Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel was “preparing for a ground incursion” of the Gaza Strip, but said he “won’t specify” when or how the incursion would happen. The public was not aware of many details, he said, “and that’s the way it is supposed to be.” In a call with Netanyahu …
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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The U.N. Security Council failed again Wednesday to adopt a unified position on stopping the carnage in the Middle East, with the United States and Russia vetoing each others’ resolutions. In charges and countercharges reminiscent of Cold War debates and more recent discord over Ukraine, Moscow and …
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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — Weeks before Hamas’s deadly attack plunged the region into turmoil, a senior official from the United Arab Emirates hailed his nation’s recent diplomatic accord with Israel as a success. The Palestinians “haven’t done anything” with years of Emirati support, presidential adviser Anwar Gargash told a …
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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — In Gaza, people are sleeping on the streets with nowhere else to go. In much of the rest of the world, there are stepped-up calls for a cease-fire, or at least a “pause,” to allow in humanitarian aid. And Israel is threatening to expel “hostile” …
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The United States will provide Israel with Iron Dome air defense systems from its stocks, a senior defense official said Tuesday. The escalation of U.S. support comes after the Biden administration’s announcement last week that it would send Israel interceptor missiles that could be fired from its existing Iron Dome systems. United Nations Secretary General …
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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave At least 24 U.S. troops were hurt amid a wave of attacks on their bases in Iraq and Syria over the past week, including one incident that caused injuries to 20 personnel, officials said Tuesday. The Biden administration, for days, has withheld those details while acknowledging that …
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JERUSALEM — The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel, once again putting the small Arabian Peninsula country in the spotlight. The negotiations have also thrust Qatar into a delicate international balancing act as it …
Israel’s war to root out Hamas in the aftermath of the latter’s Oct. 7 massacre, which killed 1,400 people, may no longer be confined to the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military on Sunday carried out an airstrike on a mosque in the middle of a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin—which Israel …
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Hamas released two Israeli hostages — Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79 — into Israel Defense Forces custody Monday, according to a statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s office. The Israeli government thanked the Egyptian government and the International Committee for the Red Cross, while The Washington Post reported that Qatar was also involved …
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