Israel on Tuesday launched its first international bond sale since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and since Moody's hit the country with its first ever sovereign credit rating downgrade last month. According to an investor
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
The United Nations has warned that widespread famine in the Gaza Strip is "almost inevitable" without action. A formal conclusion that famine has arrived in the coastal enclave of 2.3 million people could come next
The United Nations' food agency said it was "largely unsuccessful" in its attempt on Tuesday to resume deliveries to northern Gaza which is nearing famine. The World Food Programme (WFP) had paused its deliveries on
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
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that a deal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages was in the hands of Hamas, as delegations held a
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
