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Israel releases video of a Gaza tunnel where it says Hamas militants killed 6 hostages
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Tuesday released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says six hostages were recently killed by Hamas. The video shows a low, narrow passageway deep underground that had no bathroom and poor ventilation. The discovery of the hostages’...
Israeli defense chief says a temporary truce with Hamas is possible. Ending the war is another story
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s defense minister says the window is closing on an opportunity to reach a temporary cease-fire deal with the Hamas militant group that he believes could also bring calm to the country’s volatile northern border with Lebanon. Speaking to...
The UN chief calls the death and destruction in Gaza the worst he's seen
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief said Monday that the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and demanded an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure. Secretary-General António Guterres said in an interview...
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel orders more evacuations in Gaza after militants fire rockets
The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon. The orders issued on Monday came after a rocket attack triggered air raid sirens in Ashkelon the...
Shooting attack at the West Bank-Jordan border crossing kills 3 Israelis
ALLENBY CROSSING, West Bank (AP) — Three Israelis were shot and killed Sunday at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said, in what appeared to be an attack linked to the 11-month-old war in Gaza. Israel's military said the gunman approached the...
Chased away by Israeli settlers, these Palestinians returned to a village in ruins
KHIRBET ZANUTA, West Bank (AP) — An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence. Then, in a rare endorsement of Palestinian land rights, Israel’s highest court ruled this summer the displaced...
Israelis surge into the streets again in protest as the toll in Gaza grows
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Huge numbers of Israelis again poured into the streets to protest the government's failure to secure the return of remaining hostages in Gaza, while hospital and local authorities said Israeli air raids in the territory killed more than a dozen people overnight...
UN investigator accuses Israel of a 'starvation campaign' in Gaza that Netanyahu denies
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. independent investigator on the right to food accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians during the war in Gaza, an allegation that Israel vehemently denies. In a report this week, investigator Michael Fakhri...
Israel-Hamas war latest: An American woman is killed in the West Bank during protest
Israeli soldiers killed an American woman during an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank on Friday, a witness told The Associated Press, in a shooting that raised calls from Washington for an investigation. U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller confirmed the death of...
Netanyahu gives a starkly different take on Biden administration's hopes for a Gaza deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were sharply at odds Thursday over prospects of reaching a deal for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release, with Netanyahu saying it was “exactly inaccurate” that a breakthrough was close. ...
