Israel is seeking a 20-year military aid deal with the US and is looking to increase the annual amount of military assistance it receives from Washington, Axios reported on Thursday. A 20-year deal would double the usual term for US-Israel military aid agreements. The...
Biden Administration Had Intelligence That Israel Was Using Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza
The US gathered intelligence last year of Israeli officials discussing their soldiers using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza by sending them into tunnels and buildings believed to be lined with explosives, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing two US officials....
South Lebanon Prevented From Post-War Reconstruction by Persistent Israeli Strikes
It has been nearly a full year since Israel’s invasion of Lebanon came to an end with a ceasefire agreement. That deal was meant to see an end to cross-border attacks and a withdrawal of Israeli ground troops, along with the beginning of a long effort to reconstruct...
Officials Fear Permanent Israeli Occupation of More Than Half of Gaza
Reuters reported on Tuesday that European officials and other sources are concerned that, without more progress on the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal, the so-called "yellow line" dividing Israeli-occupied Gaza from the rest of the Strip will become a de facto border,...
Land Grab Feared as IDF Builds Wall Deep Into Southern Lebanon
Amid Israel’s ongoing military escalation against Lebanon, there is mounting concern that the Israeli military intends to effectively seize significant parts of the southern Lebanese border area, as troops are constructing a wall in the area near Maroun El Ras and...
Report: US To Build $500 Million Military Base in Israel on the Gaza Border
The US is planning to build a large military base in Israel on the Gaza border, according to a joint report from the Israeli investigative outlet Shomrim and the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. The report said that the construction of the base would cost about...
Kushner Meets With Netanyahu in Israel To Discuss Future Plans for Gaza
President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to discuss future plans for Gaza and the US-backed ceasefire deal. Despite lacking a formal role in the Trump administration, Kushner has been acting as an...
Israeli Drone Strike Kills Two Palestinians in Southern Gaza
An Israeli drone strike on Monday hit a town to the east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killing two people, including a child, the Palestinian news agency WAFA has reported. "Medical sources reported that the two were killed when a drone targeted a group of civilians...
Israel Kills at Least Three in Southern Lebanon Strikes in Ongoing Escalation
Continuing the ever-escalating attacks on southern Lebanon, Israel carried out a flurry of attacks again on late Sunday evening and early Monday, killing at least three people in the last 24 hours, all of whom they claimed, as they so often do, were in some way...
Hamas Hands Over Body of IDF Soldier Killed in 2014 as Israel Continues Attacks in Gaza
Hamas on Sunday handed over the remains of Hadar Goldin, an IDF officer who was killed in the 2014 Gaza war, as the Israeli military continued strikes on Gaza despite the ceasefire deal. Hamas's military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said Goldin's body, which had been...


