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☆ Egypt Setting up Area at Gaza Border Which Could Be Used to Shelter Palestinians-Sources
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +5 min

One of the sources said Egypt was optimistic talks to clinch a ceasefire can avoid any such scenario, but is establishing the area at the border as a temporary and precautionary measure. War in Israel and Gaza View All 209 ImagesThree security sources said Egypt had begun preparing a desert area with some basic facilities which could be used to shelter Palestinians, emphasising this was a contingency step. Israel has said its army is drawing up a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah to other parts of the Gaza Strip. A U.S. State Department spokesperson said: "The president has been clear that we do not support the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. The Gaza war has piled pressure on relations between Egypt and Israel, which signed a peace deal in 1979.

Persons: Jordan, Martin Griffiths, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Netanyahu, Avi Dichter, Dichter, Al Mawasi, General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Sameh Shoukry, Tom Perry, Edmund Blair, Neil Fullick Organizations: Reuters, United, Egypt's, Service, Sinai Foundation, Human Rights, Israeli, U.S . State Department, ABC News, Israel's Army, Arab League Locations: Egypt, Gaza, Rafah, Cairo, Sinai, United States, Israel, ISRAEL, U.S, The U.S, Jordan

☆ Hamas Hounds Israeli Forces in Main Gaza Cities
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

After conducting partial pullouts from Gaza City in the past few weeks that enabled some residents to return and pick through the rubble, Israeli forces have been mounting incursions. The Israeli military said it killed seven Hamas gunmen in northern Gaza and seized weaponry. "Gaza City is being wiped out," one resident who asked not to be named told Reuters. In Khan Younis, overnight Israeli shelling killed three Palestinians, medics said. Munir Al-Bursh, director of the Gaza health ministry, said dozens of decomposing bodies were recovered from northern areas evacuated by Israeli forces.

Persons: Nidal, Bassam Masoud, Dan Williams, Khan Younis, Mohammed Kaloub, Israel, Munir Al, Nidal al, Frances Kerry Organizations: Reuters, Israel's Army Radio, Residents, Saturday . Troops, Hamas Locations: Dan Williams DOHA, GAZA, JERUSALEM, Gaza, Israel, Gaza City, Rafah, Egypt, Cairo, Rafah's al, Salam, United States, Mughrabi, Doha, Jerusalem

☆ Gaza hostage briefly escaped captors after building was bombed, family says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Citing Kriboy's dual Russian citizenship, Hamas said he was freed to show appreciation for Moscow, the only world power openly engaging the group during the now seven-week-old war. Like other recovered hostages, Kriboy has been kept away from the media in what Israeli authorities describe as an effort to focus on helping with their physical and emotional recovery. Kriboy's aunt, Yelena Magid, said in an interview with Israel's Kan radio that she spoke to Kriboy after his return. Kriboy's cousin, Alex Magid, gave a similar account in an interview to Israel's Army Radio on Monday, adding that the bombing of the building killed several Palestinian gunmen. Six hostages still in Gaza hold Russian citizenship, according to the Israeli government.

Persons: Roni Kriboy, Kriboy, Yelena Magid, Israel's Kan, Alex Magid, Dan Williams, Nick Macfie Organizations: Israel's Army Radio, Thomson Locations: Israeli, Gaza, Israel, Moscow

Dozens of Hamas combatants were in the same underground tunnel complex as Biari and were also killed when it collapsed in the attack, an IDF spokesperson said. That is the war (for) the future of Israel - nothing less," Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told reporters on Wednesday. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem denied any senior commander was in the camp, and called the claim an Israeli pretext for killing civilians. Israel repeatedly warned Gaza residents to evacuate northern areas and while many have gone south, many have stayed. [1/12]Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, October 31, 2023.

Persons: Israel, Ibrahim Biari, Yoav Gallant, Hazem Qassem, Mahmoud Al, Saadi, Fadi, Ashraf Al, Abu Ubaida, Matthew Miller, Antony Blinken, Blinken, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nidal al, Emily Rose, Grant McCool, Stephen Coates, Miral Fahmy Organizations: West Bank Israel, Israel's Army Radio, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Israeli, Paltel, West Bank, REUTERS, Capitol, Al, Indonesian, Reuters, International, U.S . State Department, Israel, Thomson Locations: Gaza, US, GAZA, JERUSALEM, Israel, Iran, Gaza's, Jabalia, GAZA In Washington, Al Shifa, Hague, United States, U.S, Qatar, Egypt, Lincoln

☆ Israel Ground Forces Raid Hamas Sites in Gaza, Withdraw - Military Statement
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli ground forces operated within the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, attacking multiple Hamas targets before withdrawing, the military said in a statement on what Israel's Army Radio described as the biggest incursion of the current war. Video of the overnight action issued by the military showed armoured vehicles proceeding through a sandy border zone. "The soldiers have since exited the area and returned to Israeli territory," the military statement added. Israel began localised ground incursions on Sunday as the war, triggered by an Oct 7 cross-border rampage by Hamas gunmen, entered its third week. Israel's Army Radio described Thursday's incursion as the biggest yet.

Persons: Dan Williams, Clarence Fernandez, Miral Organizations: Israel's Army Locations: JERUSALEM, Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel ground forces raid Hamas sites in Gaza, withdraw - military statement
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Israel Defense Forces/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsJERUSALEM, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Israeli ground forces operated within the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, attacking multiple Hamas targets before withdrawing, the military said in a statement on what Israel's Army Radio described as the biggest incursion of the current war. Video of the overnight action issued by the military showed armoured vehicles proceeding through a sandy border zone. "The soldiers have since exited the area and returned to Israeli territory," the military statement added. Israel began localised ground incursions on Sunday as the war, triggered by an Oct 7 cross-border rampage by Hamas gunmen, entered its third week. Reporting by Dan Williams; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Miral FahmyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Dan Williams, Clarence Fernandez, Miral Organizations: Hamas, Israel Defense Forces, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Israel's Army, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ US Advises Israel Hold off on Gaza Invasion, Keeps Hamas Mediator Qatar in Loop -Sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +5 min

After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed some 1,400 people, the United States stood by its ally and stressed that Israel has the right to defend itself. The priority is on working to get the hostages out step-by-step," said a source briefed on the hostage negotiations. The first U.S. official said that along with the hostage negotiations, advising Israel to hold off on its invasion could also give more time for humanitarian aid to be delivered to Gaza. U.S. officials have urged Israel to follow the laws of war in any invasion of Gaza, which is home to 2.3 million people. US DEFENSEIsraeli officials have increasingly signaled in public that a Gaza invasion could be imminent.

Persons: Matt Spetalnick, Steve Holland, Humeyra Pamuk, Israel, Joe Biden, John Kirby, Lloyd Austin, Washington Eliav Benjamin, Lebanon's, Antony Blinken, Yoav Gallant, Washington, Matt Spetalnick Steve Holland, Dan Williams, Andrew Mills, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Trevor Hunnicutt, Simon Lewis, Michelle Nichols, Grant McCool Organizations: United, Palestinian, Washington, House, Pentagon, State Department, Friday, U.S, United Nations, White House, Israel's Army, Hamas, NBC, Sunday, Sunday . Washington, Hezbollah Locations: Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, United States, Gaza, Qatar, Israel, U.S, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Egypt, White, Washington, Iran, Sunday ., Jerusalem, Doha

After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed some 1,400 people, the United States stood by its ally and stressed that Israel has the right to defend itself. The priority is on working to get the hostages out step-by-step," said a source briefed on the hostage negotiations. The first U.S. official said that along with the hostage negotiations, advising Israel to hold off on its invasion could also give more time for humanitarian aid to be delivered to Gaza. U.S. officials have urged Israel to follow the laws of war in any invasion of Gaza, which is home to 2.3 million people. Israel would have a difficult time fighting a war on two fronts simultaneously if Hezbollah launches a full-scale fight in the north, U.S. officials say.

Persons: Israel, Joe Biden, John Kirby, Lloyd Austin, Washington Eliav Benjamin, Lebanon's, Antony Blinken, Yoav Gallant, Washington, Matt Spetalnick Steve Holland, Humeyra Pamuk, Dan Williams, Andrew Mills, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, Trevor Hunnicutt, Simon Lewis, Michelle Nichols, Grant McCool Organizations: United, Palestinian, Washington, House, Pentagon, State Department, Friday, U.S, United Nations, White House, Israel's Army, Hamas, NBC, Sunday, Sunday . Washington, Hezbollah, Thomson Locations: United States, Gaza, Qatar, Israel, U.S, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Egypt, White, Washington, Iran, Sunday ., Jerusalem, Doha

☆ Israeli communications minister seeks shutdown of Al Jazeera bureau
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An employee walks inside an office of Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network in Jerusalem June 13, 2017. The proposal to shut down Al Jazeera had been vetted by Israeli security officials and was being vetted by legal experts, Shloma Karhi said, adding that he would bring it to the cabinet later in the day. Al Jazeera and the government in Doha had no immediate comment. "It is unconscionable that Hamas spokespeople's message goes through this station," he said, adding: "I hope we will finish with this today." It was not clear if the latter statement referred to a cabinet discussion or implementation of a closure.

Persons: Ronen, Al, Al Jazeera, Shloma Karhi, Jazeera, Karhi, Dan Williams, David Evans Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Qatari, Al, Israel's Army, Thomson Locations: Qatar, Jazeera, Jerusalem, Al Jazeera's, Gaza, Doha, Israel

☆ Missing Israelis, Thai Citizens Found Alive in Israeli Kibbutz
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Anat Peled | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Thirty people who were missing since Hamas's assault on Israel began were found hiding in a kibbutz in southern Israel, Israel's Army Radio said on Tuesday. The group of 16 Israelis and 14 Thai citizens had been sheltering in Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha before being rescued on Monday night by Israel Defense Forces. Many families in Israel haven't heard from their loved ones since fighters from the Palestinian militant group Hamas poured across the border taking hostages back with them to Gaza on Saturday.

Persons: Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, Israel haven't Organizations: Israel's Army Radio, Israel Defense Forces Locations: Israel, Kibbutz, Gaza

A view shows an Israeli tank and military vehicles near Israel's border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad Acquire Licensing RightsBEIRUT, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A member of Lebanon's Hezbollah was killed in Israeli bombardment in southern Lebanon on Monday, three sources in Lebanon said, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants expanded to the Israeli-Lebanese border. The man was killed in Israeli shelling into southern Lebanon prompted by a cross-border raid by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, which has been fighting alongside the Hamas group since it launched its surprise attack on Israel on Saturday. The Israeli army said soldiers backed by helicopters killed at least two gunmen who crossed the frontier. In a statement, the Israeli military said its soldiers "killed a number of armed suspects that infiltrated into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory".

Persons: Ammar Awad, Aalma El, General Lazaro, Gabi Hage, Laila Bassam, Timour Azhari, Gebeily, Dan Williams, Tom Perry, Hugh Lawson, Nick Macfie, Tomasz Janowski Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Islamic, Saturday, Israel's Army Radio, Thomson Locations: Lebanon, Israel, Rights BEIRUT, Lebanese, Iran, Gaza, Adamit, Aalma, Beirut, Jerusalem

☆ Israeli Military Says Deploying Against Possible Infiltration From Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's military said it deployed troops against a suspected infiltration from Lebanon on Monday, which a local radio station said appeared to have taken place in the central part of the countries' border. Tensions in Israel's north have surged as it battles Palestinian Hamas gunmen who staged a mass-infiltration from the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. "A report was received regarding the infiltration of a number of suspects into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory. IDF soldiers are deployed in the area," the military said in a statement. Israel's Army Radio gave the location as near Adamit, across from the Lebanese border towns of Aalma El Chaeb and Zahajra.

Persons: Aalma El, Henriette Chacar, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Israel's Army Radio Locations: JERUSALEM, Lebanon, Israel's, Gaza, Adamit, Lebanese, Aalma

☆ Israeli military says deploying against possible infiltration from Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

JERUSALEM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Israel's military said it deployed troops against a suspected infiltration from Lebanon on Monday, which a local radio station said appeared to have taken place in the central part of the countries' border. Tensions in Israel's north have surged as it battles Palestinian Hamas gunmen who staged a mass-infiltration from the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. "A report was received regarding the infiltration of a number of suspects into Israeli territory from Lebanese territory. IDF soldiers are deployed in the area," the military said in a statement. Israel's Army Radio gave the location as near Adamit, across from the Lebanese border towns of Aalma El Chaeb and Zahajra.

Persons: Aalma El, Henriette Chacar, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Israel's Army Radio, Thomson Locations: Lebanon, Israel's, Gaza, Adamit, Lebanese, Aalma

☆ UN vote on Lebanon peacekeeping force delayed as France, US, UAE argue
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Michelle Nichols | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) - established in 1978 - patrols Lebanon's southern border with Israel. France has drafted a U.N. Security Council resolution to extend the peacekeeping mission for another year, but the United States and the United Arab Emirates argue it has weakened some language on the ability of U.N. troops to move freely. Lebanon's caretaker foreign affairs minister Abdallah Bou Habib has said that the new Security Council resolution should stipulate that UNIFIL coordinate with the Lebanese army. That has sparked friction with Hezbollah, which effectively controls southern Lebanon despite the presence of the Lebanese army. In December, an Irish peacekeeper was killed when his UNIFIL vehicle came under fire in southern Lebanon.

Persons: Aziz Taher, Antonio Guterres, Guterres, Linda Thomas, Greenfield, Gilad Erdan, Abdallah Bou Habib, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Michelle Nichols, Dan Williams, Laila Bassam, Gebeily, David Holmes Organizations: Lebanese, UN, REUTERS, UNITED NATIONS, Nations, United, Interim Force, Security, Security Council, Reuters, Israel's Army Radio, Irish, UNIFIL, Thomson Locations: Israel, Lebanon, France, United States, Emirates, Iran, UAE, Lebanese

☆ Israel says Arrow-3 missile-killer sale to Germany approved by U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Amir Cohen/FILE PHOTO Acquire Licensing RightsJERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The United States approved a $3.5 billion sale of Israel's Arrow-3 missile defence system to Germany on Thursday, clearing the way for delivery in 2025 and full operational deployment by 2030, Israeli officials said. The U.S. is a partner in the Arrow project, which was developed jointly by the Israel Missile Defence Organisation and the United States Missile Defense Agency. The Germany deal, which would be Israel's biggest ever defence sale, follows a European arms build-up in response to Russia's war in Ukraine. While Patriot and IRIS-T cover the medium layer of air defence, Arrow-3 - in whose production Boeing Co (BA.N) is also involved - offers protection for the higher layer. Israel's Army Radio said the signing ceremony with Germany on the Arrow-3 sale was expected to take place in November.

Persons: Amir Cohen, Moshe Patel, Patel, Boaz Levy, Dan Williams, Tom Hogue, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, United, Israel Missile Defence Organisation, United States Missile Defense Agency, Israel's Defence Ministry, Israeli Missile Defence Organisation, Israel Aerospace Industries, IRIS, Boeing Co, Israel's Army Radio, Thomson Locations: Ashdod, United States, Germany, U.S, Ukraine, Israel, Russia

☆ US calls suspected Israeli settler attack terrorism
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian who was killed during clashes with Israeli settlers, in a hospital in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank August 4, 2023. Israeli police detained two settlers in Friday's incident near Burqa village. Amid increased attacks on their communities by Palestinians armed with guns, rocks or firebombs, settlers have repeatedly rampaged in West Bank villages, causing extensive property damage. The State Department statement on Burqa was issued back-to-back with a statement condemning as terrorism a Palestinian gun attack that killed a security officer in Tel Aviv. The West Bank is among areas where Palestinians seek statehood.

Persons: Ali Sawafta, Burqa, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Itamar Ben, Gvir, Benny Gantz, Dan Williams, Frances Kerry Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, Haaretz, U.S . State Department, U.S, The, Department, Tel Aviv ., Israel's Army Radio, Thomson Locations: Ramallah, Washington, Friday's, Burqa, West Bank, Tel Aviv, Israel

☆ Israeli deputy says normalisation with Saudis does not appear imminent
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, July 30 (Reuters) - A top Israeli lawmaker said on Sunday that any forging of relations with Saudi Arabia did not appear imminent, citing what he described as sticking points in negotiations currently being held between Riyadh and U.S. mediators. U.S. President Joe Biden, having dispatched his national security adviser to Saudi Arabia to discuss a possible normalisation deal with Israel that he deems a policy priority, said on Friday that "there's a rapprochement maybe under way". But Riyadh has not followed suit, saying Palestinian demands must first be met. Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, asked by reporters as he entered the weekly cabinet meeting whether there would be progress in the Saudi talks, said: "I hope so." Saudi Arabia seeks U.S. cooperation in establishing a civilian nuclear programme on its soil.

Persons: Joe Biden, Yuli Edelstein, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Tzachi Hanegbi, Netanyahu, Dan Williams, James Mackenzie, David Evans Organizations: United, Israel, Foreign Affairs, Defence Committee, Israel's Army, Washington, National Security, Tel, Thomson Locations: Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, U.S, Israel, Gulf, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi, Tel Aviv

☆ Suspected Palestinian shooter kills Israeli in West Bank
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEAR KDUMIM SETTLEMENT, West Bank, July 6 (Reuters) - A suspected Palestinian assailant shot and killed an Israeli near a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israel's ambulance service said. Israel's Army Radio said the assailant had driven to the settlement from the direction of the nearby Palestinian city Nablus. The attack followed Israel's two-day operation earlier in the week in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, about 10 kilometres away, its biggest in years. Hamas, a Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip but also has a presence in the West Bank, praised Thursday's shooting which it said was a response to Israel's Jenin operation. Violence in the West Bank has escalated over the past 15 months, with increased Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks and settler rampages in Palestinian villages.

Persons: Israel's, rampages, Maayan Lubell, James Mackenzie, Toby Chopra, Conor Humphries Organizations: West Bank, Israel's Army Radio, Thomson Locations: KDUMIM, West, Palestinian, Nablus, West Bank, Jenin, Gaza

☆ Israel says it is discussing possible direct Haj flights to Saudi Arabia
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Netanyahu's centrist predecessor, Yair Lapid, said on March 10 that, as prime minister last year, he secured Saudi consent for what would be the first direct Haj flights from Israel, some 18% of whose population are Muslim. Asked whether the direct flights would happen for next month's pilgrimage to the holy Saudi city of Mecca, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said a request had been submitted. "But with that, I am optimistic that we can advance peace with Saudi Arabia." The Biden administration last June predicted there would be direct charter flights from Israel to Saudi Arabia for the Haj. Saudi Arabia has been allowing Israeli airlines to overfly it to UAE and Bahrain since 2020, a corridor that it and next-door Oman have since expanded to include other destinations.

☆ Party pressure mounts on Netanyahu to pause judicial overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Netanyahu, who is on trial on graft charges that he denies, says the overhaul will balance out the branches of government. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, a Likud lawmaker, broke ranks on Saturday by publicly urging Netanyahu to suspend legislation for a month. Gallant's statement was welcomed by senior Likud lawmaker David Bitan. But it was not clear if they or others in Likud might abstain in a ratification vote. But a pro-reform Likud lawmaker, Tally Gotliv, sounded unfazed.

☆ Israel cautions citizens at Qatar World Cup, sends low-key consuls
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Israel has asked its citizens attending the World Cup to exercise caution while in Qatar, the Arab host country which does not formally recognise it but admitted a team of its diplomats to Doha to provide assistance. read moreIn another measure of new normalcy between the countries, the Israelis coming for the World Cup have been given temporary visas, an Israeli diplomat said on Thursday. Qatar says official normalisation of ties in not in the works, however. Though alcohol is being permitted in select World Cup venues, a public service announcement issued by Israel's Foreign Ministry counselled avoiding drink altogether. "In court, the judge doesn't have VAR," the narrator says, in a play on the "video assistant referee" that facilitates soccer calls.

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