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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
UPDATED
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...

Gaza Officials Report Death Toll Milestone

More than 50K Palestinians have been killed since Israel-Hamas war began, health ministry says

(Newser) - More than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the territory's Health Ministry said Sunday, as new Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight—including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. Israel's military also sent...

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 'Limited' Ground Operation in Gaza
Israeli Troops
Are Back in Gaza
Mar 19, 2025 12:53 PM CDT

Israeli Troops Are Back in Gaza

IDF launches 'limited ground operation' after airstrikes resume

(Newser) - Israel said Wednesday it launched a "limited ground operation" in northern Gaza to retake part of a corridor that bisects the territory, and the country's defense minister warned that the army plans to step up the attacks that shattered a two-month ceasefire "with an intensity that you...

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...

Protest Leader at Columbia Now Faces Deportation
Protest Leader at Columbia
Now Faces Deportation
THE RUNDOWN
Mar 10, 2025 11:57 AM CDT

Protest Leader at Columbia Now Faces Deportation

Mahmoud Khalil arrested by ICE agents under new crackdown

(Newser) - A former Columbia University grad student and Palestinian activist who helped organize anti-Israel protests at the school was arrested in his university-owned apartment over the weekend by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, reports the AP , which calls the move "a significant escalation in the Trump administration's pledge to...

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...

Trump Issues 'Last Warning' to Hamas Amid US Talks

Negotiations are a break from history of not dealing with terrorist groups

(Newser) - US officials have been holding direct talks with Hamas about the release of hostages held in Gaza, negotiations that have included the possibilities of extending the ceasefire and ending the war. Talks have focused on the militant group freeing several American-Israeli dual citizens who were taken hostage in the Oct....

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...

Israel's Spy Agency: We Mistakenly Ignored SIM Cards

A declassified summary of its Oct. 7 findings was released Tuesday

(Newser) - "The Shin Bet did not prevent the massacre of October 7," wrote the head of the Israeli intelligence agency in a report released Tuesday. "I will carry this heavy burden on my shoulders for my entire life." NPR reports that "in an unusual move for...

Israel Halts Aid to Gaza
Israel Cuts Off Aid to Gaza
Mar 2, 2025 7:55 AM CST

Israel Cuts Off Aid to Gaza

It's pressuring Hamas to accept new ceasefire proposal

(Newser) - Israel stopped the entry of all goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip on Sunday and warned of "additional consequences" if Hamas doesn't accept a new proposal to extend a fragile ceasefire, per the AP . Hamas accused Israel of trying to derail the existing ceasefire agreement and said...

Talks on Phase 2 of Gaza Ceasefire Begin

Israel refuses to withdraw from strategic corridor

(Newser) - Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire began Thursday, Egypt said, averting a collapse ahead of Saturday's expiration of the agreement's first phase. Officials from Israel, Qatar, and the United States started "intensive discussions" on the ceasefire's second phase in...

Bodies of 4 Hostages Returned in More Tempered Exchange

Exchange appears to complete phase one of ceasefire

(Newser) - The first phase of Israel's ceasefire deal appears to be complete. The bodies of four hostages were handed over to the Red Cross in Israel early Thursday in exchange for the release of hundreds of prisoners. The BBC reports previous handovers "have involved a staged ceremony orchestrated by...

Trump Shares AI Video of His Gaza of the Future
Trump Shares AI Video
on Gaza That's an Eyeful
VIDEO
Feb 26, 2025 10:00 AM CST

Trump Shares AI Video on Gaza That's an Eyeful

Clip shows ruins of the region reinvigorated, complete with Trump statues and dancers

(Newser) - Earlier this month, President Trump first floated the controversial idea of permanently relocating Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and having the United States take over the region to turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East." He doubled down on that "spectacular" concept days later, and...

Israelis Line the Streets Holding Signs That Say 'Sorry'

Funerals for Shiri Bibas and her sons were held Wednesday

(Newser) - No Israeli government representatives were invited to the Wednesday funerals for Shiri Bibas, 32, and sons Ariel and Kfir, who were killed while being held hostage by Hamas. But Israeli citizens came out in droves, lining roads and overpasses while holding orange balloons and handmade signs reading "sorry" and...

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 Delays Prisoner Release, Sends Tanks Into West Bank
Israeli Tanks Enter West Bank
Feb 23, 2025 12:40 PM CST

Israeli Tanks Enter West Bank

Release of Palestinian prisoners is postponed

(Newser) - Israeli tanks rolled into the occupied West Bank on Sunday for the first time in more than 20 years, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a halt to the scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees—further complicating the shaky ceasefire. The military was ordered to prepare for an "...

'Brutally Murdered': Shiri Bibas' Body Returned

The body of the young mother was supposed to be returned the day before

(Newser) - The family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says Hamas finally released her body overnight on Friday after the mother of two was murdered while held captive in Gaza, reports the Times of Israel . This comes after Hamas promised to hand over her remains on Thursday, then supplied the body of...

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