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... 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 hostages. More than half the hostages have been released in ceasefires or other deals. Israel has rescued eight and recovered dozens of bodies. Israel's ensuing military campaign has killed over 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according ...
... law. Israel now controls more than 70% of Gaza, according to Yaakov Garb, a professor of environmental studies at Ben Gurion University, who has examined Israeli-Palestinian land use patterns for decades. The area includes buffer zones along the border with Israel as well as the southern city of Rafah ...
The White House said Thursday that Israel had accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza. Watch in the player above. “I can confirm that special envoy (Steve) Witkoff and the president submitted a ceasefire proposal to Hamas that Israel backed and supported,” White House press ...
... commander, Deif, who was killed in a strike last year. Mohammed Sinwar was one of the planners of a 2006 cross-border attack on an Israeli army post. In that attack, militants captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, who was held for five years and later exchanged for more than 1 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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