• Lebanese villagers blocked from returning home as Israeli forces remain in area

    Lebanese villagers blocked from returning home as Israeli forces remain in area

    Feb 09, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... Foltyn: Abbas had only just begun to rebuild his house. The mayor accuses the IDF of booby trapping it. Qassem Hussain Hayder: The way the Israeli enemy is infiltrating other areas to kill and bomb, they can easily infiltrate from the southern areas. Simona Foltyn: The IDF is due to ...

  • Pressure to extend ceasefire in Gaza mounts as Israeli troops withdraw from key corridor

    Pressure to extend ceasefire in Gaza mounts as Israeli troops withdraw from key corridor

    Feb 09, 2025 09:14 PM EST

    ... months pregnant. It said Rahaf al-Ashqar, 21, was also killed. The shooting occurred in the Nur Shams urban refugee camp, a focal point of Israeli operations.Israel's military said its police had opened an investigation. Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz on Sunday announced the expansion of the ...

  • Three Israeli hostages exchanged for 183 Palestinian prisoners as Gaza ceasefire continues

    Three Israeli hostages exchanged for 183 Palestinian prisoners as Gaza ceasefire continues

    Feb 08, 2025 08:58 PM EST

    ... full Israeli withdrawal. In the Oct. 7 attack, about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed. More than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory war, over half women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were militants.The Israeli ...

  • State Department announces plans for $7 billion-plus arms sale to Israel

    State Department announces plans for $7 billion-plus arms sale to Israel

    Feb 08, 2025 04:54 PM EST

    ... S. and Israel to relocate Gaza’s population after the war. The three men, captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, are set to be freed Saturday, in the fifth exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinians jailed in Israel.Israeli forces have withdrawn from most ...

  • Trump orders sanctions on International Criminal Court for investigating Israel

    Trump orders sanctions on International Criminal Court for investigating Israel

    Feb 07, 2025 04:02 PM EST

    ... makes perfect sense. Russia is a failed state. People fall out of windows. But I never in my wildest dreams imagined they would go after Israel, which has one of the most independent legal systems on the planet.” “The legal theory they’re using against Israel has no limits and ...

  • Egypt lobbies against Trump Gaza Strip exodus plan while Israel begins preparations

    Egypt lobbies against Trump Gaza Strip exodus plan while Israel begins preparations

    Feb 06, 2025 02:34 PM EST

    ... rejected similar proposals from the Biden administration and European countries early in the war, which was sparked by Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack into southern Israel. The earlier proposals were broached privately, while Trump announced his plan at a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas ...

  • Trump's Middle East envoy says Gaza rebuilding timeline in Israel-Hamas truce 'preposterous'

    Trump's Middle East envoy says Gaza rebuilding timeline in Israel-Hamas truce 'preposterous'

    Feb 04, 2025 07:31 PM EST

    ... one of the most important and critical meetings between an American president and an Israeli prime minister,” said Eytan Gilboa, an expert on U.S.-Israel relations at Bar-Ilan University near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. “What’s at stake here is not just bilateral relations between Israel ...

  • News Wrap: Israel’s Netanyahu heads to U.S. to meet with Trump

    News Wrap: Israel’s Netanyahu heads to U.S. to meet with Trump

    Feb 02, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... Trump is preparing for the first foreign leaders to visit the White House since he began his second term. This week, Mr. Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a week later King Abdullah of Jordan. Before leaving Israel, Netanyahu said he expects to discuss victory over Hamas ...

  • News Wrap: Israel, Hamas complete 4th prisoner-hostage exchange of ceasefire deal

    News Wrap: Israel, Hamas complete 4th prisoner-hostage exchange of ceasefire deal

    Feb 01, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... other news, the delicate ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas move forward today with another hostage release and prisoner exchange. Hamas freed three hostages and Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. In Khan Yunis, two of the Israeli hostages were paraded in front of a crowd before being handed ...

  • UNRWA vows to keep providing aid to Gaza despite Israeli ban

    UNRWA vows to keep providing aid to Gaza despite Israeli ban

    Jan 31, 2025 11:40 PM EST

    UNRWA, the United Nations’ Palestinian relief agency, said it remains operational in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem despite an Israeli ban. The law passed in October forbids UNRWA from operating on Israeli land and from contact with Israeli authorities. Nick Schifrin discussed more with William Deere of UNRWA and Assaf Orion, a...