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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin conducted the virtual session from his home. ‘I’m in good condition, and my cancer prognosis remains excellent,’ he said

Several experts believe that Israel has linked the agency to the Hamas attacks in a bid to put an end to this principle, which was recognized by the U.N. in 1948

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, noted ‘an accumulation of complexities’ in the wider Middle East amid Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip

The bill to assist the invaded country faces an uncertain future in the House of Representatives despite passing the Senate on Tuesday by a large majority

The goal of the negotiations with Qatar and Egypt, which have been in talks with Hamas envoys for days, is the six-week cessation of hostilities sought by U.S. President Joe Biden

In its new filing, South Africa said it asked the court to weigh whether Israel’s strikes on Rafah, and its intention to launch a ground offensive, breaches both the U.N. Genocide Convention and preliminary orders handed down by the court last month

Cairo, fearful of a mass expulsion of Palestinians to its territory, has deployed the military near the Strip and reinforced the barriers on the frontier

The president met with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House, where the two leaders discussed the future of the Palestinian enclave after the war

The meeting with King Abdullah II comes as Biden and his aides are working to broker another pause in Israel’s war against Hamas in order to send humanitarian aid

The decision came as Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte traveled to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the conflict

The strategic significance of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the friction between the U.S. and China and the possible return of Trump make for a high-risk horizon

Moody’s has lowered the country’s credit rating for the first time in its history. Added to the enormous cost of mobilizing 300,000 reservists and accommodating 200,000 displaced people is the ‘significant’ risk of a large-scale conflict with Hezbollah

The raid was celebrated in Israel as a victory in the sluggish battle to free the hostages, with more than 100 captives still held by Hamas and other Gaza militants

In its announcement Friday, Moody’s warned that the ongoing war in Gaza and a possible war in the north with Hezbollah could adversely affect Israel’s economy. It downgraded the country’s rating from A1 to A2

Over one million Palestinians forcibly displaced to Gaza’s border with Egypt are surviving in increasingly inhumane conditions. Now, they face an Israeli military incursion with nowhere else to turn to

More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are packed into Rafah, many after following Israeli evacuation orders that now cover two-thirds of the territory

Vice President Kamala Harris noted that Joe Biden’s two-day sit-down with special counsel Robert Hur occurred just after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ignoring calls from the international community, including the United States, to avoid the humanitarian disaster that a military incursion in the southern Gaza area would entail

Khamenei and accounts associated with the supreme leader had been praising the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel

The Iraqi writer and journalist denounces the ecocide the Strip is suffering and warns of the devastating environmental consequences of the war

A new book describes the technology used against Palestinians and their alleged ineffectiveness against the October 7 Hamas attack

The Israeli army is intensifying attacks on Rafah in the south of the Strip, while Egypt and Qatar are attempting to bring the parties in the conflict closer to a ceasefire agreement

Senators approved advancing to a vote, a day after rejecting a bill combining the foreign aid with immigration reform

Mohammed ‘Abu Bakr’ al-Saadi was the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria. Officials suspect the militia led the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan in late January

Community activists have formed a group called ‘Abandon Biden,’ a movement discouraging voters from supporting the president in November

The ceremony comes after new Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné made his first trip to the Middle East, including Israel and the Palestinian territories, where he pushed for the release of the hostages