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...
President Biden said in an interview with Univision that aired on Tuesday that Israel should call a six-to-eight-week ceasefire in Gaza and appeared not to condition a truce on a hostage deal with Hamas. "So what I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a...
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has contradicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by saying Israel has not set a date to launch its invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Axios reported on Tuesday. Netanyahu made the claim on Monday that "there is...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Tuesday claimed there was "no evidence" of genocide in Gaza despite the massive civilian casualties. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked Austin if he believed genocide was being committed in Gaza in response to protesters who disrupted a...
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that it was withdrawing troops from parts of southern Gaza, a step Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said was being taken to prepare for an assault on Rafah, the southern city on the Egyptian border that's packed with 1.5...
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joined a group of House Democrats in a letter urging President Biden to halt weapons transfers to Israel until there's a full investigation into the Israeli killing of seven workers for the World Central Kitchen. Pelosi's...
The head of Hamas's political bureau said Wednesday that the Palestinian group is sticking to its demand for a permanent ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza as a condition for a hostage deal. "We are committed to our demands: the permanent ceasefire,...
On Monday, the Israeli Knesset passed a law that gives the government the authority to ban any foreign news organization from operating inside Israel. The law was designed to target Al Jazeera, a Qatari state-funded media outlet. The law passed by a slim margin in a...
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) has come under fire for saying Gaza should be handled like "Hiroshima and Nagasaki," suggesting that he was calling for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on the Strip, which could kill millions of Palestinians. Walberg made the comments at a town...
