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Israel’s defence minister says the military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage held in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas. The news comes the same week Israel’s prime minister said the bodies of Canadian Israeli Judih Weinstein and her husband, Israeli American Gadi Haggai, had been recovered. CBC | World News
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Israel ‘operated clans’ in Gaza, Netanyahu says, after being accused of arming Palestinian militias
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has “operated clans” in Gaza in a video published on social media Thursday after an opposition leader accused him of arming Palestinian militias in order to bolster opposition to Hamas. CBC | World News
Read More »Lebanon slams Israel after airstrikes in Beirut area
The Israeli military struck several sites in Beirut’s southern suburbs that it said held underground facilities used by Hezbollah for drone production Thursday, on the eve of the Eid al-Adha holiday CBC | World News
Read More »Israel recovers bodies of Canadian Israeli Judih Weinstein and husband held by Hamas
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Read More »At least 31 killed near aid site in Gaza, health officials say. Israel denies troops fired at civilians
At least 31 people were killed, with scores more wounded Sunday while on their way to receive food in Gaza, according to health officials and multiple witnesses who said Israeli forces fired on crowds about a kilometre away from where aid was being distributed. Israel’s military denied that its troops fired at civilians. CBC | World News
Read More »New Gaza aid distribution backed by Israel, U.S. met with chaos, gunfire in its 1st week
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started distributing aid this week, but it was off to a rough start as desperate Palestinians scrambled to get food after weeks of delays. The group denies any reports of violence and says it will push forward with opening more distribution points in the strip. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel announces 22 new settlements in occupied West Bank despite sanctions threat
Israel’s government has approved 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, its finance minister said on Thursday, a move condemned by Israeli human rights groups that may strain ties with key allies that have threatened sanctions. CBC | World News
Read More »How Canada’s relationship with Israel went from ‘best friend’ to breakdown
The Trudeau government started out in 2015 by continuing the strongly pro-Israel policies it inherited from Stephen Harper. From 2019 on, though, the growing extremism of Israeli politics began to strain ties. But it was Israel’s conduct of the current war in Gaza that broke the relationship. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel to ‘control all parts’ of Gaza, Netanyahu says, as aid trucks wait to enter territory
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Israel would control the whole of Gaza despite mounting international pressure that forced it to lift a blockade on aid supplies which has left the enclave on the brink of famine. CBC | World News
Read More »Graham Norton’s Israel Eurovision loss remark sparks BBC ‘bias’ fury as viewers rage
Tensions flared as Dan Wootton slammed the BBC for Graham Norton’s Eurovision comments, sparking a heated discussion on political bias. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed
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