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☆ Arab World, US Split on Gaza Ceasefire as Israeli Offensive Presses On
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +7 min

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Israeli military said it was trying to stem violence and protect Palestinian civilians. The Israeli military said it would enable Palestinians to travel on a main Gaza highway, the Salah a-Din road, during a three-hour window on Saturday. Fighting was "fierce" near an Israeli outpost on the outskirts of Gaza City, CNN reported, saying Israeli soldiers were battling Hamas fighters hundreds of meters to the north and south. If we need to get inside Gaza house-by-house, it's exactly what's going to happen," one Israeli soldier told CNN.

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☆ She fled the Israeli army as a young woman. Now in her 90s, she is running again
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Ashkelon, Israel CNN —Souad Al-Alem was one of the roughly 10,000 people forced to flee the Palestinian town of al-Majdal. It was 1948, she was a young woman and Israel’s troops were approaching the community during the Arab-Israeli war in what is now part of the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Now in her 90s and living in Gaza, Al-Alem has been forced to run again. All of its houses are long gone, replaced with modern Israeli buildings that are now part of Ashkelon. Of the six sites of former villages visited by CNN earlier this week, none had any information about Palestinian villages on display.

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☆ Israel-Hamas war: Here’s why Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza hasn’t happened yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Ashkelon, Israel’s border with Gaza CNN —The lines of tanks, self-propelled artillery, armoured vehicles and army bulldozers stretch across the horizon near Israel’s border with Gaza. Israeli tanks are seen positioned near the border with Gaza, in southern Israel, on October 22. Gaza has been under blockade by Israel and Egypt for years, but after the Hamas attack, Israel also cut off its electricity, food, water and fuel supplies. The brutality of the Hamas attack sparked a huge wave of solidarity among Israel’s allies. Meanwhile on the Gaza border, the troops remain ready.

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Most of Gaza’s water comes from local sources – but the fuel required to pump and clean it is fast running out. As the water system collapses, some Gazans have been forced to drink dirty, salty water, sparking concerns of a health crisis and fears that people could start dying from dehydration. Without it, Gaza’s water system has crumbled. Gaza’s fuel supplies could be exhausted in as little as 48 to 72 hours, Ghunaim, from the PWA, said on Monday. Even before the conflict, many experts were saying the water situation would be “catastrophic in the future,” Hall said.

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☆ US military advisers invoke lessons of Iraq in urging Israelis to avoid all-out ground assault in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Natasha Bertrand Oren Liebermann Mj Lee Katie Bo Lillis | Natasha Bertrand | Oren Liebermann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“I don’t think Israel has a strategy for what they do next” in terms of executing a full-blown ground invasion, one source familiar with concerns within the Biden administration said. President Joe Biden greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. “We stand before the next stage, it is coming,” Netanyahu told the Israel Defence Forces’ Yahalom unit on Tuesday, according to a press release from Netanyahu’s office. “We will not stop until we complete it, with your help.”Military to military channelsIn 2014, Netanyahu set out to debilitate Hamas with the last ground invasion into Gaza. Despite numerous rounds of escalation and conflict with Gaza, Israel hasn’t attempted another incursion since.

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A person puts gas in a vehicle at a gas station in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., August 11, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSINGAPORE, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Oil prices extended gains on Friday and were on track for a second week of increases on heightened fears that the Israel-Gaza conflict may spread in the Middle East and disrupt supplies from one of the world's top-producing regions. Both contracts are on track to post a second weekly gain as an explosion at a Gaza hospital this week and the anticipated ground invasion by Israeli troops heightened fears of the conflict spreading in the Middle East. "The prospect of more Venezuela oil did little to ease concerns of disruptions in the Middle East," analysts at ANZ Research said in a note to clients on Friday. Reporting by Florence Tan and Sudarshan Varadhan; Editing by Gerry Doyle and Shri NavaratnamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Oil climbs on Mideast contagion fears from Israel-Gaza conflict
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Oil prices extended gains on Friday, rising about 1% on fears that the Israel-Gaza conflict may spread in the Middle East and disrupt supplies from one of the world's top-producing regions. Brent crude futures climbed 77 cents, or 0.8%, to $93.15 a barrel by 0042 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $90.36 a barrel, up 99 cents, or 1.1%. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told troops gathered at the Gaza border on Thursday that they would soon see the Palestinian enclave "from inside," suggesting an expected ground invasion could be nearing. Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA has begun contacting customers with crude supply contracts, two people familiar to the matter said on Thursday, moving to resume cash sales to global refiners.

Persons: CLc2, Tony Sycamore, Yoav Gallant, Sycamore, PDVSA Organizations: Brent, . West Texas, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli, U.S, Pentagon, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, U.S . Department of Energy, Reuters Locations: Israel, Gaza, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United States, Washington, Venezuela, OPEC, Venezuelan

☆ Map: Tunnels Under Gaza Made by Hamas, Identified by Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

As part of its campaign to eradicate Hamas from Gaza, Israel has targeted strikes against a network of tunnels underneath the enclave that are used by the militant group to transport weapons and people without detection by Israeli air surveillance. The map above shows tunnels as they have been identified by the Israel Defence Forces running underneath Gaza City and other locations in the Palestinian enclave.

Organizations: Israel Defence Forces Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel Military Steps up Denial It Hit Gaza Hospital, Says Building Undamaged
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel's military published on Wednesday what it described as evidence that a misfired Palestinian rocket, rather than one of its own munitions, caused an overnight explosion at a Gaza hospital in which hundreds of people died. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, has blamed the blast on Israel. Israel says it was a result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group in the enclave. Hagari said some 450 rockets fired from Gaza had fallen short and landed inside the Strip within the last 11 days. The Israeli military then published what it said was an audio recording of such a conversation, with English captions.

Persons: Joe Biden, Daniel Hagari, Hagari, Dan Williams, John Davison, Alex Richardson, Gareth Jones Organizations: Palestinian, IDF, Israel Defence Forces, West Bank, United Locations: JERUSALEM, Palestinian, Gaza, Israel, Al, Ahli, Jordan, Turkey, Israel's, United States, Iran, Lebanese, Lebanon

☆ Map Shows Labyrinth of Tunnels Made by Hamas Under Gaza Identified by Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Organizations: Israel Defence Forces Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel military steps up denial it hit Gaza hospital, says building undamaged
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, has blamed the blast on Israel. Israel says it was a result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group in the enclave. He said there was no structural damage to buildings around the Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital and no craters consistent with an air strike. Hagari said some 450 rockets fired from Gaza had fallen short and landed inside the Strip within the last 11 days. The Israeli military then published what it said was an audio recording of such a conversation, with English captions.

Persons: Joe Biden, Daniel Hagari, Hagari, Dan Williams, John Davison, Alex Richardson, Gareth Jones Organizations: Palestinian, IDF, Israel Defence Forces, West Bank, United, Thomson Locations: Palestinian, Gaza, Israel, Al, Ahli, Gaza City, Jordan, Turkey, Israel's, United States, Iran, Lebanese, Lebanon

☆ McDonald's caught up in Israel-Hamas war as franchisees in the Middle East pledge aid to different sides
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Last week, McDonald's Israel began donating meals daily to the Israel Defence Forces. Two days later, McDonald's Oman said it had donated $100,000 to help the people of Gaza. "We stand with Gaza in these difficult times," McDonald's Oman said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. Meanwhile, McDonald's Israel said it will continue donating thousands of meals daily to "our forces across the country." As the two McDonald's franchise groups back different sides of the Israel-Hamas war, McDonald's Pakistan weighed in by distancing itself from McDonald's Israel.

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☆ I'm a product manager at HP in Israel and a volunteer for the border police. This has been the most emotional week of my life.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He works as a product team manager at HP in Israel and volunteers for the border patrol police. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Elad Zmora, a 46-year-old product team manager at HP in Israel. After the siren, we started getting news of what happened at the Supernova trance music festival in the Negev desert. Friends and family started calling us and people were sharing news on WhatsApp. We started getting news last Saturday about Hamas penetrating villages of the Kibbutz and slaughtering people in the streets.

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☆ No military response can end the Israel-Hamas conflict, peace experts say. Even if Israel wipes out Hamas, another group will likely take its place
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Israel appears to be preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza where it hopes to wipe out Hamas. The attacks prompted a swift and strong counter response from Israel which declared war on Hamas and vowed to lay siege to Gaza. But even the total eradication of Hamas would fail to solve the tensions between Israel and Palestinians, Telhami said. "If Israel wipes out Hamas and leaves Gaza, either Hamas resurges or a more violent option rises," he said. The near future almost certainly includes more civilian deaths and an escalation of violence in Gaza , according to experts.

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“In this situation, we’re afraid that she goes into labor, and we wouldn’t know where to go,” he told CNN. Shelling in Nuseirat is intense, but not as bad as it was in Gaza City, where neighborhoods were “entirely wiped out,” he said. Some of those bodies are on a flatbed trailer that appears to have been used to carry people away from Gaza City. Refaat Alareer, 44, a literature professor in Gaza City, said Thursday – before Israel told Gazans to evacuate – the shelves in his local supermarket are emptying every day. “The gates are closed, and no one is being let through,” he told CNN.

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☆ McDonald's is donating thousands of free meals to the Israel Defence Forces and citizens after Hamas attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

McDonald's Israel said it's donating 4,000 meals daily to the Israel Defence Forces and citizens. It's also offering a 50% discount for soldiers and security forces who come to restaurants. AdvertisementAdvertisementMcDonald's Israel announced that it's giving away thousands of free meals to the Israel Defence Forces and citizens after Hamas' surprise attack on Saturday. In addition to a 50% discount to soldiers and security forces who come to our branches." Pictures in the post show cars loaded with McDonald's meals and soldiers and workers in hospitals receiving the packages.

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☆ Israel Gaza war: Growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Israel forms war cabinet and prepares hospitals as troops mass
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Nada Bashir Kareem El Damanhoury Ali Younes Mohammed Tawfeeq Rhea Mogul | Nada Bashir | Kareem El Damanhoury | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Gaza’s only power station stopped working on Wednesday after running out of fuel, the head of the Gaza power authority Galal Ismail told CNN. So death was a blessing,” he told CNN, his voice broken, tears streaming down his tired, ashen face. Izzat al-Risheq, a senior Hamas official, told CNN on Wednesday that it’s too early to exchange Israeli hostages. “We are extremely worried that what is happening now is totally unprecedented,” Najla Shawa, an Oxfam worker in Gaza, told CNN. “I was sleeping, and then suddenly everything started falling on us,” one little girl waiting in a hospital with blood all over her face, told CNN.

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☆ Families of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas are pleading for their release and say they have no idea how their relatives are doing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Insider spoke to family members of those believed to be kidnapped to understand what happens now. He added that the American Jewish Committee's offices in Jerusalem and the US were actively "responding when we receive calls from family members" about missing loved ones. "We started getting WhatsApp messages from family members that Hamas was in the kibbutz," Onn said. But, as for those who were taken, Onn said the family has to hold on to hope during an excruciating time. A plea from loved onesInformation about missing loved ones has been hard to come by, people in Israel told Insider on Sunday and Monday.

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☆ Major airlines suspend flights to Tel Aviv after Hamas attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Major airlines have canceled flights to and from Tel Aviv. AdvertisementAdvertisementMajor airlines around the world have suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv after Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Saturday and fired thousands of rockets into central and southern Israel, resulting in hundreds of casualties. American Airlines, United Airlines, Lufthansa, Virgin Atlantic, Wizz Air, EasyJet, Korean Air, and Cathay Pacific are among those who have canceled flights to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv – Israel's only international airport. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has since declared a state of war, and Israel has launched retaliatory attacks on Hamas. The following airlines have confirmed online or in statements to Insider that they have suspended flights to Tel Aviv:

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☆ Israel's Netanyahu cools censure of protesting reservists as judicial crisis simmers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Protest leaders say thousands of reservists have stopped reporting for duty. "Brothers in Arms", a reservist protester group, seemed unmoved by the gesture, accusing Netanyahu of playing down risks to military readiness. The Supreme Court will on Sept. 12 hear arguments against a bill limiting some of its powers to void government decisions, which was ratified in a parliament controlled by Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition. The military has so far acknowledged a "limited" impact from the reservist protest, citing the loss of some veteran instructors from the air force's flight school. As of now, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) can handle its missions and the goal is to put this matter behind us," he said.

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☆ Israel parliament starts vote on limiting supreme court power
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Maayan Lubell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Nonetheless, commanding a comfortable majority in parliament, Netanyahu's coalition looked set to win the vote on the bill that limits the Supreme Court's powers to overrule decisions made by governments and ministers. 'DISASTER'[1/10]Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows Justice Minister Yariv Levin his phone as lawmakers gather at the Knesset plenum to vote on a bill that would limit some Supreme Court power, in Jerusalem July 24, 2023. "If you vote for this bill you will weaken the state of Israel, the people of Israel and the Israel Defence Forces." Justice Minister Yariv Levin who has been driving the changes defended the bill, which would amend a law enabling the Supreme Court to void decisions it deems "unreasonable". Netanyahu's coalition has been determined to push back against what it describes as overreach by a Supreme Court that it says has become too politically interventionist.

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☆ Israeli military threatens arrest of reservists in judicial protest
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, July 20 (Reuters) - The Israeli military may arrest reservists who have pledged not to report for duty as part of protests at the government's judicial overhaul plans, Army Radio reported on Thursday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded a crackdown. But Army Radio, a popular Israeli broadcaster managed by the Defence Ministry, said "a few hundred" reservists had announced they would refuse call-ups. Most of these are from the air force, Army Radio said. Sanctions being considered include arrest, suspension and dismissal, Army Radio said - but noted that, because air force reservists are designated as volunteers, they may be treated differently to reservists whose call-ups are obligatory. According to military data published by Globes newspaper in March, 4% of Israelis aged 22 to 45 are called up as reservists.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Miki Zohar, Zohar, Netanyahu, Dan Williams, William Maclean Organizations: Army Radio, Israel Defence Forces, Twitter, Army, Defence Ministry, Protesters, Globes, Thomson Locations: Israeli

☆ Thousands rally, block highways as final vote on Israeli judicial bill looms
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Thousands poured onto the streets in rallies across the country, many waving Israeli flags, and police reported at least a half-dozen highways had been blocked. Dozens entered the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, tossing fake banknotes as symbols of corruption. [1/3]People demonstrate on the 'Day of National Resistance' in protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist coalition government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, Israel July 18, 2023. A group describing itself as military reservists opposed to the judicial overhaul attempted to block the entrance to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in Tel Aviv. Still, the coalition looked set to bring the bill to the plenum on Sunday for final votes before the July 30 recess.

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☆ Rocket launch at Israel from Lebanon draws Israeli cross-border shelling
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Summary Two rockets fired from southern Lebanon towards IsraelIsrael responds with cross-border strikesIncident follows large Israeli incursion in West BankBEIRUT/JERUSALEM, July 6 (Reuters) - Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel on Thursday, prompting cross-border strikes by the Israeli military, sources on both sides said. Three security sources in Lebanon said two rockets were fired toward Israel, one of them landing in Lebanese territory and the second near a disputed area at the border. After initially saying it had no indications of any unusual incidents on its side of the border, the Israeli military said a projectile had exploded there. One resident of Wazzani, the village in southern Lebanon where one of the rockets fell, said artillery fire had hit there from the direction of Israel. Israel blamed the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas for firing rockets into Israel from Lebanon in April during another flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian violence.

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☆ Dozens of Israeli reserve pilots ditch drill to protest judicial overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

JERUSALEM, March 5 (Reuters) - Dozens of Israeli air force reservists said on Sunday they would not turn up for a training day in protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reforms, a jolt for a country whose melting-pot military is meant to be apolitical. As Israel's strategic arm, the air force has traditionally relied on reservists in wartime and requires crews who have been discharged to train regularly in order to maintain readiness. The 37 air force reservists said they would suspend their one-day protest if required to carry out actual operations. Israel does not publish military personnel figures, making it hard to judge to impact of the air force reservists' protest, or of similar pledges by some reservists from other branches. "These irresponsible Israeli media are playing up any reservist who makes some kind of statement," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told Channel 12 TV.

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