• Wounded children overwhelmed a Gaza hospital as Israeli bombs fell this week

    Wounded children overwhelmed a Gaza hospital as Israeli bombs fell this week

    Mar 25, 2025 06:22 PM EDT

    ... At least six prominent Hamas figures were among those killed Tuesday. Israel says it will keep targeting Hamas, demanding it release more hostages, even though Israel has ignored ceasefire requirements for it to first negotiate a long-term end to the war. Israel says it does not target civilians and ...

  • Israel releases Palestinian director who was detained after being attacked by West Bank settlers

    Israel releases Palestinian director who was detained after being attacked by West Bank settlers

    Mar 25, 2025 01:45 PM EDT

    ... solution. Most of the international community considers the settlements illegal. Israel has built well over 100 settlements, home to over 500,000 settlers who have Israeli citizenship. The 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule, with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority administering ...

  • UN says it will reduce staff in Gaza after Israeli tank strike killed employee

    UN says it will reduce staff in Gaza after Israeli tank strike killed employee

    Mar 24, 2025 05:52 PM EDT

    ... earlier strikes. One of those killed at Khan Younis' Nasser Hospital was a teenage boy recovering from surgery. The other was a Hamas official that Israel says was the target of the strike, Ismail Barhoum. Hamas said Barhoum was undergoing treatment at the time. The Israeli military denied that, saying ...

  • Children in Gaza ‘deeply traumatized’ as Israel expands military operations again

    Children in Gaza ‘deeply traumatized’ as Israel expands military operations again

    Mar 23, 2025 09:50 PM EDT

    Israeli forces are carrying out ground operations in Gaza after days of aerial bombardment, as Israel tries to pressure Hamas into freeing the remaining hostages. The Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll in the 18 months since the war began has surpassed 50,000, with nearly 700 people killed since the ceasefire collapsed this past...

  • Violence flares on Israeli-Lebanese border as Israel steps up attacks in Gaza

    Violence flares on Israeli-Lebanese border as Israel steps up attacks in Gaza

    Mar 22, 2025 09:50 PM EDT

    ... Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resumed the fighting in Gaza. Where is the sense of the Israeli public on this? Josef Federman: There are deep divisions in Israeli society, the government, this is a very hard line government. But the Israeli public, large parts of the Israeli public, at least half, possibly ...

  • Retaliatory Israeli strike kills 2 people in southern Lebanon, health ministry says

    Retaliatory Israeli strike kills 2 people in southern Lebanon, health ministry says

    Mar 22, 2025 04:44 PM EDT

    Hezbollah began launching rockets, drones and missiles into Israel the day after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack out of Gaza ignited the war there. The Israel-Hezbollah conflict boiled over into all-out war in September as Israel carried out massive waves of airstrikes and killed most of the militant ...

  • Israel orders soldiers deeper into Gaza, vowing to hold more land unless Hamas releases hostages

    Israel orders soldiers deeper into Gaza, vowing to hold more land unless Hamas releases hostages

    Mar 21, 2025 02:13 PM EDT

    ... Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage. Most of the hostages have been freed in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israeli forces have rescued eight living hostages and recovered the bodies of dozens more. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed more than 49,000 Palestinians ...

  • News Wrap: Hamas fires rockets at Israel for first time since fighting resumed in Gaza

    News Wrap: Hamas fires rockets at Israel for first time since fighting resumed in Gaza

    Mar 20, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Thursday, Hamas fired rockets at Israel for the first time since the resumption of fighting this week, Israel restarted its blockade on northern Gaza, an American detained by the Taliban for more than two years has been freed and officials from across Europe are moving to form an international peacekeeping force...

  • Israeli strikes across Gaza hit multiple homes, killing at least 85 Palestinians

    Israeli strikes across Gaza hit multiple homes, killing at least 85 Palestinians

    Mar 20, 2025 03:02 PM EDT

    ... Israelis again take to the streets to protest Netanyahu's handling of the war The breakdown of the ceasefire has been met with anger in Israel, where many support the plight of the hostage families to free their loved ones. Hundreds of Israelis gathered Thursday outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

  • News Wrap: Israel launches ground operation in Gaza after ending ceasefire with Hamas

    News Wrap: Israel launches ground operation in Gaza after ending ceasefire with Hamas

    Mar 19, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... its benchmark interest rate steady for the second meeting in a row. ... Geoff Bennett: We start today's other headlines in the Middle East, where Israel says it launched a limited ground operation in Gaza after abruptly ending a two-month cease-fire with Hamas. The Israeli military claims to ...