Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza was "inevitable." "We are destroying more and more homes, and Gazans have nowhere to return to. The only inevitable outcome will be the wish of Gazans to...
On Monday, Hamas released Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old New Jersey-born IDF soldier who was captured during the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Alexander was handed over to the Red Cross, which transferred him to the Israeli military. He was freed as a result of...
UN aid agencies have condemned a US-Israeli plan to use aid as "bait" to forcibly displace Palestinian civilians into a small area of southern Gaza. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee unveiled the plan on Friday, although there's no clear timeline, and Gaza remains...
Updated on May 11, 2025, at 7:05 pm EST Hamas said on Sunday that it would release Edan Alexander, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF soldier who was captured during the October 7 attack, and confirmed that it had been in direct talks with the US on a potential Gaza...
Pope Leo XIV called for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade of aid on Sunday in his first Sunday blessing since being elected pontiff last week. "I am deeply pained by what is happening [in Gaza," Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica....
Since the ceasefire began in late November, Israel has carried out enormous numbers of airstrikes against southern Lebanon. The strikes have continued in recent days, but there are signs of even further escalation as bunker-buster bombs are increasing utilized. Major...
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 68 Palestinians and wounded 290 over the past three days, according to daily death toll updates released by Gaza's Health Ministry. In that same time period, at least two bodies of Palestinians killed by previous attacks...
Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, said on Thursday that the US failed to stop Yemen's support of the Palestinians in Gaza. "The Americans launched another round of aggression against our country, hoping to achieve what...
The US is no longer demanding that Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel to move forward with talks on establishing a Saudi civil nuclear program, Reuters reported on Thursday. The Biden administration had been working on a potential Israel-Saudi normalization...
Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza shut down on Thursday after running out of supplies due to the total Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory, which is starving millions of civilians. Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations...
