Israel-Hamas War

The top U.S. military officer says that an Israeli military offensive into Lebanon will risk an Iranian response in defense of Hezbollah, triggering a broader war that could put U.S. forces in danger.

The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the U.S. Congress, nearly 60 Democrats skipped his speech nine years ago. To them, it was a slap in the face to then-President Barack Obama as he negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran. With Netanyahu scheduled to address U.S. lawmakers on July 24, the number of absences is likely to be...

The deaths come a day after at least 25 people were killed in strikes on tent camps and 50 wounded near the southern city of Rafah.

Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians outside Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50, according to the territory’s health officials and emergency workers.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential war Cabinet that has overseen the fighting in Gaza.

The Israeli military has announced a “tactical pause” in its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip to allow the deliveries of increased quantities of humanitarian aid.

The U.N. Security Council has approved its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged activists on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian debate to “turn the heat down” after the U.S. Consulate in Sydney was vandalized.

The director of the U.N. World Food Program says the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza out of concern for the safety of its workers. WFP head Cindy McCain spoke a day after a successful Israeli military raid to free four hostages left at least 274 Palestinians and one Israeli commando dead....

Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel’s three-man War Cabinet, has announced his resignation.

Protesters’ messages ranged from pushing for an end to the war and a change in U.S. policy to calls against a two-state solution, and in one case support for Hamas.

Israel has carried out its largest hostage rescue operation since the war with Hamas began on Oct. 7.

The Israeli prime minister will speak before Congress on July 24 after all four congressional leaders formally invited him to Washington last month.

An Israeli strike early Thursday on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and children, according to local health officials.

Four Israelis taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7 and a paramedic who was killed after he “left his home to save lives” have been confirmed dead, the Israel Defense Forces said Monday.

The Maldives government will ban Israelis from the Indian Ocean archipelago, known for luxury resorts, as public anger in the predominantly Muslim nation rises over the war in Gaza.

Throughout the seven-month Israel-Hamas war, Israel has been heavily criticized for alleged wrongdoing by its forces. Israel says it can investigate itself and has launched many probes into the conduct of its soldiers. But in the wake of a deadly strike on a tent camp in Rafah, there’s mounting international skepticism that Israel can fairly and diligently pursue those...

The parade comes almost eight months after the unprecedented Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, the deadliest in Israel’s history.

Israel’s prime minister calls a permanent cease-fire in Gaza a “nonstarter” until long-standing conditions for the ending the war are met. The statement appears to undermine a proposal that U.S. President Joe Biden announced as an Israeli one on Friday. A massive demonstration in Israel led by families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas urges the government to accept the...

Pro-Palestinian protesters returned to Columbia University’s campus on Friday evening to retake the school’s South Lawn just weeks after dramatic action by the NYPD to clear the grounds. Protesters returned to the lawn for the first time in weeks with a number of tents and banners in the middle of the university’s alumni weekend. The protesters were identified as...