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Israel-Hamas war latest: Blinken says US will keep pressing Israel to spare Gaza humanitarian sites
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. ...
US aircraft carrier in the Middle East is heading home
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's rare move to keep two Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East over the past several weeks has now finished, as the USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading home, according to U.S. officials. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had ordered the Roosevelt...
Israeli airstrikes hit UN school and homes in Gaza and kill at least 34 people, hospitals say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight and Wednesday hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, hospital officials said. A U.N. official said six staffers were...
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes on Palestinian territories kill dozens more
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed dozens more Palestinians on Wednesday, according to local officials. They said strikes on a U.N. school being used as a shelter and two homes killed at least 34 people, including 19 women and children. The Health Ministry says more than 41,000...
Editorial Roundup: United States
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 6 The Washington Post on Chinese subterfuge in the U.S. Evidence — including a bombshell indictment this week of a senior New York political figure — is...
Iran's president slams the West over the war in Gaza and support for Israel
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday slammed the West, saying that Israel is “committing massacres” in the war in Gaza and using European and American weapons to do so. Pezeshkian, who spoke in Baghdad at the start of his first visit abroad since...
An Israeli strike on a Palestinian tent camp kills at least 19
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike hit a crowded Palestinian tent camp early Tuesday in Gaza, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted senior Hamas militants with precise munitions. The strike occurred in...
Israel-Hamas war latest: An Israeli strike kills at least 19 in a Gaza tent camp
Gaza’s Health Ministry says an Israeli strike on Tuesday on a tent camp in a designated humanitarian zone killed at least 19 people. The Civil Defense, first responders who operate under the Hamas-run government, said the strike left craters up to 10 meters (32 feet) deep. The...
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’...
Israel intensified airstrikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria
GENEVA (AP) — Israel has intensified airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria, inflicting civilian casualties on at least three occasions, an independent U.N. commission said Tuesday. Since the Israel-Hamas war began nearly a year ago, Israel has conducted dozens of...