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  • Israel investigates leaks that appear to have bolstered Netanyahu as Gaza truce talks stalled

    TIA GOLDENBERG|Nov 1, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli court on Sunday loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information suspected to involve one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's media advisers. Critics say the leaks were aimed at giving Netanyahu political cover as Gaza cease-fire talks ground to a halt. Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing, downplaying the affair and publicly calling for the gag order to be lifted. Netanyahu has said the person in question "never participated in security discussions, was not exposed to or r...

  • Israel unearths Hezbollah's web of tunnels in southern Lebanon

    TIA GOLDENBERG and BASSEM MROUE|Oct 18, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces have spent much of the past year destroying Hamas' vast underground network in Gaza. They are now focused on dismantling tunnels and other hideouts belonging to Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. Scarred by Hamas' deadly raid into Israel last year that sparked the war in Gaza, Israel says it aims to prevent a similar incursion across its northern border from ever getting off the ground. The Israeli military has combed through the dense brush of southern Lebanon for the past two weeks, uncovering w...

  • Hezbollah steps up rocket fire as Israel sends more troops into Lebanon

    BASSEM MROUE and TIA GOLDENBERG|Oct 9, 2024

    BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah fired another barrage of rockets into Israel on Tuesday, and the militant group's acting leader vowed to keep up pressure that has forced tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes near the Lebanese border. The Israeli military said it sent more ground troops into southern Lebanon and that a senior Hezbollah commander was killed in an airstrike. Dozens of rockets fired by Hezbollah were aimed as far south as Haifa, and the Israeli government warned residents north of the coastal city to limit activities, prompting th...

  • Israeli defense minister warns an attack on Iran would be 'lethal' and 'surprising'

    TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY|Oct 9, 2024

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister warned on Wednesday that his country's retaliation for a recent Iranian missile attack will be "lethal" and "surprising," while the Israeli military pushed ahead with a large-scale operation in northern Gaza and a ground offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah militants. On the diplomatic front, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden held their first call in seven weeks, with a White House press secretary saying the call included discussions on Israel's deliberations over h...

  • Biden and Netanyahu hold their first conversation in weeks. Trump recently called the Israeli leader

    ZEKE MILLER and TIA GOLDENBERG|Oct 9, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday held their first call in seven weeks, a conversation that comes as Israel expands its ground incursion into Lebanon and considers how to respond to Iran's recent ballistic missile attack. Vice President Kamala Harris also joined the 30-minute call, according to the White House. "It was direct, it was productive," said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who added that the leaders discussed a long list of issues on the call, including I...

  • Netanyahu vows to use 'full force' against Hezbollah and dims hopes for a cease-fire

    TIA GOLDENBERG and BASSEM MROUE|Sep 27, 2024

    NEW YORK (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday vowed to carry out "full force" strikes against Hezbollah until it ceases firing rockets across the border, dimming hopes for a cease-fire proposal put forth by U.S. and European officials. Israel carried out a new strike in the Lebanese capital, which killed a senior Hezbollah commander, and the militant group launched dozens of rockets into Israel. Tens of thousands of Israeli and Lebanese people living near their countries' border have been displaced by the fighting. N...

  • Netanyahu, at UN, vows that Israel will keep 'degrading Hezbollah' until its objectives are met

    TIA GOLDENBERG|Sep 27, 2024

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu signaled to the world from the United Nations on Friday that the multiple conflicts in the Middle East were far from resolved, and he vowed to continue battling the Lebanese Hezbollah and defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip until "total victory." Shortly after the prime minister spoke, blasts rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut and the Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah's headquarters. The exact target wasn't immediately clear, but it appeared to be significant enough to prompt N...

  • Israel tells its troops to prepare for a possible ground operation in Lebanon

    MELANIE LIDMAN and TIA GOLDENBERG|Sep 25, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel is preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon, its army chief said Wednesday as Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets across the border and a missile aimed at Tel Aviv that was the militant group's deepest strike yet. Addressing troops on the northern border, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said Israel's punishing airstrikes this week were designed to "prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah." Israel says it targeted Hezbollah weapons and rocket launchers in a...

  • Israel carries out rare strike on Beirut that it says killed Hezbollah commander

    BASSEM MROUE and TIA GOLDENBERG|Jul 31, 2024

    BEIRUT (AP) — Israel on Tuesday carried out a rare strike on Beirut, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The strike in the Lebanese capital killed at least one woman and two children and wounded dozens of people. Hezbollah did not immediately confirm the commander's death. The strike came amid escalating hostilities with the Lebanese militant group. An Israeli official said the target was Fouad Shukur, a top H...

  • Strike on Israeli Golan Heights kills 11 and threatens to spark a wider war. Hezbollah denies a role

    TIA GOLDENBERG and BASSEM MROUE|Jul 26, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A rocket strike Saturday at a soccer field killed at least 11 children and teens, Israeli authorities said, in the deadliest strike on an Israeli target along the country's northern border since the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah began. It raised fears of a broader regional war. Israel blamed Hezbollah for the strike in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, but Hezbollah rushed to deny any role. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Hezbollah "will pay a heavy price for...

  • The fate of the latest cease-fire proposal hinges on Netanyahu and Hamas' leader in Gaza

    TIA GOLDENBERG|Jun 21, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The fate of the proposed cease-fire deal for Gaza hinges in many ways on two men: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas' leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. Each leader faces significant political and personal pressures that may be influencing their decision-making. And neither seems to be in a rush to make concessions to end the devastating eight-month-long war and free hostages taken by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack. Hamas has accepted the broad outline of the plan but requested "amendments." Netanyahu has p...

  • Proposed Gaza cease-fire puts Netanyahu at a crossroads that could shape his legacy

    TIA GOLDENBERG|May 31, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads, with either path likely to shape the legacy of Israel's longest-serving and deeply divisive leader. The proposal offers the possibility of ending Israel's war against Hamas, returning scores of hostages held by the Islamic militant group, quieting the northern border with Lebanon and potentially advancing a historic agreement to normalize ties with Saudi Arabia. But it would also likely shatter N...

  • Israel's military says it's taken control of a strategic corridor along Gaza's border with Egypt

    TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA|May 29, 2024

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military said Wednesday it seized control of a strategic corridor along Gaza's border with Egypt to cut off smuggling tunnels as it tries to destroy the militant Hamas group in a war that is now in its eighth month. The capture of the Philadelphi Corridor could complicate Israel's relations with Egypt, which has previously complained about Israel's advance toward its border. Israel says the corridor is awash in tunnels that have funneled weapons and other goods for Hamas — even under a yearslong blockade imposed by...

  • How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

    TIA GOLDENBERG and JULIA FRANKEL|May 22, 2024

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash. Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, Otmazgin — a volunteer commander with ZAKA, an Israeli search and rescue organization — saw the body of a teenager, shot dead and separated from her family in a different room. Her pants had been pulled down below her waist. He thought that was evidence of sexual violence. He alerted journalists to what he'd seen....

  • Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah 'with or without a deal' as cease-fire talks with Hamas continue

    TIA GOLDENBERG and MATTHEW LEE|May 1, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war, just as cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam. Netanyahu's comments came hours before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to arrive in Israel to advance the truce talks — which appear to be one of the most serious rounds of negotiations between Israel and Hamas sin...

  • Israel's military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent Hamas attack on Oct. 7

    TIA GOLDENBERG|Apr 19, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The head of Israeli military intelligence resigned on Monday because of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the stunning failure to anticipate or quickly respond to the deadliest assault in Israel's history. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva's decision could set the stage for more resignations among top Israeli security officials. Hamas militants blasted through Israel's border defenses on Oct. 7, rampaging through communities unchallenged for hours and killing 1,200 people, most o...

  • An Israeli airstrike in Gaza kills 3 sons and 4 grandchildren of Hamas' top leader

    TIA GOLDENBERG and KAREEM CHEHAYEB|Apr 10, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli aircraft killed three sons of Hamas' top political leader in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, striking high-stakes targets at a time when Israel is holding delicate cease-fire negotiations with the militant group. Hamas said four of the leader's grandchildren were also killed. Ismail Haniyeh 's sons are among the highest-profile figures to be killed in the war so far. Israel said they were Hamas operatives, and Haniyeh accused Israel of acting in "the spirit of revenge and murder." The deaths threatened to strain t...

  • What is World Central Kitchen and how has it helped people in Gaza?

    TIA GOLDENBERG|Apr 3, 2024

    JERUSALEM (AP) — World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, called a halt to its work in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli strike killed seven of its workers, mostly foreigners. The group, which said it will make decisions about longer-term plans in the region soon, has been bringing desperately needed food to Gazans facing widespread hunger and pioneered the recently launched effort to deliver aid by sea from Cyprus. Its absence, even if temporary, is likely to deepen the war-torn territory's misery as the...

  • Netanyahu snaps back against growing US criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza

    TIA GOLDENBERG and RAVI NESSMAN|Mar 15, 2024

    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed Sunday against growing criticism from top ally the United States against his leadership amid the devastating war with Hamas, describing calls for a new election as "wholly inappropriate." In recent days, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the country and a strong Israel supporter, called on Israel to hold a new election, saying Netanyahu had "lost his way." President Joe Biden expressed support for Schumer's "good speech," a...

  • Gaza cease-fire talks fail to achieve a breakthrough with Ramadan just days away, Egypt says

    SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG|Mar 6, 2024

    CAIRO (AP) — Three days of negotiations with Hamas over a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages failed to achieve a breakthrough on Tuesday, Egyptian officials said, less than a week before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the informal deadline for a deal. The nearly five months of fighting left much of Gaza in ruins and created a worsening humanitarian catastrophe, with many, especially in the devastated northern region, scrambling for food to survive. "We must get more aid into Gaza," U.S. President Joe Biden s...

  • A deal between Israel and Hamas appears to be taking shape. What would it look like?

    SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG|Feb 28, 2024

    CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a weekslong pause in the war, now in its fifth month. U.S. President Joe Biden says a deal could go into effect as early as Monday, ahead of what is seen as an unofficial deadline — the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, around March 10. A deal would bring some respite to desperate people in Gaza, who have borne a staggering toll, as well as to the anguished families of Israeli hostages tak...

  • Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of blocking aid to Palestinians in violation of a UN court order

    WAFAA SHURAFA and TIA GOLDENBERG|Feb 23, 2024

    RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has failed to comply with an order by the United Nations' top court to provide urgently needed aid to desperate people in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch said Monday, a month after a landmark ruling in The Hague ordered Israel to moderate its war. In a preliminary response to a South African petition accusing Israel of genocide, the U.N.'s top court ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in the tiny Palestinian enclave. It stopped short of ordering an end to t...

  • Apparent Israeli strike kills senior Hamas figure in Beirut and raises fears conflict could expand

    BASSEM MROUE and TIA GOLDENBERG|Jan 3, 2024

    BEIRUT (AP) — An apparent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut killed Hamas' No. 2 political leader Tuesday, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israel's war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict. Saleh Arouri, who was the most senior Hamas figure killed since the war with Israel began, was also a founder of the group's military wing. His death could provoke major retaliation by Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah militia. The strike hit an apartment in a building in a Shiite d...

  • Israel's Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strike

    TIA GOLDENBERG and FADI TAWIL|Jan 3, 2024

    JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service vowed Wednesday that the agency would hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no matter where they are. His pledge came a day after the deputy head of the Palestinian militant group was killed in a suspected Israeli strike in Beirut. Israel has refused to comment on reports it carried out the killing, but the remarks by David Barnea appeared to be the strongest indication yet it was behind the blast. He made a comparison to the aftermath of the s...

  • Cracks are emerging in Israel's military. Reservists threaten not to serve if government plan passes

    TIA GOLDENBERG|Jul 19, 2023

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Cracks are emerging in Israel's military. The Middle East's best equipped and most powerful force is under one of the worst assaults it has encountered — a battle within its own ranks. A contentious government plan to overhaul the country's judiciary has cleaved deep rifts within Israeli society. Those rifts have infiltrated the military, where reservists in key units have pledged not to show up for duty if the legislative changes are pushed through. The letters, signed by thousands of reservists over the last seven mon...

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