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Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, center, sits prior to the start of the swearing-in ceremony of newly-elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the Iranian parliament, in Tehran, Iran, on July 30. APThe death of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is the “first most significant Israeli operation since October 7,” said CNN Political and Foreign Policy Analyst Barak Ravid. The Israeli military told CNN they “don’t respond to reports in the foreign media,” after Iranian state media reported Haniyeh’s death. “This assassination is, in a way, just a matter of when, not a matter of if,” Ravid said. Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran, according to Hamas and Iranian media, was a longtime political leader of the militant group.

Persons: Ismail Haniyeh, Masoud Pezeshkian, ”, Barak Ravid, Ravid, “, ” Ravid, Haniyeh Organizations: CNN Political, CNN Locations: Tehran, Iran, Gaza, Iranian

☆ Who was the Hamas chief killed in Tehran as the war in Gaza rages?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Hamas and Iranian state media said Wednesday that the 62-year-old had been killed in the Iranian capital Tehran. Hamas claimed Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli “strike” on his residence, while the Israeli military declined to comment when contacted by CNN. Haniyeh’s death strikes a significant blow to Hamas at a time when tensions are flaring across the Middle East over the devastating war in Gaza, and raises fraught questions about the future of negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Haniyeh was born in a refugee camp near Gaza City, and joined Hamas in the late 1980s during the First Intifada, or uprising. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (right) meets Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh (left) at the president's office in Tehran, Iran, on July 30, 2024.

Persons: CNN — Ismail Haniyeh, Haniyeh, Masoud Pezeshkian, Ismail Haniyeh, ”, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, Donald Trump, – Haniyeh, Israel, “, Bashar Taleb, Benjamin Netanyahu, Barak Ravid, Wang Kejian Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Ministry of Health, Getty, CNN Political, International Criminal Locations: Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Tehran, Israeli, East, Gaza City, Askalan, Ashkelon, Iran, United States, Washington, Jerusalem, Deir el, Qatar, Egypt, Rome

Tensions were running high on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border on Monday in anticipation of an escalation in hostilities, after Israel’s security cabinet authorized its leaders to decide on the nature and timing of an Israeli military response to a deadly rocket attack from Lebanon last weekend. The Israeli military said overnight that its aerial defense systems successfully intercepted an unmanned aircraft that crossed from Lebanon into northwestern Israel. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on those attacks. Hezbollah has denied responsibility for the rocket attack Saturday that struck a soccer field in Majdal Shams. But the Israeli military said the type of rocket used in the attack is Iranian-made and carries more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives.

Persons: Majdal Shams, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Antony J, Blinken, Isaac Herzog, “, Matthew Miller, Adrienne Watson, Gallant, ”, Mohamed Awada, Hwaida Saad, Edward Wong, Gabby Sobelman, Myra Noveck Organizations: Hezbollah, Israel’s, United, State Department, U.S . National Security Council, Lufthansa Group, East Airlines, Lebanon’s Locations: Lebanon, Majdal, Golan, Israel, Iran, United States, Gaza, Tokyo, Majdal Shams, Iranian, Beirut’s, Beirut, Jerusalem

☆ What is the Golan Heights and who are the Druze?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have reached new heights in the wake of a deadly rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Here’s what to know about the Golan Heights, and the religious and ethnic Druze minority that fell victim to the attack. What is the Golan Heights? More than 20,000 Druze live in the Golan Heights. Druze of the Golan Heights share the territory with around 25,000 Jewish Israelis, spread across more than 30 settlements.

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☆ UK drops plan to challenge ICC arrest warrant request for Netanyahu
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Caitlin Danaher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced in May he was seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders – including Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar – over charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The court has no means of enforcement, however ICC members have an obligation to cooperate fully with its decisions. If the warrants are granted, Netanyahu and others could risk arrest when traveling to the 124 countries that are ICC members – including Germany and the United Kingdom. The international court still must assess submissions from other powers before making a decision on whether to grant the request for arrest warrants. The UK’s governing Labour party and its leader, former human rights lawyer Keir Starmer, have faced pressure from supporters to take a tougher stance on the Gaza war.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, Rishi Sunak, Karim Khan, Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, –, Yahya Sinwar –, Israel, Keir Starmer, Kamala Harris, “, Gallant, ” Khan, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Isaac Herzog Organizations: CNN, Israeli, PA Media, Labour, Conservative, ICC, Ministry of Health, West Bank Locations: Gaza, Germany, United Kingdom, Washington, Israel, United States, East Jerusalem

☆ Trump meeting with Netanyahu for first time since departing White House
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Alayna Treene | Kylie Atwood | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, the first such meeting between the two men since Trump left the White House more than three years ago. Trump, who often claims he was the most pro-Israel president in modern history, once touted his close, personal relationship with Netanyahu. Netanyahu called Trump the greatest friend Israel has ever had and heralded him for “unequivocally” standing by Israel during Trump’s tenure as commander in chief. In posting that engagement with Abbas, Trump was trying to “strike a balance” going into the meeting, Bahbah said, adding that he hopes Trump will come out of the Netanyahu meeting calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. “At the table, the most important question is asking the prime minister what he needs to win.

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☆ Martin S. Indyk, Diplomat Who Sought Middle East Peace, Dies at 73
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Martin S. Indyk, a diplomat, author and foreign-policy thinker who spent decades trying to solve the riddle of Middle East peace, twice as the United States ambassador to Israel and later as a special envoy for President Barack Obama, died on Thursday at his home in New Fairfield, Conn. An Australian-bred academic with a quick wit, blunt manner and pro-Israel pedigree, Mr. Indyk cut an unconventional figure in the State Department of the 1990s. But he propelled himself to the heart of America’s efforts to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. In 2013, he shuttled from one side to the other as Mr. Obama’s emissary. Fifteen years earlier, he helped craft an agreement between them at the Wye Plantation in Maryland on behalf of President Bill Clinton.

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☆ Harris navigates Biden and Netanyahu as she considers her stance on Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Up until now, Harris has been defined by working for President Joe Biden, arguably the most explicitly pro-Israel American president, even though his relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu has frayed. “President Biden brought to the White House a lifelong relationship with Bibi Netanyahu and a very mature history on the US-Israel relationship,” Murphy said. “The vice president has been a strong and longstanding supporter of Israel as a secure, democratic homeland for the Jewish people. “One can criticize specific policies of the government of Israel while still strongly supporting the state of Israel and the people of Israel. Soifer said she is satisfied that Harris remains committed to Israel — even after being read the indirect answer about whether the vice president considers herself a Zionist.

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☆ Kamala Harris, dozens of lawmakers sit out Netanyahu speech to Congress
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Vice President Kamala Harris and more than 30 Capitol Hill lawmakers are not planning to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday afternoon. It is Netanyahu's fourth address to Congress, the last of which took place in March 2015. This year, nine months into the Israel-Hamas war and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Netanyahu's speech has become a lightning rod of controversy, triggering an eruption of protests in Washington. Harris' absence from Netanyahu's speech is a conspicuous departure from tradition, though it is not wholly unprecedented. Instead, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., will preside over Netanyahu's joint address.

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☆ Netanyahu’s long history of confounding US presidents
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Netanyahu has known President Joe Biden for decades, but Biden doubts Netanyahu’s sincerity. Netanyahu earned the undying enmity of former President Barack Obama for trying to tank the Iran nuclear deal. Trump turned opposition to the Iran nuclear deal into a major campaign issue in 2016. Despite his long relationship with Netanyahu, Biden has criticized the Israeli leader’s government for being too right-wing. But for all his criticism of Netanyahu, Biden has continued to provide Israel with weapons and aid, and the two men will meet at the White House.

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☆ Israeli settlers attack foreign activists and Palestinian farmers in West Bank
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Abeer Salman | Lauren Izso | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Jerusalem CNN —Masked Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian farmers and foreign activists accompanying them for protection in the West Bank town of Qusra on Sunday, according to victims of the attack and videos obtained by CNN. Eight activists were participating as part of a Palestinian grassroots campaign called Defend Palestine, which calls on international volunteers to travel to the Israeli-occupied West Bank to protect Palestinians from Israeli settler attacks. They said they were accompanying Palestinian farmers to their olive fields, which they haven’t been able to access since October because of attacks by Israeli settlers. There are currently more than 700,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Sunday’s assault followed a separate attack on Saturday in the West Bank, south of Hebron.

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☆ Top UN court says Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rule on emergency measures against Israel following accusations by South Africa that the Israeli military operation in Gaza is a state-led genocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, January 26, 2024. The United Nations' highest court said on Friday that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its strongest findings to date on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The advisory opinion by judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), known as the World Court, was not binding but carries weight under international law and may weaken support for Israel. The court said Israel's obligations include paying restitution for harm and "the evacuation of all settlers from existing settlements". "The Jewish nation cannot be an occupier in its own land," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement.

Persons: Nawaf Salam, Benjamin Netanyahu's Organizations: International Court of Justice, United Nations, Israel, West Bank Locations: South Africa, Gaza, The Hague, Netherlands, Israel, East Jerusalem

☆ Top UN court says Israeli occupation of West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | Mitchell Mccluskey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The United Nations’ top court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal, in an unprecedented opinion that called on Israel to end its decades-long occupation of territories claimed by Palestinians for a future state. The Palestinians want the West Bank and Gaza for a future state, with East Jerusalem at its capital. ‘False decision’Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other politicians rejected the ICJ opinion. “The answer to The Hague – sovereignty now,” Smotrich said on X, a call for Israel to annex the West Bank. The ICJ in 2004 delivered an advisory opinion on the Israeli separation barrier around the majority of the West Bank, urging Israel to remove it from occupied land.

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CNN —Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Friday claimed responsibility for a deadly drone blast in Tel Aviv, the Iranian proxy group’s latest attack in what it says is a response to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. The drone that caused the explosion was detected by an Israeli aerial defense system, but not intercepted due to “human error,” an Israeli military official said. The Israeli military is investigating the attack and does not believe further threats are imminent, the official said. An investigator inspects a damaged window of a building at the site of an explosion in Tel Aviv on July 19, 2024. The drone attack in Tel Aviv Friday comes after the Houthis claimed earlier this month that they had targeted ships in the Israeli port of Haifa with a number of drones in joint military operations with Iran-backed militias based in Iraq.

Persons: Yemen’s, Houthi, Yahya Sare’e, ”, ” Sare’e, Ricardo Moraes, Israel’s Magen David Adom, “, Roi Klein, ’ Organizations: CNN, Embassy, Israel Defense Forces, Reuters, US Embassy, US State Department, MDA, Police, IDF Locations: Tel Aviv, Gaza, Jerusalem, Shalom, Tel, Aviv, Red, Israel, Haifa, Iran, Iraq

☆ In Argentina, a Catholic President and His Rabbi
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Jack Nicas | Daniel Politi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Javier Milei of Argentina is a Catholic who leads Pope Francis’s native country. He also regularly studies the Torah, attends Shabbat dinner and has said that perhaps his most important adviser is his rabbi. Over the past several years, Mr. Milei has taken an intense and, among most world leaders, unusual interest in Judaism. Mr. Milei has pledged to move Argentina’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. And he has appointed his personal rabbi, Shimon Axel Wahnish, as Argentina’s ambassador to Israel.

Persons: Javier Milei, Pope Francis’s, Milei, Moses, Shimon Axel Wahnish Locations: Argentina, Argentine, Israel, Palestinian, Jerusalem

☆ Israel-Gaza War: Latest News
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Ephrat Livni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

His speech there before a divided Congress figures to be contentious, particularly if he cannot close a deal with Hamas to end the war before he travels. Image Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Credit... Ammar Awad/ReutersSome in Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition have urged him to oppose a deal with Hamas. Mr. Netanyahu’s grip on power relies on the support of two far-right parties opposed to any agreement that would leave Hamas in power in Gaza. The war has killed more than 38,000 people and led to widespread hunger, according to Gazan health authorities.

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☆ Israeli lawmakers vote overwhelmingly against Palestinian statehood, challenging US policy
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Andrew Carey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Jerusalem CNN —The Biden administration received another rebuff from Israel Wednesday night – this time from the country’s parliament – over the United States’ long-standing support for the eventual establishment of a Palestinian state. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been US policy for decades, but absent negotiations between the two sides, and a lack of sustained effort by the US to make it happen, means faith in such an outcome has dwindled. On Wednesday evening, the Israeli parliament made clear its position, voting by 68 to 9 to reject any creation of a Palestinian state. “The Knesset of Israel firmly opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan (river). What we have is multilateral recognition of Palestinian statehood and unilateral Israeli rejection,” Scheindlin says.

Persons: Jerusalem CNN —, Biden, –, Benny Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gideon Saar, ”, Netanyahu, Dahlia Scheindlin, Bezalel Smotrich, there’s, ” Scheindlin, ” Espen Barth Eide Organizations: Jerusalem CNN, Haaretz, Palestinian Authority, Israel Locations: Jerusalem, Israel, United States, Palestinian, Jordan, Washington, Gaza, Spain, Ireland

☆ Israel-Hamas War and Gaza Latest News
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Riley Mellen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The strike, which the Israeli military says targeted a Hamas leader, took place in an area designated as a humanitarian zone. Earlier assassination attempts against Mr. Deif are believed to have left him disabled, and he may be missing an eye and limbs. They became more confident that Mr. Deif might enter Mr. Salameh’s compound after a growing cache of evidence suggested that he placed unusual trust in his subordinate. The official, Khalil al-Hayya, who lives in exile, said in an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic that Mr. Deif was listening to Mr. Netanyahu’s words and “mocking” them. Mr. Netanyahu himself, in a televised news conference on Saturday night, said there was still no “absolute certainty” that Mr. Deif had been killed.

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Jerusalem CNN —At least 22 people were killed in a strike Saturday that hit a makeshift mosque in a displacement camp in west Gaza City, according to an official at the hospital treating the casualties. The head of the emergency room of Al-Ahli Hospital, Dr. Amjad Elewa, told CNN that 20 men were killed in the strike on the field mosque in Al Shati camp, and two more men died on Sunday in the hospital from their injuries. The spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defense Mahmoud Basal told CNN that the bombing happened “in the middle of the noon prayer.” He added that all the injuries are serious cases and required amputation operations. Video of the scene shows bodies lying on what appear to be mats laid out for prayer. The UN Human Rights Office also commented on the incident in its daily briefing on Saturday, saying, “Around 1300 hours, the IDF reportedly struck a makeshift mosque inside Ash Al Shati’ Refugee Camp, west Gaza City.

Persons: Amjad Elewa, Mahmoud Basal, Ash Al Shati, UN OHCHR, Israel Organizations: Jerusalem CNN, CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Gaza’s Civil, UN Human Rights, IDF, UN Locations: Jerusalem, Gaza City, Al, Ahli, Al Shati, Ash, Gaza

☆ Who is Mohammed Deif, the Hamas military chief targeted by Israel?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Sophie Tanno | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Israel has targeted Hamas’ military chief Mohammed Deif in a strike on a designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza which killed at least 90 Palestinians. He has led the Palestinian militant group’s armed wing for more than two decades. This image taken from video and released by Hamas on August 26, 2005, shows a man identified as Mohammed Deif. He became a founding member of Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, in the early 1990s. Deif, a man who lives his life in the shadows, has managed to survive for decades while running Hamas’s armed wing.

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Jerusalem CNN —At least 22 people were killed in a strike Saturday that hit a makeshift mosque in a displacement camp in west Gaza City, according to an official at the hospital treating the casualties. The head of the emergency room of Al-Ahli Hospital, Dr. Amjad Elewa, told CNN that 20 men were killed in the strike on the field mosque in Al Shati camp, and two more men died on Sunday in the hospital from their injuries. Video of the scene shows bodies lying on what appear to be mats laid out for prayer. Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of relatives killed during an Israeli strike which hit a makeshift prayer hall at Al Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City on July 13, 2024. Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty ImagesThe UN Human Rights Office also commented on the incident in its daily briefing on Saturday, saying, “Around 1300 hours, the IDF reportedly struck a makeshift mosque inside Ash Al Shati’ Refugee Camp, west Gaza City.

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☆ Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist known as ‘Dr. Ruth,’ dead at 96
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Aj Willingham | Artemis Moshtaghian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the iconic sex therapist whose cheerful and disarming advice helped educate millions of Americans about sexual desires and practices, has died, her publicist Pierre Lehu told CNN on Saturday. Dr. Ruth Westheimer poses for a portrait in Pasadena, California, in January 2016. Becoming Dr. Ruth Westheimer speaks during an American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in April 1986. Bob D'Amico/ABC/Getty Images Westheimer on the set of "Quantum Leap" with actor Dean Stockwell and director Stuart Margolin in 1993. Ron Galella Collection/WireImage/Getty Images Westheimer rides on the back of a motorcycle during New York's Salute to Israel Parade in May 1996.

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CNN —At least 71 Palestinians have been reported killed in an Israeli strike on a displacement camp in southern Gaza which Israel said targeted Hamas’ military chief, who was an alleged mastermind of the October 7 attacks. “I cannot describe to you the magnitude of the tragedy,” one resident told CNN. Mohammed Deif – the leader of Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing – was the figure targeted, an Israeli security official told CNN. Palestinians gather near damage caused by an Israeli strike at a tent camp in Al-Mawasi area on Saturday. A 2014 Israel strike killed his wife, seven-month-old son and three-year-old daughter.

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☆ Israel’s Netzah Yehuda: How an army unit deemed abusive by the US is shaping the fight in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Cnn S International Investigations Team | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +25 min

In this 2014 photo, Israeli soldiers in the Netzah Yehuda battalion are seen taking part in training in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, near the Syrian border. While he was in Netzah Yehuda, he said, the battalion’s commanders played a key role in perpetuating a culture of violence, both by standing by as it happened and promoting it. The findings by the expert panel would have been enough to disqualify a military unit from any other country, the officials said. Lt. Col. Nitai Okashi oversaw the Netzah Yehuda battalion from 2018 to 2020. Lt. Col. Uri Levy was in charge of Netzah Yehuda from 2014 to 2016.

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☆ I'm a mom of 3 in Israel. Every time my daughter walks into the room, I turn off the news.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Deborah Danan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I've learned surprising truths about my children since the horror of the October 7 terror attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. I live with my husband and three kids in a mixed city in Israel, where Jews, Muslims, and Christians live together. She told me that she was trying to close the iron blast door of the safe room but that it was too heavy for her. Buildings erected in Israel since the 1990s have built-in safe rooms to avoid bombs and air strikes. She took her hand and guided her to her own safe room, where she looked after her until I returned.

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