Israel-Hamas War

Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia has fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel. It warned that Saturday’s barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week.

As the Biden administration grapples with an increasingly tense and unstable situation in the Middle East, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the region this weekend for the fourth time in three months on a tour expected to focus largely on easing resurgent fears that the Israel-Hamas war could erupt into a broader conflict.

Saleh Arouri, the deputy political head of Hamas and a founder of the group’s military wing, had been in Israel’s sights for years before he was killed in a drone strike in a southern suburb of Beirut.

An Israeli woman who recently returned from captivity in Gaza says she was groped by her Palestinian kidnapper and lived in constant fear for weeks.

Heavy fighting was reported in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis after Israel said it was withdrawing thousands of troops from other areas.

Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul.

The Israeli military says thousands of soldiers are being shifted out of the Gaza Strip.

Hospital officials in central Gaza say at least 35 people have been killed in Israeli strikes. The new bombardment Sunday comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war in Gaza will continue for “many more months,” resisting international calls for a cease-fire.

For the second time this month, the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel.

The number of Israeli soldiers wounded in the war with Hamas is growing, another sizable and deeply traumatized segment of Israeli society.

A 70-year-old woman originally from New York was killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, according to officials who just days ago confirmed her husband also died in the bloodshed.

Thousands of Palestinian families are fleeing from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges.

Israel launched heavy strikes across central and southern Gaza overnight after broadening its offensive against Hamas to more areas where the military had told Palestinians to seek shelter earlier in the war.

Israel and Hamas have given cool public receptions to an Egyptian proposal to end their bitter war. But the longstanding enemies on Monday stopped short of rejecting the plan altogether.

Gaza’s more than 54,500 war-wounded include a growing number of amputees who face hard choices and challenges as they try to survive in a war zone.

The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus looks like a ghost town on Christmas Eve, with celebrations in Bethlehem called off due to the Israel-Hamas war.

Rescuers and hospital officials say Israeli strikes flattened two Gaza homes, killing more than 90 Palestinians, including dozens from an extended family.

The United States has spent more than $7 billion on humanitarian aid and building infrastructure in the Palestinian territories in recent decades, while sending more than $3 billion a year to Israel for its military.

As the death toll in Gaza reached an estimated 20,000 on Thursday, the majority of them women and children, a poll released last week by a leading Palestinian research firm offered a window into how Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank view the war.