Hezbollah fires 200 rockets at Israel after commander killed

Lebanon&s Hezbollah launched a big rocket and drone attack at Israel yesterday and threatened to hit new targets in retaliation for the killing of a top commander, in the latest surge of violence in the steadily worsening conflict across the border.

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Israel approves nearly 5,300 settler homes in West Bank in ‘biggest land appropriation in 30 years&

An Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group says the government has approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.

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Hezbollah fires 200 rockets at Israel after killing of senior commander

The Lebanese Hezbollah group says it has launched more than 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel in retaliation over a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.

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‘Small in size yet infinite in scope&: historian digs deep into Jerusalem&s history

When Mark Twain visited Jerusalem in 1867, he remarked: &The sights are too many. They swarm about you at every step: no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem … seems to be without a stirring and important history.& And yet, for a city whose history seems so present, and so familiar, there is also much that we do not know; or know badly.

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‘Mama, can you hear me?& & Tears of wounded Palestinian boy (12) whose mother was killed by Israeli airstrike

Palestinian boy Mohammed Qamar lies wounded in a Gaza hospital after an Israeli airstrike that killed his mother and two other relatives, and injured his five siblings.

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Israeli soldiers stand near a military vehicle near the Israel-Gaza border. Photo: Reuters

One of the largest hospitals in southern Gaza is &now completely empty& after staff, patients and their families fled the facility following an Israeli evacuation order for parts of Khan Younis, according to World Health Organisation director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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