Secretary of State Marco Rubio will depart Saturday for Israel and the United Kingdom on a trip framed by U.S. unease with Israel’s recent escalation in Gaza and a regional backlash against its strike in Doha. In a State Department press note, deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott said Rubio will use the visit to “convey America’s…
As the people killed in Israel’s surprise strike on a Hamas meeting in the Qatari capital were buried at Doha’s Grand Mosque on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to launch new attacks on the country — a close U.S. ally — if it refused to eject the U.S.- and Israeli-designated terrorist group’s political…
New satellite imagery released by Planet Labs on Wednesday showed damage to a residential complex hosting Hamas leaders whom Israel targeted in strikes on Doha on Tuesday. Authorities in Qatar said they were retrieving body parts and were working on identifying them. There is no confirmation that Israel’s attack killed senior Hamas leaders who were…
DOHA – Qatar’s prime minister intensified his criticism of Israel over its attack targeting Hamas leaders in his country, saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “killed any hope” of releasing hostages still held in the Gaza Strip. The comments from Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani ahead of appearing at the United Nations on Thursday…
Israel warns Gaza City residents to evacuate as it prepares assault – CBS News Watch CBS News Israel has urged the residents of Gaza City to evacuate as it prepares for a full-scale military assault. Leaflets dropped from the sky telling residents of the famine-stricken area to leave. Haley Ott reports. Source link
Published on: Aug 31, 2025 02:01 am IST Benjamin Netanyahu’s office had announced on Friday the retrieval of Ilan Weiss’s body along with the remains of another hostage. Israel identified the body of hostage Idan Shtivi, recovered from the Gaza Strip in a military operation this week that retrieved the remains of two hostages, Prime…
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV demanded Wednesday that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as he pleaded for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the besieged territory amid preparations by Israel for a new military offensive. Leo was interrupted twice by applause as he read aloud his latest…
The Palestinian group says no fighters were killed in the Israeli military’s double-tap attack on Nasser Hospital. Hamas has said that none of the 21 people killed in an Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital was a member of the Palestinian movement, after the Israeli military claimed it had targeted a Hamas surveillance camera and killed…
LOD, Israel (AP) — Protesters in Israel on Tuesday torched tires, blocked highways and clamored for a ceasefire that would free hostages still in Gaza, as Israeli leaders pressed ahead with plans for an offensive which they argue is needed to crush Hamas. The disruption came as Palestinians in Gaza braced for the expanded offensive…
Updated on: Aug 25, 2025 11:08 pm IST Netanyahu says Israel “values the work of journalists, medical staff and all civilians”; military is investigating the strike Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country’s twin airstrikes on a hospital in Gaza that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was a “tragic mishap” and that…