Biden said Israel’s response to Iran would not come on Thursday, but US officials declined to offer more detail. US officials say they have been having “a number of conversations” with their Israeli counterparts in the aftermath of Iran’s missile attack on Tuesday, but declined to say when or how Israel planned to respond, and…
Any Israeli response to Iran’s missile barrage should be ‘proportional’, says the US president. United States President Joe Biden has voiced opposition to any strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in response to Tehran’s missile attack on Israel. When asked by reporters on Wednesday whether he would back such retaliation, Biden stated “the answer is no”….
As Israeli air strikes began raining down on Lebanon last week, China moved quickly to condemn the latest escalation of fighting in the Middle East. Meeting his Lebanese counterpart on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged that Beijing would stand “on the side of…
The Israeli military has carried out huge air attacks on Yemen, a country more than 2,000km (1,240 miles) away, for the second time in over two months amid escalating regional tensions. Major ports and power stations operated by the Iran-backed Houthis were bombed, as Israel has expanded attacks from Gaza to Lebanon and Yemen, targeting…
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris express support despite threat of regional war. Political leaders in the United States have rallied behind Israel after massive Israeli air strikes in Beirut levelled residential buildings and killed the powerful Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris – both Democrats – and…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated that the United States believes diplomacy is the best path forward as Israel continues to bombard Lebanon, pushing the region into a worsening crisis. Speaking to reporters in New York on Friday afternoon, the top US diplomat said the Middle East and the world faced “a precarious…
NewsFeed Surveillance video captured the massive explosion from an Israeli strike on a building in Lebanon’s Saadiyat, just south of the capital Beirut. Initial reports say Israel allegedly targeted a Hezbollah weapons warehouse. Published On 24 Sep 202424 Sep 2024 Source link
On live television, heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided Al Jazeera’s occupied West Bank bureau in Ramallah and handed the bureau head, Walid al-Omari, a notice to shut it down. The soldiers ordered everyone working the overnight shift at the bureau to leave, telling them they could take only their personal belongings. What happened and why?…