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Last month, in the midst of conflict in Gaza, a tragic incident occurred where a 5-year-old Palestinian girl named Hind Rajab lost her life alongside her relatives. The vehicle they were escaping in, seeking refuge from the violence in northern Gaza, was struck by Israeli forces. Hind was with her uncle, his wife, and their children at the time of …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the nation’s military to prepare for the evacuation of residents from Rafah, in anticipation of a ground operation in this southern city of Gaza. This directive was announced through a statement from his office on Friday. Rafah, home to over 1.3 million people, many of whom have been displaced from other areas within …

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, recently visited Lebanon, where he engaged in discussions with the country’s acting Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, as well as the leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. During his conversation with Mikati, Amir-Abdollahian emphasized the importance of uniting efforts to cease the Israeli offenses against Gaza and to find equitable solutions for all nations in the …

Early on Saturday, Israeli air strikes hit a high-end residential area near Damascus, Syria, resulting in three fatalities, as reported by a war monitoring group. Syrian state media described the incident as an “air attack” by Israel and stated that Syria’s air defenses were activated in response. Israel has conducted numerous air strikes in Syria since the onset of the …

On Saturday, Hamas issued a stark warning about the potential for massive casualties if Israel were to conduct a military operation in Rafah, a city in Gaza. The group, which is engaged in conflict with Israel, highlighted the severe consequences of such an action in an area where over a million civilians have sought refuge from Israeli attacks elsewhere in …

In the early hours of Saturday in Rafah, Israeli airstrikes resulted in the death of at least 28 Palestinians. This occurred shortly after Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced plans for potentially evacuating hundreds of thousands from Rafah in southern Gaza in anticipation of a ground assault. Netanyahu did not specify a timeline or details, sparking widespread fear among the …

Hezbollah launched a series of rocket attacks targeting an Israeli military base in the Golan Heights, an area under Israeli control, this Friday. This aggressive move came shortly after an earlier assault on northern Israel and coincided with the visit of Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to Beirut. The attacks followed Syria’s announcement that it had intercepted two drones near …

In recent research led by physicist Jan Ambjørn from Copenhagen University, a novel explanation for the accelerated expansion of the universe, attributed to the enigmatic dark energy, has been proposed. The study suggests that this phenomenon could result from our universe merging with other smaller, nascent universes. This idea aligns more closely with observational data than the conventional Standard Cosmological …