Israel’s military killed a prominent Palestinian militant commander during the second day of a large-scale operation in the northern West Bank Thursday, an operation that has caused multiple deaths, severe destruction and raised concerns about escalating violence in the region, the Washington Post reported. On Wednesday,...
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When Moawya Ali saw dozens of armed and masked Israeli settlers rushing toward his house in the West Bank town of Jit on Aug. 15, he grabbed his five children and took them to a nearby house for safety. When he returned, his house was on fire. “We...
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Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon Sunday, an escalation that has raised fears of an all-out regional war breaking out in the wake of fighting that started with Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct.7, Axios reported. The strikes, which...
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Smoke billowed from the streets of Khiam in southern Lebanon recently after Israeli military forces shelled the area in response to the Iran-backed militant group and political party Hezbollah launching missiles into northern Israel. In Dahieh, a densely populated residential and commercial district of the capital...
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Hamas said its leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed early Wednesday in an airstrike in Tehran that it blamed on Israel, dealing a major blow to the Palestinian militant group and fanning worries over further escalation in the Middle East, CNN reported. Haniyeh was Hamas’ most public...
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Dozens of far-right protesters supported by members of the Israeli cabinet stormed a military base on Monday where soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner were being detained, an attack condemned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the opposition, the Washington Post reported. The nine reservists...
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Fears of a Middle Eastern conflict widening flared over the weekend after a deadly rocket attack on a Druze village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, and an escalation in strikes by both Israel and Hezbollah, Axios reported. On Saturday, a rocket struck a soccer field in...
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) released a legal opinion declaring Israeli policies and practices in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem as unlawful, a non-binding decision that could impact Israel’s international standing and add pressure on the country to agree to a Palestinian...
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Hamas officials released a series of conflicting statements Sunday about withdrawing from ceasefire talks with Israel, a day after Israeli strikes hit a camp in the Gaza Strip targeting high-ranking Hamas commanders and the alleged masterminds of the Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel, the...
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Israel’s supreme court ruled Tuesday that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are not exempt from being drafted into military service, a decision that threatens the stability of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government amid the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, the Guardian reported. In a unanimous ruling,...
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The leader of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed political party and militant group based in Lebanon, recently dared Israeli politicians to start a war to their north as they fight Hamas in the Gaza Strip in the south. “Everything you see we can see and everything we can...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved his war cabinet Monday following the resignation of its two centrist members, leaving the embattled leader even more vulnerable to the increasing internal and international pressure to stop the war, the Washington Post reported. The war cabinet was originally established...
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Bombs and bullets are flying in the Gaza Strip even as both sides mull a ceasefire deal. Even so, the battles over hearts and minds are just as intense. As a result, what Israelis see is a very different war than is broadcast to the rest...
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Israeli forces freed four hostages taken by Hamas and its allies following an intense rescue operation over the weekend that has elicited cheers in Israel and among some world leaders, but condemnation from Palestinians and diplomats, NPR reported Sunday. The hostages were kidnapped by Hamas and...
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Israel launched a new military campaign against Hamas in central Gaza Wednesday, an offensive that comes ahead of crucial ceasefire talks, as well as ongoing international pressure on Israel over its actions in the Palestinian enclave, Reuters reported. The offensive, aimed at eliminating Hamas, has involved...
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Israel agreed to US President Joe Biden’s plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, according to a senior aide of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an announcement that comes amid international and domestic pressure to end the eight-month-long war in Gaza, NBC News...
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Israeli tanks advanced further into Rafah Tuesday as part of an expanding military operation in the southern Gazan city, an escalation that comes amid growing international condemnation of Israel’s efforts to defeat Hamas since the two sides began fighting in October, the Wall Street Journal...
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Dozens of people were killed or injured in an explosion at a refugee camp in the southern Gazan area of Rafah, the BBC reported Monday, with the Israel Defense Forces saying it had targeted Hamas leaders in the compounds following a rocket barrage from the...
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The chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court is seeking arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity for the leaders of Israel and Hamas for their actions during the seven-month war, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim...
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Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz threatened to resign from Israel’s war cabinet if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not come up with a long-term plan for the war with Hamas or the future of the Gaza Strip by next month, an announcement that underscored the...
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