Israel-Hamas War News Live Updates: First flight carrying 212 Indian nationals from Israel, lands at Delhi airport

Israel-Hamas War News: India's commitment to safety of every Indian unwavering: Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar was present at the airport to welcome them. With folded hands, Chandrasekhar greeted the returning Indians. He then interacted with the students. The union minister reassured the passengers, saying India's commitment to the safety of every Indian is unwavering. Prime Minister Modi is determined to protect them, he added.

Israel War News: Operation Ajay: Passengers boarded flight 'First-come, first-serve' basis

The flight took off from Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday, amid the country's raging war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Indians departed on a "first-come-first-serve" basis.

Israel Hamas War: Union minister meets Indian nationals at airport

At the Delhi airport, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar interacted with people who arrived from Israel on Friday morning.

First charter flight carrying 212 Indians arrived at the Delhi airport from Israel. This was an initiative by the government of India under the recently launched Operation Ajay.

Israel War Live: Trump points out at Israel's intelligence failures ahead of last weekend's Hamas onslaught, calls Israel’s defense minister a jerk

Israel Hamas War: The fighting since Saturday between Israel and Gaza militants has killed more than 1,200 people in Israel and 1,350 in the blockaded Palestinian enclave. (AFP)

Israel War News: Israel 'emergency government' sworn in

Israeli lawmakers on Thursday endorsed an expanded "emergency government", parliament said, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a war-time partnership with a rival.

Israel-Hamas War News: First charter flight carrying 212 Indians departs from Israel's Ben Gurion Airport

The first charter flight carrying 212 Indians, including an infant, wishing to leave Israel departed from the Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday, amid the country's raging war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Israel-Palestine War News: Egypt's president: Exerting every effort to contain escalation in Israel-Hamas conflict

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a speech on Thursday that Egypt is exerting every effort to contain the escalation in the Israel-Hamas conflict and is trying to reach a ceasefire. "We are trying to alleviate suffering of Palestinian people in Gaza and our calls do not end. We are speaking to all the leaders and officials," he said in the speech.

Israel-Hamas War News: Israel, White House condemn Trump for remarks about Hamas attack, 'smart' Hezbollah

Israel and the White House on Thursday condemned remarks by Donald Trump in which he praised the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants that killed more than 1,300 people in Israel. Trump, a former Republican president who is the frontrunner to become the party's 2024 presidential nominee, called the Lebanese Hezbollah, a sworn enemy of Israel, "very smart" and accused Netanyahu of being "not prepared" for the Hamas attack, which also killed 22 Americans.

Israel-Palestine War News: Israel 'emergency government' sworn in.

Israel-Hamas War News: 'UK sends royal navy vessels and spy planes to support Israel'

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is deploying two Royal Navy ships, helicopters and surveillance aircraft to the eastern Mediterranean to support Israel and reinforce regional stability, his office said on Thursday.

Israel-Hamas War Live: Blinken says none of $6 billion in Iranian funds in Qatar have been spent or accessed

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said Washington has strict oversight of $6 billion in Iranian funds transferred from South Korean to Qatari accounts as part of a prisoner deal earlier this year. Blinken, speaking at a news conference in Tel Aviv, said that none of the funds have been spent or accessed.

Israel War News: Blinken says Israeli government shared photographs and videos in meeting

"It's simply depravity in the worst imaginable way," Blinken told a news briefing in Tel Aviv, where he traveled after hundreds of Hamas gunmen poured across the barrier fence and rampaged through Israeli towns on Saturday.

Israel-Palestine War News: Blinken says he spoke to Israel about 'humanitarian needs' of Gaza

Israel-Palestine War News: Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian expressed his country’s support for the rights of the Palestinian people, saying that the ongoing war in Gaza will affect the whole region.

Israel-Hamas War News: Israel to provide $6 billion war insurance cover for Israeli airlines

Israel's parliamentary finance committee approved a plan to provide a state guarantee of $6 billion to cover insurance against war risks to Israeli airlines, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday. The guarantee framework will grant Israeli airlines insurance policies against war risks, thereby ensuring the continuity of air operations in Israel.

Israel-Palestine War News: Israel Prime Minister's office shared photos of "babies murdered and burned by the Hamas."

Israel-Hamas War News: Palestinian PM working with Egypt to open aid corridors to Gaza

"Closing all access to the Gaza Strip and preventing aid is a mass killing of our people in Gaza," Mohammad Shtayyeh said in a statement, as Israel pressed a siege of the enclave following a devastating Hamas attack on Israel from Gaza.

Israel-Palestine War News: China's Wang Yi: Palestinian issue is core of Middle East conflict

China's top diplomat and foreign minister Wang Yi said on Thursday the Palestinian issue is the core of the Middle East conflict, and that crux of the matter was that "justice" had been denied to the Palestinian people. Wang made the remarks in a phone call with Celso Amorim, the top adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Israel-Hamas War News: Warning sirens sound in northern Israel

Warning sirens sounded in northern Israel on Thursday, on the sixth day of an unprecedented war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The military said it "launched an interceptor following an aerial identification" and was investigating the cause.

Israel-Palestine War News: US says no 'conditions' on use of military support to Israel

"We have not placed any conditions on the provision of this equipment," Austin said, after a meeting of NATO ministers in Brussels. "This is a professional military, led by professional leadership, and we would hope and expect that they would do the right things in the prosecution of their campaign."

Israel-Hamas War News: Israel's Gaza bombardment fills cemeteries as the living flee homes

Israeli air strikes have made major cemeteries in Gaza dangerous to reach so mourning families are burying their dead in informal graveyards dug in empty lots amid an intensifying siege that has pushed the tiny enclave towards a humanitarian catastrophe. Gaza has been under Israeli bombardment since Saturday when the Islamist militant group Hamas sent hundreds of fighters through frontier fences and into Israel on a bloody rampage that left more than 1,200 dead and scores held as hostages.

Israel-Palestine War News: Trump says Netanyahu 'let us down' before the 2020 airstrike that killed a top Iranian general

Former President Donald Trump has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of betraying him just before the US killed a top Iranian general in 2020 and is questioning the country's intelligence prowess as it responds to Hamas' deadly attack. Trump's comments at a West Palm Beach, Florida, rally on Wednesday were quickly denounced by one of Netanyahu's allies, the White House and by several Republican presidential rivals, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Israel-Hamas War News: We did not meet the challenge of protecting Israel. We will learn, we will investigate, but now is the time for war: Israel's military chief of staff

Israel-Palestine War News: Syria says Israeli airstrikes hit airports in Damascus and Aleppo, damaging their runways

State news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying that no one was hurt in the attacks. They would be the first Israeli strikes on Syria since the militant Palestinian group Hamas carried out its deadly attacks in southern Israel.

Israel-Hamas War News: Hamas must be 'crushed' like Islamic state group: Netanyahu

"Just as ISIS was crushed, so too will Hamas be crushed. And Hamas should be treated exactly the way ISIS was treated," Netanyahu said as he met visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Israel-Palestine War News: Syria state TV says Israeli attack targets Aleppo, Damascus airports

Syria's state television said an Israeli attack targeted the main airports in the capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday. Local media channel Sham FM said Syrian air defences were launched in response to the attack.

Thank you to the American people for your incredible support for Israel in our war against the barbarians of Hamas: Israel PM Netanyahu

You may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself. But as long as America exists, you will never, ever have to. We will always be there by your side: Blinken to Netanyahu

Blinken tells Netanyahu in Israel: US not going anywhere

US secretary of state Antony Blinken on Thursday reassured Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu of Washington's support, during a trip to the Middle East that aims to prevent the conflict with Palestinian Hamas militants from spreading. An hour after landing in Tel Aviv, Blinken shook hands with Netanyahu and told the prime minister: "We're here, we're not going anywhere," footage from Netanyahu's office showed.

Israel Hamas War Live: We see this as a "terrorist attack" by Hamas on Israel: MEA

Israel Hamas War News: Our focus now is to bring back Indians who wish to return. Around 18,000 Indians are in Israel. There is conflict going on and it is a matter of concern. Indians advised to follow advisories issued by our mission: MEA

Israel News: We are considering all options. For now, we are using charter flights but the role of IAF cannot be ruled out: MEA

Israel Hamas War News: The charter flight is expected to reach Israel, today later in the evening and will return tomorrow morning. We are hoping around 230 passengers will be able to get on the flight: MEA

Israel Hamas War Live: MEA briefing on Israel-Palestine situation.

Israel War News Live: Red Cross says in contact with Hamas, Israel over hostages

The International Committee of the Red Cross is in contact with Hamas and Israel to try to facilitate the release of hostages taken into Gaza, the organisation said Thursday. The ICRC also believes that the humanitarian situation inside the Gaza Strip will very quickly become "unmanageable" without a way to get supplies into the besieged territory and distribute them.

Israel War News: Blinken visits Israel to stress US support for war on Hamas

Israel and Hamas traded more heavy fire Thursday in the Gaza war that has killed thousands as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited to stress strong solidarity and support but also urge restraint to protect Palestinian civilians. Israel's army has hammered Hamas with thousands of strikes ahead of what is widely expected to be a ground invasion of the crowded territory, after Hamas gunmen killed 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and took about 150 hostages.

Israel-Hamas War News: 1,354 Palestinians killed and 6,049 injured in Israeli strikes since Saturday: Gaza Health Ministry

Israel Palestine War News: EAM S Jaishankar reviews preparations for "Operation Ajay", registration for Indians in Israel begins

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar chaired a meeting today to review preparations for "Operation Ajay", to bring back Indian citizens stuck in Israel.The registration for Indian citizens has begun on Thursday, according to sources. India on Wednesday launched 'Operation Ajay' to bring back its citizens stuck in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

Israel's military spokesperson announced on Thursday that they have successfully identified 97 individuals who were abducted and taken into Gaza during a Hamas attack on Saturday. Daniel Hagari, speaking during a televised press briefing, emphasized that Israel's recent offensive on the blockaded Palestinian enclave was intended to disrupt the Islamist militant group's governance capabilities.

Israel Hamas War News: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar chaired a meeting today to review preparations for 'Operation Ajay' to bring back Indians from Israel

Israel Palestine War News: Israel conditions Gaza's water and fuel supply on the release of hostages

Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz stated on Thursday that his country will withhold essential resources and humanitarian assistance from Gaza until Hamas releases the individuals it kidnapped during their unexpected weekend offensive.

Israel Palestine War News: US official confirms Blinken's Amman Friday meetings with Palestinian and Jordanian leaders

During his visit to Israel on Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to engage in discussions with Palestinian and Jordanian leaders in Amman. A US official traveling with Blinken disclosed that on Friday in Amman, Secretary Blinken will meet with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Jordanian King Abdullah II. This visit comes in the aftermath of the unexpected weekend attack by Hamas in Israel.

Israel Palestine War News: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken lands in Israel

On Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv as part of his broader Middle East tour. The purpose of the visit is to demonstrate Washington's support for Israel in the wake of the attack by Palestinian Hamas militants and to work towards de-escalating the conflict.

Israel Palestine War News: Israeli government doing its best to assist Indian embassy in Tel Aviv in Operation Ajay

Israel's Consulate General to Midwest India, Kobbi Shoshani on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for launching 'Operation Ajay', under which India is planning to bring back around 18,000 Indian in Israel. He emphasized that Israel loved and respected the Indian business community in Israel as it contributed a lot to their economy. "The Indian business community that we love and respect so much contribute to our economy in a big way," he added. Additionally, Israel's Consulate General stressed that the Israeli government is doing its best to assist the Indian embassy in Tel Aviv in Operation Ajay.

Israel Palestine War News: Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Gaza civilians

On Thursday, Hamas insurgents unleashed a volley of rockets towards Tel Aviv as a response to Israeli airstrikes reportedly aimed at "civilians" in two Gaza refugee camps, according to the Palestinian faction.

Israel Palestine War News: Israel declines to publish number of Gaza rocket interceptions, unlike in previous wars

Israel's military indicated on Thursday that it would not publish the number of interceptions of Palestinian rockets that it has carried out in the Gaza war, citing concern that such information would help Hamas.