• News Wrap: Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon amid corruption trial

    News Wrap: Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon amid corruption trial

    Nov 30, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a preemptive pardon in the midst of his years long corruption trial. Netanyahu said a pardon would heal divisions in Israeli society, but initial public reaction suggested otherwise. The appeal was made to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. His office called the request extraordinary and said ...

  • Netanyahu requests pardon from Israeli president during his ongoing corruption trial

    Netanyahu requests pardon from Israeli president during his ongoing corruption trial

    Nov 30, 2025 06:37 PM EST

    In rare cases, the system could pardon Netanyahu. Experts say the president has broad discretion to grant one, and oversight is limited. However, "as a rule, the president reviews a pardon request only after all legal proceedings have ended. The possibility of a preconviction pardon ... is extremely rare,” the Israel ...

  • Palestinian death toll surpasses 70,000 since start of Israel-Hamas war, Gaza ministry says

    Palestinian death toll surpasses 70,000 since start of Israel-Hamas war, Gaza ministry says

    Nov 29, 2025 08:10 PM EST

    ... Israeli and a Thai national, are still to be returned. Israelis rallied again Saturday night in Tel Aviv for their return. Elsewhere in the region Israeli forces have pushed forward on a number of other fronts in the region in recent weeks. Syrian officials said that Israeli forces raided a ...

  • Israeli forces kill at least 13 people in raid on Syrian village, officials and residents say

    Israeli forces kill at least 13 people in raid on Syrian village, officials and residents say

    Nov 28, 2025 11:53 PM EST

    ... the Israeli incursions as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty. On Friday the government called for the international community to take “urgent action” to halt Israeli incursions. Israel has viewed Syria's new government, headed by former insurgent leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, with suspicion. The two countries, which do not ...

  • Israeli soldiers appear to kill Palestinian men in West Bank after they surrender

    Israeli soldiers appear to kill Palestinian men in West Bank after they surrender

    Nov 27, 2025 09:06 PM EST

    The latest operation comes amid a rising tide of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank. Israeli leaders have played down the settler attacks as the work of a small minority. But Palestinians say the attacks are frequent, often in close proximity to Israeli troops, and the settlers are rarely ...

  • Israel returns 15 more Palestinian bodies to Gaza as first phase of ceasefire nears end

    Israel returns 15 more Palestinian bodies to Gaza as first phase of ceasefire nears end

    Nov 26, 2025 02:16 PM EST

    ... training."The U.N. reported that Indonesia had been the fifth-largest uniformed personnel contributor, deploying 2,731 individuals on peacekeeping operations as of September. Israeli defense minister says relationship with military chief intact despite spat Defense Minister Israel Katz said in the Israeli parliament Wednesday that a recent spat ...

  • Israeli military says the Red Cross has received another set of remains from Gaza militants

    Israeli military says the Red Cross has received another set of remains from Gaza militants

    Nov 25, 2025 03:18 PM EST

    Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement Tuesday that the delay amounted to a ceasefire violation. Israel has released the bodies of 330 Palestinians back to Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect. Palestinian officials have struggled to identify the bodies without access to DNA ...

  • News Wrap: Israel hits Beirut with deadly strike targeting a Hezbollah leader

    News Wrap: Israel hits Beirut with deadly strike targeting a Hezbollah leader

    Nov 23, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... one year to the day, the country agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah. The strike killed at least five people and wounded dozens of others. Israel said the target of the strike was a key Hezbollah military leader considered the terror group's chief of staff. An Israeli government spokesperson ...

  • Israel says it killed Hezbollah's chief of staff in first strike on Beirut in months

    Israel says it killed Hezbollah's chief of staff in first strike on Beirut in months

    Nov 23, 2025 04:39 PM EST

    ... Israel attacks in the country and accuse Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement. Aoun last week said the country is ready to enter negotiations with Israel to stop its airstrikes and to withdraw from five hilltop points it occupies on Lebanese territory. It was unclear if Israel would agree. Aoun ...

  • Deadly Israeli strikes continue in Lebanon nearly a year since ceasefire began

    Deadly Israeli strikes continue in Lebanon nearly a year since ceasefire began

    Nov 22, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... than half of them women and children. It was the biggest single mass casualty event of the war and the highest death toll of any Israeli strike on Lebanese territory for nearly two decades. The Israeli army says the building was a Hezbollah command center. In the rubble, we found ...