Updated on March 2, 2025, at 7:00 pm EST Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that Israel was imposing a total siege on the Gaza Strip, blocking all goods from entering, including humanitarian aid, as the Israeli military ramped up attacks on...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued its quarterly report on Iran’s civilian nuclear program, and like clockwork media outlets responded with hysterical speculation about Iranian nuclear weapons despite this report being not materially dissimilar...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of the more extreme members of the Israeli government, will travel to Washington in the coming days to meet US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. His visit could have significant implications for US policy toward Israel's...
Israel’s decision to continue to occupy territory in southern Lebanon beyond the February 18 deadline came without a lot of official comment from the US. According to Israeli DM Israel Katz, however, the US gave them a “green light” to remain militarily in Lebanon...
Israel will not withdraw its troops from the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border, in a violation of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Under the agreement, Israel is required to leave the corridor this Saturday,...
Hamas handed over four bodies of dead Israeli hostages to the Red Cross early Thursday morning in exchange for the release of over 600 Palestinians from Israeli jails. Israel was due to release the Palestinians this past Saturday but refused to over Hamas's handover...
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who previously volunteered with the Israeli military, has ordered committee staff to refer to the Israeli-occupied West Bank as "Judea and Samaria," a biblical name the state of Israel uses to refer...
Israel continues to escalate the strikes across Lebanon since they withdrew from the populated parts of southern Lebanon last week. The focus is increasingly on the east, along the border between Lebanon and Syria. Tuesday evening, an Israeli drone strike against the...
Israel’s military foray into southern Syria continues to grow this evening, as Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of airstrikes across that part of the country, and threatened additional airstrikes in the future, and an open-ended military occupation....
Hamas said on Tuesday that a deal had been reached to secure the release of over 600 Palestinians from Israeli jails that Israel had delayed. Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was supposed to release the Palestinians on Saturday after Hamas freed six Israeli hostages,...
