Israel deployed tanks to the northern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday (February 23), marking the first such deployment in over 20 years.
In a statement, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced that he had ordered the military to intensify operations in the Palestinian refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur al-Shams in the northern West Bank to dismantle militant infrastructure. He also mentioned that 40,000 Palestinians had fled the camps.
The tanks will be stationed in Jenin as part of this operation, according to the military statement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the military to conduct a more intense operation in the West Bank after explosions occurred on buses near Tel Aviv on Thursday (February 20), which Netanyahu's office referred to as a failed mass attack. No casualties were reported.
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The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem says it will provide on-site passport and consular services to settlers based in the West Bank on Friday 27 February. The move marks the first time American consular officials have offered such services to settlers, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Israel on Wednesday (25 February) for a two-day visit during which he will meet with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, and address the Knesset.
Iran has signed a secret €500 million arms deal with Russia to rebuild air defences, weakened during last year’s war with Israel, the Financial Times has reported. The agreement, signed in December in Moscow, will see Russia deliver 500 Verba launch units and 2,500 9M336 missiles over three years.
Comments by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggesting that Israel had a biblical right to much of the Middle East drew condemnation over the weekend from countries across the region, which described the remarks as “dangerous and inflammatory”.
The Taliban in Kabul has rejected Russian claims that more than 23,000 militants from around 20 international terror groups are currently operating within Afghanistan.
Four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the war is no longer defined by shock but by scale.
Seven people were killed after gunmen ambushed a police patrol in Kohat, a district in Pakistan’s north-west near the Afghan border, on Tuesday, in an attack that comes amid rising militant violence and heightened tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Four members of Syria’s Internal Security Forces were killed and two others injured on Monday (23 February) in an attack by the ISIS (Daesh) terrorist group targeting a checkpoint west of Raqqa in northeastern Syria, the Interior Ministry said.
Four years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war can be measured not only in lives and territory, but in money. In Part One, the war’s cost was measured in casualties and kilometres. In Part Two, it is measured in billions of dollars.
Thousands of dead grebes have been found along Azerbaijan’s Caspian coastline, prompting authorities to expand inspections as early laboratory tests show no signs of infectious disease.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Israel on Wednesday (25 February) for a two-day visit during which he will meet with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, and address the Knesset.
A Su-30SM fighter jet crashed during a scheduled training flight in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region on 25 February, with both pilots ejecting safely, the defence ministry said.
A group of sick and injured Palestinians and their caregivers left Gaza through the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday (25 February) for medical treatment abroad, as limited evacuations continue under tight restrictions.
The Taliban's Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, has accused Pakistan of deliberately targeting civilians in recent airstrikes on Afghanistan, telling a senior United Nations official the attacks did not hit armed groups, as the UN confirmed more than a dozen members of one family were killed.
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