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UN agency for Palestinian refugees urges world to save it from Israeli ban
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees urged the world Wednesday to save it from an Israeli ban that would have “disastrous consequences” for millions of people caught up in the war in Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the agency known as...
Middle East latest: Rescue workers pull 30 bodies from apartments in Lebanon after Israeli strike
Lebanon’s Civil Defense service says they have pulled 30 bodies from the rubble of an apartment building that Israel struck the night before. Search efforts were ongoing Wednesday, and it was unclear how many survivors or bodies were still trapped under the rubble. The airstrike...
Trump promises to bring lasting peace to a tumultuous Middle East. But fixing it won't be easy
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Donald Trump will return to the U.S. presidency at a time of unprecedented conflict and uncertainty in the Middle East. He has vowed to fix it. But Trump's history of strong support for Israel coupled with his insistence during the campaign that the war in...
An Israeli strike kills 20 in north Gaza, where Palestinians say they've had little food for weeks
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, as Palestinians fled Israel’s assault. Some said they had hardly eaten, with aid cut off for weeks to the most isolated and heavily...
Middle East latest: Israel ends agreement with UN agency providing aid in Gaza
Israel said Monday that it has terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza, in what appeared to be a step to implement legislation passed last month that would sever ties with the agency and prevent it from operating in...
US gives Israel a 'fail' grade on improving aid to Gaza so far
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is stepping up criticism of Israel for not doing enough to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza as a 30-day deadline looms for Israeli officials to meet certain requirements or risk potential restrictions on military assistance. State...
The death toll in Lebanon crosses 3,000 in the 13-month Israel-Hezbollah war, Health Ministry says
BEIRUT (AP) — The 13-month war between Israel and Hezbollah has killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry said on Monday, more than double the number of people killed since their last major war two decades ago. The war shows no signs of ending, and...
Israel investigates leaks that appear to have bolstered Netanyahu as Gaza truce talks stalled
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli court on Sunday loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information suspected to involve one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s media advisers. Critics say the leaks were aimed at giving Netanyahu political cover as Gaza cease-fire...
Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched dozens of intense airstrikes across Lebanon's northeastern farming villages on Friday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores more, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. In central Gaza, Palestinians recovered the bodies of 25 people killed in...
Israel is falling far short of a US ultimatum to surge aid to Gaza
WASHINGTON (AP) — Halfway through the Biden administration's 30-day ultimatum for Israel to surge the level of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza or risk possible restrictions on U.S. military funding, Israel is falling far short, an Associated Press review of U.N. and Israeli data shows. ...