Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke Sunday about efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Israel-Hamas war.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar, his office said Saturday.
Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine, state media reported Saturday.
The Houthis said the strikes occurred while Yemenis were rallying in the capital Sanaa in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a 38-year-old student at Princeton, disappeared in Baghdad in March 2023 while doing research for her doctorate.
Benjamin Netanyahu became an internationally wanted suspect last year after the International Criminal Court, the world’s top war crimes court, issued an arrest warrant for him and others in connection with the war in Gaza, accusing them of crimes against humanity.
The Johns Hopkins University has agreed to provide additional staff and student training to resolve a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
The bodies of around three dozen hostages have been recovered in Gaza and eight hostages have been rescued by the army.
Hamas disclosed a list of 34 hostages it’s willing to return to Israel in the first phase of a potential ceasefire in Gaza.
Palestinians have carried out scores of shooting, stabbing and car-ramming attacks against Israelis, especially during the past 15 months of the Israel-Hamas war.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year while inside the terrorist group’s war operations room, according to a senior Hezbollah official.
A fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah has held up for over a month, even as its terms seem unlikely to be met by the deadline.
Families of Israeli hostages have rallied weekly to press Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire deal that would bring loved ones home.
Israeli strikes killed at least 42 people in Gaza overnight and into Friday, hospital and emergency response workers said.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 people across the Gaza Strip, hitting Hamas security officers.