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The Latest | Palestinians name a new Cabinet in West Bank, and a shooting attack wounds 3 Israelis

Mar. 28, 2024 12:28 PM EDT

The Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, announced the formation of a new Cabinet on Thursday as it faces international pressure to reform. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli authorities say an attacker wounded three people after opening...

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children

Mar. 28, 2024 06:24 AM EDT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them stunned. One toddler died from a brain injury caused by...

An airstrip is being built on a Yemeni island during the ongoing war, with 'I LOVE UAE' next to it

Mar. 28, 2024 01:36 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to target ships in a Mideast waterway, satellite pictures analyzed by The Associated Press show what appears to be a new airstrip being built at an entrance to that crucial maritime route. No country has publicly...

US sanctions online media site Gaza Now and its founder for allegedly supporting Hamas

Mar. 28, 2024 00:04 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday imposed sanctions on online media site Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash for allegedly supporting Hamas. U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says that after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against Israel — the online entity...

The Latest | Airstrikes and rocket fire on Lebanon-Israel border as death toll climbs

Mar. 27, 2024 17:50 PM EDT

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has climbed to 16, including several militants and members of paramedic groups, according to Lebanese state media and the militant organizations. And in northern Israel, one man was killed by a barrage of at least 30...

They fled kibbutzim after Hamas attacked. Now, many Israelis must decide whether to go back.

Mar. 27, 2024 10:57 AM EDT

KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — For a few minutes on a recent afternoon, the sun-bathed silence that fills Nadav Tzabari’s neighborhood could almost be mistaken for peace. Then shelling from Israeli tanks dug in across the fence line in Gaza erupts again, sending shudders through...

Israel and Hamas dig in as pressure builds for a cease-fire in Gaza

Mar. 27, 2024 01:06 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday blasted a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a Gaza cease-fire that his country's top ally, the United States, chose not to block. He said the resolution had emboldened Hamas and he vowed to press ahead with...

The Latest | Israel won't accept Hamas demands after militant group rejects cease-fire plan

Mar. 26, 2024 21:34 PM EDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his government will not accept Hamas’ “delusional” conditions for a cease-fire in Gaza. The militant group rejected the latest truce proposal because it says Israel is ignoring the group's core demands. Hamas wants an...

Pentagon urges Israel to protect civilians in Gaza as military chiefs meet at time of high tensions

Mar. 26, 2024 16:07 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense leaders pressed their Israeli counterparts Tuesday to ensure that any military operation in the southern city of Rafah unfold in phases to protect civilians and secure the delivery of aid, a senior Pentagon official said. Israel’s defense minister...

With its soldiers mired in Gaza, Israel fights a battle at home over drafting the ultra-Orthodox

Mar. 26, 2024 14:21 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, broad exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a deep divide in the country and rattled the government coalition, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fellow War Cabinet members staunchly...