Israel has been added to the UN blacklist on conflict-related sexual violence Reports Reported by Reuters and Agence France-Presse on Friday, May 29. The blacklist is part of the UN Secretary-General’s annual report to the Security Council on conflict-related sexual violence, which tracks state and non-state actors accused of committing or facilitating systematic sexual violence … Read more
Monday, May 11, session of the Israeli Parliament consent Legislation establishing a special court with the power to impose the death penalty on Palestinians linked to participation in the October 7, 2023 resistance attack that sparked the war in Gaza. The bill was approved by 93 votes to zero in the 120-seat Knesset on Monday, … Read more
The leader of Hezbollah called on Lebanese officials to reject US-led peace talks scheduled to be held with Israel on Tuesday, saying the terror group would not accept surrender and would continue to take revenge on the Jewish state. In a televised speech on the eve of the meeting, Naim Qassem called on leaders in … Read more
The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen toward Israel early Saturday, the first time it had encountered fire from that country. Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack, raising questions about whether the Tehran-backed rebel group will again target commercial ships passing through the Red Sea corridor. Sirens sounded around … Read more
Iranian officials threatened to “pursue and kill” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel launched a group of large-scale missiles towards western Iran on Sunday morning. “If this child murderer is alive, we will continue to pursue and kill him with full force,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps wrote online about Netanyahu, according to the … Read more
Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip.. More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas so far, Gaza health officials said on Saturday, as the two sides completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of a fragile ceasefire. The latest jump in the number of deaths occurred as more bodies … Read more
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas so far, Gaza health officials said Saturday, as the two sides completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of a fragile ceasefire. The latest jump in the death toll occurred as more bodies … Read more
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Saturday that the remains of three people handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross in Gaza did not belong to any hostages, the latest setback to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. The handover came after Israel on Friday returned the bodies of 30 Palestinians … Read more
Tel Aviv, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Wednesday that Israel had completed identifying the bodies of the two other hostages, while US Vice President J.D. Vance held high-level meetings in Israel to push forward the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. The authorities identified the two deceased hostages as Ari Zalmanovich and … Read more
JERUSALEM (AP) — A fragile ceasefire in Gaza faced its first major test Sunday when an Israeli security official said aid transfers to the Strip were halted after Hamas gunmen killed two soldiers, and Israeli forces launched a wave of deadly strikes. The army later said it had resumed implementing the ceasefire, and the official … Read more