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Israel Katz (through interpreter): All houses in villages near the border in Lebanon will be destroyed, according to the model of Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza, to remove once and for all the threats near the border to northern residents. Simona Foltyn: The IDF has already begun to make ...
... said. The consulate is located in a high-rise building in Levent, one of the city's main business districts. Officials said there are no Israeli diplomats present in Israeli missions in Turkey. Israel withdrew its diplomats amid security concerns and deteriorating relations with Turkey during the war in Gaza ...
Human rights groups say a new Israeli law that expands the death penalty for killings classified as terrorism is expected to apply exclusively to Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank. As Israel and the U.S. wage war in Iran, there has been a surge of violence there, mostly by Israeli settlers against Palestinians. Nick...
... Sarsour, recounting his advocacy for those in need. Several recalled Sarsour's stories about his childhood, including allegations of inhumane treatment while being detained by Israelis. “He was targeted because of one thing, because he dared stand up to the Israeli army,” Othman Atta, one of Sarsour’s attorneys, told ...
In Lebanon, where Israel has launched a ground invasion in its fight with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militant group, an Israeli drone strike on worshippers leaving Friday prayers near Beirut killed two people, according to the state‑run National News Agency More than 1,900 people have been killed in ...
... military operation to secure the waterway “unrealistic.” But there is a concern that Iran might limit traffic through the waterway even after U.S. and Israeli attacks on it cease. The idea of an international effort has echoes of the “coalition of the willing,” led by the U.K. and ...
... threat of invasion and to keep the anti-tank missile fire away from our borders. Nick Schifrin: That expansion has come with a cost. Today, Israel buried 19-year-old Sergeant Liran Ben Zion, an American Israeli and the sixth Israeli soldier killed in Lebanon in the last month, when ...
Sara Qudah: Journalists are facing several dangers, one of them coming from Israeli strikes. But the other one is also from Hezbollah's obstruction and intimidation to journalists. So far, we know of five journalists killed in Lebanon. Also, at least four media outlets' buildings, they were destroyed by Israeli ...
... Palestinians, who are not Israeli citizens. The bill says military courts can change the penalty to life imprisonment in “special circumstances.” Israeli courts, which try Israeli citizens, including Palestinian citizens of Israel, can choose between life imprisonment or the death penalty in cases of murder aiming to harm Israeli citizens ...
... 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two vessels and killing four sailors, from November 2023 until January 2025, and also launched projectiles at Israel. They said their attacks were in support of Hamas during the war in Gaza. The U.S. and Israel responded with a punishing air ...
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