The Israeli armed forces have called up thousands of reservists and are preparing ‘operational activities’ in the last refuge in Gaza. Netanyahu can now frame the ground offensive as punishment for Tehran’s actions
Anti-aircraft batteries and jets from the U.S., the U.K. and Jordan shot down 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles. Only a few of the over 120 ballistic missiles fired in the attack reached Israeli territory
The nation’s dependence on the United States and its distrust of Tehran outweighed the protests, sparked by the invasion of Gaza, over its peace agreement with the Jewish state
The country is reopening its airspace after the unprecedented early morning attack. All eyes are now on Netanyahu’s expected retaliation and the role the United States will play
Israeli authorities urge the EU to immediately declare the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Experts feel Tehran may be buying time with a move that it feels is not serious enough to legitimize retaliation by Israel
Lufthansa has stopped flying to Iran for security reasons after an Israeli attack in Damascus last week triggered an announcement by the Ayatollah Khamenei that punishment is imminent
Netanyahu’s objectives continue to fail, the risk of conflict with Iran is growing, there are 130,000 evacuees with no prospects of returning, and the country’s prestige is in tatters. Tens of thousands of protesters are now calling for the prime minister to resign
Netanyahu is keeping a low profile as the White House demands ‘concrete, verifiable and sustainable’ changes to prevent a repeat of the attack on World Central Kitchen, in which seven aid workers were killed
An internal IDF investigation found that its forces targeted the convoy ‘based on the misclassification of the event and misidentification of the vehicles as having Hamas operatives inside them’
The army has canceled leave for all combat troops, called up Air Force reservists and beefed up missile defenses amid fears Tehran will launch an attack on Friday
The former director of the center for German history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem believes that the ‘pogrom’ of October 7 forces us to ‘question the whole idea of Zionism’
The strike that killed seven members of World Central Kitchen ‘is not an isolated incident,’ says the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz’ cites Defense sources who said the attack was triggered by the belief that an armed man was traveling with the group. All three cars were hit as the wounded survivors moved from one to the other
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu called it a ‘tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people.’ The disaster relief group founded by the celebrity chef has paused its operations in an area where it was providing critical aid to a population on the brink of famine
Crops are rotting near Gaza and Lebanon. Authorities are rushing in workers from India, Malawi and Sri Lanka to make up for the departure of Thais, the ban on Palestinians and the draft of Israelis
Friday’s assassination and bombing in Syria threaten to further inflame the Middle East. The end of the siege on Gaza’s largest hospital leaves charred buildings, bodies on the ground and piles of rubble
A decision from the Supreme Court has forced the prime minister to quickly forge an agreement that will satisfy both his faithful partners in the executive and the more secular sectors. Tens of thousands protested against the leader in Jerusalem
The U.S. abstention at the U.N. Security Council, which made possible the first ceasefire resolution in six months of war, strains the ties between the two traditional allies like never before
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest Catholic authority in the Holy Land, says the competing narratives of Israelis and Palestinians must be understood to avoid ‘falling into the temptation of dehumanizing others’
Washington has vetoed all the truce proposals submitted to the Security Council so far. If the cessation of hostilities were to go ahead, it would not automatically mean an end to the war
President Biden on Monday warned Israeli PM Netanyahu that an attack on Rafah would ‘deepen the anarchy’ in the Palestinian enclave, where aid agencies warn that a famine is imminent