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KeithBinns/Getty Images (BEIRUT, Lebanon) — Two people are dead and 20 others were injured after Israel launched a strike on Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, on Tuesday that targeted a senior Hezbollah commander as tensions along Israel’s northern border continue to escalate. The strike hit a residential building in Haret Hreik, according to the […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (BEIRUT, Lebanon) — Israel has launched a strike on Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, on Tuesday targeting a senior Hezbollah commander as tensions along Israel’s northern border continue to escalate. Fouad Shukr, also known as Al-Hajj Mohsen, was targeted in the strike, though it’s still unclear if he was killed, according to […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (BEIRUT, Lebanon) — has launched a strike on Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, on Tuesday targeting a senior Hezbollah commander as tensions along Israel’s northern border continue to escalate. “The IDF targeted in Beirut the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and killed many Israeli civilians,” the […]

Israeli Government Press Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Image (WASHINGTON) — As Israel on Monday weighed its response to Iran’s stunning attacks this weekend, the U.S. is privately telling officials there: If Israel strikes back militarily, it will do so alone. It’s an unusual message for a close ally that’s spent decades receiving more US […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hundreds of people have died and thousands more are injured after Hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack from Gaza into Israel Saturday, Israeli authorities said. The Israeli Defense Forces declared “a state of alert for war,” the IDF said early Saturday morning. As of Thursday, at least 1,200 people have […]

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 900 people have died and more than 2,500 others have been injured in Israel after the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented incursion from air, land and sea on Saturday, Israeli authorities said. Hamas fired thousands of rockets toward Israel and an estimated 1,000 fighters crossed […]

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 700 people have died and more than 2,300 others have been injured in Israel after the militant group Hamas fired a barrage of rockets from the neighboring Gaza Strip in an unprecedented incursion on Saturday, Israeli authorities said. Palestinian militants fired at least 2,200 rockets toward […]

Joel Carillet/Getty Images (GAZA) — Over 100 Israelis have died and more than 900 were injured after rockets were fired from Gaza by Hamas militants, Israeli officials said Saturday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 were killed in Gaza and at least 1,610 were injured Saturday in retaliatory attacks from Israel. At least 50 Israelis […]

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 300 people have died and over 2,000 have been injured in Gaza and Israel after rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel by Hamas militants, Israeli authorities said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 198 are dead and 1,610 others are injured in Gaza. According to the […]

Alexandre Morin-Laprise/Getty Images (JENIN, West Bank) — Israel withdrew its forces from the Jenin refugee camp just after midnight Wednesday, ending the largest military operation it’s conducted in the occupied West Bank in nearly twenty years. The Israeli operation — which included drone airstrikes, hundreds of special forces and tanks — lasted 48 hours, leaving […]