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Blinken urges united future Palestinian government for Gaza and West Bank, widening gulf with Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood. That vision sharpens U.S. differences with ally Israel on what the future should look like for...
Gaza has lost telecom contact again, while Israel's military says it has surrounded Gaza City
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza lost communications Sunday in its third total outage of the Israel-Hamas war, while Israel's military said it encircled Gaza City and divided the besieged coastal strip into two. “Today there is north Gaza and south Gaza,” Rear Adm. Daniel...
Live updates | Israeli warplanes hit refugee camps in Gaza while UN agencies call siege an 'outrage'
Israeli airstrikes hit two refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing scores of people, health officials said. The strikes came as the U.S. keeps urging Israel to take a humanitarian pause from its relentless bombardment of Gaza and rising civilian deaths. U.S....
Blinken shuttles from the West Bank to Iraq trying to contain the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank on Sunday, trying to assure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the Biden administration was intensifying efforts to ease the plight of Gaza's...
The US has strongly backed Israel's war against Hamas. The allies don't seem to know what comes next
JERUSALEM (AP) — When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked who would govern the Gaza Strip following Israel’s devastating war against Hamas, he said a return of the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority made “the most sense.” What he failed to mention...
An Israeli ministry, in a 'concept paper,' proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Egypt's Sinai
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people to Egypt's Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office...
Editorial Roundup: United States
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Oct. 18 The Los Angeles Times on the Israel-Palestine conflict The Oct. 7 attack on Israelis by Hamas militants was an unspeakable act of terrorism and Israel has every right to use...
Gaza carnage spreads anger across Mideast, alarming US allies and threatening to widen conflict
CAIRO (AP) — Within hours after a blast was said to have killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital, protesters hurled stones at Palestinian security forces in the occupied West Bank and at riot police in neighboring Jordan, venting fury at their leaders for failing to stop the carnage. A...
After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame as rage spreads in region
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A massive blast rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a rocket misfired by...
Biden will stress humanitarian aid, avoiding deeper conflict in Israel but is scrapping Jordan stop
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced major setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday, as Jordan called off the president's planned summit with Arab leaders after a deadly explosion at a...
