Top church leaders in Jerusalem have travelled to Gaza in a rare solidarity visit to the territory one day after an Israeli shell slammed into its only Catholic church, killing three people. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III entered Gaza on Friday morning to express the “shared pastoral…
Israel has launched a series of intense strikes on Damascus, Syria’s capital, intensifying a campaign it says is in support of an Arab minority group. Syria, on Wednesday, strongly condemned Israeli attacks, denouncing the strikes as a “dangerous escalation.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Israel of pursuing a “deliberate policy” to “inflame tensions, spread…
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli ultra-Orthodox party that has been a key governing partner of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Tuesday it was leaving the coalition government, threatening to destabilize the Israeli leader’s rule at a pivotal time in the war in Gaza. United Torah Judaism’s two factions said they were bolting…
Palestinian-American dies in West Bank amid controversy over Israel’s so-called safe haven plan – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem asked the Israeli government for details following the death of an American citizen in the occupied West Bank. Plus, Israel’s defense minister created controversy this week when he announced plans to…
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Saturday. Meanwhile, there were reports Saturday that a U.S. citizen was killed in the West Bank. A family statement identified the man as Palestinian-American Saif Musallet, 20, who had traveled from Florida to visit relatives in the West Bank. The family statement…
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — An independent U.N. investigator and outspoken critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza said Thursday that “it was shocking” to learn that the Trump administration had imposed sanctions on her but defiantly stood by her view on the war. Francesca Albanese said in an interview with The Associated Press that the powerful…
By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israel and Hamas may be able to reach a Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal within one or two weeks but such an agreement is not likely to be secured in just a day’s time, a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday. Speaking during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to…
President Donald Trump isn’t quite sure what to make of an Iranian regime figure’s imaginative assassination threat. Trump… “can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago,” said Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a top adviser to Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Iranian TV Wednesday. Larijani, the secretary general of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, laughed as…
NEW YORK (Gray Media) – Wednesday was the third day of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to the U.S. as he continued meeting with leaders to plot out the next steps in the ongoing war in Gaza. Netanyahu sat down with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Wednesday beginning with a message of gratitude following…
JERUSALEM (AP) — As Israel and Hamas move closer to a ceasefire agreement, Israel says it wants to maintain troops in a southern corridor of the Gaza Strip — a condition that could derail the talks. An Israeli official said an outstanding issue in the negotiations was Israel’s desire to keep forces in the territory…