International mediators held a new round of talks Thursday aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and securing the release of scores of hostages.
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The announcement also comes just days after the school confirmed that three deans had resigned after officials said they exchanged disparaging texts during a campus discussion about Jewish life and antisemitism.
Cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel are expected to resume in Qatar on Thursday with Qatari, Egyptian, and U.S. mediators.
The U.S. approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles, the State Department announced Tuesday.
Hamas appeared to push back against resuming negotiations with Israel on any new cease-fire proposals. Instead, it wants to revisit plans discussed last month.
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza targeted the Tabeen school in central Gaza City, saying it hit a Hamas command center and killed 19 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters.
Israeli evacuation orders triggered an exodus of Palestinians from the eastern districts of Khan Younis.
Rahm Emanuel will not attend the event because it was “politicized” by Nagasaki’s decision not to invite Israel, the embassy said.
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists targeted a ship Thursday in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, authorities said.
Yahya Sinwar’s appointment as the top leader of Hamas formalizes a role he assumed in the early hours of Oct. 7, when the terrorist group attacked Israel.
Hamas named Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader.
The U.S. and its allies worked to head off an Iranian attack on Israel and avert a wider regional war as concerns grew that a strike may come at any moment in retaliation.
A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists struck a Liberian-flagged container ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden, authorities said Sunday.
Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting Sunday.
An Israeli delegation led by the country’s intelligence chief flew to Egypt on Saturday seeking to make progress on long-stalled talks over a possible Gaza truce.