JERUSALEM, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in Gaza released a video on Thursday showing an elderly woman and a young boy who were among around 240 hostages seized by militant gunmen who attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
It said it was prepared to release the two for humanitarian and medical reasons once appropriate conditions were met. It did not give further details.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Israel vowed on Thursday that its forces would keep intensifying the fighting in the heart of Gaza City in the next few days, despite the implementation of a four-hour daily humanitarian pause.
Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Herzi Halevi toured the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday with Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet internal security agency. They were shown in videos released by the military sitting inside a moving tank and later talking with commanders in a dimly lit room.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Huseyin Buyukdag says he loves Turkey and his job as a teacher. But with the rampant economic crisis and growing repression in his country, he said he and his wife have decided to try and find a better life in Germany.
They are among a growing number of young and educated looking to leave Turkey, where rights and freedoms are being eroded and inflation is surging under increasingly authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
After Erdogan secured a third term in office in May elections, things are unlikely to change, he says.
GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinian civilians trudged in a forlorn procession out of the north of Gaza on Wednesday seeking refuge from Israeli air strikes and fierce ground fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.
The exodus took place in a four-hour window of opportunity announced by Israel, which has told residents to evacuate the north encircled by its armoured forces or risk being trapped in the violence.
DAMASCUS, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian military on Wednesday thwarted rebel drone attacks in the rural areas of two northern provinces, said the Syrian defense ministry.
In a statement carried by the state news agency SANA, the ministry said the army intercepted more than ten drones launched by "terrorist groups" toward civilian zones and military locations in Aleppo and Idlib.
Over the past month, Syrian and Russian forces have intensified targeted offenses against rebel groups in northern Syria, in retaliation of the latter's drone attacks on government areas.
GAZA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- At least 10,569 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry said Wednesday.
The death toll included 4,324 children, said Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesperson of the Hamas-run ministry, adding the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict has led to the injures of more than 26,000 people.
He said over the past day, 241 people in Gaza were killed and hundreds of others were wounded in Israeli assaults.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel faced pressure from some of its closest allies Wednesday over the plight of civilians in Gaza, where thousands streamed on foot out of the enclave’s north because of dwindling food and water and increased fighting in urban areas.
Over 70% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have already left their homes, but the number making their way south has quickened recently as Israeli troops battle Hamas militants inside Gaza City and the humanitarian situation grows increasingly dire.
KABUL, Nov 7 (NNN-ANA) – An international conference, on the economic development of Afghanistan, kicked off in the country’s capital, Kabul yesterday, attracting some 500 scholars and guests from home and overseas.
Themed “Creating the Afghan Economic Miracle,” the three-day conference held by the Ibn-E-Sina Research and Development Centre, will cover agriculture, education, health care and other topics.
BEIRUT, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would respond "double" to any Israeli attacks on civilians after a strike that killed three children and their grandmother in south Lebanon.
The remarks reflect the volatile situation on the Israeli-Lebanese border, where deadly clashes between Israeli troops and Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters are fuelling fears of a wider regional war while Israel invades the Gaza Strip.
NABI SALEH, West Bank, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Israeli troops on Monday arrested a Palestinian activist, regarded in the occupied West Bank as a hero since she was a teenager, on suspicion of inciting violence, but her mother denied the claim and said it was based on a fake Instagram post.
The Israeli military said it apprehended Ahed Tamimi, 22, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Tamimi rose to prominence in 2017 when, at age 16, she slapped an Israeli soldier who raided her village. She and others have for years protested Israeli land seizures.
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