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Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes kill 16 in Gaza, including 4 children, Palestinians say

Sep. 16, 2024 11:31 AM EDT

Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including five women and four children. A strike flattened a home in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 10 people there, including four women and two children....

Yemen's Houthi rebels say they downed another US-made MQ-9 Reaper drone

Sep. 16, 2024 11:27 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed Monday that they shot down another American-made MQ-9 Reaper drone, with video circulating online showing what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile strike and flaming wreckage strewn across the ground. The U.S....

Columnists resign from the Jewish Chronicle over allegations Gaza articles were fabricated

Sep. 16, 2024 09:30 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Prominent columnists have resigned from the Jewish Chronicle newspaper over allegations that it published fabricated articles about the Israel-Hamas war. The resignations on Sunday came after the London-based newspaper removed multiple articles by a freelance...

A missile fired by Yemen's rebels lands in Israel and triggers sirens at international airport

Sep. 15, 2024 22:43 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — A missile fired by Yemen's Iran-backed rebels landed in an open area in central Israel early Sunday and triggered air raid sirens at its international airport, in the latest reverberation from the nearly yearlong war in Gaza. Israel hinted that it would respond militarily. ...

Jordan's king appoints Harvard-educated aide to serve as prime minister

Sep. 15, 2024 13:52 PM EDT

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday tapped a longtime aide to serve as the kingdom’s new prime minister. The Royal Court said the king has asked Jafar Hassan, a former planning minister and the current head of Abdullah’s office, to form a new government....

An American activist killed by Israeli fire is buried in Turkey as Israel strikes Gaza

Sep. 14, 2024 15:42 PM EDT

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank was laid to rest on Saturday in her hometown in Turkey with thousands lining the streets and anti-Israeli feelings in the country rising from a conflict that threatens to spread across the region....

AP PHOTOS: A visit to Gaza reveals rubble, tunnels and new asphalt along Egypt's border

Sep. 13, 2024 17:53 PM EDT

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military gave journalists a tour of the barren strip of land on Gaza’s southern border that has become a major obstacle in talks over a cease-fire — and to a nearby, devastated district where troops have been battling militants for months. ...

How a strip of land in Gaza that borders Egypt has become an obstacle to a cease-fire

Sep. 13, 2024 17:53 PM EDT

A narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt has emerged as a major obstacle in talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and freeing scores of hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel must maintain control over the...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Oct. 7 mastermind thanks Hezbollah leader for his help attacking Israel

Sep. 13, 2024 15:58 PM EDT

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar thanked Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for his support in the ongoing war with Israel in a letter released Friday by Hezbollah’s media office. In the letter, dated Monday, Sinwar thanks Nasrallah for the “blessed acts” of Iran-backed...

Israel-Hamas war latest: Blinken says US will keep pressing Israel to spare Gaza humanitarian sites

Sep. 12, 2024 18:51 PM EDT

The U.S. secretary of state said Thursday that the United States will continue to press Israel to do more to spare humanitarian sites in the Gaza Strip, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a U.N. school complex sheltering displaced Palestinians killed 14 people, including six U.N. staffers. ...