US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that a looming Israeli ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah would risk "further isolating Israel around the world and jeopardizing its long-term security and standing."
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to bow to calls by the top US senator for a new election and is pushing back against White House warnings about a potential new offensive in Gaza, widening a rift with top Democrats in (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed his determination to launch an offensive in Rafah, defying international criticism.
The city is crammed with some 1.5 million Palestinians from other parts of Gaza seeking refuge.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he would push ahead with a military offensive in Rafah, where 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are sheltering, despite US President Joe Biden's warning that doing so would be a "red (...)
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday accused Israel of detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency's ties to Hamas.
"Some of our staff have conveyed to UNRWA teams that they (...)
Israel's war Cabinet has been briefed on talks over a ceasefire deal in Gaza, after reports of progress made in talks in Paris on Saturday.
It comes as police broke up protests in Tel Aviv calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's (...)
Israel's war cabinet has agreed to send a negotiating team, led by Mossad Director David Barnea, to Paris on Friday to pursue talks over a potential ceasefire and hostage release deal, an Israeli official said.
The negotiating team is expected to be (...)
Israel has condemned Brazil's president after he accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, comparing its actions to the Holocaust.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Israel's military campaign was between a "highly prepared army and women and (...)
The deadly Hamas attacks of October 7 united a shocked, grieving Israel behind its leaders, burying at a stroke the divisions that had riven the country for years. Four months into the war and with hopes for a new deal to return Israeli hostages (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Hamas's proposed ceasefire terms - saying "total victory" in Gaza is possible within months.
He was speaking after Hamas laid out a series of demands in response to an Israel-backed ceasefire (...)
More than 40 senior former Israeli national security officials, celebrated scientists and prominent business leaders have sent a letter to Israel's president and speaker of parliament demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be (...)
Israel has offered a two-month ceasefire to Hamas as part of a prospective hostage deal, Axios reported Monday, citing two unnamed Israeli officials.
It would be "the longest period of ceasefire that Israel has offered Hamas since the start of the (...)
Israel has proposed that Hamas senior leaders could leave Gaza as part of a broader ceasefire agreement, two officials familiar with the ongoing international discussions told CNN.
The extraordinary proposal, which has not been previously reported, (...)
A far-right Israeli government minister has criticized a decision by the country's military to withdraw an army division from Gaza, exposing further divides between lawmakers over the military offensive in the Palestinian enclave.
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At least one woman has died and 18 injured in a ramming and stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Ra'anana, to the north of Tel Aviv, on Monday.
Israeli police said two Palestinian suspects from the occupied West Bank were arrested in connection (...)
Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The robust engagement with the International Court of Justice is unusual for (...)
The planned troop withdrawal came on the same day that Israel's Supreme Court struck down part of Netanyahu's polarising judicial overhaul.
The Israeli military confirmed on Monday that it was withdrawing thousands of troops from the Gaza Strip, a (...)
Israel's army chief said troops failed in their mission to rescue three hostages mistakenly killed in Gaza earlier this month as the military on Thursday published its report into the incident.
Herzi Halevi, chief of the General Staff of the Israel (...)
Israel has upgraded its travel advisory for citizens in India after a low-intensity explosion near the country's embassy in Delhi.
The blast took place on Tuesday evening in the capital's Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave.
Nobody was injured, but (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his side have paid a "heavy price" for the war in Gaza; following one of its deadliest weekends of fighting so far.
Remarking on the latest numbers of Israeli troop deaths, Netanyahu said that the war (...)
Gadi Haggai, a 73-year-old Israeli-American dual national and hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, has died while being held captive in Gaza, the Missing Persons Families Forum said in a statement released Friday.
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The voices of three Israeli hostages who were accidentally killed by Israeli troops in Gaza were captured on a GoPro camera mounted on a military dog five days before they were shot, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on (...)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday announced a new US-led operation focusing on the "security challenges in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden" following recent attacks by Houthi forces on commercial marine traffic in the (...)
Israeli troops are still locked in heavy combat with Hamas fighters in and around Gaza City, more than six weeks after invading the territory's north.
Palestinian militants carried out one of the deadliest single attacks on Israeli soldiers since (...)
Israel has canceled a planned trip to Qatar by the head of its foreign intelligence service to restart talks on a possible second hostage release deal, a source familiar with the negotiations confirmed to CNN.
Mossad director David Barnea will not (...)