Knee-jerk reaction to Tel Aviv’s UNRWA charges shows some countries putting cart before horse

Israel’ s intention in alleging that 12 staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East were involved in Hamas’ Oct

Saudi top diplomat says it won’t recognize Israel without a path to a Palestinian state

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat said the kingdom will not normalize relations with Israel or contribute to  Prince Faisal bin Farhan’s remarks in an interview with CNN broadcast

A defiant Netanyahu says no one can halt war to crush Hamas, including the world court

Israel will pursue its war against Hamas until victory and will not be stopped by anyone, including the world court, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in

Blinken looks to planning for post-war Gaza as fighting continues to rage

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced tough talks with Israeli leaders on Gaza’s post-war future yesterday, while Israel’s military pushed ahead with its offensive in

Israel battles militants in main cities, with civilians still trapped in the crossfire

Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants in Gaza’s two largest cities yesterday, with civilians still trapped in the fighting even after hundreds of thousands have fled to

Israel widens evacuation orders as it shifts its offensive to southern Gaza

Israel’s military yesterday ordered more areas in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half of the territory

Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI’s power to mislead

Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants.

As freed hostages return home, details of captivity emerge: irregular meals, benches as beds

Plastic chairs as beds. Meals of bread and rice. Hours spent waiting for the bathroom. As former hostages return to Israel after seven weeks of Hamas

Russia maneuvers carefully over Israel-Hamas war seeking to expand its global clout

Russia has issued carefully calibrated criticism of both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas. But the conflict also is giving Moscow bold new opportunities —

Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts

Israeli warplanes struck targets across Gaza overnight and into Sunday, as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West

French intelligence points to Palestinian rocket, not Israeli airstrike, for Gaza hospital blast

An assessment by French military intelligence indicates the most likely cause of the deadly explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli hospital was a Palestinian

Evidence shows Hamas used North Korean weapons in attack on Israel

Hamas fighters likely fired North Korean weapons during their Oct. 7 assault on Israel, a militant video and weapons seized by Israel show, despite Pyongyang’s denials

EU seeks answers to rising security challenges as Israel-Hamas war fuels new concerns

European Union interior ministers yesterday debated how to manage the impact of the war between Israel and Hamas on the bloc, amid heightened security tensions after

Biden pledges solidarity with Israelis, suggests ‘other team’ to blame for Gaza hospital blast

President Joe Biden vowed to show the world that the U.S. stands in solidarity with Israelis during his visit there yesterday, and offered an assessment that the deadly

Biden postpones trip to discuss domestic agenda as Israel-Hamas conflict intensifies

President Joe Biden postponed a trip to Colorado yesterday to stay in Washington and focus on the growing conflict in the Middle East. Biden had been heading to the

In first call with Palestinian president Abbas, Biden discusses support for humanitarian aid to Gaza

President Joe Biden on Saturday spoke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging the leaders to allow humanitarian aid to

‘Intelligence analysis is like putting a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle together’

Israel is widely recognized as having highly sophisticated intelligence capabilities, both in terms of its ability to collect information about potential threats within its own country

Families wait in agony for word of their loved ones taken hostage by militants

One of those taken hostage is a grandmother who learned Arabic in hopes of building bridges with her neighbors. Others include 10 members of an extended family,

Israeli village near Gaza border lies in ruin

On the road approaching this rural village, the bodies of militants lie scattered between the shells of burned-out cars. Walls and doors of what used to

Netanyahu recovers from a heart procedure while his judicial overhaul plan moves forward

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in a hospital yesterday after an emergency heart procedure while opposition to his government’s contentious judicial overhaul plan reached

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