Palestinian terror group Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel’s south on Sunday in response to Israeli “massacres” of civilians in Gaza. Israel’s military said about 10 projectiles were fired, but most were successfully intercepted. Israel’s Channel 12 reported a direct hit in the southern city of Ashkelon. Israeli emergency…
The Israeli military struck the largest hospital in southern Gaza, Nasser Hospital, on Sunday night, killing at least five people, including a senior political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that the strike caused a large fire in the hospital’s surgical building in Khan Younis, adding that several people…
The Israeli security cabinet approved a ceasefire deal on Friday, paving the way for the return of the first hostages from Gaza as early as Sunday and bringing a halt to 15 months of conflict that have devastated the Palestinian coastal strip. The Israeli-Hamas accord is still conditional on the approval of the full cabinet,…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden spoke Sunday about efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Israel-Hamas war, a sign of the intensifying push to reach a deal before Donald Trump’s inauguration next week. Talks mediated over the past year by the United States, Egypt and Qatar…
Israeli warplanes bombed a power station and two ports in Houthi-controlled Yemen on Friday in retaliation for Houthi drone and missile strikes against Israel, and pro-Houthi media said at least one person had been killed and nine wounded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iran-backed Houthi militia were “paying and will continue to pay…