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Sep 16, 2024 - World

Osama Hamdan rejects claim by Israeli defence minister that Hamas ‘no longer exists’ as a military formationSee all our Israel-Gaza war coveragePalestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children.A strike early on Monday flattened a home in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving a total of 10 people dead.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed publicly on Tuesday that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly killed in a strike that also took the life of Hamas’ northern Gaza brigade chief, Ahmed Ghandour, in November. According to reports from Hebrew media, families of Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer, both 19, and civilian Elia Toledano, 28, who were abducted by Hamas on 7 October, were informed by IDF officials that their loved ones had tragically lost their lives as a result of IDF actions after a comprehensive inquiry.Israel is allegedly recruiting asylum seekers from Africa to take part in military operations in Gaza in exchange for residency rights, according to an investigation by Israel’s daily newspaper Haaretz. According to the report, based on testimonies of asylum seekers and defence officials, speaking off-the-record, Israel’s defence establishment is “offering African asylum seekers who contribute to the war effort in Gaza assistance in obtaining permanent status in Israel”.Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to New York on 24 September, the first day of the high-level general debate by world leaders at the annual UN general assembly, his office said Sunday. It said Netanyahu is scheduled to stay until 28 September in the US, which he had visited in July for official talks and a congressional address.A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Far’a camp, he left behind a wife and five children. Continue reading...

Sep 16, 2024 - World

A suspect is in custody after the incident, which occurred at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, FloridaArmed suspect arrested in Florida after ‘attempted assassination’ of TrumpPalm Beach county sheriff’s office is hosting its press conference.According to authorities, a witness said: “I saw the guy running out in the bushes.” Continue reading...

Sep 16, 2024 - World

Martin Hewitt’s appointment to tackle small boat crossings comes as PM heads to Italy to learn about its immigration policiesThe appointment of a former police chief to head the new border security command shows ministers are making serious attempts to stop unofficial Channel crossings rather than the “gimmicks” of the last government, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said.Ahead of talks centred on migration between Keir Starmer and the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, in Rome, Cooper said such international cooperation was the only way to make progress – but declined to say when the pace of arrivals might drop. Continue reading...

Sep 16, 2024 - World

Deaths reported in Romania, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic where police say seven people are also missingKarl Nehammer, the Austrian chancellor, has said that the Austrian armed forces have been deployed in storm-hit regions and that 2,400 soldiers are on standby to help fill sandbags, evacuate people or do clean-up work.Here are some images of the flooding in Poland. Continue reading...

Sep 16, 2024 - World

Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to ‘act with seditious intent’ for displaying slogan ‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times’A man in Hong Kong has pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person to be convicted under the city’s controversial national security law known as Article 23, passed in March.Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of “doing acts with seditious intent”. Continue reading...