• Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant 'death to Arabs' during annual procession through Jerusalem

    Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant 'death to Arabs' during annual procession through Jerusalem

    May 26, 2025 08:02 PM EDT

    ... including Yulia Malinovsky, one of the legislators behind an Israeli law that banned UNRWA, forcefully entered the compound, climbing its main gate in view of Israeli police. Protesters held a banner calling for the compound to be turned into an Israeli settlement. Israel’s housing minister said last year he ...

  • Israeli strikes kill 52 in Gaza including dozens in a shelter, medics say

    Israeli strikes kill 52 in Gaza including dozens in a shelter, medics say

    May 26, 2025 07:21 PM EDT

    Official involved in Israel-backed aid plan resigns Israel plans to roll out a new aid distribution system run by a group known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, made up of former humanitarian, government and military officials, that would set up distribution points guarded by private security firms. Israel accuses ...

  • Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 38 people, including children, as Noem visits Israel

    Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 38 people, including children, as Noem visits Israel

    May 25, 2025 06:49 PM EDT

    ... Iran-backed Houthis have launched repeated missile attacks targeting Israel as well as international shipping in the Red Sea, portraying it as a response to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Most of the targeted ships had no relation to Israel or the conflict. The United States halted a punishing ...

  • Nine of a doctor's 10 children are killed in latest Israeli strikes in Gaza, health officials say

    Nine of a doctor's 10 children are killed in latest Israeli strikes in Gaza, health officials say

    May 24, 2025 10:47 PM EDT

    Israel's pressure on Hamas has included a blockade of Gaza and its over 2 million people since early March. This week, the first aid trucks entered the territory and began reaching Palestinians since the blockade began. COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing aid for Gaza, said 388 trucks had ...

  • At least 60 people were killed after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

    At least 60 people were killed after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

    May 23, 2025 01:10 PM EDT

    Israel says the aid now is to bridge the gap until a U.S. backed initiative starts soon. A group known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will take over aid distribution in Gaza, and armed private contractors would guard the distribution. Israel says the system is needed because Hamas siphons ...

  • Israeli embassy worker killings investigated as hate crime and terrorism

    Israeli embassy worker killings investigated as hate crime and terrorism

    May 22, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... the Capital Jewish Museum. Today, federal authorities confirm they are investigating Rodriguez's alleged manifesto titled "Escalate for Gaza: Bring the War Home." It accuses Israel of committing -- quote -- "atrocities and genocide in Gaza."Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister: For these neo-Nazis, "Free Palestine" is just today's version ...

  • 'Stop delegitimizing us,' Israeli ambassador to U.S. says after embassy worker killings

    'Stop delegitimizing us,' Israeli ambassador to U.S. says after embassy worker killings

    May 22, 2025 10:53 PM EDT

    ... don't award terrorists with sovereignty, with recognition. So, do they share in the blame for the rise of antisemitism? Absolutely. Stop beating up on Israel. Stop condemning us. Stop delegitimizing us. We're not doing anything that is comparable to what we're being charged with doing. I lost ...

  • WATCH: Federal authorities announce murder charges in fatal shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers

    WATCH: Federal authorities announce murder charges in fatal shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers

    May 22, 2025 10:08 PM EDT

    ... the event at the museum about three hours before it started, according to the court documents. The two people killed, identified as Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgrim, an American, were a young couple about to be engaged, according to Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the U ...

  • These are the DC shooting victims who worked for the Israeli Embassy

    These are the DC shooting victims who worked for the Israeli Embassy

    May 22, 2025 01:57 PM EDT

    In Germany, the German-Israeli Society — a group that promotes bilateral relations and solidarity with Israel — said that Lischinsky grew up partly in Bavaria and spoke fluent German. It said that he was a founding member of the youth forum of the Israeli-German Society, the group’s counterpart in ...

  • 2 Israeli Embassy staff members killed in DC shooting

    2 Israeli Embassy staff members killed in DC shooting

    May 22, 2025 01:34 PM EDT

    ... evening.” Israeli diplomats have a history of being targeted by violence, both by state-backed assailants and Palestinian militants over the decades of the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict that grew out of the founding of Israel in 1948. The Palestinians seek Gaza and the West Bank for a future state ...