Some aid groups have accused Israel of using hunger as a weapon in its war against Hamas. A top Hamas police commander met in mid-March with the heads of a Gaza clan who’d been commandeering aid meant for hungry Palestinians. He told them to stop taking the shipments or they’d be killed. A week later,…
TOKYO/NEW DELHI: Oil prices extended last week’s losses on Monday on concern about slow demand in China, although lingering geopolitical risk surrounding the Middle East and Russia limited the decline. Brent futures fell 12 cents, or 0.2%, to $81.96 a barrel as at 07.23 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) dropped 21 cents, or…
Romi Gonen informed her mother at 10.14 am, “Mom, we were ambushed.” The family of an Israeli woman who was kidnapped by the Hamas group has released the harrowing tape of her last moments before she was taken into captivity. 23-year-old Romi Gonen called her mother, Meirav, just moments after the car in which she…
