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Saba Yemen
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Al-Quds Brigades destroy Zionist military vehicle south of Khan Younis
Gaza – Saba: Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, announced on Tuesday that they had destroyed a Zionist military vehicle south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. In a statement received by the Yemeni News Agency (SABA), the Brigades said: "We destroyed a Zionist military vehicle by detonating a (Barq – shock) explosive device near the 'Ibad al-Rahman Mosque' in the Ma'an area, south of Khan Younis." This comes as part of the Palestinian resistance factions' response to the genocide crimes committed by the Zionist enemy against the people of the Gaza Strip, with American support, since October 7, 2023—including killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement—while ignoring international appeals and the International Court of Justice's orders to halt these actions. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Al Mayadeen
9 hours ago
- Health
- Al Mayadeen
'Israel' strikes Gaza kids fetching water, blames it on 'malfunction'
At least eight Palestinians, most of them children, were killed and more than a dozen others were wounded on Sunday after an Israeli missile strike hit central Gaza, according to local officials. The Israeli military alleged the missile missed its intended target due to a technical malfunction. In a statement, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) said the strike was aimed at an Islamic Jihad operative in the area, but the missile landed "dozens of metres from the target." The missile struck a water distribution site in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp, killing six children and injuring 17 others, according to Dr. Ahmed Abu Saifan, an emergency physician at al-Awda Hospital. Water shortages in Gaza have escalated in recent weeks, with fuel shortages forcing the shutdown of desalination and sanitation plants. Residents have increasingly relied on distribution centers to collect water in plastic containers. Elsewhere on Sunday, Palestinian media reported that an Israeli airstrike on a busy market in Gaza City killed 12 people, including a well-known hospital consultant. Israeli strikes on Gaza residents trying to fetch aid or water are nothing new. It has become the norm for the brutal occupation forces. Just three days ago, Israeli occupation forces committed a harrowing massacre by slaughtering women and children awaiting aid. A brutal massacre unfolded in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, after Israeli occupation forces targeted a crowd of starved Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid. According to Al Mayadeen's correspondent, the devastating airstrike killed 16 civilians, including 10 children, as desperate parents stood in line to receive nutritional supplements for their little ones. A child asks his martyred mother to forgive him, his voice shaking as he kneels beside her body. Moments earlier, Israeli forces bombed a queue of women and children waiting for food supplements during a famine at Al-Tayyarah roundabout in Deir al-Balah. The strike killed 15… Israeli attack reportedly struck near the al-Bashir laundry, in the vicinity of the al-Zuwari junction, where mothers and children had gathered in hopes of securing basic sustenance. Eyewitnesses described a chilling scene: lifeless bodies strewn across the street, many of them young children, an atrocity captured in graphic footage widely circulated by local media. In the horrendous attack, "Israel" claimed it was targeting a Hamas operative, which activists called a propaganda tactic "Israel" resorts to whenever it wants to justify a crime or massacre. A child asks his martyred mother to forgive him, his voice shaking as he kneels beside her body. Moments earlier, Israeli forces bombed a queue of women and children waiting for food supplements during a famine at Al-Tayyarah roundabout in Deir al-Balah. The strike killed 15… Health Ministry stated that the death toll from the war, which began in October 2023, has now exceeded 58,000. In 24 hours, 139 additional deaths were recorded. Efforts to broker a ceasefire remain stalled, with Palestinian and Israeli sources saying the two sides are deadlocked, primarily over the scope of an eventual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Indirect negotiations over a US-backed proposal for a 60-day truce are ongoing in Doha, but the cautious optimism seen last week has largely faded, as "Israel" continues to bring in new demands. In the early hours of Sunday, an Israeli missile struck a home in Gaza City where a family had sought refuge after evacuating from the southern outskirts. "My aunt, her husband and the children, are gone. What is the fault of the children who died in an ugly bloody massacre at dawn?" said Anas Matar, standing amid the ruins. "They came here, and they were hit. There is no safe place in Gaza," he said.
Al Mayadeen
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Al Mayadeen
Al-Qassam, Al-Quds Brigades target Israeli tanks, vehicles in Gaza
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced on Tuesday that it had targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks with Yasin 105 and Tandem charges in the central Khan Younis area in southern Gaza. The brigades also shelled a gathering of enemy soldiers and military vehicles with heavy and medium mortar shells in the al-Baddaw area north of Khan Younis, as part of their ongoing operations to repel Israeli incursions. Meanwhile, Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, declared on Monday that it had destroyed an Israeli military vehicle using a pre-planted anti-armor explosive device. The attack occurred during an incursion by occupation forces in the eastern part of the al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. On Wednesday, the al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters carried out a raid at dawn against a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers and military vehicles in the Abasan al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Brigades said that its fighters targeted a Merkava tank and an armored personnel carrier with Yassin-105 anti-armor shells. Two Israeli military excavators were also hit during the same operation using similar munitions. The group added that during the operation, its fighters attempted to capture an Israeli soldier. However, due to battlefield conditions, they were unable to do so and instead neutralized the soldier and seized his weapon. Following the confrontation, al-Qassam fighters observed an Israeli helicopter landing at the site of the operation to carry out an evacuation, underscoring the intensity of the battle in the targeted area. Read more: Hamas seeks full Israeli withdrawal, aid in Gaza truce talks
Nahar Net
18 hours ago
- Politics
- Nahar Net
Mediators working to bridge gaps in faltering Gaza truce talks
by Naharnet Newsdesk 15 July 2025, 11:19 Stuttering Gaza ceasefire talks entered a second week on Monday, with mediators seeking to close the gap between Israel and Hamas, as more than 20 people were killed across the Palestinian territory. The indirect negotiations in Qatar appear deadlocked after both sides blamed the other for blocking a deal for the release of hostages and a 60-day ceasefire after 21 months of fighting. An official with knowledge of the talks said they were "ongoing" in Doha on Monday, telling AFP: "Discussions are currently focused on the proposed maps for the deployment of Israeli forces within Gaza." "Mediators are actively exploring innovative mechanisms to bridge the remaining gaps and maintain momentum in the negotiations," the source added on condition of anonymity. Hamas accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- who wants to see the Palestinian militant group destroyed -- of being the main obstacle. "Netanyahu is skilled at sabotaging one round of negotiations after another, and is unwilling to reach any agreement," the group wrote on Telegram. In Gaza, the civil defense agency said at least 22 people were killed Monday in the latest Israeli strikes in and around Gaza City and in Khan Yunis in the south. An Israeli military statement said troops had destroyed "buildings and terrorist infrastructure" used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza City's Shujaiya and Zeitun areas. The Al-Quds Brigades -- the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, which has fought alongside Hamas -- released footage on Monday that it said showed its fighters firing missiles at an Israeli army command and control center near Shujaiya. The military later on Monday said three soldiers -- aged 19, 20 and 21 -- "fell during combat in the northern Gaza Strip" and died in hospital on Monday. Another from the same battalion was severely injured. - Talks 'ongoing' - US President Donald Trump said he was still hopeful of securing a truce deal, telling reporters on Sunday night: "We are talking and hopefully we're going to get that straightened out over the next week." Hamas's top negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, and the leadership of Hamas and Islamic Jihad held a "consultative meeting" in Doha on Sunday evening to "coordinate visions and positions", a Palestinian source with knowledge of the talks told AFP. "Egyptian, Qatari and American mediators continue their efforts that make Israel present a modified withdrawal map that would be acceptable," they added. On Saturday, the same source said Hamas rejected Israeli proposals to keep troops in more than 40 percent of Gaza, as well as plans to move Palestinians into an enclave on the border with Egypt. A senior Israeli political official countered by accusing Hamas of inflexibility and trying to deliberately scupper the talks by "clinging to positions that prevent the mediators from advancing an agreement". - Pressure - Netanyahu has said he would be ready to enter talks for a more lasting ceasefire once a deal for a temporary truce is agreed, but only when Hamas lays down its arms. He is under pressure to wrap up the war, with military casualties rising and with public frustration mounting at both the continued captivity of the hostages taken on October 7 and a perceived lack of progress in the conflict. Politically, Netanyahu's fragile governing coalition is holding, for now, but he denies being beholden to a minority of far-right ministers in prolonging an increasingly unpopular conflict. He also faces a backlash over the feasibility, cost and ethics of a plan to build a so-called "humanitarian city" from scratch in southern Gaza to house Palestinians if and when a ceasefire takes hold. Israel's security establishment is reported to be unhappy with the plan, which the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and Israel's former prime minister Ehud Olmert have described as a "concentration camp". "If they (Palestinians) will be deported there into the new 'humanitarian city', then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing," Olmert was quoted as saying by The Guardian newspaper late on Sunday. Hamas's attack on Israel in 2023 resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. A total of 251 hostages were taken that day, of whom 49 are still being held, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel's military reprisals have killed 58,386 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
eNCA
a day ago
- Politics
- eNCA
Mediators working to bridge gaps in faltering Gaza truce talks
DOHA - Stuttering Gaza ceasefire talks entered a second week on Monday, with mediators seeking to close the gap between Israel and Hamas, as more than 20 people were killed across the Palestinian territory. The indirect negotiations in Qatar appear deadlocked after both sides blamed the other for blocking a deal for the release of hostages and a 60-day ceasefire after 21 months of fighting. An official with knowledge of the talks said they were "ongoing" in Doha on Monday, telling AFP: "Discussions are currently focused on the proposed maps for the deployment of Israeli forces within Gaza." "Mediators are actively exploring innovative mechanisms to bridge the remaining gaps and maintain momentum in the negotiations," the source added on condition of anonymity. Hamas accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- who wants to see the Palestinian militant group destroyed -- of being the main obstacle. "Netanyahu is skilled at sabotaging one round of negotiations after another, and is unwilling to reach any agreement," the group wrote on Telegram. In Gaza, the civil defence agency said at least 22 people were killed Monday in the latest Israeli strikes in and around Gaza City and in Khan Yunis in the south. An Israeli military statement said troops had destroyed "buildings and terrorist infrastructure" used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza City's Shujaiya and Zeitun areas. The Al-Quds Brigades -- the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, which has fought alongside Hamas -- released footage on Monday that it said showed its fighters firing missiles at an Israeli army command and control centre near Shujaiya. The military later on Monday said three soldiers -- aged 19, 20 and 21 -- "fell during combat in the northern Gaza Strip" and died in hospital on Monday. Another from the same battalion was severely injured. US President Donald Trump said he was still hopeful of securing a truce deal, telling reporters on Sunday night: "We are talking and hopefully we're going to get that straightened out over the next week." Hamas's top negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, and the leadership of Hamas and Islamic Jihad held a "consultative meeting" in Doha on Sunday evening to "coordinate visions and positions", a Palestinian source with knowledge of the talks told AFP.
