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Israeli tanks on the move in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sept. 22
WORLD
Oct 16, 2024
Israel's demining near Golan signals wider front against Hezbollah, sources say
The move suggests Israel may seek to strike Hezbollah for the first time from further east along Lebanon's border.
A cloud of smoke erupts following an Israeli air strike on the village of Deir Qanoun on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 15, 2024
Israel strikes Lebanon after Netanyahu vows no mercy for Hezbollah
Jerusalem says it wants to secure its northern boundary and allow tens of thousands of displaced people to return home safely.
Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee areas north of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2024
Israeli tanks deepen their push into the northern Gaza Strip
An Israeli air strike has killed three people and wounded 40 others when it hi the tents of displaced Palestinians sheltering in a hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington on July 25.
WORLD
Oct 10, 2024
Looming Israeli strike on Iran offers fresh test of U.S. sway
With Israeli retaliation against Iran expected at any time, the U.S. is finding it has few assurances against further escalation.
Smoke billows over Beirut's southern suburbs after a strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2024
Israel says it has killed Hezbollah leader's successors
Hezbollah is reeling after a spate of senior commanders have been killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Local activists and tech workers protest against Google and Amazon's Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli military and government, outside the Google Cloud Next Conference in San Francisco, California, on August 29, 2023.
WORLD
Oct 8, 2024
Decoding the role Big Tech plays in the war in Gaza
The Israel-Hamas war has spotlighted how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used on the battlefield.
People mourn at the site of the Nova music festival, the location of a deadly attack by Hamas on Oct. 7 of last year, near Kibbutz Reim, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 8, 2024
Israel fights on multiple fronts one year after war with Hamas began
In addition to Gaza, Israel is waging a ground and air offensive across its northern border in Lebanon to combat Hezbollah.
Former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal speaks during an interview in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2024
Hamas will rise 'like a phoenix' from the ashes, leader-in-exile says
Khaled Meshaal, who was overall Hamas leader from 1996 to 2017, said the group is still recruiting fighters and continues to manufacture weapons.
An Israeli police officer inspects the remains of a projectile after a rocket was fired from Lebanon and landed in Haifa, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2024
Hezbollah strikes Israel on Gaza anniversary as fears of wider war grow
Hezbollah rockets hit Israel's third-largest city of Haifa, while Israeli media reported 10 people were injured in the country's north.
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs late on Sunday.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2024
Israel bombs Lebanon and Gaza ahead of marking one year since attacks
Israel's defense minister also declared all options were being looked at for retaliation against arch-enemy Iran.
The Bank of Israel building in Jerusalem in 2020. The costs of financing Israel's conflict in Gaza has led to credit ratings downgrades, which are amplifying economic effects that could reverberate for years, while the cost of insuring the country's debt against default is near a 12-year high and its budget deficit is ballooning.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 7, 2024
After a year of war, Israel's borrowing costs reflect burden of conflict
While Israel's domestic bond market is liquid, foreign investors have pulled back, while global funds' ownership of the country's stocks is now at its lowest in a decade.
A man walks past memorial pictures of hostages, most of whom were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, in Tel Aviv on Sept. 4.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2024
Two ceremonies show Israel's conflicting narratives over Oct. 7
The distinction in tone for the ceremonies is at the heart of a public discourse over how to remember the darkest day in Israel's 76-year history.
French President Emmanuel Macron holds a news conference on Saturday in Paris.
WORLD
Oct 6, 2024
Macron calls for halting weapons to Israel for Gaza conflict
Macron announced that 88 Francophone countries voted unanimously to call for a cease-fire in Lebanon.
Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in the northern Gaza Strip on Sept. 11.
WORLD
Oct 3, 2024
New Israeli rules slowing flow of food aid into Gaza, sources say
The number of trucks carrying food and other goods into Gaza fell to around 130 per day on average in September, far off the 600 trucks a day required to prevent famine.
Relatives and friends mourn by the grave of Israeli soldier Eitan Itzhak Oster, killed in fighting in the northern border area with Lebanon, at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on Oct. 2.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 3, 2024
Biden seeks to deter Israeli attack on Iran nuclear sites
The comments opposing such a strike mark a fresh U.S. attempt to rein in Israel, something it’s frequently failed to achieve in almost a year of military conflict.
Students hold posters of Hassan Nasrallah, the assassinated chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah, during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 3, 2024
Iran's Khamenei warned Nasrallah of Israeli plot to kill him, sources say
Iran is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said.
A person sorts through rubble in Dahiya, the predominantly Shia southern suburbs of Beirut, after a barrage of Israeli airstrikes, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 3, 2024
Israel strikes the heart of Beirut, killing six and wounding seven
More than 1,900 people have been killed and over 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in almost a year of cross-border fighting with Israel.
Israel's Iron Dome antimissile system intercepts rockets after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 2, 2024
Israel beefs up forces on Lebanon border as Hezbollah reports clashes
The Israeli military said regular infantry and armored units were joining its ground operations in Lebanon.
United Nations peacekeepers stand watch over the Lebanese-Israeli border from the roof of a watch tower ‏in the town of Marwahin, in southern Lebanon, in October 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 1, 2024
Understanding the mandate of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon
Any unauthorized crossing of the zone maintained by the peacekeepers by land or by air from any side constitutes a violation of a related Security Council resolution.
Smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburbs after a strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 1, 2024
Israel starts ground raids in south Lebanon and orders evacuations in Beirut
The Israeli air force has bombed targets in south Beirut, while U.S. President Joe Biden has indicated that he opposes an Israeli ground operation.

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