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She noted that Israelis have recently faced numerous militant attacks, saying that attacks in September had killed nine people in Israel and injured 24, including members of the security forces. One was a shooting carried out by Palestinian attackers on a road leading to Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem that ...
In our news wrap Wednesday, President Trump is urging Israel's president to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his corruption case, a former aide to California's Gov. Newsom has been indicted on charges related to an alleged scheme to steal campaign money, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is retiring and the...
... any other month since it began keeping track in 2006. There were over 260 attacks, the office said. Palestinians and human rights workers accuse the Israeli army and police of failing to halt attacks by settlers. Israel’s government is dominated by far-right proponents of the settler movement including ...
... country. It was the latest attempt by Trump to intervene in the case on behalf of Netanyahu, raising questions about undue American influence over internal Israeli affairs. Trump also called for a pardon for Netanyahu during a speech to Israel's parliament last month, when he made a brief visit ...
... there just after being uprooted from the Negev desert during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. Two decades later, Umm al-Khair fell under Israeli security control when Israel captured the West Bank. Settler attacks, residents say, began in the 1980s, after Israel built the settlement of Carmel close ...
For each Israeli hostage returned, Israel has been releasing the remains of 15 Palestinians. Ahmed Dheir, director of forensic medicine at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, said that the remains of 300 have now been returned, with 89 identified. The war began with a Hamas ...
... settlers injured four international activists and one 57-year-old man. Israel's military said soldiers responded to a report of rock-throwing at an Israeli vehicle and that Israeli civilians then hurled rocks at harvesters. It said Israeli and Palestinian civilians were injured. Frankel reported from Jerusalem and Abou ...
... the Israel-Hamas war. The U.N.'s humanitarian office said Thursday that 42 Palestinian children under the age of 18 had been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of 2025. Some were killed during Israeli military raids in dense neighborhoods, others by sniper fire ...
... violating the ceasefire, which nominally ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war last November. The conflict started after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza. Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in support of Hamas and the Palestinians, prompting Israeli airstrikes and ...
... food or medical care. At least 75 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons and detention facilities during the war, according to the U.N. The Israeli military has said it abides by international standards in its prisons. The 2023 attack killed about 1,200 people in Israel and saw 251 ...
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