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Ethiopian airstrikes target Tigray capital Mekele

Ahram Online Ethiopia announced carrying airstrikes on the capital of the Tigray region on Friday. This is the fourth attack by government forces on the region in a week. “Friday’s strikes targeted a former military training centre, near Mekele, which operates as a battle network hub for the rival Tigray …

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Israel launches air strikes on Hamas sites in Gaza

Ahram Online Israel launched airstrikes on what it said was “a Hamas military site” in Gaza early on Tuesday, after incendiary balloons were sent into the occupied territories. “Fighter jets struck a Hamas rocket manufacturing workshop and a Hamas military compound in Khan Yunis, in Southern Gaza”, a statement by …

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Israeli strikes hit Gaza and a Palestinian teen killed in Nablus

Ahram Online Israeli warplanes struck targets in Gaza, late on Monday, resulting in retaliations using machineguns from Hamas. The clashes are the heaviest fighting since the 11-day war in May. At the same time, officials in the occupied West Bank said, “a Palestinian teen was killed in a clash with …

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Israel strikes Gaza for the third time since the ceasefire

Times of Egypt and Egypt Independent “Israeli fighter jets struck a weapons manufacturing site in Gaza overnight in response to incendiary balloons launched over the frontier into Israel”, an Israeli military spokesman said early Friday. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the strike, which the Israeli source said, …

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Israeli Bennett coalition government strikes Gaza

Ahram Online Israel carried out several air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, in the first flare-up between the two sides since last month’s Israeli offensive on the costal enclave which lasted 11 days. The strikes were the first by the new coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett, who …

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Israel continues air strikes amid truce expectations

Egypt Independent Israel unleashed yet another wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, early on Thursday, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding several. Hamas retaliated by firing more rockets, even as expectations rose that a cease-fire could be coming. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back against calls from …

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Egyptian medical aid to Gaza via Rafah crossing

Egypt Independent Egypt sent a large shipment of aid to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, in North Sinai, after reopening on Sunday. The Rafah crossing was opened to receive wounded Palestinians for treatment at Egyptian hospitals. Heavy airstrikes between Hamas and Israel have intensified, entering the second week on Monday. …

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Israel air strikes Gaza and cancels 500 commercial entry permits

Ahram Online   Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip early on Sunday in retaliation for projectiles fired from the Palestinian enclave into southern Israel, the army said. Military jets and helicopters struck targets linked to Hamas, the Islamist group which controls Gaza, shortly after midnight, with no reported …

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Clashes escalate between the warring sides in Yemen

Egypt Independent   “A drastic escalation in fighting between the Saudi-led military coalition and Huthi rebels in Yemen, has resulted in killing and wounding hundreds of people over the past week”, officials and tribal leaders said on Monday. US backed Arab coalition battling to restore Yemen’s internationally recognised government stepped up …

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