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Economic Times
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Economic Times
Israel will 'take control of all' of Gaza Strip, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says
Amidst intensified military operations in Gaza, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared Israel's intent to "take control" of the entire territory, citing the necessity of preventing famine for diplomatic reasons. Air strikes have resulted in numerous casualties, as the conflict escalates. Despite international pressure and ongoing negotiations, a breakthrough remains elusive, with both sides holding firm on their demands. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads 'Reduced to starvation' Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads No breakthrough in talks 'No one left' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel will "take control" of the whole of Gaza, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged Israel announced it would let a "basic amount" of food into the Gaza Strip , Netanyahu said it was necessary to prevent a famine for "diplomatic reasons".In Gaza, rescuers said air strikes killed at least 22 people, after the military announced it had begun "extensive ground operations" against Hamas."The fighting is intense and we are making progress. We will take control of all the territory of the Strip," Netanyahu said in a video posted on Telegram."We will not give up. But in order to succeed, we must act in a way that cannot be stopped."Israel has come under mounting international pressure, including from key backer the United States, to lift a total blockade it imposed on Gaza more than two months ago."We must not let the population (of Gaza) sink into famine, both for practical and diplomatic reasons," Netanyahu said, adding that even friends of Israel would not tolerate "images of mass starvation".In a report this month, the UN- and NGO-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said Gaza was at "critical risk of famine", with 22 percent of the population facing an imminent humanitarian "catastrophe".Israel said its blockade since March 2 was aimed at forcing concessions from the Palestinian militant group, but UN agencies have warned of critical shortages of food, clean water, fuel and week US President Donald Trump acknowledged that "a lot of people are starving", adding "we're going to get that taken care of".In his inaugural mass, Pope Leo XIV called on the faithful not to forget "our brothers and sisters who are suffering because of war."In Gaza, the surviving children, families and elderly are reduced to starvation," he Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir argued against any resumption of aid, saying on X: "Mr Prime Minister, our hostages receive no humanitarian aid.""The Prime Minister is making a serious mistake in this move, and he has no majority at all. Hamas must only be crushed, and not at the same time provided with oxygen for its survival," he said in a military on Monday said the air force had struck "160 terror targets" in Gaza over the past day, as it pressed an expanded campaign, which Israel says aims to free hostages and defeat Hamas, started Saturday as the two sides entered indirect talks in Qatar on a office said negotiators Doha were "working to exhaust every possibility for a deal -- whether according to the Witkoff framework or as part of ending the fighting".Steve Witkoff is the US Middle East envoy who has been involved in statement said a deal "would include the release of all the hostages, the exile of Hamas terrorists, and the disarmament of the Gaza Strip".Since a two-month ceasefire collapsed in March as Israel resumed its offensive, negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States have failed to make a has opposed ending the war without Hamas's total defeat, while Hamas has balked at handing over its Monday, there were heavy strikes in and around the main southern city of Khan Yunis, where civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said 11 people were killed and several others also reported another 11 deaths in strikes on other parts of the footage from Gaza on Sunday showed people sifting through ruined shelters and rescuers treating the wounded."All my family members are gone. There is no one left," said a distraught Warda al-Shaer."The children were killed as well as their parents. My mother died too, and my niece lost her eye."The United Nations had warned of the risk of famine in Gaza before the aid blockade was October 2023 attack that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official also took 251 hostages during the attack, 57 of whom remain in Gaza, including 34 the military says are health ministry said Sunday at least 3,193 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 53,339.
India Today
19-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Netanyahu says Israel to control all of Gaza after launch of new ground assault
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel will "take control" of the whole of Gaza, as the military pressed a newly intensified campaign in the war-ravaged Israel announced it would let a "basic amount" of food into the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu said it was necessary to prevent a famine for "diplomatic reasons".In Gaza, rescuers said air strikes killed at least 22 people, after the military announced it had begun "extensive ground operations" against "The fighting is intense and we are making progress. We will take control of all the territory of the Strip," Netanyahu said in a video posted on Telegram."We will not give up. But in order to succeed, we must act in a way that cannot be stopped." Israel has come under mounting international pressure, including from key backer the United States, to lift a total blockade it imposed on Gaza more than two months ago."We must not let the population (of Gaza) sink into famine, both for practical and diplomatic reasons," Netanyahu said, adding that even friends of Israel would not tolerate "images of mass starvation".In a report this month, the UN- and NGO-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said Gaza was at "critical risk of famine", with 22 percent of the population facing an imminent humanitarian "catastrophe".REDUCED TO STARVATIONadvertisementIsrael said its blockade since March 2 was aimed at forcing concessions from the Palestinian militant group, but UN agencies have warned of critical shortages of food, clean water, fuel and week US President Donald Trump acknowledged that "a lot of people are starving", adding "we're going to get that taken care of".In his inaugural mass, Pope Leo XIV called on the faithful not to forget "our brothers and sisters who are suffering because of war."In Gaza, the surviving children, families and elderly are reduced to starvation," he said. But Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir argued against any resumption of aid, saying on X: "Mr Prime Minister, our hostages receive no humanitarian aid.""The Prime Minister is making a serious mistake in this move, and he has no majority at all. Hamas must only be crushed, and not at the same time provided with oxygen for its survival," he said in a BREAKTHROUGH IN TALKSIsrael's military on Monday said the air force had struck "160 terror targets" in Gaza over the past day, as it pressed an expanded campaign, which Israel says aims to free hostages and defeat Hamas, started Saturday as the two sides entered indirect talks in Qatar on a office said negotiators Doha were "working to exhaust every possibility for a deal -- whether according to the Witkoff framework or as part of ending the fighting".Steve Witkoff is the US Middle East envoy who has been involved in discussions. Netanyahu's statement said a deal "would include the release of all the hostages, the exile of Hamas terrorists, and the disarmament of the Gaza Strip".Since a two-month ceasefire collapsed in March as Israel resumed its offensive, negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States have failed to make a breakthrough. Netanyahu has opposed ending the war without Hamas's total defeat, while Hamas has balked at handing over its ONE LEFTOn Monday, there were heavy strikes in and around the main southern city of Khan Yunis, where civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said 11 people were killed and several others also reported another 11 deaths in strikes on other parts of the territory. AFPTV footage from Gaza on Sunday showed people sifting through ruined shelters and rescuers treating the wounded."All my family members are gone. There is no one left," said a distraught Warda children were killed as well as their parents. My mother died too, and my niece lost her eye." The United Nations had warned of the risk of famine in Gaza before the aid blockade was October 2023 attack that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official also took 251 hostages during the attack, 57 of whom remain in Gaza, including 34 the military says are dead. Gaza's health ministry said Sunday at least 3,193 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 53,339. IN THIS STORY#Israel
Time of India
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Telegram founder says he rejected a Western request to silence conservative voices in Romania
Live Events The founder of the Telegram messaging app said on Sunday he had refused a request by a Western government, which he did not name but appeared to imply was France, to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of a presidential election run-off were voting on Sunday in a run-off that pits a hard-right eurosceptic against a centrist independent. The outcome of the contest will have significant implications for both Romania's struggling economy and European Union vote takes place nearly six months after the initial ballot was cancelled because of alleged Russian interference - denied by Moscow - in favour of far-right frontrunner Calin Georgescu, who was banned from standing again."A Western European government... approached Telegram, asking us to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of today's presidential elections. I flatly refused," founder Pavel Durov wrote on Telegram."Telegram will not restrict the freedoms of Romanian users or block their political channels," Durov said, adding to his post an emoji of a baguette which might hint at France."You can't 'defend democracy' by destroying democracy. You can't 'fight election interference' by interfering with elections. You either have freedom of speech and fair elections - or you don't. And the Romanian people deserve both," he post on X accompanied by a screenshot of Durov's message, the French foreign ministry denied any interference by France."Completely unfounded allegations are circulating on Telegram and Twitter (X) regarding alleged French interference in the Romanian presidential election," it said."France categorically rejects these allegations and calls on everyone to exercise responsibility and respect for Romanian democracy."Durov, who was born in Russia and is based in Dubai, was detained last year in France amid an investigation into crimes related to child pornography, drug trafficking and fraudulent transactions associated with the app. In March Durov, who denied any wrongdoing, returned to Dubai.
India Today
18-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Russia launches war's biggest drone attack after Ukraine peace talks; 1 killed
The largest known Russian drone attack since full-scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the Kyiv region and injured at least three people, Ukrainian authorities said early on Sunday, as Moscow stepped up strikes following peace talks on launched 273 drones by 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), targeting chiefly the central Kyiv region and the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions in the country's east, Ukraine's air force on data provided by the air force, this was Russia's largest drone attack on Ukraine of the war. On the eve of the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 23, Moscow launched a then-record 267 first direct talks in three years between Russia and Ukraine on Friday failed to broker the temporary ceasefire Kyiv and its allies have been urging. The 100 minutes of talks in Istanbul yielded an agreement to trade 1,000 prisoners of war on each President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on sustained overnight Russian drone attack on Sunday killed a 28-year-old woman in the capital region and injured at least three people, including a 4-year-old child, Ukrainian authorities as a result of the enemy attack in the Obukhiv district, a woman died from her injuries," Mykola Kalashnik, governor of the Kyiv region, posted on and the region around it as well as the eastern part of Ukraine were under raid warnings for nine straight hours overnight before they were called off at around 9 a.m. local time (0600 GMT). Air defence units were engaged several times trying to repel attacks, the military said on Telegram."It's been a tough night. The Russians have always used war and attacks to intimidate everyone in negotiations," Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine's Centre for Countering Disinformation, said on Telegram about Sunday's defence units destroyed 88 of the drones overnight. The attack also included 128 simulator drones that were lost along the way without hitting anything, Ukraine's air force said in a statement on Saturday, a Russian drone attack killed nine civilians after hitting a shuttle bus in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine, Kyiv said. Zelenskyy called the attack "deliberate" and urged stronger sanctions on Moscow, which said it had attacked a military of those injured in the Obukhiv district just south of Kyiv city were hospitalised, Kalashnik said. Several residential buildings were damaged in the area, he the city of Kyiv, fragments of a destroyed drone damaged the roof of a non-residential building, the city's military administration said on Telegram. There were no reports of injuries, it Watch IN THIS STORY#Volodymyr Zelenskyy#Russia#Ukraine
