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Hamas 'Lost Contact' With Group Holding Last Living US Hostage

Meanwhile, father of 21-year-old Edan Alexander has a lot to say about son's captivity in Gaza

(Newser) - Edan Alexander is believed to be the last living American citizen being held hostage in Gaza, but new fears have arisen after Hamas now claims they've lost contact with the group holding the 21-year-old. In a Tuesday statement, a spokesman for Hamas' military arm, the Qassam Brigades, said that...

Greenpeace Activists Arrested for Dyeing Embassy Pond Red

Activists were protesting US arms sales to Israel

(Newser) - London police arrested six people Thursday after Greenpeace activists allegedly poured 79 gallons of blood-red dye into a pond at the US Embassy in the city. The protest was meant to oppose US arms sales to Israel, according to Greenpeace UK, which said a dozen activists poured "non-toxic,...

Microsoft Fires Two for Protesting AI Contracts

Protestors criticized the company's AI role in Israeli military actions

(Newser) - As Microsoft's 50th anniversary event unfolded last week, protests took place on the company's campus that led to a pair of swift dismissals. The AP reports that two employees were fired for protesting and interrupting speeches Friday at the company's campus in Redmond, Washington, objecting to...

Hungary Says It Will Withdraw From the ICC

Orban criticizes ICC as biased amid Netanyahu's European visit

(Newser) - Hungary on Thursday said it would pull out of the International Criminal Court, in a process that could take a year or more. The news coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opulent welcome in Budapest, a trip that marked just his second foreign trip since the ICC in...

In a Sea of Stones, Toddler Makes an Ancient Find

3.8K-year-old amulet is linked to the Bible's Canaanites

(Newser) - A 3-year-old exploring an archaeological site in Israel last month reportedly stumbled upon an ancient treasure: an amulet dating back 3,800 years. Ziv Nitzan and her family were visiting Tel Azekah, a hill created by the layered debris of ancient settlements, when the toddler picked up the scarab amulet...

Israel Reveals a Strategy Change: Hold 'Large Areas' of Gaza

It says it will add the land to its security zones

(Newser) - Hamas has said the release of its remaining Israeli hostages won't happen until Israel fully withdraws from Gaza. Israel looks to be moving in the other direction. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday announced it would expand its military offensive "to crush and clean the area of...

3 Arrested in Rabbi's Murder
3 Sentenced to
Death in Rabbi's Murder
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Mar 31, 2025 6:02 PM CDT

3 Sentenced to Death in Rabbi's Murder

Zvi Kogan was kidnapped, killed in United Arab Emirates last year

(Newser) - A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced three people to death for the killing of Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan, state media reported Monday. The state-run WAM news agency announced the verdicts after a trial in Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeals' State Security Chamber. It said a fourth...

Israel Frees Oscar-Winning Director Attacked by Settlers

Witnesses say Israeli settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal's West Bank village

(Newser) - The Palestinian director who earlier this month took home an Oscar has been released by Israel after being beaten by Israeli settlers and detained by the military. Hamdan Ballal and two other Palestinians were set free on Tuesday, report the AP and New York Times , with the No Other Land...

This Is the Happiest Nation on Earth
This Is the Happiest
Nation on Earth
Mar 20, 2025 12:50 PM CDT

This Is the Happiest Nation on Earth

Finland tops World Happiness Report for 8th straight year; US comes in at No. 24

(Newser) - Feeling down in the dumps? Maybe it's your country. Unless you're in Finland, which just took the top spot on this year's World Happiness Report for the eighth year straight, reports CNN . The annual ranking used Gallup World Poll data from more than 140 countries around the...

Beneath Rubble in Gaza, a Tiny 25-Day-Old Orphan

Infant survives Israeli strike that killed her parents, brother

(Newser) - As rescuers dug through the remains of a collapsed apartment building in Gaza's Khan Younis on Thursday, they could hear the cries of a baby from underneath the rubble. Suddenly, calls of "God is great!" rang out. A man sprinted out of the wreckage carrying a living...

Israel Launches Big Strike on Gaza, Shattering Ceasefire

More than 400 reported killed amid stalled peace talks with Hamas

(Newser) - Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, the first major strikes since a ceasefire with Hamas took effect in January. The strikes killed more than 400 people and wounded over 500, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the...

Air Canada Is Sorry About Israel Problem on Maps

'Display issue' labeled entire area as Palestinian Territories

(Newser) - Air Canada has apologized for an in-flight display map that showed a Middle East without Israel. The airline deactivated the map display in its Boeing 737 fleet this week after a passenger complained that the map labeled the area as "Palestinian Territories," CNN reports. In response to a...

Israel Has Cut Off Power to Gaza, Officials Say
Israel Cuts Off Power to Gaza
Mar 10, 2025 7:55 AM CDT

Israel Cuts Off Power to Gaza

Hamas slams the latest 'starvation policy' move

(Newser) - Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Israel last week suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million Palestinians, an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest...

Muslim Leaders Reject Trump's Plan for Palestinians

Trump said he wants to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population

(Newser) - Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by President Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and instead backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead. The AP reports that the foreign ministers gathered...

US Doubles Down: Palestinians Need to Leave

US, Israel reject new Gaza reconstruction plan endorsed by Arab League

(Newser) - The White House has swiftly rejected a plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip without the forced displacement of 2.1 million Palestinians. President Trump's plan for a US takeover of Gaza that would permanently remove residents sparked outrage and claims of ethnic cleansing last month, prompting Egypt to suggest...

Hamas Official: Our Raid May Have Been a Mistake

Rare concession by Mousa Abu Marzouk is quickly countered by the group itself

(Newser) - A top Hamas official made the rarest of concessions in an interview with the New York Times : Mousa Abu Marzouk suggested the group's infamous 2023 raid into Israel might have been a mistake. Referring to Israel's massive response in Gaza, he said, "If it was expected that...

Israel Alleges Ceasefire 'Violation of Utmost Severity'

Says the mother of Hamas' youngest hostages was not among the bodies returned

(Newser) - Hamas said it returned the bodies of the two youngest Israeli hostages , as well as their mother and an unrelated adult, on Thursday. But now Israel's military says forensic testing of the remains shows that the body of Shiri Bibas, the mother of young Ariel and Kfir Bibas, was...

US Man Targeting Palestinians Allegedly Shoots 2 Israelis

There are calls for hate crime charges against Mordechai Brafman in Miami Beach shooting

(Newser) - A Jewish man in Miami Beach allegedly tried to kill two men he believed were Palestinians, but turned out to be from Israel. Surveillance video allegedly shows driver Mordechai Brafman, 27, doing a U-turn and exiting his truck before using a semiautomatic handgun to fire 17 times on a passing...

Report: Hamas Will Hand Over Hostages' Bodies This Week

Followed by 3, or maybe 6, living hostages this weekend, sources say

(Newser) - Israel is preparing to receive the bodies of four hostages from Hamas Thursday, an Israeli security official tells news outlets including the Times of Israel , the Jerusalem Post , and Reuters . In addition, sources tell NBC News Israel and Hamas are in talks to double the number of living hostages released...

Hamas Swaps 3 Hostages for 300 Palestinians

The two sides have made 6 exchanges since the ceasefire began

(Newser) - Hamas-led militants released three male Israeli hostages Saturday, and Israeli forces freed hundreds of prisoners in return, in the latest indication that a fragile ceasefire that had teetered in recent days is holding. The AP reports militants in the southern Gaza Strip paraded the three hostages before a crowd before...

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