World Nov 07 A new law allows Israel to deport the relatives of attackers. Experts expect it to be struck down The law could also be seen as a form of collective punishment and as discriminatory, because it appears to only apply to Arab citizens and residents, and not to family members of Jews convicted under terrorism laws.
World Nov 01 Death toll from Israeli strikes in central Gaza rises to 25 while 24 people are killed in Lebanon The latest violence comes against the backdrop of the Biden administration’s renewed diplomatic push days before the U.S. election to reach temporary cease-fire deals.
World Oct 31 Israel says another rocket barrage from Lebanon kills 2 more in Israel, hours after 5 were killed Magen David Adom, Israel's main emergency medical organization, said its medics confirmed the deaths of a 30-year-old man and 60-year-old woman in a suburb of the northern city of Haifa on Thursday.
World Oct 30 New push to end Middle East wars faces familiar challenges The United States and other mediators are ramping up efforts to halt the wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. They are circulating new proposals to wind down the regional conflict during the Biden administration’s final months.
World Oct 29 What to know about 2 new Israeli bills that could halt UNRWA's aid delivery to Gaza The laws ban the agency, UNRWA, from operating in Israel, designate it a terror organization, and cut all ties between the agency and the Israeli government.
World Oct 18 Israel and Hamas signal resistance to ending Gaza war after Sinwar's death Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin said a day earlier that his country's military will keep fighting until the hostages are released and will remain in Gaza to prevent a severely weakened Hamas from rearming.
World Oct 18 As Hezbollah vows a new phase of war with Israel, Hamas official confirms Sinwar's death Sinwar’s killing offers a potential window to shift the dynamic in the Gaza war even as Israel presses its offensive to root out Hezbollah along its northern border with Lebanon.
World Oct 13 Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those who remain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling…
World Oct 01 Iran fires dozens of missiles into Israel in sharp escalation of regional conflict Iran fired dozens of missiles into Israel, a sharp escalation of the monthslong conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas that threatened to become a wider regional war.
World Oct 01 Hezbollah denies ground incursion as Israel calls for evacuations in Lebanon The Israeli military has warned people to evacuate nearly two dozen Lebanese border communities hours after announcing what it said were limited ground operations against Hezbollah…