The RAF has evacuated 63 British nationals from Israel as Tel Aviv and Tehran continue to exchange fire, the foreign secretary has said. The flight left Tel Aviv on Monday afternoon, taking vulnerable Britons and their immediate family to Cyprus. A British national was also injured in Israel during an Iranian missile attack, David Lammy...
The Israeli military has struck Tehran’s notorious Evin prison and damaged parts of the facility, which holds many political detainees, Iran’s judiciary says. The judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported that the situation on the ground was “under control” following the attack. CCTV footage showed an explosion at one of the prison’s gates, while state TV...
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The UK government is organising a chartered flight to take British nationals out of Israel next week. Britons are being asked to register interest in the flight via online forms but have been told not to travel to the airport unless told to do so. Over the past week the government has been working with...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News The Hostages and Missing Families Forum Ofra Keidar was kidnapped by Hamas from the kibbutz during the 7 October attacks The bodies of two Israeli hostages and a soldier have been recovered from the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. He confirmed that Yonatan Samrano, Sgt Shai Levinson...
Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. As Israel warned of a “prolonged campaign” against Iran and launched a new round of airstrikes on a nuclear facility and missile sites Saturday, a number of...
Israel says it has killed a senior Iranian commander who helped plan Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel, in a strike on Saturday on the city of Qom. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the killing of Saeed Izadi marked a key point in the conflict. He was “one of the orchestrators” of...
Rayhan Demytrie Caucasus correspondent Reporting fromAgarak, Armenia BBC Some Iranians have been heading to the Agarak border crossing between Armenia and Iran to flee the country It’s hot, dusty and feels like a desert at the Agarak border crossing between Armenia and Iran. There are dry, rocky mountains surrounding the area – no trees, no...
Trump offers to talk. Iran says “No.” If this were high-stakes poker, you would say that Iran is calling Trump’s bluff, believing that he doesn’t want to intervene in the war directly, and also believing that Israel is incapable of taking out Iran’s key nuclear site buried deeply under a mountain. Khamenei is gambling that...
The UK is arranging charter flights to return British nationals from Israel once Israeli airspace re-opens, the foreign secretary has said. David Lammy confirmed the government was working with the Israeli authorities to provide flights out of Tel Aviv airport, the number of which will be based on demand. Israeli airspace is currently closed due...
“Bunker buster” bombs are not all the same, even if they all share the same name. Israel can deploy “bunker buster” bombs, but only of the 2000 lb variety. These can be very useful to strike some buried targets, particularly tunnels and certain reinforced bunkers. But the technology dates back to the 1970s, and already...
Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters Satellite imagery showed a large whole in the Arak reactor building’s domed roof Israeli jets have bombed a nuclear reactor under construction in central Iran during a wave of air strikes on the seventh day of the conflict between the two countries. The Israeli military said it targeted the Arak heavy...
There’s no question that Washington’s longstanding military and economic support made Israel’s illegal war possible. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Israel’s attack on Iran opens a huge danger of escalation in the...
Wowza. It’s no surprise that Israel has destroyed Iran’s Arak nuclear reactor. After all, it was a key element of Iran’s program to build nuclear weaponry, and a very vulnerable target. The only strategic reason not to attack it was the fact that it could have contained highly radioactive material, and Israel had to balance...
PA Media British embassy staff have been evacuated from Israel in recent days. Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel has called on the UK government to offer repatriation flights to British nationals who want to leave Israel. Dame Priti told the BBC there are “thousands upon thousands” of Britons in Israel, adding that the government’s...