Skip next section Israel says it struck Hamas rocket launch sites in Khan Younis
04/08/2024April 8, 2024
Israel says it struck Hamas rocket launch sites in Khan Younis
The Israeli military said on Monday it had destroyed rocket launch posts in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), several strikes over the last few days ultimately wiped out the .
The IDF also said that Hamas had embedded the sites in humanitarian areas in the west of the city and had used them to fire rockets into Israel over the course of the six-month war.
The news comes after IDF announced on Sunday it had withdrawn its forces from the Palestinian city, wrapping up a key phase in its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group.
But Israeli defense officials said troops were merely regrouping as the military prepares to , a Gaza border town that has seen its numbers swell to over a million as people flee Israeli operations that have left much of the rest of the enclave in ruins.
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Skip next section Explanations for aid worker deaths not ‘satisfactory,’ Australian PM Albanese says
04/08/2024April 8, 2024
Explanations for aid worker deaths not ‘satisfactory,’ Australian PM Albanese says
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday he expected Israeli cooperation as Canberra looks into how the Israel Defense Forces , including Australian Zomi Frankcom, in Gaza last week.
Australia has appointed Mark Binskin, a retired national defense chief, to look into the deadly strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy.
“We would expect that someone of Mr. Binskin’s stature, frankly, will be given every cooperation from the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli government,” Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“We don’t find the explanations to be satisfactory to this point,” Albanese added. “We need proper accountability, we need full transparency about the circumstances and I think that is what the Australian public would expect.”
The Israeli military has described the strike as a tragic error.
The seven aid workers’ deaths had “shaken the world,” Albanese told the state broadcaster, adding it is “unacceptable” that almost 200 aid workers have died since the war began in October last year.
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Skip next section ICJ hearing in case against Germany over Gaza ‘genocide’ underway
04/08/2024April 8, 2024
ICJ hearing in case against Germany over Gaza ‘genocide’ underway
The has opened the first day of a two-day hearing in a case that accuses Germany of enabling acts of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law in the in Gaza.
Nicaragua has argued that by giving Israel political, financial and military support and by defunding the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians, , “Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide and, in any case has failed in its obligation to do everything possible to prevent the commission of genocide.”
Nicaragua’s case builds upon an that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
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Skip next section Israel says it killed a high-ranking Hezbollah militant in Lebanon strike
04/08/2024April 8, 2024
Israel says it killed a high-ranking Hezbollah militant in Lebanon strike
The Israel Defense Forces said Monday it had killed a commander of Hezbollah’s secretive Radwan Force in southern Lebanon.
The strike against Ali Ahmad Hassin comes as regional tensions soar after last week, stoking fears Israel’s war in Gaza could spill over into the wider region.
Hassin is one of the killed since Israel and began exchanging fire at the start of the war six months ago. The Israeli military said two other Hezbollah militants were also killed in the strike early Monday.
Hezbollah has announced Hassin’s death but did not give any details on the circumstances or his role with the group, in line with how it normally announces the deaths of its members.
The Israeli military said Hassin was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Sultaniyeh. It said in a statementthat Hassin was responsible for carrying out attacks on northern Israel.
Iran provides money and weapons to Hezbollah, as well as Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups fighting Israel in Gaza.
Both Hezbollah and Hamas are designated terror organization by the US, Israel and Germany and other governments.
Hezbollah has said it would stop firing rockets once a cease-fire is reached in Gaza Strip, ending the .
rm/ab (Reuters, AP, AFP, dpa)
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