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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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6 January, 2025

Palestinians carry the body of a child at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Lancet study estimates Gaza death toll 40 per cent higher than recorded

UK-led group of researchers estimated that almost 60 per cent of deaths were women, children and the elderly.

10 Jan 2025 - 12:59PM

Israel-Gaza war

Poland says won’t arrest Netanyahu if he visits for Auschwitz commemoration

10 Jan 2025 - 5:20AM

United States

Jimmy Carter honoured at state funeral as US mourns former president

10 Jan 2025 - 12:26PMvideocam

Middle East

Lebanon’s army chief Aoun elected president, showing regional shifts

Election of Joseph Aoun is seen as a step towards reviving government institutions and securing international aid for Lebanon’s struggling economy.

9 Jan 2025 - 9:54PM

Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun has been elected president by the country’s parliament. Photo: AFP

Singapore

3 ‘radicalised’ Singaporeans detained over possible local attacks, to fight Israel

The three Singaporean men were not linked to one other, but their detentions highlight the growing threat of online radicalisation.

9 Jan 2025 - 7:18PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel army says body of hostage retrieved from Gaza

The body was found as international mediators kept up a push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

9 Jan 2025 - 11:32AM

The Philippines

Filipinos fear US’ anti-ICC bill may impede probe into Duterte’s drug war

The bill slams the ICC’s ‘illegitimate’ charges against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes related to the Israel-Gaza war.

8 Jan 2025 - 7:00PMvideocam

Relatives of drug war victims calling for justice against then President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila in 2021. Photo: Reuters

War and conflict

Opinion | China can help Syria transform from conflict corridor to bridge of commerce

An inclusive, tolerant Syria and a China-led grand coalition to rebuild and revive the economy could see regional strife give way to prosperity.

7 Jan 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas official says ready to free 34 Gaza hostages under mooted deal

Israel and Hamas wrangle over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home.

6 Jan 2025 - 6:47PM

Israel-Gaza war

UNRWA says 7 babies dead in Gaza from cold weather, lack of shelter

Displaced Palestinians in war-torn Gaza are living in tents with little protection against the elements.

6 Jan 2025 - 1:29PM

A father holds the blanket-wrapped body of his newborn, who reportedly died of hypothermia. Photo: AFP

Middle East

Israeli military says missile from Yemen intercepted

The missile interception comes only days after an attempted missile and drone strike by the Houthis on Israel.

5 Jan 2025 - 10:53AM

The Israeli Army said that its air defences intercepted missiles fired from Yemen. Photo: DPA

Israel-Gaza war

US Congress notified of planned US$8 billion weapons sale to Israel

Package would add to at least US$17.9 billion in military aid the US has provided Israel since Hamas attacks in 2023 launched the war.

5 Jan 2025 - 12:28AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza as new ceasefire talks begin

At least 17 of those who died were killed in air strikes on 2 houses in Gaza City, bringing the day’s death toll across Gaza to 70.

5 Jan 2025 - 5:41AM

Israel-Gaza war

Opinion | The West and the rest: how genocide in Gaza will usher in the end of ‘his-story’

The breach of international laws by the West has led non-Western countries to seek new global historical narratives and tell ‘our-stories’.

4 Jan 2025 - 12:00PM

Houses in the northern Gaza Strip stand badly damaged last month after Israeli military operations. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

At least 30 killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes

While stalled ceasefire talks were set to resume in Qatar, dozens of Gazans were also killed the previous day.

3 Jan 2025 - 9:25PM

Colleagues and friends mourn over the body of freelance journalist Omar al-Derawi and other victims of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Friday. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli strikes kill Gaza head of police, 67 others, Palestinians say

Thursday’s death toll in war-torn Gaza was among the highest of recent weeks.

3 Jan 2025 - 1:21PM

Middle East

Israeli military says commandos raided missile factory in Syria in September

Military spokesman called nighttime raid on Iranian-led facility one of Israel’s most complex operations in years.

3 Jan 2025 - 3:21PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel threatens to step up Gaza strikes as ceasefire talks reportedly stuck again

Israel conducted more than 1,400 air strikes on targets in Gaza in December alone, marking an average of 45 per day.

2 Jan 2025 - 8:14PM

Smoke rises from an Israeli strike as the Israeli military conducts operations inside the Gaza Strip. Photo: Reuters

India

Video | Indians replace Palestinian construction workers in Israel

But the imported workers still can’t fill the void left by 80,000 Palestinians banned from entering the country.

1 Jan 2025 - 10:00AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Indians replace Palestinian construction workers in Israel

But the imported workers still can’t fill the void left by 80,000 Palestinians banned from entering the country

1 Jan 2025 - 10:00AM

Israel-Gaza war

Gaza hospitals turned into ‘death traps’ by Israeli strikes: UN

A UN report details numerous attacks on medical facilities, resulting in significant casualties and damage, leaving Palestinians with limited access to healthcare.

31 Dec 2024 - 7:17PM

A Palestinian man inspects the site of an Israeli strike on Al-Wafaa hospital. Photo: Reuters

Middle East

Israel, at UN, warns Houthis risk sharing same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah

Israel says it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, following a ‘final warning’ to Houthis to halt attacks.

31 Dec 2024 - 3:13PM

Fragments of a Houthi ballistic missile launched from Yemen at Israel in the central Israeli town of Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem. Photo: AFP

Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu has undergone successful prostate surgery, Israel hospital says

Medical procedure comes as Israeli PM, 75, manages multiple crises including the war in Gaza and his trial for alleged corruption.

30 Dec 2024 - 6:22AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Israel targets Gaza City hospital with missile, killing 7: Palestinian officials

Israeli said Al-Wafaa Hospital was not being used at the time of the attack and was instead functioning as a Hamas command centre.

30 Dec 2024 - 4:36AMvideocam

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s PM Netanyahu to undergo prostate removal surgery, his office says

Netanyahu on Wednesday was ‘diagnosed with a urinary tract infection resulting from a benign prostate enlargement’, his office said.

29 Dec 2024 - 6:14AMvideocam

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre. Photo: AFP / Getty Images / TNS

Israel-Gaza war

Israel detains director of one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals during raid

Gaza’s health ministry said Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was arrested on Friday along with dozens of other staff.

29 Dec 2024 - 5:46AM

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, shows the damage inside the hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza on December 18. On Saturday, Gaza’s health ministry said Abu Safiya had been arrested by Israeli soldiers on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Middle East

WHO chief says he escaped death in Israeli strikes on Yemen airport

The head of the World Health Organization said he narrowly escaped death in fatal Israeli strikes on the airport in Houthi rebel-held Sanaa.

28 Dec 2024 - 9:03PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli troops forcibly remove staff, patients from Gaza hospital, officials say

Patients and staff forced to strip outside Kamal Adwan Hospital, Gaza health ministry says, but Israel denies claims it entered complex.

28 Dec 2024 - 5:55AMvideocam

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