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Patients forced to flee al-Aqsa hospital in Gaza after Israeli evacuation order for nearby areas – Middle East crisis live

We reported in an earlier post that one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals – the al-Aqsa martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah – has been emptying out in recent days as Israel has ordered the evacuation of nearby areas.

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Israel-Gaza war: Israeli forces claim to have killed prominent Hezbollah member in attack on Lebanon’s Ayta al-Jabal – as it happened

The IDF said Friday that Israeli forces, using an airforce aircraft, attacked the area of Eita al-Zut in southern Lebanon and killed a prominent Hezbollah member Muhammad Mahmoud Najam.

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Israel launches reprisal strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

Israel launched strikes on more than 10 areas across southern Lebanon, a spokesperson for the army said, hours after Hezbollah launched more than 50 rockets and a swarm of drones, hitting homes in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and wounding one person.

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Biden approves nuclear strategy refocusing on China threat – report

Joe Biden has approved a US nuclear strategy to prepare for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and North Korea, according to a New York Times reported on Tuesday.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: 120,000 Russians flee border areas, says state media; Zelenskiy says situation in Ukraine’s east is ‘difficult’

Over 122,000 Russians have fled the border regions amid Ukraine’s Kursk invasion, according to Russian media.

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Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu’s office says meeting with Blinken was ‘positive’

Benjamin Netanyahu’s three-hour meeting with Antony Blinken was “positive and conducted in a good spirit”, according to a statement from the Israeli prime minister’s office.

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Ukrainian team blew up Nord Stream pipeline, claims report

The Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up by a small Ukrainian sabotage team in an operation that was initially approved by Volodymyr Zelenskiy and then called off, but which went ahead anyway, according to claims in a report in the Wall Street Journal.

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Gaza death toll hits 40,000, with thousands more yet to be counted

The figure given by the strip’s health officials does not tell the full story of Palestinian losses, excluding those missing or buried in rubble

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Israel-Gaza war live: Israel publishes plan for new West Bank settlement as regional tensions simmer

Israel has published plans for one of its proposed new settlements in the occupied West Bank, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday, upping the ante a day before planned new Gaza peace talks seen as vital to preventing a regional war.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia claims to have stopped attempt by Ukraine to break deeper into Kursk region

Russia’s defence ministry says it has stopped an attempt by Ukraine to break deeper into the Kursk region and has struck back against Kyiv’s forces in the Sumy region.