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First Post
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- First Post
Israel admits mistake in Gaza strike that killed children collecting water, expresses ‘regret'
After an Israeli airstrike killed eight Palestinians, including children, at a water collection point, Israel has said that it was a mistake. Officials said that Israeli strikes killed 139 Palestinians in the past 24 hours. read more A Palestinian child, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed people, who gathered to collect water from a distribution point, according to medics, receives treatment at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip July 13, 2025. (Reuters/Stringer)1 At least eight Palestinians, most of them children, were killed and more than a dozen were wounded in central Gaza when they went to collect water on Sunday, local officials said, in an Israeli strike which the military said missed its target. The Israeli military said the missile had intended to hit an Islamic Jihad militant in the area but that a malfunction had caused it to fall 'dozens of metres from the target'. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD 'The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians,' it said in a statement, adding that the incident was under review. The strike hit a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing six children and injuring 17 others, said Ahmed Abu Saifan, an emergency physician at Al-Awda Hospital. Water shortages in Gaza have worsened sharply in recent weeks, with fuel shortages causing desalination and sanitation facilities to close, making people dependent on collection centres where they can fill up their plastic containers. Hours later, 12 people were killed by an Israeli strike on a market in Gaza City, including a prominent hospital consultant, Ahmad Qandil, Palestinian media reported. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the attack. Gaza's health ministry said on Sunday that more than 58,000 people had been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October 2023, with 139 people added to the death toll over the past 24 hours. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters in its tally, but says over half of those killed are women and children. Ceasefire? US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that he was 'hopeful' on Gaza ceasefire negotiations underway in Qatar. He told reporters in Teterboro, New Jersey, that he planned to meet senior Qatari officials on the sidelines of the FIFA Club World Cup final. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD However, negotiations aimed at securing a ceasefire have been stalling, with the two sides divided over the extent of an eventual Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources said at the weekend. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to convene ministers late on Sunday to discuss the latest developments in the talks, an Israeli official said. The indirect talks over a US proposal for a 60-day ceasefire are being held in Doha, but optimism that surfaced last week of a looming deal has largely faded, with both sides accusing each other of intransigence. Netanyahu in a video he posted on Telegram on Sunday said Israel would not back down from its core demands — releasing all the hostages still in Gaza, destroying Hamas and ensuring Gaza will never again be a threat to Israel. The war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages into Gaza. At least 20 of the remaining 50 hostages there are believed to still be alive. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Families of hostages gathered outside Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem to call for a deal. 'The overwhelming majority of the people of Israel have spoken loudly and clearly. We want to do a deal, even at the cost of ending this war, and we want to do it now,' said Jon Polin, whose son Hersh Goldberg-Polin was held hostage by Hamas in a Gaza tunnel and slain by his captors in August 2024. Netanyahu and his ministers were also set to discuss a plan on Sunday to move hundreds of thousands of Gazans to the southern area of Rafah, in what Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has described as a new 'humanitarian city' but which would be likely to draw international criticism for forced displacement. An Israeli source briefed on discussions in Israel said that the plan was to establish the complex in Rafah during the ceasefire, if it is reached. On Saturday, a Palestinian source familiar with the truce talks said that Hamas rejected withdrawal maps which Israel proposed, because they would leave around 40 per cent of the territory under Israeli control, including all of Rafah. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Israel's campaign against Hamas has displaced almost the entire population of more than 2 million people, but Gazans say nowhere is safe in the coastal enclave. Early on Sunday morning, a missile hit a house in Gaza City where a family had moved after receiving an evacuation order from their home in the southern outskirts. 'My aunt, her husband and the children, are gone. What is the fault of the children who died in an ugly bloody massacre at dawn?' said Anas Matar, standing in the rubble of the building. (This is an agency copy. Except for the headline, the copy has not been edited by Firstpost staff.)
Hindustan Times
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- Hindustan Times
How China's Military Is Flexing Its Power in the Pacific
HONG KONG—China's military is extending its reach deeper into the Pacific, sending ships and aircraft into new territory in a push that has spurred the U.S. to strengthen defenses and alliances in the region. Beijing has long resented what it sees as interference by the U.S. and its allies in its traditional sphere of influence in the Asia-Pacific region. Now, it is asserting itself more aggressively in its backyard while also pushing well beyond longstanding geographical limits of its military. In response, the U.S. and its allies are dispersing military assets more widely so that they can respond better in case of a clash with China. The U.S. is also pressing its Asian partners to bolster their own defenses. Here is a look at how China's military is pushing boundaries in the Pacific and how the U.S. seeks to respond to the perceived threat. When two Chinese aircraft carriers performed joint exercises in the western Pacific in June, Chinese forces conducted more than 1,000 aircraft takeoffs and landings, and jet fighters twice tailed Japanese patrols that were monitoring the exercises, Japan said. The U.S. has deployed so-called carrier-killer missiles in the northern Philippines, making it more dangerous for the Chinese to pass through the first island chain in a conflict. But the Chinese show of force in June was an important sign of defiance. 'The issue is not that they have increasing blue water capabilities and are deploying further from their coast—that's to be expected,' said Jennifer Parker, an adjunct fellow in naval studies at the University of New South Wales Canberra. 'The issue is the nature in which they are doing it, which is provocative.' Similarly, a Chinese trip in February and March around Australia was seen as cause for concern. 'Australia is not on its way to anywhere. If you send a naval task group to circumnavigate Australia, you're doing it to prove a point,' said Parker. In the U.S. view, the greatest menace in China's wide-ranging military exercises is to Taiwan, the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own and has threatened to seize by force. Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, describes Chinese military exercises around Taiwan as rehearsals for an invasion. Along the Taiwan Strait, the roughly 100-mile-wide body of water that separates the island from mainland China, the threat is registered daily on the surface and in the air. Chinese military aircraft these days regularly cross a nominal median in the strait, Taiwan says, entering Taiwan's de facto air-defense identification zone, or ADIZ, in numbers that would have been shocking only a few years ago. President Trump has followed an American policy of not stating whether U.S. forces would come to Taiwan's aid in the event of a Chinese invasion. A U.S. intervention is seen on the island as essential to preventing a takeover. For now, the U.S. sells weapons to Taiwan including missile defense systems, trains some of the island's soldiers and aids its defense industry. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a gathering of defense officials in Singapore in late May that threats to Taiwan from China 'could be imminent,' and warned of 'devastating consequences' should Beijing seek to take over the island—part of a push for partners in the region to do more to counter China. Senior Communist Party official Liu Jianchao told a July forum in Beijing that Hegseth's remarks about China's intentions were inciting 'confrontation and conflict.' Allied cooperation The most visible example of the Trump administration's push may be its pressure on Asian allies to spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defense. That effort has encountered some resistance. Japan is seeking to raise its outlay to only about 2%, while South Korea said in June that its military spending was already 'very high.' The U.S. meanwhile maintains a security footprint in Asia that includes tens of thousands of troops on the Japanese island of Okinawa, less than 500 miles from Taiwan. About 55,000 U.S. military personnel are stationed in Japan and more than 28,000 in South Korea. The U.S. military has beefed up its presence in the American territory of Guam, which already hosts several nuclear submarines and deployments of long-range bombers, by adding a new base expected to house 5,000 Marines. The U.S. has no permanent troops based in the Philippines, but Manila has given U.S. forces access to more bases in recent years. The U.S. has stepped up its activities there, including by deploying the Army's Typhon Missile System to the northern island of Luzon—putting Chinese military and commercial hubs within striking distance. U.S. military exercises throughout the Indo-Pacific include extensive drills in far-flung islands, such as the recent delivery of a high-precision antiship missile system to a Philippine island 120 miles south of Taiwan. A three-week exercise involving 19 participating countries, Talisman Sabre 2025, began Sunday in Australia, with the U.S. coleading the event. Beijing typically calls military exercises on its periphery provocative and destabilizing. In June, as a U.K. aircraft carrier group was making its way to Australia, a British naval vessel sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time in four years. Beijing denounced the passage and launched military drills that security officials in Taiwan described as a direct response. 'It's clear that Beijing is really pushing back against the way democratic countries are coming together,' one of the officials said. Write to Austin Ramzy at and Emma Brown at
The Hindu
an hour ago
- The Hindu
Blast in residential block blast near Iran's Qom injures seven
An explosion at a residential building injured seven people in the Pardisan neighbourhood of Qom city, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported, going on to quote an unnamed source saying it was not the result of any Israeli attack. "Four residential units were damaged in the blast. Initial assessments show that the cause of the incident was a gas leak, and follow-ups are continuing in this regard," the director of Qom's fire department told Fars. The agency said the residents of the building were ordinary citizens. Also read | Israel has failed to solve the Persian puzzle Iran's regional arch-rival Israel has a record of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists, whom it considers part of a programme that directly threatens Israel. Tehran maintains its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes. Since the end of a 12-day air war last month between Iran and Israel, in which Israel and the United States attacked Iran's nuclear facilities, several explosions have occurred in Iran, but authorities have not blamed Israel. "People should not worry about rumours [of Israeli attacks]. If a hostile action occurs in the country, the news will immediately reach the people and alarm bells will simultaneously be activated in the Occupied Territories," Fars quoted an unnamed Iranian source as saying following the blast in Qom.
