Summary of today’s events courtesy of Al Jazeera:
The U.S. has announced that about 20 aid trucks will be allowed to enter Gaza via Egypt in the coming days, with Israel saying it will not block the aid.
The announcement follows a visit to Israel by President Joe Biden, after which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Washington’s support “will ensure continuation” of the war.
The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 1,300 people...
(BBC News) The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has said it is striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
It has not given further information.
Lebanese Al Mayadeen TV reported that Israeli air strikes targeted two villages in southern Lebanon in the early hours of Thursday.
The missiles were fired at Kafr Shuba and near Odaisseh, the channel added.
Hezbollah said it carried out attacks on Israeli military posts along the Israel-Lebanon border on Wednesday.
Hezbollah – like Hamas – has been...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned Israel that it must pull back from its attacks on Gaza or face the possibility of an expanded conflict.
Speaking on Tuesday, Khamenei accused Israel of committing “genocide” in its assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, adding that Iran-backed forces across the region would not sit on the sidelines indefinitely.
“If the crimes of the Zionist regime continue, Muslims and resistance forces will become impatient, and no...
(BBC News) The words "democratic Taiwan" appeared more times in the island's national day celebrations this year than any other – by far.
"We have brought the international spotlight to Democratic Taiwan," said President Tsai Ing-wen last week, in her last national day address before she steps down as the first democratically elected female president.
"The people of Taiwan will remain a democratic and free people for generations to come," she added. It was both an...
(BBC News) Ecuadoreans are voting in the run-off of a presidential election that has been overshadowed by a crime wave that has turned the country into one of the most violent in the region.
The first round of the election was held just days after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicenio was shot dead in the capital, Quito.
Seven suspects were arrested in connection with his assassination, but have since been killed in jail.
Security is voters' main concern.
Voters will choose...
(BBC News) In the days immediately after the Hamas attack on Israel, the Republicans seeking the US presidency had focused their criticism on President Joe Biden and what they saw as American weakness and missteps that had paved the way for violence.
That changed on Wednesday night, however, when Donald Trump addressed the topic in a speech near his home in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Now some of Trump's rivals are condemning the former president in...
(BBC News) Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said every Hamas member was "a dead man" after the first meeting of his country's emergency government.
Alongside him, opposition figure Benny Gantz said it was "a time for war".
But US President Joe Biden said he had spoken to Netanyahu and made it clear that Israel must "operate by the rules of war".
The death toll in Israel has reached 1,200. More than 1,100 people have been killed by...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) In Lebanon, people are no strangers to conflict.
“If there has to be a war, then there will be a war. Do you know how many wars we have been through since I have been alive? We are used to it,” 55-year-old Ahmed Ali told Al Jazeera at a transport hub in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.
In just his lifetime, Lebanon has been through a devastating civil war, a conflict with Israel, internal battles...
(BBC News) U.K. special forces killed nine people "in their beds" during an Afghanistan night raid, an independent inquiry has heard.
Family members say the victims were unarmed civilians. The SAS had claimed they acted in self-defence.
Senior officers suspected troops of carrying out a policy of executing "fighting age" men even if they posed no threat.
The government announced the inquiry after BBC Panorama revealed an SAS squadron killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances on one six-month...
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Summary
Rescuers say they have found more than 250 bodies at the site of an Israeli music festival attacked by Hamas militants on Saturday
The Israeli military says at least 700 people died in the attacks overall, more than 2,000 were injured, and that a number of hostages are being held in Gaza
Retaliatory Israeli air strikes have killed at least 413 people in the Gaza Strip, with 2,300 wounded, according to the...
