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Israeli strikes in Syria leave 14 dead and more than 40 wounded, Syrian state media says

Sep. 09, 2024 03:07 AM EDT

DAMASCUS (AP) — The number of people killed in overnight Israeli strikes in Syria has risen to 14 with more than 40 wounded, Syrian state media said Monday morning. Israeli strikes hit several areas in central Syria late Sunday, damaging a highway in Hama province and sparking...

A Palestinian team in Chile offers soccer with a heavy dose of protest

Sep. 09, 2024 00:26 AM EDT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Arms raised high. Banners denouncing the war in Gaza. Crowds united in song and wrapped in keffiyehs, the black-and-white checkered scarves that have become a badge of Palestinian identity. It could have been any other pro-Palestinian rally erupting over the...

Israel carries out intense strikes in central Syria, killing 4, state media says

Sep. 08, 2024 18:44 PM EDT

DAMASCUS (AP) — A series of Israeli strikes hit multiple areas in central Syria late Sunday, killing at least four people, wounding 13 and sparking fires, state media reported. Syria state news agency SANA reported that Syrian air defenses “confronted an aggression that targeted...

Shooting attack at the West Bank-Jordan border crossing kills 3 Israelis

Sep. 08, 2024 16:50 PM EDT

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...

Israelis surge into the streets again in protest as the toll in Gaza grows

Sep. 07, 2024 17:03 PM EDT

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...

Israeli soldiers fatally shot an American woman at a West Bank protest, a witness says

Sep. 07, 2024 13:44 PM EDT

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Israeli soldiers killed an American woman demonstrating against settlements in the West Bank on Friday, according to a witness who said she was shot while posing no threat to Israeli forces and during a moment of calm after clashes earlier in the afternoon. Two...

Gaza enters its 2nd school year without schooling. The cost could be heavy for kids' futures

Sep. 07, 2024 01:06 AM EDT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — This week, when they would normally be going back to school, the Qudeh family’s children stumbled with armfuls of rubble they collected from a destroyed building to sell for use in building graves in the cemetery that is now their home in southern Gaza. ...

UN investigator accuses Israel of a 'starvation campaign' in Gaza that Netanyahu denies

Sep. 06, 2024 19:33 PM EDT

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

Sep. 06, 2024 18:10 PM EDT

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...

Israeli forces appear to withdraw from Jenin. But the operation may not be over

Sep. 06, 2024 13:18 PM EDT

JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces appeared to have withdrawn from three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank by Friday morning, after a more than weeklong military operation that left dozens dead and a trail of destruction. Israeli soldiers shot and killed an...