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  • South Africa expels Israel's top diplomat over social media posts insulting Ramaphosa

    South Africa expels Israel's top diplomat over social media posts insulting Ramaphosa

    Jan 30, 2026 09:26 PM EDT

    ... visits by Israeli officials. It also gave no more detail on that, but David Saranga, an official at the Israeli Foreign Ministry tasked with promoting Israel's image on social media, was in South Africa this week. South Africa said that it had informed the Israeli government of the decision ...

  • Israel will reopen Gaza's border crossing with Egypt on Sunday after nearly two-year closure

    Israel will reopen Gaza's border crossing with Egypt on Sunday after nearly two-year closure

    Jan 30, 2026 09:02 PM EDT

    Thousands of Palestinians inside Gaza are trying to leave the war-battered territory, while tens of thousands who fled the territory during the heaviest fighting say they want to return home. An Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with policy told The Associated Press that dozens ...

  • News Wrap: Israel recovers remains of final Gaza hostage

    News Wrap: Israel recovers remains of final Gaza hostage

    Jan 26, 2026 11:20 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Monday, at least six people are presumed dead after a private business jet crashed in Maine during the weekend's snowstorm, Israeli officials say they've recovered the final hostage remains in Gaza and China’s top military ranks are in turmoil after its most senior general is being investigated for what's being called...

  • Israeli fire strikes journalists and children on one of Gaza's deadliest days since ceasefire

    Israeli fire strikes journalists and children on one of Gaza's deadliest days since ceasefire

    Jan 21, 2026 11:29 PM EDT

    ... really know where he is.” Hamas said Wednesday it has provided “all information” it has on Gvili's body to the ceasefire mediators, and accused Israel of obstructing search efforts in areas it controls in Gaza. Israel targets more sites in Lebanon Israel’s air force carried out multiple strikes ...

  • Israel demolishes UNRWA offices for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem

    Israel demolishes UNRWA offices for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem

    Jan 21, 2026 12:23 AM EDT

    ... Israeli military and the country’s Shin Bet domestic security service. Mounting settler violence in the West Bank has emptied villages since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted, according to B’Tselem, an Israeli rights group helping the residents. The Israeli military has carried out large-scale operations in ...

  • Netanyahu tries to calm tensions after Israeli bus runs over and kills ultra-Orthodox teen during protest

    Netanyahu tries to calm tensions after Israeli bus runs over and kills ultra-Orthodox teen during protest

    Jan 07, 2026 06:33 PM EDT

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged calm on Wednesday after a bus driver ran over and killed a teenage boy during a protest by thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators against a law seeking to draft them into Israel’s military. “I call for restraint to prevent ...

  • Israel clears final hurdle to start settlement construction that would cut the West Bank in two

    Israel clears final hurdle to start settlement construction that would cut the West Bank in two

    Jan 06, 2026 10:58 PM EDT

    ... fire toward the “main violent individuals.” Foreign journalists press Israel for entry into Gaza A group representing major international media organizations on Tuesday criticized the Israeli government’s latest refusal to allow foreign journalists into Gaza, despite a three-month ceasefire. Israel has barred the foreign media from entering Gaza ...

  • Palestinians watch as Israeli bulldozers claw down their West Bank homes

    Palestinians watch as Israeli bulldozers claw down their West Bank homes

    Dec 31, 2025 09:09 PM EDT

    NUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank watched as Israeli military bulldozers pulled down their homes Wednesday as part of a nearly year-long incursion into the territory's northern refugee camps. The scene in Nur Shams has been repeated often across the ...

  • Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026, including Doctors Without Borders

    Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026, including Doctors Without Borders

    Dec 30, 2025 02:52 PM EDT

    ... information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, one of the largest health organizations operating in Gaza, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with Hamas and other militant groups. International organizations have said Israel's rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff. The ministry ...

  • African regional bodies reject Somaliland's recognition as independent nation by Israel

    African regional bodies reject Somaliland's recognition as independent nation by Israel

    Dec 27, 2025 07:44 PM EDT

    Netanyahu’s office said Friday that he, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, and Somaliland’s president, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, signed a joint declaration “in the spirit of the Abraham Accords.” That initiative, which started in 2020, established commercial and diplomatic ties between Israel and several Arab and Muslim-majority countries ...

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