Lebanon: Hezbollah and Israeli forces trade rocket and drone strikes
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / October 8, 2023
Hezbollah launches artillery and rocket strikes, hitting occupied Shebaa Farms area and drawing Israeli retaliation.
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah on Sunday launched a number of artillery and military strikes targeting Israeli positions in the occupied Shebaa Farms area.
The Israeli army responded with artillery...
US: Republicans blame attacks on Israel on Biden prisoner swap with Iran
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / October 8, 2023
Biden official says Republicans are ‘completely false’, accuses them of ‘total lies’.
Republican lawmakers in US Congress, as well as leading presidential candidates, have piled on the Biden administration saying that Gaza’s military operation against Israel is tied to the Iran-US prisoner swap that granted Tehran access...
The West’s hypocrisy towards Gaza’s breakout is stomach-turning
Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye / October 8, 2023
There will be little sympathy in the West as, yet again, besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel, the immense suffering justified by the term ‘Israeli retaliation’.
The current outpouring of sympathy for Israel should make anyone with half a heart retch.
Not because it...
Shock and anger: Israelis search for loved ones after Hamas attack
Bethan McKernan & Quique Kierszenbaum
The Guardian / October 8, 2023
At least 600 Israelis have been killed and around 100 taken hostage in the deadliest attack in the country’s history.
Steve Markachenko, a 25-year-old from Carmel, in northern Israel, had been looking forward to attending the Nova music festival on...
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 2: Israel declares war as casualties skyrocket
MWPB / October 8, 2023
The Mondo Weiss Palestine Bureau (MWPB): Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed over the past 24 hours as Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip in response to “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.” It is reported that over 600 Israelis have been killed in the past 24...
Hundreds killed in Israel, Gaza after surprise resistance raid
Maureen Clare Murphy
Middle East Eye / October 8, 2023
Israel pounded Gaza overnight Saturday in retaliation for a surprise and unprecedented offensive launched by Hamas fighters in Gaza at dawn on Saturday.
Israeli leaders threatened unprecedented violence against Gaza in retaliation, with a lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party calling...
Two Israelis killed in Egypt attack
Hamza Hendawi
The National / October 8, 2023
Policeman opened fire on tourists in Alexandria.
Two Israeli tourists were killed on Sunday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, police officials said.
They said a policeman on routine duty in the city's Manshiyah district “randomly” opened fire at a group of Israeli tourists visiting Pompey's Pillar,...
Six Palestinians killed in West Bank
IMEMC News / October 8, 2023
An 18-year-old Palestinian man and a 13-year-old child were the latest in a long list of civilians killed on Saturday, October 7th. Following the massive attacks in Gaza, in which over 200 Palestinians were killed on Saturday, marches and protests broke out...
Death toll rises to more than 1,100 after surprise Hamas attack on Israel
Bethan McKernan & Peter Beaumont
The Guardian / October 8, 2023
Benjamin Netanyahu warns of ‘long and difficult war’ as security cabinet signs off on wide-ranging authorisation for military action.
The Israeli death toll after the surprise attack by the militant group Hamas on communities in the country’s south has...
Gaza-Israel: As rockets began to fire, Palestinians prepared for the worst
Maha Hussaini
Middle East Eye / October 7, 2023
When fighters stormed Israeli territory, Gaza's residents knew that ferocious retaliation would soon arrive.
When Palestinian fighters began seizing control of Israeli communities on Saturday morning, residents of the besieged Gaza Strip knew that a storm was coming.
Dozens of fighters, mainly belonging to the Hamas...
