Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday the continuing tension with Iran-backed Hezbollah at the border with Lebanon was moving the situation nearer to a military escalation. Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire
An exchange of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages in Gaza can only happen after a ceasefire, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said on Tuesday, as ceasefire talks in Cairo between Hamas, Egypt and Qatar continued
Israel will allow a similar number of worshippers into Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the first week of Ramadan as in previous years, a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Tuesday, without
Indirect talks on an end to hostilities along the Lebanese-Israeli border will begin during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which starts next week, Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati said on Tuesday. Powerful Lebanese
Security official responds: “This is not a gesture and the matter was even clarified in a Cabinet discussion." Forty Palestinian administrative detainees were released from jail on Thursday night at the directive of the Israel
The United States supports the United Nations doing a probe into an aid-related incident in Gaza last week where dozens of people died, the U.S. State Department said on Monday. Gaza health authorities said Israeli
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, IDF Chief Herzi Halevi, and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar are urging maximal freedom of access for Muslim worshipers to pray at the Al-Aqsa compound atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount during Ramadan,
The White House says a temporary ceasefire in Gaza is essential to a hostage deal and calls on Hamas to accept the terms currently on the table, as talks to secure a truce proceed in
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says he held an “important discussion” with US CENTCOM commander Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla. “I held an important discussion with US CENTCOM Commander General Kurilla, about rising regional challenges as a
The IDF says it struck a Hezbollah compound where members of the terror group were gathered in the southern Lebanon town of Chihine a short while ago. Earlier today, another site belonging to Hezbollah in
