Israel vowed to retaliate following an Iranian missile attack on Tuesday, with army spokesman saying it would respond at the time and place of its choosing.

President Joe Biden ordered the US military on Tuesday to “aid Israel’s defense” and shoot down Iranian missiles targeting Israel, the White House said.

Israel said Tuesday it was ready to counter any attack from Iran as a US official warned of an imminent missile strike, after Israeli raids against Tehran-backed militants in Lebanon sent tensions soaring.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned on Saturday what he called an Israeli “massacre” in Lebanon after strikes that Israel said killed the Hezbollah armed group’s leader.

Israel’s military announced Saturday that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut the previous night, but there was no confirmation from the Lebanese armed group. “Hassan Nasrallah is dead,” military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani announced on X. Captain David Avraham, another military spokesman, also confirmed to AFP that the […]

Israel flatly rejected on Thursday a push led by key backer the United States for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon, vowing to keep fighting Hezbollah militants “until victory”.

Israeli media identified the man as Mordechai Maman of Ashkelon and said he was born in 1952, without specifying his birth date.

Over 20 people have been killed and more than 450 others wounded by a second wave of explosions from Walkie-talkies in Lebanon

The Israeli military has released video footage of a tunnel in the Gaza Strip where the bodies of six hostages, allegedly shot dead by Hamas, were discovered. Israel Defense Forces Spokesman, Daniel Hagari, presented the footage during a news conference after touring the tunnel.

Hamas said on August 12 that its fighters had shot and killed an Israeli hostage and wounded two others, both women, “in two separate incidents” in Gaza

The cyclic pattern of US actions in the past ten months, follow a template. First, it increases military aid to Israel but claims strenuous efforts to make peace.

Iran on Tuesday rejected European countries’ attempts at mediation amid rising tensions in the Middle East, as Tehran insisted on its right to launch a retaliatory strike on Israel.

US President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday approved more than $20 billion in new weapons sales to Israel, brushing aside pressure from rights activists to stop arms deliveries over the humanitarian toll in Gaza.

Israel said the school was targeted with “precision munitions” because it “served as an active Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility”

Hamas said in a statement that its “commander” Samer al-Hajj was killed “in a Zionist strike in the city of Sidon”.