Overall, U.N. agencies estimate that Israel’s ground invasion and bombardment of Lebanon have displaced 1.4 million people there. Residents of Israel's northern communities near Lebanon, roughly 60,000 people, have also been displaced for more than a year. Back-to-back rocket attacks from Lebanon killed ...
... said it has recovered from a series of setbacks in recent months, including attacks using explosive pagers and walkie-talkies that was widely blamed on Israel. "Hezbollah's capabilities are still available and compatible with a long war," he said. Earlier on Thursday, the Israeli military warned people to evacuate ...
In a letter to the U.N, Lazzarini said the Israeli laws and campaign against the agency “will not terminate the refugee status of the Palestinians, which exists independently of UNRWA’s services, but will severely harm their lives and future.” Israel claims hundreds of Palestinian militants work for UNRWA ...
... on whether the U.S. should be providing weapons to Israel’s military, and voters are more likely to oppose sending government funds to aid Israel’s military than to support it. Deploying U.S. troops to aid Israel’s military garners little support among voters, regardless of their partisan ...
... headquarters, Israel says it found a Hamas tunnel. And earlier this year, Israel released a dossier that said four UNRWA staffers were involved in kidnapping Israelis, six UNRWA staffers in total infiltrated into Israel, and UNRWA acts under the authorization and supervision of Hamas. And so last night, Israel's ...
Harris made a rare reference to Israel’s fight against Hamas and Hezbollah during a recent speech in Oakland County, outside of Detroit. “This year has been very difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon,” she said. The ...
... ruins have not felt the direct pain of the conflict, anxiety is rising in surrounding areas. On one coastal road — the busy Jounieh highway — an Israeli drone struck a car earlier this month, killing a man and his wife. Such rare but increasing Israeli strikes have rattled residents in the ...
Israel has repeatedly struck U.N. schools-turned-shelters, claiming Hamas fighters operate inside them. It also says it has uncovered tunnels running near or under UNRWA facilities. UNRWA has long been the biggest single employer in Gaza, where the population has been impoverished by years of Israeli and Egyptian ...
... about it. On Monday, Israel's parliament passed two laws that ban UNRWA from operating on Israeli soil and cut all ties with the agency. Israel controls access to both Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and it was unclear how the agency would continue to operate there. Israel says ...
In our news wrap Monday, Israel's parliament voted to bar the UN agency for Palestinian refugees from working in Israel, U.S. officials say North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to Russia to help Moscow's war effort in Ukraine, protests erupted in the country of Georgia amid anger over the disputed parliamentary elections and police say...
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