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The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp has entered the eastern Mediterranean Sea as the U.S. positions warships to try to keep fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon from escalating into a wider war in the Middle East.
Jan 19, 2024 · Iran’s top diplomat has warned that attacks by Tehran-backed groups in the region won’t stop until Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza ends, while Israel’s military chief said the likelihood of ...
1 day ago · Israel’s military leadership wants a cease-fire with Hamas in case a bigger war breaks out in Lebanon, security officials say. It has also concluded that a truce would be the swiftest way to ...
May 29, 2024 · Here's the latest. From CNN staff. Palestinians evacuate Rafah, Gaza, during an Israeli ground and air offensive in the city on May 28. Jehad Alshrafi/AP. The head of Israel’s National Security...
Dec 4, 2023 · The Israeli military has begun an invasion of southern Gaza, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery, evidence of a long-awaited operation that could decide the fate of its...
Jan 19, 2024 · In Israel, around 1,200 people were killed during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the war and saw some 250 people taken hostage by militants. Currently: — Gaza’s remaining doctors are overwhelmed by an estimated 60,000 wounded in war, the U.N. says.
May 25, 2024 · What we covered here. The UN’s top court on Friday ordered Israel to “immediately halt” its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, further increasing international pressure on the...
Oct 31, 2023 · Two senior United Nations officials described civilian suffering in Gaza in stark terms at the Security Council on Monday, making urgent appeals for a humanitarian cease-fire in Israel’s war...
Feb 9, 2024 · Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, sparked by the militant group’s Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, has prompted unprecedented destruction in the tiny coastal enclave and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe that has displaced most of Gaza’s 2.3 million population and pushed more than a quarter into starvation, according to the U.N.
