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Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again

Nov. 03, 2024 00:26 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — They were built to be places of healing. But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli troops and under fire. Bombardment is pounding around them as Israel wages a new offensive against Hamas fighters that it says have regrouped nearby....

Attack on central Israel injures 11 as Iran's leader promises a punishing response

Nov. 02, 2024 14:16 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — An attack on a central Israeli town early Saturday injured 11 people as Iran's supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel's attack last week and Israeli airstrikes continued in Gaza and Lebanon. The predawn strike on Tira was one of several barrages fired...

Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes

Nov. 01, 2024 22:34 PM EDT

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...

Middle East latest: Israel kills 52 in northeast Lebanon after a night of strikes in Beirut

Nov. 01, 2024 21:56 PM EDT

Rescuers searched for survivors Friday after Israeli airstrikes killed at least 52 people and wounded 72 others across northeastern Lebanon, the country's Health Ministry reported. The wave of bombings pounded villages that had previously been spared the worst of Israel’s air campaign against the...

Pentagon bolsters the US presence in the Middle East with bombers, fighter aircraft and warships

Nov. 01, 2024 18:31 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is sending bomber aircraft, fighter jets and more Navy warships to the Middle East to bolster the U.S. presence in the region, the Pentagon announced Friday, as an aircraft carrier and its ships are preparing to leave. Austin ordered...

Trump meets with Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, but top community leaders skipped the event

Nov. 01, 2024 17:14 PM EDT

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump on Friday met with Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan — the nation’s largest Arab-majority city — as the Republican presidential nominee works to court the potentially decisive group despite his history of Islamophobic rhetoric and policy. ...

Israel fights a seemingly endless war in Gaza's most devastated region

Nov. 01, 2024 01:07 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip. In northern Gaza, Hamas militants carry out hit-and-run attacks from bombed-out...

Middle East latest: 7 people killed in Israel by rocket fire from Lebanon

Oct. 31, 2024 23:43 PM EDT

A series of rocket barrages from Lebanon struck northern Israel on Thursday, killing a total of seven people, including four Thai workers. The attacks marked the deadliest strikes to hit Israel since its military invaded southern Lebanon at the beginning of October. The Israeli...

Longtime PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel is stepping down to head Freedom House

Oct. 31, 2024 18:57 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of PEN America, Suzanne Nossel, is stepping down after more than a decade marked by substantial growth and recent controversy, In January, she will be heading the pro-democracy Freedom House. “I am tremendously honored to lead an organization with Freedom...

Banning UNRWA will lead to a vacuum and more suffering for Palestinians, the agency's chief says

Oct. 31, 2024 02:28 AM EDT

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency caring for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday that newly passed Israeli laws effectively banning its activities in Israel will leave a vacuum that will cost more lives and create further instability in Gaza and the West Bank. ...