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...
The US has said it is not involved in Israel’s bombardment of Iranian nuclear sites, an escalation that is threatening to send the region deeper into conflict. Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement soon after the strikes began, saying Israel had taken “unilateral action” and warning Iran to not retaliate against the US....
We speak to political scientist Neve Gordon and medical anthropologist Guy Shalev about their new article, “The Shame of Israeli Medicine,” which looks at the “complicity of the Israeli medical establishment with Israel’s egregious violations of international law.” The article’s third author, Osama Tanous, is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and has not been able...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation For months, a worsening Israeli-made famine has gripped the Gaza Strip. Food is scarce, and prices for what is available have skyrocketed since October 2023. Beyond relentless bombing and killing, Israel has enforced a policy of starvation, sealing all border crossings and denying 2...
Jeremy Bowen International editor Getty Images Witnesses and international medical teams report terrible scenes of killing as Israeli troops opened fire in the hours of Tuesday before dawn on Palestinians who were converging on the new aid distribution site in southern Gaza. It was “total carnage” according to a foreign witness. An official statement from...
EU says Israeli strikes in Gaza ‘go beyond what is necessary’ to fight Hamas Read full article at source...
On Tuesday 13 May, Israeli strikes on the European Hospital in Gaza killed 28 people and injured dozens, according to the Hamas-run civil defence agency. BBC Verify analysed footage, gathered witness testimony and spoke to munitions and legal experts to examine how one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals came under Israeli attack. Expert analysis and...
The UK government has announced sanctions on Daniella Weiss, a far-right Israeli settler known as the “godmother” of the settler movement. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the move “demonstrates our determination to hold extremist settlers to account as Palestinian communities suffer violence and intimidation”. Weiss, 79, is the leader of a radical settler organisation called...
Amid President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, we continue our interview with DAWN’s Sarah Leah Whitson and HuffPost’s Akbar Shahid Ahmed about Trump’s acceptance of a luxury plane gifted to him by the Qatari government, nuclear negotiations with Iran and Saudi Arabia, a less cooperative relationship with Israel and more. TRANSCRIPT This is...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation In the heart of Gaza, during the darkest days of Israel’s 18-month genocide, Chef Mona Zahed continued to cook. At the age of 38, with four children depending on her, Zahed became a beacon of hope for her family as she navigated despair and...
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Since March 2, Israel has blocked all food, medicine, fuel, and other relief from entering the besieged Gaza Strip, home to 2.1 million Palestinian people. “Israel is starving, killing and displacing Palestinians while also targeting and blocking humanitarian organizations trying to save their lives,” Ammar Hijazi,...
A missile fired from Yemen landed near the main terminal of Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on Sunday morning, Israeli authorities said. Unverified footage posted online appeared to show drivers on a road nearby pulled over to take cover as a projectile lands, creating a plume of black smoke near the airport, which is on the...
A man has been charged with a terrorism offence after allegedly attempting to enter the Israeli embassy in London with a knife on Monday. Abdullah Sabah Albadri, 33, of no fixed address, was charged on Wednesday with preparation of terrorist acts and two counts of possession of a bladed article, the Metropolitan Police has said....
Anna Holligan BBC News, Hague correspondent EFE Dozens of countries are expected to give evidence across five days of hearings The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has begun hearings for an opinion on Israel’s legal duty to allow aid to Palestinians and to co-operate with the UN’s Palestinian aid agency, Unrwa...