Alice Cuddy Reporting from Beersheba, southern Israel EPA Shortly before a ceasefire between Iran and Israel was due to take effect, residents in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba were woken early on Tuesday by the sound of missile alarms on their phones. “Extreme alert,” the message read, warning of an imminent strike. Then the...
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UNICEF warns just 40 percent of Gaza’s drinking water-production facilities are estimated to be functional. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Israel’s blockade of fuel entering Gaza is causing a “man-made drought,” according to a warning from the United Nations...
Reuters US President Donald Trump is considering whether to join Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, as the conflict continues for a sixth day and angry rhetoric ramps up between all sides. American strikes could involve using superior weaponry to hit an underground nuclear site at Fordo, according to five sources who spoke to the...
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. On June 13, Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran. Airstrikes hit buildings across the capital, Tehran, striking residential neighborhoods as well as military sites. In just...
Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent Getty Images A woman looks out of her bomb-damaged flat in Tehran Israel’s conflict with Iran may look like a mismatch on paper – a nation of nine million people taking on a giant of the Middle East, home to 88 million. But Israel’s formidable and sophisticated military forces – with...
Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent BBC On Friday, after Israel launched an unprecedented attack on Iran, its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Iranians directly. Speaking in English, he told them that the time had come for them to stand up against an “evil and oppressive regime”. Israel’s military operations were, he announced, “clearing the path...
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The war between Israel and Iran marks the culmination of decades of shadow-boxing between Tehran and Tel Aviv. This is a war that has long worn the mask of deniability, played out in assassinations, cyber operations, and various forms of entanglements from Damascus to the Red Sea. Its rules were unwritten but widely understood: escalation...
Amir Azimi Editor, BBC Persian Getty Images Some Israeli attacks hit populated areas in Tehran and other places Beyond Israel’s stated goal of destroying what it calls an existential threat from Iran’s nuclear capabilities with its attacks on Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu has a wider aim – regime change in Tehran. Under this scenario, he might...
“The American people do not want another endless war in the Middle East,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) is warning President Donald Trump that acting on his threats to take up arms with Israel in its war with Iran would be an unconstitutional circumventing of Congress to start a war that the...
the Visual Journalism team BBC Israel has hit Iran with its biggest wave of air strikes in years, targeting the country’s nuclear programme, and is promising to continue its attacks. Senior military figures and nuclear scientists were killed in the overnight strikes and there are unconfirmed reports that civilians, including children, were also among the...
Kasra Naji, BBC Persian & Alys Davies, BBC News AFP/Getty Israel struck dozens of targets, including nuclear facilities, military sites and private residences, across Iran on Friday, killing a number of senior military commanders in what it called “Operation Rising Lion”. The Israeli attacks also targeted a number of other influential figures linked to Iran’s...
Frank Gardner Security correspondent BBC Israel’s “Operation Rising Lion”, as it calls its attack on Iran, is unprecedented. It is vastly more extensive and ambitious than anything that has come before, including the two missile and drone exchanges it had with Iran last year. For Iran, this is the biggest assault on its territory since...
Watch: Footage shows explosions and damaged buildings ablaze in Iran’s capital Tehran Israel launched strikes across Iran on Friday, saying they targeted the “heart” of Iran’s nuclear programme. With counter-attacks expected “in the immediate future”, a state of emergency was declared in Israel. Hossein Salami, chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards – a powerful branch...