Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to reject any sanctions on the country's military, after reports that the US plans to cut aid to one unit.
"I will fight it with all my strength," the prime minister said on Sunday.
Earlier, the Axios news site (...)
The Israeli military said Monday that the head of its intelligence corps has resigned over the failures surrounding Hamas' unprecedented October 7 attack, which broke through Israel's vaunted defenses.
Aharon Haliva, the head of Israel's military (...)
Israel has carried out a military strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, the latest move in a dangerous escalation that threatens to push the already volatile region into all-out war.
The US was given advance notification Thursday of an (...)
Israel was set to take its first steps towards a ground offensive on the Gaza city of Rafah but delayed that campaign after Iran's weekend attack on their country, which has sparked a heated debate in the war cabinet over how to respond, Israeli (...)
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Tel Aviv must do everything necessary to protect the state "at the time and in the way we in Israel choose to do so".
Hagari said the Iranian attack was "thwarted with the iron defense (...)
Israel's military said on Thursday it was prepared defend itself and strike Iran if it retaliates for a deadly airstrike on the Iranian Consulate in Syria.
Twelve people, including two Iranian generals and five officers, were killed on the April one (...)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel has set a date for its planned offensive in Gaza's city Rafah.
His government has been signalling its intentions to launch a military operation in the southern city, where more than 1.5m Palestinians (...)
Israel said it will open the Erez crossing to northern Gaza, where starvation is most acute, and will also open the Ashdod deep water port a short distance to the north — but has not yet detailed when or how these routes will operate.
It follows the (...)
Israel's military said on Sunday that it was reducing its numbers of soldiers from southern Gaza, leaving just one brigade in the area.
The military stressed a "significant force" would remain in Gaza.
"This is another stage in the war effort", (...)
Protesters once again took to the streets of Tel Aviv, Caesarea and Haifa on Saturday, demanding the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and early elections.
Demonstrators also called for the release of all Israeli hostages held (...)
Israel's military says it has recovered the body of a man taken hostage and held in Gaza, in an overnight raid on Khan Yunis.
Elad Katzir was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7.
His body has been brought (...)
GPS is being blocked across Israel in an attempt to disrupt incoming missiles and drones, as tensions rise with Iran.
Iran has vowed to respond after a strike on its consulate building in Syria on Monday — which Israel was widely believed to be (...)
The Israeli parliament has approved a law giving the government the power to ban broadcasts of TV channels including Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned network.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would "act immediately" to close the network's local (...)
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."
The top US (...)
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.
His (...)
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 (...)