepted by the Israeli military in waters near the Gaza Strip.Tw…
Seoul, May 20 (IANS) Israeli forces have seized another humanitarian aid flotilla, carrying two activists from a South Korean civic group, headed for the Gaza Strip, the group said Wednesday.The Lina Al Nabulsi, carrying South Korean activist Kim Ah-hyun and Korean American activist Jonathan Victor Lee, was confirmed to have been intercepted by the Israeli military in waters near the Gaza Strip at 2:50 a.m. Wednesday (Seoul time), according to the Korean Flotilla for a Free Palestine.The capture…
Seoul, May 19 (IANS) Israeli forces have seized a humanitarian aid flotilla carrying a South Korean activist headed for the Gaza Strip, a civic group said Tuesday.According to the group advocating for Palestinian liberation, the Kyriakos X boat carrying activist Kim Dong-hyeon was intercepted late Monday (Seoul time) by the Israeli Navy near Cyprus.Kim is now presumably detained aboard an Israeli warship along with other activists from around the world, the group said.Kim departed for Gaza earli…
Jerusalem, May 17 (IANS) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday claimed that it has eliminated the Hamas operations headquarters Commander who advanced terror plots against Israeli forces.”IDF forces in the Southern Command eliminated Bahaa Baroud yesterday, a commander in the operations headquarters of the Hamas terror organisation,” the IDF said on social media platform X.It detailed that Baroud operated throughout the war and particularly in recent times to plan and advance numerous terror…
Cairo, May 10 (IANS) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and French President Emmanuel Macron met in Egypt to discuss regional developments, including escalating tensions linked to Iran and the United States, and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The meeting took place on Saturday on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony for the French-speaking international university Senghor University’s new headquarters in Egypt’s New Borg El-Arab City, north of Cairo, the Egyptian Presidenc…
Beirut, May 4 (IANS) A UNESCO report on Monday warned that escalating regional conflict has severely disrupted education across Arab states, affecting more than 100 million children and pushing fragile systems toward collapse. The crisis has affected education in at least 15 countries, disrupting learning for 52 million school-age children through school closures, reduced access or shifts to remote learning, the report said. Nearly 30 million children in the region were already out of school bef…