Nov 05 Fearing the world will forget, families of Israeli hostages travel abroad to plead for help By Lori Hinnant, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Families of hostages seized during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack fear the world’s focus on them is fading, as is the impetus to free some 240 people held. Continue reading
Nov 05 Gaza’s telecom services go down for 3rd time since start of Israel-Hamas war By Wafaa Shurafa, Najib Jobain, Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press Gaza came under the third total communications outage since the start of the war, while Israel's military announced late Sunday that it had encircled Gaza City and divided the besieged coastal strip into two. Continue reading
Nov 05 Watch 6:46 How Israel’s judicial reform protesters shifted focus to aiding victims of Hamas By John Yang, Andrew Corkery, Claire Mufson For months, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan triggered massive protests across the nation. But after Hamas’ bloody assault on Israel on Oct. 7, groups protesting Netanyahu’s government turned their resources toward aiding Israeli soldiers and civilians affected by… Continue watching
Nov 05 Local officials say an Israeli airstrike killed a woman and 3 children in south Lebanon By Bassam Hatoum, Abby Sewell, Associated Press Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that two civilian cars carrying members of the same family — one of them a local journalist — were driving between the towns of Ainata and Aitaroun on Sunday when they were hit by… Continue reading
Nov 05 Blinken meets Abbas in the West Bank in latest stop on his diplomacy trip amid Israel-Hamas war By Matthew Lee, Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Biden administration's latest effort to ease civilian suffering in the Gaza Strip and start to sketch out… Continue reading
Nov 05 Warplanes strike Gaza refugee camps as Israel rebuffs U.S. push for humanitarian pause By Wafaa Shurafa, Najib Jobain, Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press Israeli warplanes struck two refugee camps in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing at least 53 people and wounding dozens, health officials said. Continue reading
Nov 04 WATCH: Blinken meets with Arab leaders to discuss Gaza’s future amid tensions over Israel-Hamas war By Matthew Lee, Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to build support Saturday for planning a postwar future for Gaza as he met with wary Arab leaders during his latest urgent mission to the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas conflict began. Continue reading
Nov 04 Israeli strikes kill civilians sheltering in northern Gaza as assault on Hamas intensifies By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy, David Rising, Associated Press Israeli military strikes killed multiple civilians Saturday at a U.N. shelter and hospital in the main combat zone in the Gaza Strip as the assault intensified on the besieged enclave’s Hamas rulers, amid growing international uproar over the soaring death… Continue reading
Nov 03 Watch 4:39 Hezbollah leader warns of regional war if Israel does not de-escalate siege of Gaza By Simona Foltyn, Dan Sagalyn The Hezbollah chief in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, gave a speech for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began almost a month ago. Hezbollah is the most powerful in the so-called Axis of Resistance, a group of Iran-aligned actors allied… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch 5:18 How thousands of Gazans became stranded in Israel when war started By Leila Molana-Allen, Zeba Warsi The morning Hamas terrorists launched their attack on Israel, there were thousands of innocent Gazan civilians inside Israel working day jobs or seeking medical care. When the war started, they were left stranded. Now, they’ve been told to go back… Continue watching