Israeli forces killed at least 22 people trying to return to their homes in southern Lebanon on Sunday as the IDF refused to withdraw forces in compliance with a ceasefire agreement, claiming that Hezbollah fighters have yet to pull its forces back to behind the Litani river.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who criticized the Biden administration of not being sufficiently pro-Israel during its genocide in Gaza, told reporters on Saturday that the result of the conflict may have to be the removal of Palestinians from the enclave that could take decades to rebuild…
At least 47,035 Palestinians were killed and another 111,091 were injured during Israel’s 15-month campaign of genocide in Gaza.
U.S. President Donald Trump wasted no time to lift sanctions that were imposed by the Biden administration on a group of West Bank settlers after violence in the territory “reached intolerable levels and constitutes a serious threat to the peace, security, and stability of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, and the broader Middle East region.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced late Thursday that a deal was signed between his team in Qatar and Hamas to end fighting inside the destroyed enclave after a reported pressure campaign by the incoming Donald Trump administration in the U.S… or was it a late win for U.S. President Joe Biden?
The Israeli Defense Force continues to capture more territory in Syria and subjugate the thousands of Syrians who live near the border region after the fall of the country’s former leader Bashar al Assad.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump used the momentum from reports of a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza to express hope to expand the “historic” Abraham Accords, which aimed to deliver Arab-Israeli normalization and would be a major win for Tel Aviv.
After some late snags, the long-anticipated Gaza ceasefire took hold on Sunday after Hamas’s return of three female Israeli hostages who were kidnapped during the 7 October 2023 raid that killed at least 1,200 and resulted in a 15-month punishment campaign inside the enclave that resulted in at least 46,000 deaths and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
There were two narratives that emerged last week after Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect at the time, posted on social media that his hard-nose negotiating team finally got Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the genocide in Gaza.
The IDF carried out strikes across Lebanon on Monday on what it identified as Hezbollah targets even as the tenuous ceasefire with the Lebanese group held, and a new truce with Gaza’s Hamas seemed close.