Middle East crisis live: US personnel injured in attack on Iraq army base as region braces for fresh violence

US secretary of defence Lloyd Austin said rocket strike marked a ‘dangerous escalation’More than 39,653 Palestinians have been killed and 91,535 have been wounded in the Israeli military offensive on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.Lebanon is working to ensure any response to the Israeli killing of a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut does not trigger total war in the Middle East, its foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib said on Tuesday. Continue reading…



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Author : Tom Ambrose

Publish date : 2024-08-06 13:24:18

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