Airstrikes articles
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Israel intensifies airstrikes on Gaza's Rafah before ground operation
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah early Thursday after saying it would evacuate civilians from the southern Gazan city and launch an all-out assault despite allies' warnings this could cause mass casualties. Medics in the besieged Palestinian enclave reported five Israeli airstrikes on Rafah early on Thursday that hit at
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World Central Kitchen to resume aid in Gaza following fatal airstrike
The aid organisation had stopped distributing food in Gaza after an Israeli strike killed seven workers.
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Pummeled by airstrikes, Ukrainians in Kharkiv defy Russia by getting on with daily life
It made for an unlovely municipal symbol, soaring but hardly graceful: the 800-foot-tall Soviet-era television tower that was for decades a familiar signature in the skyline of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. Ungainly though the tower may have been, the sight of its red-and-white upper mast plunging spearlike to the ground after a strike Monday by a Russian Kh-59 missile was a stinging affront to many in this city of 1.2 million people, only 25 miles from the Russian frontier. “It’s as...