• 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 ...

  • Palestinian man kills 2 in car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel, police say

    Palestinian man kills 2 in car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel, police say

    Dec 26, 2025 04:47 PM EST

    ... authorities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified the victims as Aviv Maor, a teenager, and Shimshon Mordechai, 68. Paramedics pronounced both dead at the scene. Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that he was shocked by the "horrific killing spree." He said that Israel was "committed to reinforcing and strengthening this ...

  • Israel accuses Hamas of ceasefire violation as blast in Gaza wounds soldier

    Israel accuses Hamas of ceasefire violation as blast in Gaza wounds soldier

    Dec 24, 2025 06:39 PM EST

    Israel has previously launched strikes in Gaza in response to alleged ceasefire violations. On Oct. 19, Israel said two soldiers were killed by Hamas fire and it responded with a series of strikes that killed over 40 Palestinians, according to local health officials. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire ...

  • How Israeli communities scarred by Oct. 7 celebrated Hanukkah

    How Israeli communities scarred by Oct. 7 celebrated Hanukkah

    Dec 22, 2025 11:25 PM EST

    ... canister of oil. It was enough to last for eight nights. For Jews in Israel today, those eight nights from an ancient war have now become two years of the same kind of sustaining light for another war in these modern times. Karl Bostic, "PBS News Hour," Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • Israeli Cabinet approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank

    Israeli Cabinet approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank

    Dec 21, 2025 05:46 PM EST

    ... footage of the incident, where the youth appears to emerge from an alley and is shot by troops as he approaches them without throwing anything. Israel's military said the incident is under review. The Health Ministry identified the second man as Ahmad Ziyoud, 22. Israel’s military has scaled ...