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☆ Iran Strikes Jihadist Group in Pakistan as Middle East Conflicts Spread
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Saeed Shah | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Gen. Hossein Salami, commander in chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in Tehran last month. Photo: abedin taherkenareh/ShutterstockISLAMABAD—Iran hit a jihadist group in Pakistan with a missile and drone strike Tuesday, according to Iranian state media, as a series of conflicts continue to spread across the Middle East in the wake of Israel’s war in Gaza. The target of the unusual attack inside Pakistan was a militant group, Jaish al-Adl, in Pakistan’s remote western province of Balochistan, which has a long border with Iran. Islamabad condemned the attack, which it said had killed two children and injured three more.

Persons: Hossein, abedin, al Organizations: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Adl Locations: Tehran, Shutterstock ISLAMABAD, Iran, Pakistan, Gaza, Balochistan, Islamabad

DOHA, Qatar—The chief brokers of the Israel-Hamas hostage-prisoner exchange are pushing the two sides for a long-term cease-fire that would prolong the truce in Gaza beyond the current two-day extension and start talks that would end the war altogether, said Egyptian and Qatari officials. A long-term cease-fire would likely require Israel and Hamas to make hard-to-swallow concessions, such as trading Israeli soldiers for potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the officials said. And it would require Israel to hold back on an offensive in southern Gaza intended to capture the strip and kill Hamas’s top leadership, the officials said. Hamas could also have to accept demilitarization, they added.

Locations: DOHA, Qatar, Israel, Gaza

DOHA, Qatar—The chief brokers of the Israel-Hamas hostage-prisoner exchange are pushing the two sides to prolong the cease-fire in Gaza through the end of the week and start talks on a permanent truce that would end the war altogether, said Egyptian and Qatari officials. A long-term cease-fire would likely require Israel and Hamas to make hard-to-swallow concessions, such as trading Israeli soldiers for potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the officials said. And it would require Israel to hold back on an offensive in southern Gaza intended to capture the strip and kill Hamas’s top leadership, the officials said.

Locations: DOHA, Qatar, Israel, Gaza

DOHA, Qatar—The chief brokers of the Israel-Hamas hostage-prisoner exchange are pushing the two sides to prolong the truce in Gaza beyond the current two-day extension and start talks that would end the war, Egyptian and Qatari officials said. On Tuesday, Hamas released 12 hostages, including 10 Israelis, as part of the current extension of the truce with Israel. The hostages have arrived in Israel, according to Israeli and Egyptian officials.

Locations: DOHA, Qatar, Israel, Gaza

☆ Gaza Hospital Is Now a ‘Death Zone,’ U.N. Says After Visit
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Saeed Shah | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Hundreds of patients and medical staff evacuated Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital on Saturday under orders from Israel’s armed forces, hospital officials and Palestinian health authorities said. Israel’s military denied issuing an evacuation order. Photo: Naaman Omar/Zuma PressTEL AVIV—The United Nations said Sunday that it had sent an inspection mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, a focal point of Israel’s military campaign in the strip, and warned that lack of fuel, clean water and other essentials had turned the facility into a “death zone.”The U.N.’s report on conditions in the Gaza City hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, came as fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas militants intensified in northern parts of the city for a second day. Israeli troops are seeking to extend their control of what they say is a key urban stronghold of Hamas’s military wing from the coastline toward the east.

Persons: Gaza’s, Naaman Omar Organizations: Gaza’s Al, Zuma Press TEL, The United Nations, Shifa Locations: Zuma Press TEL AVIV, Al, Gaza

Qatar has become a key negotiator for the release of hostages held by Hamas. In recent years, the tiny Emirate has led mediation efforts in Afghanistan, Iran and Ukraine. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how Qatar became a diplomatic power broker. Photo illustration: Marina CostaIsrael and Hamas are closing in on an internationally brokered deal to pause fighting and free some of the roughly 240 hostages taken by the militant group, officials close to the talks said, amid heightened scrutiny of the civilian toll of Israel’s invasion of Gaza. The hostage talks—brokered by Egypt, Qatar, and the U.S.—have moved in fits and starts for weeks and could break down again.

Persons: WSJ’s Shelby Holliday, Marina, Marina Costa Israel, — Organizations: Marina Costa, U.S Locations: Qatar, Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, Egypt

The Israeli military Wednesday said its troops came under fire outside Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, as they entered part of the medical complex Israel says Hamas militants are operating from. A senior Israeli military official said Israeli soldiers killed four militants during the firefight on their way into the hospital and had found weapons inside, adding that they saw “concrete evidence” that Hamas militants were operating there.

Organizations: Shifa Locations: Al, Gaza’s, Israel

Israeli soldiers moved into Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, on Wednesday, searching buildings and questioning Palestinians sheltering there in an operation that carries high stakes for both sides of the war. The Israeli offensive has faced international criticism for the killing of civilians and destruction of infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. Israel contends the hospital compound sits atop underground complexes and a command center used by militants, a claim endorsed by the U.S. Hamas denies those claims.

Organizations: U.S Locations: Gaza’s, Al, Gaza, Israel

☆ Big Oil Producer Lines Up African Carbon Deals Ahead of Climate Talks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The headquarters of the U.A.E.’s state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. Photo: Kamran Jebreili/Associated PressOne of the world’s biggest exporters of fossil fuels, the United Arab Emirates, is attempting to position itself as a leader in establishing global carbon markets as it prepares to host annual United Nations climate talks this month. Those efforts are coming under scrutiny as a company owned by one of the U.A.E.’s royal families prepares to secure rights to produce carbon credits from a giant expanse of African forest.

Persons: Kamran Jebreili Organizations: Abu, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, United Arab, United Nations Locations: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, United

Israeli troops and Hamas militants fought intense street battles Sunday around the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, leaving the medical facility with dwindling supplies for thousands sheltering there while a power outage led to the death of two newborns, according to doctors there. Doctors described an increasingly desperate situation at hospitals in northern Gaza, including the biggest one, Al-Shifa Hospital, where they said dozens of dead bodies have been left in the open and decomposing and nearly 40 prematurely born babies are without the incubators they need.

Organizations: Shifa Locations: Gaza

A Palestinian mourned the death of family members in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Photo: mahmud hams/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesIsraeli troops were advancing toward the heart of Gaza City, engaging in heavy gunbattles and ratcheting up pressure on neighborhoods that have become a refuge for tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Israeli military said Thursday it captured an area on the western side of the Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza City, after a 10-hour gunbattle with Hamas that unfolded in tunnels and on city streets that have become a wasteland. Israel troops fought amid destroyed buildings, backed up by tanks, and with armored bulldozers clearing a path through the rubble, pictures released by Israel Defense Forces showed. Weapons were captured and tunnel shafts uncovered, the Israeli military said

Persons: Khan Younis, mahmud Organizations: Agence France, Getty, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Israel

RAMALLAH, West Bank—Secretary of State Antony Blinken worked to assure Palestinian leaders that the U.S. is committed to helping Palestinian civilians and was met with a demand for an immediate cease-fire in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Blinken’s unannounced Sunday visit to the West Bank, to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas , came hours after an Israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp in Gaza, killing at least 38 people according to the Hamas-controlled health authority. Israeli officials didn’t immediately comment on the explosion at the Al Maghazi refugee camp.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Mahmoud Abbas, didn’t Organizations: West Bank —, West Bank, Palestinian, Al Locations: RAMALLAH, West, Gaza, Al Maghazi

BAGHDAD—The U.S. is rushing to support Middle East leaders facing domestic turmoil over the Israel-Hamas conflict, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken making two surprise visits Sunday to the West Bank and Iraq, as the Biden administration comes under pressure to secure a pause in fighting and ease regional tensions. The unannounced stops, first to the West Bank city of Ramallah, and then, to Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, followed a summit of Arab leaders Saturday in Jordan, where Blinken reassured Middle East allies that the U.S. would work to keep the conflict from spreading and help Palestinian civilians caught in the unfolding humanitarian crisis. Blinken departed Baghdad late Sunday for Ankara, where he was expected to hold discussions with his Turkish counterpart about humanitarian aid and the collective interest in preventing a broader conflict.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Biden, Blinken Organizations: West Bank, Turkish Locations: BAGHDAD, The U.S, Israel, Iraq, Ramallah, Baghdad, Jordan, U.S, Sunday, Ankara

☆ Pakistan Begins Deporting Afghans Who Fled Taliban
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan started rounding up tens of thousands of undocumented Afghans for deportation back to the country they fled, prompting fears that some awaiting resettlement to the U.S. could be swept up. Police raids took place across the country on Wednesday, the deadline for undocumented Afghans to leave. “By midnight tonight return to your homeland,” warned a police officer speaking into a mic in one neighborhood in the port city of Karachi, television footage showed. Mosque loudspeakers repeated similar messages across the country.

Persons: ” Organizations: Pakistan —, Police Locations: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Pakistan — Pakistan, U.S, Karachi

☆ Foreign Nationals Start to Leave Gaza at Egyptian Border
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Saeed Shah | Summer Said | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A group of foreign nationals began to leave Gaza for the first time since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, according to Egyptian officials, marking a breakthrough in efforts to bring some relief to the enclave’s humanitarian crisis as it reeled from another communications blackout. Dozens of foreign nationals entered a terminal at Rafah, Gaza’s southern crossing point into Egypt, on Wednesday, the Egyptian officials said, without disclosing their nationalities.

Locations: Gaza, Israel, Rafah, Egypt

☆ Israeli Ground Operation Pushes Deeper Into Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Saeed Shah | Stephen Kalin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli soldiers pushing into the Gaza Strip suffered their first casualties Sunday, while thousands of people trapped in the territory broke into United Nations warehouses for food amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that soldiers had clashed with fighters on the ground as the army expanded a foray into the densely populated northern part of the strip near Gaza City.

Organizations: United Nations, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza, Gaza City

☆ Israeli Tanks Carry Out Biggest Raid Inside Gaza Since Oct. 7 Attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Dov Lieber | Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—The Israeli military on Thursday carried out its biggest raid into the Gaza Strip since Hamas militants’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in what it said was an effort to prepare the ground for an eventual invasion of the enclave. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under growing domestic pressure to launch a large-scale ground assault against Hamas in Gaza. On Wednesday, U.S. officials and people familiar with the Israeli planning said Israel had agreed, for now, to a request from the U.S. to delay its ground invasion of Gaza so the Pentagon can place air defenses in the region to protect American troops.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza, Israel, U.S

☆ Bombing Outside Mosque in Pakistan Kills at Least 25
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Saeed Shah | Waqar Gilani | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: asia, pakistan

☆ How Children Stranded for 15 Hours in a Dangling Cable Car Were Rescued
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—During the first hour they were stranded in a broken cable car this week, the six children and two adults dangling 1,000 feet in the air had no way of speaking to their families because the cellphone signal was down in their remote part of northern Pakistan.

Locations: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan

☆ Pakistan Army Mounts Midair Rescue Effort for Children Trapped in Cable Car
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Saeed Shah | Waqar Gillani | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Afghans Who Allied With U.S. Face Killings, Arrests Under Taliban Rule, U.N. Finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Pakistan Army Rescues Children Trapped in Cable Car in Midair Feat
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Saeed Shah | Waqar Gillani | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Pakistan Appoints Caretaker Prime Minister as Poll Timing Remains in Doubt
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Pakistan Dissolves Parliament as Government Grapples With Political Instability
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Train Derails in Pakistan, Killing at Least 30
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Saeed Shah | Waqar Gillani | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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