A UN official overseeing relief efforts in Gaza said aid access has not improved in the northern part of the Strip and pushed back on Israel's claims that the UN was to blame for the difficulty in distributing the aid. Jamie McGoldrick, a UN humanitarian coordinator,...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday that he will bring a bill to provide Israel with more military aid to the floor for a vote this week in response to Iran's attack, which came in retaliation for Israel bombing Tehran's consulate in Damascus. "House...
The activation of Israeli air defenses in response to an overnight Iranian drone and missile attack likely cost over $1 billion, according to Brig. Gen. Reem Aminoach, former financial advisor to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff. The Iranian attack,...
The head of US Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla, arrived in Israel on Thursday to coordinate on a potential Iranian attack that might come in retaliation for Israel's bombing of Iran's consulate in Damascus. Kurilla was expected to meet with Israeli Defense...
Samantha Power, the head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said on Wednesday that some parts of northern Gaza are already experiencing famine, which has been created by Israel's US-backed bombardment and siege of the Strip. Power made the...
Limor Son Har-Melech, a member of the Israeli Knesset and the hardline Jewish Power party, has said there are secret Israeli plans to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip, The New Arab reported on Wednesday. Har-Melech told the Israeli Knesset's TV channel that...
Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz said on Wednesday that Israeli children in middle school -- who range from 12 to 15 years old -- will one day be fighting in the Gaza Strip. "The war with Hamas will take time. Youth in middle school will one day fight in the...
President Biden on Wednesday walked back a call for Israel to declare a six-to-eight-week ceasefire in Gaza, saying the truce must be tied to a hostage deal and that it was "up to Hamas." The comments came a day after an interview aired in which Biden appeared to say...
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas's political bureau, said Israeli airstrikes killed three of his sons and four of his grandchildren in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Israel confirmed targeting Haniyeh's sons but said it did not have "information" about the killing of...
The US and its allies believe Iranian retaliation for the Israeli bombing of Iran's consulate in Syria is imminent, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Sources told Bloomberg that, based on US and Israeli intelligence, Iran or its allies in the region could launch a...
