Israel said Monday it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before.
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Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem. He was 98.
President Biden is “deeply concerned” about the unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel’s potential retaliation on Iran, according to a White House spokesman.
The United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assess Israel’s plans to attack Iran, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
Evacuation warnings affected southern Beirut, the eastern Bekaa valley and parts of southern Lebanon. AP video showed strikes near Lebanon’s only airport but it continued to operate.
Israel launched its ground invasion into southern Lebanon on Oct. 1 and has since sent thousands of troops into the rugged terrain.
Israel’s military said dozens of projectiles were launched from Lebanon a day after Hezbollah announced a new phase in fighting.
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The standoff comes as Israel’s war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah — a Hamas ally backed by Iran — has intensified in recent weeks.
Vice President Kamala Harris echoed Biden’s statement, saying Thursday that Israel’s killing Sinwar offers “an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.”
Yahya Sinwar was a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war.
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Lebanon and said a senior Hezbollah commander in the south of the country had been killed.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to professors and programs that are explicitly anti-Israel, according to a new report.
A report in the Washington Post said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to limit the response to military targets.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterparts in a letter dated Sunday that the changes must occur.