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Israeli security minister who taunted flotilla activists has a record of extreme actions

Israel’s far-right national security minister has sparked global outrage after promoting a video of himself taunting activists from a flotilla to Gaza who were detained by his police force.

 

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Israeli minister orders West Bank hamlet evicted after hearing he may face arrest warrant overseas

Israel’s finance minister has ordered the eviction of a Palestinian village in the West Bank. He says it is a response to reports that he may be a target of international war crimes prosecutors.

 

Israeli forces intercept the remaining activist flotilla vessels headed for Gaza

Israeli forces have intercepted the remaining vessels from an activist flotilla challenging Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.

 

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Palestinian man shot by Israeli troops while trying to cross into Israel for work dies of wounds

Palestinian health officials say a Palestinian man who was shot by Israeli soldiers as he tried to cross into Israeli territory from the occupied West Bank has died of his wounds.

 

As Netanyahu spotlights Israel’s ties to the UAE, its rulers prefer to be discreet

The tight relationship between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is typically managed discreetly. But this week, it was thrust into the open, illuminating tensions underlying the alliance as the Iran war embroils the entire region.

 

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Palestinians in Gaza mark anniversary of 1948 mass uprooting and say today’s catastrophe is worse

Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba. That’s Arabic for “catastrophe,” referring to the mass expulsion and flight of some 750,000 Palestinians from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation.

 

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Ultranationalist Jews chant racist slogans during annual march into Jerusalem’s Old City

Large crowds of ultranationalist Jews are marching through Jerusalem’s Old City, many of them chanting incendiary slogans like “death to Arabs.”

 

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Board of Peace envoy Mladenov says ceasefire hinges on Hamas’ disarmament

Nickolay Mladenov, who is overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, says the truce hinges on Hamas’ disarmament hinges on Hamas’ disarmament.

 

Israeli lawmakers set up a special tribunal and allow for death penalty for Hamas-led 2023 attackers

Israeli lawmakers have approved a bill setting up a special tribunal that would try and have the authority to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of taking part in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza.

 

EU diplomats agree to sanction Hamas leaders and Israeli settlers but fail to pressure Israel

The European Union has unanimously agreed to impose new sanctions on the leaders of the Palestinian militant Hamas group and the Israeli settler movement, a decision sparked by growing outrage over the devastation in Gaza during the latest Israel-Hamas war.

 

Israeli troops get prison for desecration of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon

Israel’s military says two soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for the desecration of a Christian statue in southern Lebanon.

 

With goals of Iran war unfulfilled, Netanyahu’s government faces unhappy public as elections loom

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sold a vision to Israelis as the country entered the war with Iran and invaded Lebanon. Iran’s government would fall.

 

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Trump says US military has blockaded Iranian ports to pressure Tehran

U.S. President Donald Trump says the American military has blockaded Iranian ports to try to force Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

 

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Protests erupt in West Bank as Israel approves death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murder

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories after Israel’s parliament passing a law mandating the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic murder.

 

Israel punishes a military unit that assaulted a CNN crew in the West Bank

The Israeli military has suspended a battalion whose soldiers assaulted a CNN crew in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in a rare case of punishment for soldier misconduct.

 

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Israel’s parliament approves the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis

Israel’s parliament has passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure critics condemn as discriminatory and inhumane.

 

Lebanese fear another occupation as Israel threatens to use Gaza tactics in the south

Israel is trading fire with Hezbollah, calling for mass evacuations and sending ground troops deeper into Lebanon.

 

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Israeli judge closes case of Palestinian teen’s death in prison despite evidence of starvation

A newly unsealed sentence from a court ruling reveals that an Israeli judge acknowledged that a Palestinian teen had been starved in Israeli prison but stopped an investigation into the case.

 

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A wave of executions is feared in Iran after 3 young men were hanged this week

Three young men were hanged in Iran this week, raising alarm among rights groups that a wave of executions may be underway as authorities facing relentless attacks from the U.S. and Israel seek to squelch public dissent.

 

Israeli military claims brother of man who attacked Michigan synagogue was Hezbollah commander

Israel’s military is claiming that the brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week was a Hezbollah commander.

 

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AP finds an Israeli group discreetly organized the mystery flights evacuating Palestinians from Gaza

An AP investigation has found that an Israeli group whose founder strongly supported U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to resettle Palestinians from Gaza is behind several flights that transferred hundreds of people out of the war-torn enclave.

 

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Trump says that he’s asked ‘about 7' countries to join coalition to police Iran’s Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump says he has “demanded” that about seven countries heavily reliant on Middle East oil join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz.

 

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Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee

The Israeli military said it is dropping charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an encounter partially caught on camera.

 

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Outdated intel likely led US to carry out deadly strike on Iranian elementary school, AP sources say

Outdated intelligence has likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a prelimina

 

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Experts say footage likely shows a US Tomahawk hitting Iranian school where at least 165 people were killed

The investigative group Bellingcat says newly released video “appears to contradict” U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian school that killed over 165 people.

 

Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike

Satellite images and videos of an Iranian girls school damaged by large explosions at the start of a U.S.

 

Country by country, here’s how the unfolding war is affecting the Middle East and beyond

The broadening Iran war has ricocheted across the region and beyond. Nearly every country in the Middle East has sustained damage from missile hits, drone strikes or shrapnel.

 

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Israeli settler gunfire kills two Palestinian brothers in the occupied West Bank

Two Palestinian brothers have been killed by Israeli settler gunfire in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

 

A look at some of the contenders to be Iran’s supreme leader after the killing of Khamenei

Iran’s leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment.

 

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Israel’s parliament moves toward ban on mixed-gender prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall

Israel’s parliament has passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would put the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief rabbinate in charge of the entire Western Wall in Jerusalem, raising fears among reform Jews that mixed-gender prayer at the site will soon be outlawed.

 

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