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Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea was hit by a drone launched from Lebanon. The Israeli military confirmed the incident, stating that the drone “hit a structure” near the prime minister’s home, according to AFP. Israeli media outlet Channel 12 reported that a senior government official confirmed Iran’s involvement in the attack. Netanyahu’s office released a statement assuring that the prime minister and his wife, Sara, were not at home during the attack, and no injuries were reported. «There were no injuries,» the statement emphasized. The attack marks a significant escalation in hostilities along Israel’s northern border, with Hezbollah suspected of orchestrating the strike. Two additional drones fired from Lebanon were intercepted by Israel’s air defense system, preventing further damage. Sirens blared across several northern Israeli cities, including Haifa Bay, Kfar HaMaccabi, Kiryat Yam, and Kiryat Atta, warning of incoming rocket fire from Lebanon, The Times of Israel reported.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, has reportedly been killed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Israel’s yearlong military campaign in Gaza has hollowed out the Palestinian militant group Hamas and killed some of its top leaders. But the death of Yahya Sinwar this week deprived the group of its chief strategist and leading proponent of all-out war with Israel.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IN THE END Yahya Sinwar died brutally in the rubble of Gaza, like tens of thousands of victims of the war he unleashed a year earlier. In a firefight with an Israeli patrol in southern Gaza, the leader of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, was killed on October 17th.

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Hamas on Friday confirmed its leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, a day after Israel announced his death. «We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,» Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said in a recorded video statement broadcast by Al Jazeera. Sinwar became Israel's most wanted man after the October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest in Israeli history.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Warren Buffett's warning about 'a pin waiting for every bubble' seems prophetic as the Indian stock market faces a much-needed correction. Despite the slew of reasons offered by mainstream media, such as Iran-Israel conflict, China stimulus, regulatory changes, the underlying reality is that Indian markets have been overvalued for some time now.

Sinwar spent nearly two decades in custody whose 'high tolerance for suffering' vision shaped his role as Hamas leader. On Thursday, Israel said troops in Gaza had killed Sinwar. The secretive figure feared on both sides of the battle lines engineered the surprise October 7, 2023, attack into southern Israel, along with the even more shadowy Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’ armed wing. Israel said that it killed Deif in a July airstrike in southern Gaza that killed more than 70 Palestinians.

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Thursday evening announced that it had eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of deadly October 7 attack, in a targeted ground operation in Rafah in southern Gaza. The Israeli military said that «after a year-long pursuit», troops «eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organisation, in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip» on Wednesday. According to Israeli media reports, after a year-long manhunt, Yahya Sinwar, a prime target for Israel, was killed «by chance» by regular IDF soldiers. The IDF also released drone footage of what it said were the «last moments» of Yahya Sinwar, showing him sitting on a couch, surrounded by rubble, inside a dilapidated apartment. In his final moments, Yahya Sinwar is seen throwing an object at the drone.

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West Bank are running out of cans and sugar, blocked by the prolonged closure of a Jordan border crossing, managers of two soda-bottling plants in the occupied Palestinian territory said. In the latest global supply chain snarl due to the conflict in the Middle East, a crucial trade crossing at the Allenby bridge has been largely closed to commercial traffic since early September after a Jordanian gunman shot and killed three Israeli civilians. Sugar and cans previously were transported to West Bank bottlers from Jordan via the bridge, according to Hatim Omari, manager of a plant that bottles Pepsi, 7UP and Mirinda for sale in the Palestinian territories and neighboring countries.

Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday. Intelligence services had been searching for Sinwar for months and had been gradually restricting the area where he could operate, the military said on Thursday, after dental records, fingerprints and DNA testing provided final confirmation of Sinwar's death. «The dozens of operations carried out by the IDF and the ISA over the last year, and in recent weeks in the area where he was eliminated, restricted Yahya Sinwar’s operational movement as he was pursued by the forces and led to his elimination,» the Israeli military said in a statement.

Yahya Sinwar, the Palestinian militant leader who helped in plotting the deadliest assault on Israel in its history, released a drone footage where the leader was seen throwing a stick as what appeared to be his last restort while his right arm seemed to be severely wounded. As per the footage released by IDF International Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav, the militant leader was seen alone in a ruined Gaza apartment with the walls blown out from shelling, sitting in a chair covered by dust, with his head and face obscured by a scarf.

Joe Biden on Friday commended Israel for 'eliminating' Hamas' Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, often termed as the mastermind of the October 7, 2023 attaks on Israel. Taking to his official account on X, Biden said that right after Israel suffered what he called the 'deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust', he ordered American intelligence officials to work 'side by side' with Israeli officials. «Shortly after the October 7 massacres, I directed Special Operations personnel and our intelligence professionals to work side-by side with their Israeli counterparts to help locate and track Sinwar and other Hamas leaders hiding in Gaza», read Biden's statement.

IDF) announced on Thursday that they have killed Yahya Sinwar, who was considered the mastermind behind the October 7 attack on Israel. The confirmation came from Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz. «The mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7th, was eliminated today by IDF soldiers,» stated Katz. Sinwar, along with Mohammed Deif, was believed to have planned the October 7 attack, which led to the deaths of about 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians. This incident sparked a conflict causing over 42,000 Palestinian casualties in Gaza, as reported by local health authorities. Hamas has said the attack was in retaliation for Israel's treatment of Palestinians and aimed to bring global attention to their plight.

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underground bunkers used by Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials said. It wasn't immediately clear what damage was done in the strikes. However, it is incredibly rare for the B-2 Spirit to be used in the strikes targeting the Houthis, who have been attacking ships for months in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HARROWING FOOTAGE of limbs attached to intravenous drips inside burning hospital tents in Deir al-Balah in Gaza on October 14th was a reminder that the war there—one of several fronts Israel has been fighting on since Hamas massacred 1,200 people a year ago—is far from over. Although the world’s focus is on Lebanon and a possible Israeli retaliation against Iran, the horror in Gaza continues.

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«If you look at OPEC and their announcements in terms of usage, they continue to revise the fact that consumption is actually going down over time. And we do hear that coming from them,» says Jonathan Barratt, CIO, Probis Securities. I think that we have seen this volatile move in crude oil prices ever since we saw Iran launching that ballistic missile against Israel. We saw that spike in crude oil prices. And ever since then, we have been monitoring the movement quite closely. How are you looking at all of these developments and where it is likely to take crude oil prices from here on? Jonathan Barratt: Look, obviously a lot of volatility, crude prices under a lot of pressure. I guess there is a sense of relief that we get that Israel has decided, based on what the US has maybe just told Israel, that they would not attack any of Iran's oil facilities and we get a sense of relief that. And part of that geopolitical risk has sort of come off. But we have also got other influences there in oil prices, which are making it come down at the moment and that is also, of course, China and some of the weak data we are getting out of there. So, there are some major things at the moment and at the moment, they are causing the price of oil to come lower.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ZIV HOSPITAL is nestled at the bottom of Safed, the highest city in Israel, not far from the border with Syria and Lebanon. In November the hospital acknowledged that hackers had penetrated its computer systems.