Israel has cut off the shipment of commercial goods from Israel into the Gaza Strip, tightening the siege of the besieged Palestinian territory, as its forces continue daily attacks in violation of the US-backed ceasefire deal. According to a report from The Associated Press, the Israeli military’s occupation authority, COGAT, announced on Thursday that commercial […]

Bloomberg reported on Thursday that top Pentagon officials have expressed that they will withhold the release of an internal report on the US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, which massacred at least 120 children, through the midterm elections. According to an earlier Bloomberg investigation into the attack, within hours […]

Earlier this week, Lebanese officials seized a truckload of explosives in the northeastern Hermel region, leading to accusations from some of the officials of an impending Hezbollah assassination campaign involving bombs. On Thursday, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah confirmed that the explosives belonged to the group, but insisted that there was no assassination program, and that […]

The US military has drawn up new strike plans against Iran that include potentially using the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” according to a report from CNN. The MOAB is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal and has been used only once before in […]

Like most nights, Wednesday night saw Israeli forces carry out artillery strikes and airstrikes across southern Lebanon, with reports of strikes hitting multiple municipalities across the Tyre, Nabatieh, and Bint Jbeil Districts. Those strikes included some casualties in the town of Haddatha, in Bint Jbeil, where an Israel airstrike wounded two civilians, one of them […]

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said in a televised speech on Wednesday that the US must be “punished” in order for it to accept Iran’s demands to end the war. Ghalibaf made the comments in the context of the latest response Iran received from the US in indirect negotiations, which Mohsen Rezaei, head of […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that it would not be “convenient” for Israel to attack Iran before the upcoming Knesset elections in Israel, which are scheduled for October 27. Netanyahu was asked during an interview on Israel’s Army Radio about the possibility of striking Iran before the elections and allegations from his […]