Israel

Stories 1 - 20 |  Next >>

Hezbollah Leader: Israel Violated 'All Conventions'

Hassan Nasrallah promises retribution after explosions

(Newser) - Blaming Israel for fatal explosions of handheld devices across Lebanon that he said violated "all conventions and laws," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised retribution in a speech Thursday. "Indeed, we have endured a severe and cruel blow," he acknowledged, the New York Times reports. In his...

Report: Israel Hid Explosives in Pagers

Hezbollah vows to avenge 'criminal aggression' after blasts kill at least 9, wound thousands

(Newser) - Pagers issued to Hezbollah members exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least nine people, wounding almost 3,000—and leaving plenty of questions about how the unprecedented attack was carried out. Some suspected that malware could have caused batteries in the devices to overheat, but the New ...

Report: US Activist Was Killed by IDF After Retreating

Washington Post investigation indicates Aysenur Eygi 'posed no apparent threat'

(Newser) - In admitting one of its soldiers likely killed Aysenur Eygi , a US-Turkish citizen, Israel's military said the activist was "hit indirectly and unintentionally by fire which was not aimed at her," but at the "key instigator" of a "violent riot" in the West Bank. Yet...

Rare Jar Smashed by Boy, 4, Is Back on Display With New Sign

'Please don't touch,' museum advises visitors

(Newser) - A rare Bronze Age jar accidentally smashed by a curious 4-year-old visiting a museum in Israel was back on display Wednesday after restoration experts were able to carefully piece the artifact back together. Last month, a family from northern Israel was visiting the Hecht Museum in Haifa when their youngest...

Israel Admits It Likely Killed American, by Mistake

Secretary of State Blinken calls for 'fundamental' change in tactics after death of Aysenur Eygi

(Newser) - Israel acknowledged on Tuesday that it was "highly likely" one of its soldiers fired the shot that killed 26-year-old American citizen Aysenur Eygi last week. The development prompted what the Washington Post describes as an unusually harsh criticism of Israeli tactics by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
  • The American:
...

Amid Mass Vaccine Effort in Gaza, Israel Keeps Striking

More than 12 are dead after Israeli air raids into Saturday, as health workers rush to control polio

(Newser) - Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday morning, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers were wrapping up the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign designed to prevent a large-scale outbreak in the territory. The vaccination drive was...

Israel Accused of Fatally Shooting American Activist

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, of Turkish descent, was reportedly killed by troops in West Bank

(Newser) - An American woman was shot and killed in the West Bank on Friday, two doctors told the AP . Dr. Ward Basalat, an ER doctor, said that the 26-year-old woman was shot in the head and died after arriving at his hospital. Dr. Fouad Nafaa, the head of the hospital, also...

Israel Leaves Trail of Destruction in West Bank

Military appeared to withdraw from Jenin refugee camp on Friday

(Newser) - Israeli forces appear to have withdrawn from the Jenin refugee camp and two others in the occupied West Bank after a more-than weeklong military operation that left dozens dead and a trail of destruction, per the AP . In the quiet morning Friday, Jenin residents took advantage of the lull to...

Netanyahu Takes Heat With Ceasefire Talks at Standstill
Biden Reportedly Sours
on Self-Serving Netanyahu
the rundown
Sep 4, 2024 6:41 AM CDT

Biden Reportedly Sours on Self-Serving Netanyahu

Reports suggest Israel's leader views ceasefire as a political loss

(Newser) - Last week, Biden administration officials said an agreement to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was close, with only minor details to iron out. But Saturday's discovery that six Israeli hostages were killed in Gaza as Israeli forces moved in "changed everything," one Israeli official tells...

Museum to Kid Who Broke Ancient Artifact: Come Back

Israel's Hecht Museum let the 4-year-old who accidentally smashed jar piece it back together

(Newser) - A 4-year-old boy who accidentally broke a rare 3,500-year-old jar in an Israeli museum has been forgiven and was even invited back on Friday to help piece the jar back together, as curators hoped to turn the disaster into a teachable moment. Alex Geller, the boy's father, said...

Curious 4-Year-Old Shatters Museum's Ancient Jar

Bronze Age artifact does not survive an inquisitive boy at Israel's Hecht Museum

(Newser) - The clay jar at Israel's Hecht Museum had withstood the tests of more than three millennia, but it proved no match for a curious 4-year-old boy. The BBC reports that the child was "curious about what was inside" the 3,500-year-old jar that sat unprotected at the museum'...

Israel Rolls Into the West Bank
Israel Rolls Into the West Bank
Aug 28, 2024 6:29 AM CDT

Israel Rolls Into the West Bank

9 dead in large-scale military operation

(Newser) - Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, where its forces killed at least nine Palestinians and sealed off the volatile city of Jenin. Israel has carried out near-daily raids across the West Bank since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza triggered the ongoing...

Israel Says It Has Rescued a Hostage

Military says Qaid Farhan Alkadi was rescued 'in a complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip'

(Newser) - The Israeli military said Tuesday that it has rescued one of the scores of people abducted in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, which ignited the ongoing war in Gaza. The military said Qaid Farhan Alkadi was rescued "in a complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip." It did not...

Israel, Hezbollah Trade Heavy Fire
Israel, Hezbollah
Trade Heavy Fire
Aug 25, 2024 6:03 AM CDT

Israel, Hezbollah Trade Heavy Fire

Raising fears of an all-out regional war

(Newser) - Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a preemptive strike on Hezbollah, as the militant group said it launched hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of one of its top commanders last month. The heavy exchange of fire...

Blinken: Israel Has Agreed to Ceasefire Plan

It's not clear whether Hamas will accept 'bridging proposal'

(Newser) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza. He called on Hamas to do the same. Blinken was on his ninth urgent mission to...

US Approves $20B in Arms Sales to Israel

New jets won't arrive until end of this decade

(Newser) - The US has approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles, the State Department announced Tuesday. Congress was notified of the impending sale, which includes more than 50 F-15 fighter jets, Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles, or AMRAAMs, 120 mm tank...

In Khan Yunis, 'We Are Running From Death to Death'

Israel issues one of its largest evacuation orders yet in Gaza; UN says there are no safe spots left

(Newser) - Over the weekend, residents in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis started receiving flyers and phone calls warning them that staying in the area "has become dangerous." Those cautionary messages came courtesy of the Israeli military, which said on Sunday that it was expanding evacuation orders in...

Dozens Reported Dead After Israeli Strike on Gaza School

Israel says it hit a Hamas command center embedded in school/shelter; Hamas denies that

(Newser) - An Israeli airstrike hit a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City early Saturday, killing at least 80 people, Palestinian health authorities said, in one of the deadliest strikes in the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli military acknowledged the strike, claiming it hit a Hamas command center within the school....

Israel Wasn't Invited, So US Bails on Nagasaki Ceremony

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki declined to invite Israel to peace ceremony

(Newser) - The US, British, and French ambassadors to Japan will skip a ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki over what is perceived as a slight against Israel. Nagasaki's mayor invited dignitaries from more than 150 countries and territories to the annual peace ceremony, to...

7th Nation Wants In on Genocide Case Against Israel

Turkey had previously suspended trade with Israel, deemed Hamas a liberation movement

(Newser) - Turkey on Wednesday filed a request with a UN court to join South Africa's lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, the foreign minister said. Turkey's ambassador to the Netherlands, accompanied by a group of Turkish legislators, submitted a declaration of intervention to the International Court of Justice...

Stories 1 - 20 |  Next >>