Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, and Israel’s military said it struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to thwart a larger attack.
‘There are bodies scattered in the streets, dismembered bodies, there are bodies of entire families, there are also bodies inside a home of an entire family that was completely burned.’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government relies on two ultra-Orthodox parties, and if the military exemptions are ended, they could leave the alliance.
Centrist member of Israel’s three-man war cabinet announced his resignation due to differences of opinion over the future of the Gaza Strip.
Israel statement followed US reports that a speech had been set for June 13, when US President Joe Biden is in Italy.
Israel, Hamas and the United States have blasted the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court after he applied for arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, defence minister as well as three Hamas leaders.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch a full-scale ground operation in Rafah in a bid to dismantle the remaining battalions of Hamas.
The US and other countries, fearing mass casualties, have tried to convince Israel not to attack Rafah. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says it’s necessary to defeat the last of Hamas’s battalions.
Israel’s vow to ‘go it alone’ masks the potentially decisive impact delays in weapons delivery will have on Gaza war and ability to mount an offensive against Hezbollah.
Giving in to Hamas would be a huge victory for the group and Iran, and project a ‘terrible weakness’, PM Netanyahu said, while also ordering the closure of ‘incitement’ news channel Al Jazeera.
As the Gaza war drags into its seventh month, conflict on Sunday was focused on Lebanon and the West Bank, but Israeli officials said further fighting in Gaza has been authorised.
Rally in Jerusalem calls for remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza to be brought home. It came as talks to secure another ceasefire that would include the release hostages resumed in Egypt.
Anger over the PM’s handling of the war in Gaza have sparked mass protests aiming to force him out of office.
Tens of thousands of Israelis thronged central Jerusalem, urging the government to reach a ceasefire deal to free dozens of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and to hold early elections.
Faced with US ambivalence and Israel’s rejection, the ceasefire demand risks becoming a political footnote. At the least, council members should organise a humanitarian task force and evolve a plan to implement the spirit of the resolution
Global hunger monitor warns that escalation of the war could push half of Gaza’s total population to the brink of starvation.
US President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza was ‘hurting Israel more than helping Israel’.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Brazilian president’s comments trivialised the Holocaust and ‘crossed a red line’.
The strikes came after PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered troops to ‘prepare to operate’ in the southern border city, where around 1.3 million people have fled, with Palestinians saying they have nowhere left to retreat.
Biden’s comments reflect the growing divide between the Democratic president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government which includes far-right ministers.
The UN agency responsible for delivering aid to Palestinian refugees is under fire over accusations by Israel that 12 staff members were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out releasing Palestinian prisoners as part of any deal to halt fighting in Gaza, repeating his vow to keep fighting until “absolute victory” over Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a Palestinian state, and vowed to destroy Hamas in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the soldiers but vowed to press ahead with the offensive until ‘absolute victory’ over Hamas.
‘The UK’s position remains (that) a two-state solution … is the best route to lasting peace,’ a spokesman for UK PM Rishi Sunak said on Monday.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the ICJ won’t derail Israel’s offensive after South Africa asks the court to stop the war.
