The war in Gaza entered its fourth month on Monday. Bombings and fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continue amid fears of a regional escalation. What now? Life in the Gaza Strip has become “impossible”, according to the Dutch Red Cross. According to the aid organization, innocent people are the biggest victims … Read more
Jan 6, 2024 at 6:12 PM Update: 2 hours ago NU.nl regularly gives you an overview of the situation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. This time: Israel is being bombarded from Lebanon. Hezbollah, among others, fired rockets towards the country. Israel responded shortly afterwards with a series of rocket attacks. The EU warns of … Read more
Hezbollah says it has fired 62 rockets at an Israeli army observation post from Lebanon. It would be a preliminary response to the death of a Hamas leader. Israel has not yet confirmed the attack. Hamas leader Saleh Al Arouri was killed in an Israeli drone strike on the southern outskirts of Beirut on Tuesday, … Read more
By Matthijs le Loux and Robbert van der Linde Jan 5, 2024 at 5:01 am The Middle East has been shaken by several attacks in recent days. And tensions are already high in the region due to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The risk of escalation of that conflict is only increasing. … Read more
Especially in Lebanon, they are not immediately keen on a war. Many think back with fear to the war that Hezbollah fought with Israel in 2006. The country is going through a serious economic crisis. This causes dissatisfaction among the population, causing Hezbollah, the important militant group active in southern Lebanon (and supported by Iran), … Read more
Already since October, when Israel launched an ambitious retaliatory operation against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, there were concerns about the conflict spreading to other parts of the region, where Israel’s ally the United States and Iran, which supports Hamas, would also be involved. Now that an Iranian naval frigate has … Read more
US State Department press secretary Matthew Miller said Washington condemns recent statements by Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Bengvir supporting Palestinian accommodation outside Gaza [joslas]”. Smotrich is the finance minister from the far-right Religious Zionist party, while Bengvir is the national security minister from the far-right Jewish Power party. “This rhetoric is inflammatory and … Read more
Jan 2, 2024 at 6:11 PM Update: 5 minutes ago Israel has killed key Hamas leader Saleh Al Arouri in a drone strike on an office of the organization in the Lebanese capital Beirut. Hamas confirms Al Arouri’s death. Al Arouri was the deputy leader of Hamas’s political bureau. He is said to have been … Read more
Jan 02, 2024 at 1:17 pm Turkey suspects 33 people of espionage activities for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya reported this on Tuesday X. The group is also said to have prepared kidnappings. Led by the public prosecutor and the Turkish secret service MIT, the police raided 57 locations in … Read more
Jan 01, 2024 at 1:31 PM Update: 16 minutes ago Since the start of the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza, at least 29 Israeli soldiers have been killed by friendly fire or accidents. That is one sixth of the more than 170 soldiers who have been killed there since October 27, the Israeli army reports. … Read more