GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A high-level Egyptian delegation on Wednesday held urgent talks with Gaza's Hamas rulers, seeking to restore calm after a rocket from the Palestinian area slammed into a home in southern Israel and the Israeli military responded with airstrikes on Hamas targets. The pre-dawn flare-up in...
Israel Accuses Iran of Harboring 'Secret Atomic Warehouse'
UNITED NATIONS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Thursday of keeping a "secret atomic warehouse" just outside its capital, despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Holding up a poster-board map of an area near Tehran before...
Gaza Protests Escalate After Deal to Ease Blockade Fails
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinians protested Wednesday at a new location along the perimeter fence between Israel and Gaza as Hamas intensified demonstrations at the border after Egyptian-led cease-fire talks stalled. The militant Hamas group was hoping its indirect talks with Israel would result in the lifting of a...
Israel Places New Limitations on Cargo Crossing Into Gaza
JERUSALEM — Israel placed new restrictions on its only cargo crossing with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to continued Hamas hostilities, even after it agreed to a cease-fire ending 24 hours of intense fighting. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel will cease transferring gas and fuel through the...
Why Can't Israelis & Palestinians End Bloodshed? Retired FBI Agent Explains.
In the second part of our GV Wire series, retired FBI agent and Middle East legal attaché Tom Knowles analyzes the conflicts that fuel the continuing bloodshed between Israel and Hamas, which governs Gaza independently of the Palestinian Authority. At the time of this interview, the move of the U.S. Embassy...
Gaza's Hamas Rulers Say Cease-Fire Reached With Israel
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza's Hamas rulers said Wednesday they had agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to end the largest flare-up of violence between the two sides since a 2014 war. Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official, said Egyptian mediators intervened "after the resistance succeeded in warding off...
Will the Gaza Events Further Polarize the Middle East?
By moving the U.S. embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, the United States has added complexity to a situation that was already chaotic. Washington’s move will not change the reality on the ground, as 62 Palestinians have been killed over the last few days. Gaza’s protests marking the 70th anniversary of...
Opinion: Palestinians to Blame for Their Own Misery
The Arab-Israeli conflict is a divisive issue as old as the Torah and Quran. The Holy Scriptures say when Abraham drove out his son Ishmael, so the tensions started in the Middle East. In modern times, Israel continues to battle its Arab neighbors, those living on lands claimed by Palestine,...
Israel Faces Diplomatic Fallout After 59 Killed in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel faced a growing backlash Tuesday and new charges of using excessive force, a day after Israeli troops firing from across a border fence killed 59 Palestinians and wounded more than 2,700 at a mass protest in Gaza. Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador, while Ireland and...
At Least 55 Killed in Gaza as US Embassy Opens in Jerusalem
By FARES AKRAM and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli soldiers shot and killed at least 55 Palestinians shot and wounded more than 1,200 during mass protests along the Gaza border Monday. It was the deadliest day there since a devastating 2014 cross-border war and cast...