Israel said it would revive stalled cease-fire talks with Hamas after social media video showing female Israeli soldiers being abducted by the terrorists on Oct. 7 sparked a public outcry.
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The Houthis acknowledged that 10 of their fighters were killed in the confrontation with the U.S. military and warned of consequences.
The military said Israeli forces were operating in Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis, and residents reported strikes in the central region.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels show no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships, the top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East said Saturday.
For the second time this month the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel.
Iran on Friday executed four people and sentenced several others to prison for having alleged links with Israel’s Mossad security service.
President Joe Biden has called the reports of sexual violence “appalling” and has urged the world to condemn “horrific accounts of unimaginable cruelty.”
Israel’s widening campaign is now focused on the urban refugee camps of Bureij, Nuseirat and Maghazi in central Gaza.
Mia Shem opened up about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Palestinian residents of the coastal enclave.
Included in the sanctions are the head of a financial intermediary in Sana’a, Yemen, along with three exchange houses in Yemen and Turkey.
Israel’s Defense Ministry says roughly 3,000 members of the country’s security forces have been wounded since Hamas terrorists stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7.
Iran held a funeral Thursday for high-ranking Gen. Razi Mousavi of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria.
The death of Judith Weinstein was announced days after her husband, Gad Haggai, was also declared dead.
A Iran’s Revolutionary Guard spokesman claimed that the Hamas-led attack in Israel on Oct. 7 was launched in retaliation for the 2020 killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
The Israeli military ordered residents to evacuate a belt of territory the width of central Gaza, saying had located a Hamas terrorist training camp.
Houthi attacks have led to a major disruption of shipping through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was determined to press ahead with Israel’s offensive.
The killing of Seyed Razi Mousavi comes as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel continue to intensify.
While in Beirut restaurants were packed and hundreds flocked to Christmas markets in the days leading up to the holiday, in the border towns houses were empty and businesses shuttered.
The military says 154 Israeli troops have been killed since the beginning of the ground offensive, which was sparked when Hamas-led terrorists stormed communities in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
