Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel was “preparing for a ground incursion” of the Gaza Strip, but said he “won’t specify” when or how the incursion would happen. The public was not aware of many details, he said, “and that’s the way it is supposed to be.” In a call with Netanyahu … Read more
CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt, Israel and the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire in southern Gaza beginning at 0600 GMT coinciding with the re-opening of the Rafah border crossing, two Egyptian security sources said on Monday, to allow in aid and evacuations of foreigners. However, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to deny an agreement. “There is … Read more
Comment on this storyComment BEIT KAMA, Israel — It was just last month when Eran Navon, a former Israeli combat soldier, was arrested at an anti-government demonstration near his home outside of Tel Aviv. He was one of millions of Israelis — including active and former reservists — who spent the year protesting the far-right … Read more
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Gaza after Israel ordered a “full siege” of the territory, causing shortages of electricity, food and water in retribution for Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on Saturday. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said health services have reached a “critical stage,” with medicine and fuel expected to run out … Read more
Four days after the most catastrophic attack on Israel in its history, the scope of the fatalities and extent of the mental and physical damage have yet to become fully clear. But several things are already apparent. One is that the staggering human toll is almost surely going to rise significantly, as civilians on both … Read more
JERUSALEM — The capture of dozens of Israeli soldiers and civilians — elderly women, children, entire families — by Hamas militants has stirred Israeli emotions more viscerally than any crisis in the country’s recent memory and presented an impossible dilemma for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government. The Islamist militant group’s 2006 seizure of … Read more
The Israel Defense Forces launched fresh strikes on Gaza early Sunday local time as violence in the region continued overnight, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning of a long and difficult war ahead. The Hamas intelligence headquarters, two banks and a weapons production facility in Gaza were among 10 targets struck, the IDF said on … Read more
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday was hearing a challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove a sitting prime minister, which critics say is designed to protect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been working to reshape the justice system while he is on trial for alleged corruption. The hearing is … Read more
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in a hospital on Sunday after an emergency coronary heart process, as tens of hundreds of supporters and opponents of his authorities’s judicial overhaul plan held rival rallies forward of a key vote. Netanyahu’s sudden hospitalization for the implant of a pacemaker added one other dizzying … Read more
JERUSALEM — Tens of 1000’s of protesters marched into Jerusalem on Saturday night in a last-ditch present of drive geared toward blocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul, as greater than 100 of Israel’s former safety chiefs signed a letter pleading with the Israeli premier to halt the laws. In scorching warmth that reached … Read more