AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi is among the politicians who hopped on the Ghibli trend wagon and shared animated pictures on social media. What Hyderabad MP, however, did differently was, unlike others, he chose a more serious issue to be part of the trend. Owaisi used a Ghibli-style animation of his picture holding a banner reading…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 1, 2025, appointed Zamir as the country’s new army chief after the top commander resigned the previous month, taking reponsibility for failing to stop the Palestinian militant attack on October 7, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel swore in a new commander of its military on Wednesday (March…
Residents of the Al-Far’a Camp, West Bank, evacuate their homes as the Israeli military continues its operation in the area, on February 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli security forces have expanded a military operation to Nur Shams in the West Bank, a military spokesperson said on Sunday (February 9, 2025), announcing the expansion…
 On December 15, 2024, Israel pulled down the shutters to its embassy in Dublin. Israel’s Foreign Minister accused Ireland of “anti-Semitic rhetoric” and of crossing “every red line” in their relations. Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Simon Harris of the Fine Gael party was quick to reject that accusation, while asserting Ireland’s stance of a…
A view shows smoke and fire on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, after Israel said it had noted armed group Hezbollah preparing to attack Israel and had carried out pre-emptive strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on August 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it had carried out…
The Israeli military said its forces recovered the bodies of six hostages in an overnight operation in southern Gaza | Photo Credit: AFP The Israeli military said on Tuesday (August 20, 2024) that it recovered the bodies of six hostages taken in Hamas’ October 7 attack that started the war in Gaza, as U.S. and…
The threat of polio is rising fast in the Gaza Strip, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak. One case has been confirmed, others are suspected and the virus was detected in wastewater in six different locations in…
Total death toll crosses forty thousand in Palestine | Photo Credit: AP The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday (August 18, 2024) that at least 40,099 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory in more than 10 months of war with Israel. The toll includes 25 deaths over the past 24 hours,…
Only a ceasefire deal in Gaza stemming from hoped-for talks this week would hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its soil, three senior Iranian officials said. Iran has vowed a severe response to Haniyeh’s killing, which took place as he visited Tehran late last…
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip flee from Hamad City, following the evacuation order by the Israeli army to leave parts of the southern area of Khan Younis, Sunday (August 11, 2024) | Photo Credit: AP Hundreds of Gazans fled the northern neighbourhoods of Khan Yunis on Sunday…
