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A steady stream of rocket misfires by Hamas and Islamic Jihad have resulted in the deaths of several Palestinians since the war between Israel and Iran-backed terrorists first began earlier this month, according to one Israeli defense official. "They are killing their own people," Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Saturday . Hagari noted that one-fifth of the rockets that have been fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad have missed intended targets and landed inside Gaza, killing civilians. That number, Hagari said, amounts to more than 550 rockets. The comments from Hagari came roughly four days after the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was struck by an errant rocket. The blast reportedly left hundreds dead. Hamas initially claimed the hospital was attacked in an Israeli strike; Israel countered after an investigation that it was hit by an errant missile launched by terrorists in Gaza. ISRAEL REMAINS FOCUSED ON DESTROYING HAMAS DESPITE CEASE-FIRE CALLS: ...

Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station told Fox News their view of Earth without borders and living alongside people from other nations has helped them feel a sense of unity, even as the Israel-Hamas war rages. "One of the things we experience up here is a different perspective of the world of our planet," European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen told Fox News. "A lot of people call it the overview effect." STUDENTS HIDE IDENTITIES WITH MASKS WHILE PRAISING HAMAS' MASSACRE OF ISRAELIS "We see the Earth as a single planet that we all share together," he continued. "You don't see borders between countries, and so you get an idea that perhaps borders are something artificial." Though astronauts may not be able to differentiate between different countries from space, territorial border disputes over the Gaza Strip between Palestinians and Israelis have been ongoing for decades. After Hamas — the ruling party in Gaz...

An Israeli soldier celebrated his wedding Tuesday, a little over a week after he was wounded battling Hamas terrorists and his younger brother was declared missing in action. Amid grief and uncertainty, Yonatan and Galya Tzvi, both 24, tied the knot in a scaled-down ceremony that had been planned months before Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel Oct. 7 and slaughtered more than 1,400 people.  "It was obviously a very bittersweet wedding and there were tears," the groom's father, Rabbi Doron Perez, told Fox News Digital. "But somehow we were able to celebrate, and it was also very happy." ISRAEL REMAINS FOCUSED ON DESTROYING HAMAS DESPITE CEASEFIRE CALLS: ‘NO OTHER OPTION’ When fighting broke out, Yonatan, a soldier in a paratrooper brigade, was dispatched to Sderot then to an army base in Nahal Oz , less than two miles from the border with Gaza. Hamas terrorists had breached the security fence and taken over the army base. Yonatan's 22-year-old brot...

China is rapidly increasing its nuclear arsenal and is expected to double its number of nuclear warheads from more than 500 currently to more than 1,000 by 2030, which exceeds earlier projections, the Pentagon’s annual report on China's military growth said this week.  The Pentagon previously estimated that Beijing had more than 400 nuclear warheads as of 2021.  The Chinese military’s "evolving capabilities and concepts continue to strengthen the PRC’s ability to ‘fight and win wars’ against a ‘strong enemy’ (a likely euphemism for the United States), counter an intervention by a third party in a conflict along the PRC’s periphery, and project power globally," the Thursday report said, noting the Chinese Communist Party’s goal of having a "world-class" military by 2049.  It added, "The PRC probably will use its new fast breeder reactors and reprocessing facilities to produce plutonium for its nuclear weapons program, despite publicly maintaining these...

Belgium’s justice minister resigned on Friday over what he described as a "monumental error" after it was discovered that Tunisia was seeking the extradition last year of an Islamic extremist who shot dead two Swedes and wounded a third this week. Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said that he and his services had been searching for details to understand how Abdesalem Lassoued had disappeared off the map two years ago after being denied asylum and ordered by Belgian authorities to be deported to Tunisia. On Monday night, Lassoued gunned down two Swedish men and wounded a third with a semiautomatic rifle. The attack forced the lockdown of more than 35,000 people in a soccer stadium where they had gathered to watch Belgium play Sweden. BELGIUM POLICE KILLED TERROR SUSPECT ACCUSED IN DEATH OF 2 SOCCER FANS AFTER HOURSLONG MANHUNT IN BRUSSELS In a video posted online, he claimed to be inspired by the Islamic State group. Police shot him dead on Tuesday morning in a B...

A stampede in Kenya during celebrations to mark an annual public holiday killed at least six people on Friday and injured 100 others, authorities said. The stampede happened when thousands of people struggled to get inside Kericho stadium in western Kenya at dawn, police said. The stadium was the venue for this year's Mashujaa Day, which means Heroes' Day in Swahili. KENYAN CABINET GREENLIGHTS HAITI PEACEKEEPING FORCE; PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL STILL NEEDED Health officials said they fear the death toll could rise. A local media cameraman at the scene told The Associated Press that "it was like a scene from hell." FOREIGN TOURISTS, LOCAL GUIDE KILLED IN ATTACK AT UGANDAN NATIONAL PARK "People were trying to run away but because it had rained, they kept being stuck in the mud and bodies kept piling on bodies," said Festus Kirui. "Their shoes were stuck in the mud. And you can see that these people struggled a lot to try to get out." President ...

Lawyers for Niger’s ousted president called for his immediate release Friday, a day after the ruling military junta said it had thwarted an overnight attempt by the president to escape house arrest with his family nearly three months after he was detained in the wake of a coup. Mohamed Bazoum, his wife and son are being held without access to lawyers or the outside world, said an international group of lawyers representing Bazoum said in a statement. They denied the junta's accusations that he tried to flee. The president and his family have been under house arrest since the end of July when mutinous soldiers toppled him and has refused to resign. The junta had cut off his electricity and water. HOUSE ARREST CONDITIONS WORSEN FOR NIGER’S OUSTED PRESIDENT AS FOOD SUPPLY RUNS LOW, ADVISOR SAYS Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane said late Thursday in a statement that Bazoum tried to reach a waiting vehicle at around 3 a.m. that was to take him to the outskirts of the capital, Niamey, alo...