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Israel bombs south Gaza after Hamas hostage threat
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel bombed southern Gaza's main city on Monday after Hamas warned no Israeli hostages would leave the territory alive unless its demands for prisoner releases were met.
Urban fighting rages in Gaza
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP - Heavy urban combat raged in and around Gaza's biggest cities on Thursday as the bloodiest ever war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas entered its third month since the October 7 attacks.
Israel battles Hamas militants inside south Gaza city
AFP, Published on 07/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israeli troops battled Hamas fighters Thursday in the heart of southern Gaza's main city where a top militant leader is believed to be hiding, while pressing their offensive across the besieged territory.
'How are you not ashamed?' elderly hostage told Hamas leader: grandson
AFP, Published on 02/12/2023
» TEL AVIV - After Hamas gunmen stormed into 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz's house and shot her husband in the hand, they threw her on a motorbike and dragged her off to a tunnel network beneath Gaza, her grandson Daniel says.
India rescuers make painstaking progress towards 41 trapped in tunnel
AFP, Published on 28/11/2023
» SILKYARA TUNNEL (INDIA) - Indian rescue teams crept forward Tuesday in a painstaking dig by hand through rock and rubble towards 41 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 17 days.
Indian army digs by hand to free 41 trapped tunnel workers
AFP, Published on 27/11/2023
» SILKYARA TUNNEL (INDIA) - Indian military engineers were preparing to dig by hand Monday to reach 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 16 days, a rescue operation hit by repeated setbacks.
Indian workers trapped in tunnel for 10 days seen on camera
AFP, Published on 21/11/2023
» SILKYARA TUNNEL (INDIA) - Forty-one Indian workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for 10 days were seen alive on camera Tuesday for the first time, looking exhausted and anxious, as rescuers attempted to create new passageways to free them.
Indian rescuers to dig new shaft for 41 men trapped for 9 days
AFP, Published on 20/11/2023
» DEHRADUN, India: Indian rescuers were battling Monday to free 41 men trapped in a road tunnel for nine days, as they prepared to dig an entirely new shaft after previous efforts failed.
India tunnel rescue paused over cave-in fear
AFP, Published on 18/11/2023
» DEHRADUN, India - Indian rescuers on Saturday paused efforts to reach 40 men trapped in a collapsed road tunnel after a cracking sound created a "panic situation" over the possibility of a further cave-in.