May 19 Watch 3:02 News Wrap: Rescue effort underway after helicopter with Iran president crashes In our news wrap Sunday, a rescue operation is underway after the helicopter carrying Iran’s President Raisi apparently crashed, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, President Biden tells Morehouse College graduates that he hears their… Continue watching
May 19 Airstrike kills 27 in central Gaza as Israel’s leaders air wartime divisions By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy, Joseph Krauss, Associated Press An Israeli airstrike killed 27 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting with Hamas raged across the north on Sunday. Continue reading
May 18 Member of Israel’s war cabinet threatens to quit over Gaza strategy By Wafaa Shurafa, Joseph Krauss, Jack Jeffery, Associated Press Benny Gantz, a popular centrist member of Israel’s three-member War Cabinet, threatened Saturday to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan in three weeks' time for the war in Gaza. Continue reading
May 17 WATCH: Israel makes appearance in ICJ responding to new complaint over possible attack on Rafah By Molly Quell, Associated Press Israel defended its conduct and said it had allowed in fuel and medication to the beleaguered enclave as it takes "extraordinary measures in order to minimize the harm to civilians in Gaza."… Continue reading
May 17 Hezbollah introduces new weapons, tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on By Bassem Mroue, Associated Press The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah this week struck a military post in northern Israel using a drone that fired two missiles. The attack wounded three soldiers, one of them seriously, according to the Israeli military. Continue reading
May 16 WATCH: UN’s highest court hears request from South Africa on Israel’s offensive in Rafah By Molly Quell, Associated Press It is the fourth time South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice for emergency measures since the nation launched proceedings alleging that Israel’s military action in its war with Hamas in Gaza amounts to genocide. Continue reading
May 15 Watch 5:53 Israeli defense minister publicly criticizes Netanyahu’s Gaza strategy By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn, Zeba Warsi, Ethan Dodd Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against criticism of his Gaza strategy from within his own government. Israel's defense minister accused Netanyahu of “indecision” and leading Israel down a “dangerous course.” The public infighting comes as the Biden administration… Continue watching
May 15 Palestinians mark the Nakba, the original ‘catastrophe’ of mass expulsion By Joseph Krauss, Abby Sewell, Samy Magdy, Associated Press The Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe, refers to the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what is today Israel before and during the war surrounding its creation in 1948. Continue reading
May 14 More than half a million Palestinians displaced as Israeli military fighting escalates in Gaza By Associated Press Some 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza face catastrophic levels of hunger, on the brink of starvation, and a “full-blown famine” is taking place in the north, according to the U.N. Continue reading
May 13 Watch 4:38 Israel faces diplomatic pressure to avoid assault on Rafah By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi The United Nations says more than 360,000 Gazans who fled to Rafah have now been forced to flee again as Israeli troops attack sectors of the city in a bid to rout Hamas. Also in Rafah, the first foreign U.N. Continue watching