• '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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Dozens in Gaza killed by Israeli strikes as critical aid fails to reach Palestinians

    Dozens in Gaza killed by Israeli strikes as critical aid fails to reach Palestinians

    May 21, 2025 04:28 PM EST

    ... women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count.Magdy reported from Cairo and Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut and Sam Mednick in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report.

  • 2 of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza encircled by Israeli forces, staff say

    2 of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza encircled by Israeli forces, staff say

    May 21, 2025 02:33 PM EST

    ... to the hospital Tuesday because of military activity. There are currently no ambulances or internet lines at al-Awda hospital, according to Shurafi and Alhelo. Israeli troops are about 900 meters (about half a mile) away from the hospital, Alhelo said. But the real risk, he said, is from Israeli ...

  • UK cuts trade talks with Israel over Gaza offensive and blockade

    UK cuts trade talks with Israel over Gaza offensive and blockade

    May 20, 2025 07:07 PM EST

    ... begin rolling into Gaza on Monday, U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher described it as a “drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed.” Israel said dozens more trucks entered Tuesday. Tensions between France and Israel Israel initially received widespread international support to root out Hamas militants following the ...

  • Israel's latest military offensive kills 85 in Gaza despite mounting international criticism

    Israel's latest military offensive kills 85 in Gaza despite mounting international criticism

    May 20, 2025 06:12 PM EST

    ... 300 people have been killed in Gaza during the latest onslaught, according to health officials. Israeli politician criticizes killing ‘babies as a hobby’ Criticism against Israel's conduct in Gaza also came at home. A leader of center-left politics said Tuesday that Israel was becoming an “outcast among nations ...

  • Israel allows 'minimal aid' into Gaza as it intensifies airstrikes and ground operations

    Israel allows 'minimal aid' into Gaza as it intensifies airstrikes and ground operations

    May 19, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... are tired. We are dying slowly. They are besieging us, no food, drink or anything. Nick Schifrin: The displacement is designed to facilitate a new Israeli-backed American aid group to distribute aid only to vetted Gazans. It's an effort that international aid groups oppose. Clemence Lagouardat: It seems ...

  • As Israel's blockade pushes Gaza towards famine, aid workers say they feel helpless

    As Israel's blockade pushes Gaza towards famine, aid workers say they feel helpless

    May 19, 2025 05:49 PM EST

    ... organization to avoid reprisals from Israeli authorities. Israel has cut in half the number of foreign doctors allowed into Gaza since March.New aid system Israel imposed the blockade and resumed its military campaign in March, breaking a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge ...