Tag: Israel
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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 ... -
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 Bank allegedly ... -
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 rocket that carried ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 the ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ... -
Israelis block highways in nationwide protests of gov’t’s plan to overhaul judiciary
Thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets yesterday and blocked highways leading to Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv as part of countrywide demonstrations against the ... -
Netanyahu says he’s opposed to any interim US-Iran deal on nuclear program
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he opposes any interim agreement reportedly being negotiated between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu ... -
In Jerusalem’s contested Old City, shrinking Armenian community fears displacement after land deal
A real estate deal in Jerusalem’s Old City, at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has sent the historic Armenian community there into a panic as ... -
On its 75th birthday, Israel still can’t agree on what it means to be a Jewish state and a democracy
As Israel celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding, and nearly a century and a half after the first Zionists came to Palestine from Europe, the ... -
UN to commemorate Palestinians’ 1948 flight from Israel for the first time
For the first time, the United Nations will officially commemorate the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel on the 75th ... -
Israelis protest legal changes before nation’s 75th birthday
Tens of thousands of protesters flocked to Tel Aviv and cities across Israel on Saturday to vent their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government ... -
Israel | Palestinian attacker stabs passengers on Tel Aviv bus
A Palestinian man stabbed nine people on a bus in central Tel Aviv yesterday, wounding four of them seriously before he was chased down, shot ...
