The latest Israeli strikes came shortly after Hezbollah accused Israel of violating a ceasefire agreement and fired missiles on an Israeli military position in the disputed Shebaa Farms area in what the Iran-backed group called a “defensive warning strike.” Read more
The Hamas visit to Cairo was the first since the United States announced on Wednesday it would revive efforts in collaboration with Qatar, Egypt and Turkey to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza, that would include a hostage deal. Read more
World Central Kitchen confirmed the airstrike and said it had no knowledge about an employee involved in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. Read more
Aleppo had been firmly held by the government since a 2016 victory there, one of the war’s major turning points. Read more
One rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, took control of “more than half of Aleppo” today without resistance from Syrian government forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group based in Britain. Read more
Medics said they had recovered 19 bodies of Palestinians killed in northern areas of Nuseirat, one of the enclave’s eight long-standing refugee camps. Read more
The escalation came a day after Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah began a ceasefire in Lebanon, halting more than a year of hostilities and raising hopes among many Palestinians in Gaza for a similar deal with Hamas, which rules the enclave. Read more
Fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border will end at 4 a.m. local time (0200 GMT), Biden said. Read more
In Washington, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, “We’re close” but “nothing is done until everything is done.” Read more
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Israel also struck Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, where intensified bombardment over the last two weeks has coincided with signs of progress in U.S.-led ceasefire talks. Read more
In Beirut, an eight-story building was struck with four missiles, including bunker-penetrating types designed to hit underground targets, said a Lebanese security source. Read more
Israel has pushed on with its intense military campaign against the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, tempering hopes that efforts by a U.S. envoy will lead to an imminent ceasefire. Read more
In their decision, the ICC judges said there were reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant were criminally responsible for acts including murder, persecution and starvation as a weapon of war. Read more
Paparo said the expenditure of U.S. air defenses “imposes costs on the readiness” to respond in the Asia-Pacific. Read more
In excerpts published on Sunday from a forthcoming book, the pontiff said some international experts say that “what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide”. Read more
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the incident crossed “all red lines” in a post on X. Read more
An evangelical Christian, Huckabee has been a vocal supporter of Israel throughout his political career and a longtime defender of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Read more
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza said at least 24 people were killed when an Israeli strike destroyed the three-story building in Jabalia at dawn. Read more
The strike was in Mawasi, a southern coastal area where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter after Israel’s military told them to leave other areas it was bombing in its war against Hamas. Read more
Antisemitic incidents have surged in the Netherlands since Israel launched its assault on Gaza after the attacks on Israelis by the Palestinian Hamas group on Oct. 7, 2023. Read more
Earlier today, Israeli forces issued new evacuation orders in the north of the Gaza Strip and carried out military strikes which Palestinian medics and media said had killed at least 35 people since Monday night. Read more
