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IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the organization was closely monitoring the economic impact of the war, especially on oil markets, where prices have fluctuated. The IMF expects economic growth to slow to 2% this year in the Middle East and North Africa, from 5.6% last year, as countries keep interest rates higher and contend with rising oil prices and local challenges. That's below the IMF's forecast for global economic growth of 3% this year but above next year's expected 2.9%. Political Cartoons View All 1207 ImagesWealthy countries in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere will benefit from higher oil prices, while Egypt and Lebanon are still contending with soaring inflation, the IMF said. Egypt secured a $3 billion IMF bailout last year that requires a raft of economic reforms, including a shift to a flexible exchange rate and a higher borrowing costs.

Persons: Kristalina Georgieva, Jihad Azour, ”, “, Azour, ” Azour, Jordan Organizations: United Arab Emirates, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Central Asia Department Locations: DUBAI, United Arab, Ukraine, Israel, Marrakech, Morocco, East, North Africa, That's, Persian, Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan

☆ AI chatbots are getting their wires crossed on the Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AI chatbots may be the most hyped tech of 2023, but maybe don't rely too heavily on them just yet. Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI chatbots are struggling to keep up with the Israel-Hamas war. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In a disclaimer before using Bard, Google notes that "Bard is an experiment" and "will not always get it right." However, it still said "Egypt has brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas" that had yet to be accepted by either side.

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☆ Hamas Says Its Attack on Israel Was Planned for Two Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Fatima Abdulkarim | Ghassan Adnan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Hamas's idea for Saturday's attack on Israel dates to 2021, when the militant group began preparing intensively by studying the tactics and strategies of its opponent, according to Abu Obaida, the spokesman for Hamas's military wing, on its Telegram account. "Our forces achieved an unprecedented military victory in the history of conflict with the Zionist enemy," he said. Already, he said the result was "more than we had planned." The group's plan was to deploy 3,000 fighters for the battle, and another 1,500 for backup and support. It studied everything from how the Israeli military trains and deploys its soldiers, to the land and weather conditions.

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☆ What is Israel's Iron Dome? Here’s what you need to know about the missile defense system
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from the city of Ashkelon, Israel October 9, 2023. What is Israel's Iron Dome? The Iron Dome, or "Kippat Barzel" in Hebrew, is widely regarded as one of the most important tools in Israel's arsenal. An Iron Dome launcher fires an interceptor missile as rockets are fired from Gaza, in Ashkelon, Israel May 10, 2023. The Center for Strategic International Studies, a U.S. think tank, has previously estimated that a complete Iron Dome battery costs roughly $100 million to produce.

Persons: Amir Cohen, Israel, Rafael, —, Tamir Organizations: Reuters, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel's Defense Ministry, Iron Dome, European Union, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Reuters Israel's Defense Forces, Dome, Congressional Research Service, Strategic International Studies Locations: Gaza, Ashkelon, Israel, Reuters Israel, Jihad, U.S, Washington

☆ Israel has frozen crypto accounts belonging to Hamas, with Binance helping to locate them
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Israel Police announced the freezing of cryptocurrency accounts belonging to Hamas. It said it worked with Binance to locate and freeze the accounts. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsrael froze cryptocurrency accounts belonging to Hamas, with the cooperation of Binance, Israeli police announced on Tuesday. It is also unclear how many accounts were frozen or what the value of the cryptocurrencies in them was. A spokesperson for Binance told Insider in a statement that its team had been "working in real time, around the clock, to support ongoing efforts to combat terror financing."

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☆ Lebanon's Hezbollah on war footing but moves carefully as conflict widens
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The Iran-backed group is on a war footing, deploying special forces and priming its rockets in preparation for the possibility of war. Tensions are higher than at any point since it fought a 2006 conflict with Israel, the sources said. Hamas ignited the war on Saturday when its gunmen infiltrated Israel from Gaza, killing 1,200 people and abducting dozens more. Palestinian and Hezbollah flags flutter in Khiam, near the border with Israel, in southern Lebanon October 9, 2023. All-out war would likely derail Lebanon's offshore oil and gas exploration efforts, for which Hezbollah has voiced strong support.

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At least 1,055 people have died in Gaza, with some 5,184 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. New York City's Empire State Building, illuminated in the colors of the flag of Israel on October 7. “This was the largest number of Jewish victims in an attack in one day since the Holocaust,” he said. “Not during the Yom Kippur War, not in the war of independence did we see civilians killed like this. Fighting regularly takes place between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

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☆ Former Hamas chief calls for protests, neighbours to join war against Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal gestures as he announces a new policy document in Doha, Qatar, May 1, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsDOHA, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal called for protests across the Muslim world on Friday in support of the Palestinians and for the peoples of neighbouring countries to join the fight against Israel. This is a moment of truth and the borders are close to you, you all know your responsibility," Meshaal said. On Saturday, Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip rampaged through parts of southern Israel, in the deadliest Palestinian militant attack in Israel's history. "To all scholars who teach jihad... to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application (of theories)," Meshaal said.

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Israeli tanks were deployed in the far northern border town of Metulla as rain came down near the heavily fortified border. Six people were killed on Monday - three Hezbollah members, an Israeli officer, and two Palestinian militants who touched off the violence by infiltrating Israel from Lebanon. A storm put many people in Lebanon on edge as thunder was mistaken for Israeli bombardment. Lebanon took years to rebuild from the 2006 war, during which Israeli bombardment pounded Hezbollah-controlled south Lebanon and destroyed wide areas of its stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Lebanon can ill-afford another big war with Israel, four years into a financial meltdown that has spread impoverishment and paralysed state institutions.

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☆ Opinion: This is why the two-state solution is dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Anna Lee | Opinion Jason Greenblatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Reports of women stripped naked and paraded by fighters in Gaza, toddlers kidnapped alongside Holocaust survivors, homes burst into by terrorists hunting down Jews. The last one, with its supposed vision of a peaceful Palestinian state living side by side with Israel. I spent nearly three years at the Trump White House attempting to reach a peace deal between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors. (Indeed, the peace plan we crafted was rejected by the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah before they even read it.) Israel cannot achieve peace with Palestinians when a segment of the Palestinian population still intends to destroy it.

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☆ A Gaza resident says his family and thousands of neighbors fled from Israel's counterattacks and that they don't know what will happen each minute or how they will get food or water
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Israel is bombarding Gaza after Hamas militants launched surprise attacks across Israel. Abu Samo is among the tens of thousands of Gaza residents who have been displaced. Samo and his family keep fleeing from the attacks, but he said the situation is changing by the minute. The UN said 123,000 Gaza residents were displaced from their homes after the Israeli airstrikes on October 9, 2023. Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty ImagesIsrael on Monday announced a "complete siege" of Gaza, which included cutting off its food, water, fuel, and electricity.

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☆ Hezbollah, Hamas claim attacks on Israel from Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Flame and smoke rise over Lebanon as seen from Israel's border with Lebanon, in northern Israel, October 10, 2023. The violence, triggered by the war between Israel and Palestinian militants, marks the most serious escalation along the Lebanese-Israeli frontier since the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. The Israeli army said no injuries were reported in Tuesday's attack by Hezbollah, three of whose fighters were killed on Monday in Israeli shelling into Lebanon. A salvo of rockets was also fired from Lebanon into Israel on Tuesday, in an attack a security source in Lebanon said was carried out by Palestinian factions. Hezbollah, founded by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in 1982, has close ties to the Palestinian groups fighting Israel.

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☆ A brief history of Gaza's 75 years of woe
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Hamas formedTwenty years after the 1967 war, Palestinians launched their first intifada, or uprising. It began in December 1987 after a traffic accident in which an Israeli truck crashed into a vehicle carrying Palestinian workers in Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp, killing four. Israel stopped tens of thousands of Palestinian workers from entering the country, cutting off an important source of income. Israeli air strikes crippled Gaza's only electrical power plant, causing widespread blackouts. Israel took revenge, hammering Gaza with air strikes and razing entire districts in some of the worst blood-letting in the 75 years of conflict.

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Smoke rises following Israeli strikes on the seaport of Gaza City, in Gaza on Tuesday. Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux Palestinians walk amid the rubble following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10. Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times/Redux Children run for cover as bombs fall near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on October 9. Erik Marmor/AP Six-month-old Sama Alwadia is rescued from the rubble in Gaza City on October 9. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8.

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“We have no evidence or proof” that Iran was behind the attack, Maj. Nir Dinar, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, told Politico on Monday. More recently, Tehran has stepped up the training assistance it provides Hamas inside Iran, according to a former Western defense official. Hamas received Iranian weapons and military technology, and learned from the Iranians about planning operations. “Everything we have seen in the last four days, we can’t say it’s an Iranian plan or an Iranian effort,” Milshtein said. “It’s a Hamas plan that got Iranian help.”Searching for a motivationUS intelligence officials are also working to understand Hamas’ immediate motivation for launching the attack.

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☆ A Brief History of Gaza's 75 Years of Woe
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +8 min

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☆ What would an Israeli ground assault in Gaza look like? Here’s what I know from the one I saw
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Ben Wedeman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

It was the deepest Israeli ground operation into Gaza since the withdrawal from the Strip in 2005. Then, Israeli troops largely avoided the most built up and crowded areas, particularly Gaza’s eight crammed refugee camps. During the siege that followed, Israeli warplanes and artillery pummeled West Beirut, but ground troops stayed out of Beirut proper. It was only after they left that Israeli troops took control of the western part of the city. If it comes, the ground operation will be far bloodier and more destructive.

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☆ Iran's UN mission says Tehran not involved in Hamas attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Iran's mission to the United Nations said on Sunday that Tehran was not involved in one of the bloodiest attacks in Israel's history when Islamist group Hamas killed 700 Israelis and abducted dozens more. "We emphatically stand in unflinching support of Palestine; however, we are not involved in Palestine's response, as it is taken solely by Palestine itself," Iran's U.N. mission said. Iran's U.N. mission said the "success" of the Hamas operation was because it was a surprise, which makes it the "biggest failure" of Israel's security organizations. "They are attempting to justify their failure and attribute it to Iran's intelligence power and operational planning," Iran's U.N. mission said. In response to the Hamas attacks, Israeli air strikes have hit housing blocks, tunnels, a mosque and homes of Hamas officials in Gaza, killing more than 400 people, including 20 children.

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CNN —As thousands of rockets have rained down on Israel, the country has been relying once again on the Iron Dome system to protect its citizens. The missile defense system is one of the most important tools in Israel’s arsenal and has saved countless civilian lives over various conflicts in the last decade, analysts say. The Israel Defense Forces said the system boasted a 95.6% success rate during a rocket salvo fired by Islamic Jihad in May. After tests in 2008 and 2009, the first Iron Dome batteries were deployed in 2011. The US government has spent over $1.5 billion on the Iron Dome program, and research related to it as well.

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The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel is reprehensible. Israel is under heavy attack right now by Hamas and taking action to defend itself and its people. Israel has every right to defend itself.”Sen. Jon Tester, Montana Democrat“I strongly condemn the terrorist attacks launched by Hamas against our ally Israel. I will continue to closely monitor the situation.”Sen. Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire Democrat“Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel is nothing short of horrifying. Israel has every right to defend itself from this unjust war.”Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat“The terrorist attack on Israel is appalling.

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CNN —At least four civilians were killed while in the custody of Hamas, just feet from where armed militants had been escorting them near the Gaza border, videos obtained and geolocated by CNN show. One video from the kibbutz of Be’eri in southern Israel showed armed fighters with burned cars and a bulldozer in the background. Another video previously geolocated by CNN showed five Israeli civilians taken captive by armed militants in nearly the same spot. Hamas militants have taken more than 100 Israelis hostage, including high-ranking army officers, a spokesperson for the group claimed Sunday. Video geolocated by CNN showed five civilians taken captive by Hamas in Be'eri near the Gaza border.

Persons: Be’eri, Yad Mordechai, Kfar Aza, Yated, Richard Hecht, Hecht, ” Hecht, It’s, ” Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Palestinian, Islamic Locations: Gaza, Be’eri, Israel, Sderot, Yad, Be'eri, …

☆ Hamas and Iran are longtime allies. Did Tehran help with its attack on Israel?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

It’s something that we’re going to keep looking at closely.”Yet Iran’s evolving relationship with Hamas and its Palestinian militant partners, the Islamic Jihad, is well documented. Israel says Iran supports Hamas to the tune of some $100 million dollars a year. (Much of the Western world and some Arab countries consider Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad to be terrorist groups.) Therefore Iran is an asset for Hamas and Hamas is an asset for Iran,” Michael said. In April, Hamas’ senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh visited the Lebanese capital for meetings with Nasrallah.

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A view shows an Israeli tank and military vehicles near Israel's border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad Acquire Licensing RightsBEIRUT, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A member of Lebanon's Hezbollah was killed in Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon on Monday, three sources in Lebanon said, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants expanded to the Israeli-Lebanese border. The man was killed in Israeli shelling into southern Lebanon prompted by a cross-border raid by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, which has been fighting alongside the Hamas group since it launched its surprise attack on Israel on Saturday. The Israeli army said soldiers backed by helicopters killed at least two gunmen who crossed the frontier. In a statement, the Israeli military said its soldiers "killed a number of armed suspects that infiltrated into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory".

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☆ Opinion: In times of crisis, Israelis rally around their leaders. This time is different
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In the entire nearly five years of the second Palestinian intifada from 2000 to 2005, roughly 1,000 Israelis were killed. Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty Images Israeli soldiers work on a tank at the border between Israel and Gaza on October 9. Ahmad Hasballah/Getty Images Rockets launched from Gaza are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system on October 8. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images Relatives of Palestinians killed on Saturday, October 7, mourn at the morgue of a hospital in Gaza. Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images An Israeli soldier stands by the bodies of Israelis killed by Palestinian militants in Sderot on October 7.

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CNN —Israel has declared war on the Palestinian militant group Hamas after it carried out an unprecedented attack by air, sea and land on Saturday. Israel has pledged that Hamas will pay a heavy price and may now be preparing a ground incursion into Gaza. There, Hamas gunmen killed hundreds of people, including civilians and soldiers, and took hostages, sometimes from their homes. While Hamas has kidnapped Israelis before, it has never before taken dozens of hostages at once, including children and the elderly. On Monday, however, Iran’s mission to the United Nations said that the Islamic Republic was “not involved in Palestine’s response,” referring to the Hamas attack.

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