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338 articles shownof 338 totalLast updated 2026-09-22 06:17 UTC
us defense 7 7h ago 4 min read

Democrats Move to Block $2.8 Billion Bomb Sale to Israel as Top House Panel Democrat Places a Hold

Since the Washington Post first reported the Trump administration's $2.8 billion bomb package for Israel on September 15, the fight has moved from leaked details to an actual procedural showdown. Rep. Gregory Meeks placed a formal hold on the sale over civilian-protection concerns, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio has bypassed Congress on similar Israel arms deals before and can do it again.

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Iran Threatens US Ships and Oil Assets as Hormuz Standoff Enters Its Eighth Month, Netanyahu Vows Regime's End Is Near

Iran's military and its Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned of painful retaliation against US ships and Middle East energy infrastructure if Washington strikes again, even as Tehran says it has passed ceasefire conditions to the US through Qatar. Oil prices climbed Monday on the news, and Netanyahu used a Rosh Hashanah address to declare the Iranian regime's end is near.

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us politics 5 1d ago 4 min read

Trump Set to Meet Mamdani at Gracie Mansion Monday, Netanyahu Notably Absent From His UN Week Schedule

President Trump is scheduled to meet NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion Monday, their third sit-down in ten months, plus sessions with Volodymyr Zelensky, Gulf Arab leaders and Venezuela's acting president during UN General Assembly week. Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump's partner in the Iran conflict, isn't on the list, a gap several sources flag as notable given the war's expanding footprint across the Middle East.

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il politics 6 2d ago 4 min read

Israel's President Clears Criminal Record of Soldier Who Killed Wounded Palestinian Attacker

President Isaac Herzog erased what remained of Elor Azaria's manslaughter conviction on Saturday, over the objection of the IDF's own chief of staff. Azaria was convicted in 2017 for shooting a wounded, unarmed Palestinian attacker in the head as he lay on the ground in Hebron. The move settles nothing about what actually happened, it just decides Azaria doesn't have to keep answering for it on paper.

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il health 7 2d ago 4 min read

Gaza's School Year Opens: 700,000 Children Return to Tents and Rubble as 97% of School Buildings Remain Unusable

Gaza's Ministry of Education says the 2026-2027 school year began administratively September 16 and students showed up September 19, with most of the strip's roughly 700,000 school-age children learning in tents, damaged buildings or online because 97% of school facilities are out of service. The ministry's casualty and destruction figures come from the Hamas-run education authority and haven't been independently verified, and outlets disagree sharply on whether to call the underlying war a genocide.

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il defense 7 2d ago 4 min read

Israeli Strikes Hit Southern Lebanon Town, Ambulance Team Also Struck as Ceasefire Framework Frays

Israeli warplanes hit Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon on Saturday, September 19, with a third strike hitting an ambulance crew responding to the first two, according to Lebanon's National News Agency. Israel says it hit Hezbollah observation posts after a roadside bomb wounded two of its soldiers, while Lebanese authorities put the war's toll since March at nearly 4,400 dead despite a US-brokered framework agreement signed in June.

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il politics 8 3d ago 4 min read

Netanyahu Moves to Strip Citizenship From Israelis Who 'Defame' IDF Soldiers Over Gaza War Documentary

Benjamin Netanyahu says he'll introduce two bills in the Knesset: one to revoke citizenship from Israelis who 'defame' IDF soldiers, another to multiply defamation damages against them. The push follows the Venice Film Festival win for NAZA, a documentary built on testimony from 24 anonymous Israeli military insiders alleging civilian deaths were approved by design in Gaza. Neither bill has passed, no charges have been filed against the filmmakers, and the IDF denies the film's core allegations.

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il sports 3 4d ago 4 min read

Kyrie Irving Offers to Pay Texans Linebacker's NFL Fine Over Gaza Tribute Eye Black

Kyrie Irving says he'll cover Azeez Al-Shaair's fine for writing the name of a Palestinian child killed in Gaza on his eye black during Week 1. It's Al-Shaair's second fine for unauthorized eye-black messaging in eight months, and the NFL's rule bans any personal message, not just political ones.

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il politics 6 5d ago 4 min read

Israel and Morocco Agree to Open Full Embassies, Exchange Ambassadors

Six years after Morocco joined the Abraham Accords, Israel and Morocco agreed Wednesday to upgrade liaison offices to full embassies, exchange ambassadors, and restore direct flights by the end of 2026. The deal, brokered by US UN Ambassador Mike Waltz in New York, also re-ups US and Israeli recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a territorial dispute Algeria and the Polisario Front still contest.

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il health 7 5d ago 4 min read

Gaza Building Collapse Kills 21, Including 11 Children, as Ceasefire-Era Rebuilding Stays Frozen

A six-story Gaza City apartment building already weakened by earlier Israeli strikes collapsed overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, killing at least 21 people, including 11 children, while they slept. Rescuers dug through rubble by hand as Palestinian officials and UN staff blame Israeli restrictions for a shortage of excavators and fuel, though Israel disputes it is blocking machinery. Palestinian officials say more than 2,000 other damaged buildings could go the same way this winter.

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il defense 8 6d ago 4 min read

Israel Starts Routing Houthi Intelligence to Saudi Arabia Through CENTCOM as Trump Turns Down Direct Strikes

Since Houthi missiles hit Saudi Aramco facilities on September 8, Riyadh has been building a wall of regional backers, and the newest one is Israel. Multiple Israeli and Arab outlets confirm intelligence is now flowing to Saudi Arabia through U.S. Central Command, even though Riyadh and Jerusalem have no formal diplomatic relations and President Trump reportedly said no to sending American jets.

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us defense 8 6d ago 4 min read

Trump Administration Preps $2.8 Billion Bomb Sale to Israel, Reviving Munitions Biden Once Paused

The Trump administration is moving to sell Israel a $2.8 billion package built around 40,000 2,000-pound bombs, the largest such sale in years, according to the Washington Post and confirmed by multiple outlets. The deal revives a weapon Joe Biden briefly halted over Gaza civilian casualty fears, and it's funded largely by U.S. taxpayers through foreign military financing.

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il defense 8 Sep 15 4 min read

UN Rights Chief Says Gaza Rubble Recovery May Be Tip of the Iceberg, Demands Full Investigator Access

Since the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says 1,375 Palestinians have been killed and 4,686 wounded, while the UN says over 8,000 people remain missing under rubble it estimates will take seven years to clear. UN rights chief Volker Türk is calling the discoveries evidence of possible war crimes, but no court has ruled on that, and Israel hasn't responded to the access demand in these reports.

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il defense 8 Sep 14 4 min read

B'Tselem Report Accuses Israel of 'Elimination Project' in West Bank as Army Reportedly Preps for Escalation

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem released a 249-page report Monday accusing the Netanyahu government of systematically dismantling Palestinian life in the West Bank. Israeli media separately reported the army is preparing for a possible expansion of operations there, tied partly to upcoming elections. Neither claim has been adjudicated by any court, and Israel's military leadership frames its West Bank posture as counterterrorism, not the ethnic cleansing B'Tselem alleges.

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us defense 7 Sep 13 4 min read

Kushner Says Failed Doha Strike Left Israel Isolated, US Used That to Force Gaza Deal. Israeli Officials Say the Opposite

Jared Kushner told a Kyiv conference that Israel's botched September 2025 strike on Hamas leaders in Doha left the country globally isolated, and the Trump administration used that fallout to push Israel into the Gaza ceasefire. Israeli officials and Likud flatly reject that account, saying the strike showed Hamas has no immunity and is what actually produced the hostage deal.

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il tech 7 Sep 13 4 min read

Anthropic Bans Israeli-Linked and Iran-Linked Accounts for Using Claude to Profile Rival Nations' Citizens

Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report shows both an Israeli-tied surveillance vendor and Iran-linked state actors used its Claude models to build political profiles, fake personas and targeting dossiers on each other's populations. The report also flags Russian and Chinese state hackers turning the same chatbot into an autonomous exploit engine. Nobody's hands are clean here, and Anthropic caught all of it before any of it reportedly reached real-world targets.

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us politics 5 Sep 12 4 min read

Democrats Pick Pro-Israel Hawk Jared Moskowitz to Head Mideast Subcommittee as Party Base Turns Against Israel

House Democrats tapped Rep. Jared Moskowitz, one of the chamber's most hawkish pro-Israel voices, to be ranking member of the Middle East subcommittee just as polling shows Democratic voters souring on Israel faster than ever. The move exposes a real split between the party's leadership and its base, and it's happening while progressive primary winners and AIPAC-backed survivors both claim they're reading the electorate correctly.

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il health 5 Sep 12 3 min read

Cancer Patients Face Up to 80% Higher Stroke Risk in First Year After Diagnosis, Israeli Study Finds

A study of over 182,000 Israeli cancer patients found ischemic stroke rates 80% higher than expected in the year after diagnosis, spiking to 2.5 times normal in the first three months. Pancreatic and lung cancer patients face the steepest risk, while breast and prostate cancer showed no elevated link. The data comes from Israeli national registries, not a U.S. population, and the study can't prove why the link exists.

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il defense 7 Sep 11 4 min read

Israel Says Hezbollah Tunnel Destruction Completes Security Zone Consolidation as Lebanese Army Draws Public Support in Nabatiyeh

Since the ceasefire took effect in June, strikes have kept killing Lebanese civilians, and this week Israel destroyed a two-kilometer Hezbollah tunnel complex under the Ali Al-Taher ridge above Nabatiyeh. Residents there responded by welcoming a bigger Lebanese Army presence with flowers and rice, a sign some in Hezbollah's own heartland now want the state, not the militia, guarding them.

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il defense 7 Sep 10 4 min read

Venice Documentary Features 24 Anonymous Israeli Soldiers Describing AI-Assisted Gaza Killings

A new documentary called NAZA, produced by The Guardian and directed by Oscar winners Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, premiered at the Venice Film Festival with testimony from 24 anonymous Israeli military and intelligence figures describing AI targeting systems, phone hacking, and civilian death tolls treated as acceptable collateral damage. The claims are serious and unverified beyond the soldiers' own accounts, Israel denies deliberately targeting civilians and blames Hamas for embedding among the population, and separate reporting shows some earlier Gaza humanitarian claims did not hold up under scrutiny. The film adds soldier testimony to a war that has killed roughly 73,500 Palestinians since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack killed 1,219 people in Israel, according to figures reported by AFP.

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il health 7 Sep 9 3 min read

Gaza Oxygen Shortage Deepens: Only 12 of 34 Generation Stations Still Running, Health Ministry Says

Gaza's Ministry of Health says just 12 of 34 oxygen-generation stations and 4 of 30 cylinder-filling devices are still working, leaving oxygen-dependent patients and families rationing supply by the hour. No Israeli government explanation for the equipment shortage appears in the reporting reviewed here.

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us economy 8 Sep 9 4 min read

White House Declines to Oppose UK's Israeli Settlement Sanctions as Democrats Push Trump to Follow Suit

A day after the UK, France, Canada and nine other nations banned trade with Israeli settlements, the real story is in Washington: the Trump administration isn't fighting it, even as its own ambassador attacked it on the BBC. Democrats want the U.S. to join in, and a Florida Republican is threatening British businesses with a multimillion-dollar anti-BDS statute.

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il politics 8 Sep 9 3 min read

Israel Shuts British Consulate, Bars 12 UK Lawmakers as Retaliation for Settlement Trade Ban

Since Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced Britain's ban on Israeli settlement goods in Parliament Tuesday, Israel has fired back hard: closing the British consulate in Jerusalem, kicking UK officials out of the Gaza ceasefire monitoring center, and banning entry to a dozen British lawmakers. Meanwhile Israel's finance minister used the same day to greenlight 1,000 new settlement homes, and the U.S. ambassador is already warning of blowback.

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il politics 6 Sep 9 3 min read

Netanyahu Plans 24-Hour UN Trip Amid Mamdani's Arrest Call, Israeli Envoy Says

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a whirlwind 24-hour visit to the UN General Assembly later this month, according to Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon, despite New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's calls for his arrest over an ICC warrant. Mamdani has no legal power to arrest anyone, and the ICC warrant is an unproven allegation, not a conviction, but the political theater is real.

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il defense 8 Sep 8 4 min read

Haaretz Investigation: UAE Warned Netanyahu of Hamas Attack 10 Days Before Oct. 7, Netanyahu's Office Calls It an Absolute Lie

A new Haaretz investigation, based on a forthcoming book by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, claims UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed personally warned Netanyahu of a major Hamas operation 10 days before Oct. 7, 2023, and that Netanyahu brushed it off. Netanyahu's office flatly denies the call happened. The claim lands weeks before Israel's national election, where Netanyahu's Oct. 7 conduct is already the central issue.

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gb politics 8 Sep 8 4 min read

UK, France and Nine Other Nations Ban Israeli Settlement Goods, Miliband Calls Settlers 'Terrorists' Committing Ethnic Cleansing

Britain led 11 European nations plus Canada in announcing a ban on West Bank settlement goods on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accusing Israeli settlers of ethnic cleansing. Israel retaliated within hours by closing its Jerusalem consulate and barring British lawmakers, while the U.S. State Department called the move destabilizing.

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il defense 8 Sep 8 4 min read

Satellite Data Shows Israel Has Damaged or Razed 46 of 54 Villages in Its Lebanon Buffer Zone, While Christian Towns Are Mostly Spared

Since Israel's occupation zone in southern Lebanon took shape after fighting resumed in March, satellite analysis and multiple on-the-ground reports show it has flattened dozens of Shia villages while leaving most Christian towns standing. A September 7 strike on Kfar Rumman that killed 12 people, plus stalled disarmament talks, shows the June ceasefire is barely holding.

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il tech 6 Sep 8 3 min read

Anthropic Walks Away From $6 Billion Deal to Buy Israeli AI Startup Decart

Anthropic has ended acquisition talks with chip-optimization startup Decart AI, killing what would have been the Claude maker's largest deal ever, according to Bloomberg. The collapse comes weeks before Anthropic is reportedly eyeing an IPO, though the specific reasons for walking away have not been disclosed.

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il defense 7 Sep 7 4 min read

Netanyahu Orders Removal of 100 West Bank Outposts While Israel Advances E1 Settlement Tenders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered roughly 100 unauthorized settler outposts dismantled after US pressure over settler violence, sources told Reuters on September 6, 2026. At the same time, Israel's Housing Ministry is pushing forward the E1 plan, tenders for over 1,200 settlement homes that watchdog group Peace Now and multiple Western governments say would cut the West Bank in two.

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il defense 7 Sep 7 4 min read

No Genocide Ruling Yet: ICJ Case Against Israel Drags On as Both Sides Trade Evidence Claims

The International Court of Justice still hasn't ruled on South Africa's genocide case against Israel, more than two and a half years after issuing provisional measures. Amnesty International says Israel is defying those orders, a UN rapporteur warns rubble removal in Gaza is destroying evidence, and a widely syndicated conservative column argues the whole genocide framing is manufactured. Neither side has the final word, because no court has issued one.

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il defense 7 Sep 7 4 min read

Israeli Strikes Kill 11 More in Southern Lebanon as Netanyahu Warns Iran of 'Devastating' Response

Israeli warplanes hit a residential building and a civilian vehicle in Kfar Rumman early Monday, killing 11 people including two children and two medics, with no evacuation warning issued for the deadliest strike. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is again pressing Washington to intervene, while Netanyahu vows a crushing response if Iran strikes back and Tehran's foreign ministry blames the U.S. for disrupting Strait of Hormuz shipping.

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il energy 8 Sep 7 4 min read

Israel Claims Control of Key Lebanon Ridge as Iran Warns of 'Large-Scale' Response, Houthis Claim New Strikes on Saudi Arabia

Since oil prices topped $90 a barrel amid the widening Iran conflict, the fighting has spread to new fronts: Israel says it has seized a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon used by Hezbollah's Iranian-funded tunnel network, Yemen's Houthi rebels claim fresh drone strikes on Saudi military positions, and the European Union has joined Washington's sanctions campaign against Tehran. None of the Houthi claims have been independently verified, and Iran has warned Washington that further Israeli action on the ridge would trigger a large Iranian response.

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gb economy 6 Sep 6 4 min read

UK Public Contracts Worth £2.1 Billion Held by Firms Linked to Israeli Settlements, Investigation Finds

An Al Jazeera investigation using procurement data from Tussell found 17 companies tied to illegal Israeli settlements hold £2.129 billion in UK public-sector contracts, most of it through a Motorola Solutions subsidiary running Britain's emergency-services radio network. The findings land as more than 140 Labour MPs push Prime Minister Andy Burnham to ban settlement trade, while Labour Friends of Israel warns such a ban is practically unworkable and could become a backdoor boycott of Israel itself.

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il defense 8 Sep 6 4 min read

Lebanon Health Ministry Puts Israeli-Attack Death Toll at 8,920 Since October 2023 as Sunday Strikes Kill Four More

Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health says Israeli attacks have now killed 8,920 people and wounded 30,595 since October 2023, with four more dead Sunday in strikes on Nabatieh and nearby towns. Israel says it hit Hezbollah after drones were launched at its troops in the self-declared buffer zone. Two US-brokered agreements signed in June have not stopped the daily strikes.

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il politics 7 Sep 6 4 min read

Netanyahu Calls Qatar a 'Hostile State,' Defends Israel's 2025 Doha Strike and Pre-War Gaza Funding

Benjamin Netanyahu told i24NEWS that Qatar is a 'hostile state' but denied Doha dictated Israeli policy, days before the anniversary of Israel's September 2025 strike on Hamas negotiators in Doha. Qatar, meanwhile, is fighting a separate battle with Iran over who controls the narrative on missile strikes against Qatari territory. Two different fights, one common thread: nobody in this story is a clean actor.

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us politics 7 Sep 5 4 min read

House Passes Bill Cutting Federal Funds to Anti-Israel Boycott Colleges, 167 Democrats Vote No

The House passed a bill 237-169 stripping federal funding from universities that boycott Israel, with 167 Democrats, including Hakeem Jeffries, voting against it and just 33 breaking ranks to support it. The vote lands amid a broader Democratic Party fight over Israel that's spilling into Senate primaries, AIPAC funding fights, and a Pentagon budget dispute over U.S.-Israeli military integration.

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il defense 8 Sep 5 3 min read

Israeli Strikes Kill Up to Five in South Lebanon as June Ceasefires Keep Falling Apart

Since the March 2 escalation, Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed more than 4,000 people, and Friday's attacks near the Ali al-Taher ridge added three to five more names to that list, depending on which count you use. Israel says it just cleared Hezbollah tunnels under a strategic ridge and is defending a security zone. Lebanon says civilians, including children, keep dying despite two truces Washington helped broker.

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il defense 8 Sep 4 4 min read

Israel Completes Hezbollah Tunnel Clearance Under Beaufort Castle as Iran Strikes US Bases in Kuwait and UAE

The IDF says it has cleared a 20-year-old Hezbollah tunnel network beneath the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon while continuing near-daily strikes on villages there, even as UN peacekeepers report Israeli fire far outpacing Hezbollah's since a June ceasefire. Meanwhile Iran struck US bases in Kuwait and the UAE on September 3, a US defense official says with no impact, as Washington and the EU tighten financial sanctions on Tehran.

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il defense 8 Sep 4 4 min read

UN Report Says Israel's West Bank Camp Clearances 'Raise Concerns' of Ethnic Cleansing, Israel Calls Findings 'Vile Activism'

A UN Human Rights office report says Israel's 2025 Operation Iron Wall displaced more than 33,000 Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps and may amount to forcible transfer and collective punishment. Israel's Geneva mission rejects the report as activism that ignores terrorism threats, and no court or prosecutor has ruled on the allegations. Both the killings and the ongoing displacement are documented facts; the legal label of 'ethnic cleansing' remains a UN human rights office assessment, not a verdict.

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il health 6 Sep 3 4 min read

Gaza's Building Ban Leaves a Dentist Operating Out of a Tent, 11 Months After the Ceasefire

Since the ceasefire took hold last October, more than 80% of buildings in Gaza City and northern Gaza remain destroyed or damaged, according to the UN Satellite Centre, and Israel's ban on construction materials has stalled repairs. A Gaza City dentist now treats patients in a tent because rents on the few usable properties have tripled, while a separate media debate rages over whether "genocide" is the right word for what happened there at all.

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ir defense 7 Sep 3 4 min read

Iran Warns US It Will Retaliate If Israel Storms Hezbollah's Ridge Stronghold in South Lebanon

Iran sent Washington a message last month threatening a large-scale attack if Israel launches a full offensive on the Ali al-Taher ridge, where Hezbollah fighters and Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel are believed to be dug in, according to Reuters. The White House denies pressuring Israel to hold off, and an Israeli assessment cited by Maariv disputes that any IRGC forces remain there at all.

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il defense 8 Sep 3 4 min read

Netanyahu Says Israel Is Working to Overthrow Iran's Government, Reveals Tehran Tried to Kill His Son

Netanyahu told Israeli TV on Wednesday that 'all of our systems' are working to topple Iran's regime, days after revealing Tehran tried to assassinate one of his sons. Iranian state TV followed with an unverified segment claiming a $10 million bounty on Barron Trump. Separately, an Iran International investigation found most of the banking network moving money for Tehran remains untouched by U.S. sanctions.

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il defense 8 Sep 2 4 min read

Israeli Defense Minister Katz Says Government Is Ready to Remove Gaza Palestinians, Wants Trump's Sign-Off

Defense Minister Israel Katz says Israel has plans ready to move Palestinians out of Gaza by sea, air or any other means, and is waiting on Donald Trump to approve it. Trump floated the idea in early 2025, walked it back after Egypt objected, and left it out of his 20-point ceasefire plan, but Katz says it was only frozen, not canceled.

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il sports 5 Sep 1 3 min read

Belgian Mayor Bars Union Saint-Gilloise From Hosting Israeli Club Over Security Concerns

Leuven Mayor Mohamed Ridouani has blocked Union Saint-Gilloise from playing its October 22 Europa League match against Israel's Hapoel Beer-Sheva in his city, citing public safety. UEFA says finding a new venue is now Union's problem, and a decision is expected within days.

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il defense 7 Sep 1 4 min read

Ben-Gvir Enters Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound Under Police Escort, Seven Weeks Before Israeli Elections

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Monday, prayed inside it, and talked about building a temple there "little by little." Qatar and Jordan condemned the visit as a violation of the site's decades-old status quo, and Hamas called it an election ploy seven weeks ahead of Israel's October 27 vote.

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gb politics 6 Aug 31 4 min read

British Activist Finn Joughin Deported by Israel After West Bank Settler Confrontation and Assault Allegation

Finn Joughin, a 22-year-old British student, was dragged off by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Umm al-Kheir on Saturday, held in a shed for 30 minutes, then handed to police who accused him of an indecent act against a minor. His lawyer denies the allegation and says he's being deported without the case being closed. Israeli police haven't questioned the settlers who grabbed him, and the underlying facts of the confrontation itself are still disputed.

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us defense 4 Aug 30 3 min read

State Department Piles Up New Warnings on Israel, Mozambique and Ecuador in August 2026

The State Department reissued Israel's Level 3 advisory on August 26, slapped Mozambique's Cabo Delgado with a Level 4 Do Not Travel tag on August 21, and flagged Ecuador for kidnapping and cartel violence this week. None of these are new crises, but the pileup shows how fast a summer vacation list can turn into a liability list.

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il politics 7 Aug 30 4 min read

West Bank Settler Attacks Spread to Six Locations, Israeli Police Report Zero Arrests

Nearly three weeks after settlers first blocked supplies to homes near Qusra, this weekend's coordinated attacks hit six West Bank locations, injured a Palestinian family, an NBC crew and left Israeli police with zero arrests despite video evidence. Netanyahu, Herzog and Huckabee all condemned the violence in near-identical language, but the security response on the ground didn't match the statements.

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il politics 7 Aug 30 4 min read

Erdogan Calls Zionism Genocidal, Netanyahu Calls Him an Antisemitic Dictator as Turkey Seeks His Arrest

Turkey's Istanbul court issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu in July over Israel's interception of a Gaza aid flotilla, and Ankara asked Interpol to enforce them last week. Erdogan responded by calling Zionism a genocidal ideology and invoking Nazi comparisons, and Netanyahu's office fired back calling him an antisemitic dictator who massacred Kurds and jails his opponents. Neither claim has been tested by an international court, and CNN reports the fight is playing out just ahead of Israeli elections.

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us defense 6 Aug 30 3 min read

Shin Bet Evacuates Netanyahu's Son From Florida After Threat, Iran Link Unconfirmed

Israel's Shin Bet security service evacuated Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister's eldest son, from Florida to Israel on Saturday, August 29, citing a significant threat to his life. Shin Bet has not named Iran as the source, even though Benjamin Netanyahu said days earlier that Iran tried to murder one of his sons, and Newsmax has reported an alleged Iranian plot from last December.

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il defense 6 Aug 30 4 min read

Israeli Officers and a Fired Defense Minister Say Gaza and Lebanon Strategy Has No Clear Endgame

A retired Israeli general and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant both say Israel has no coherent plan to finish off Hamas or Hezbollah, even as Lebanon's president tells the Vatican he has 'serious concerns' about the U.S.-brokered peace framework. The criticism lands as the broader U.S.-Iran standoff drags on with no deal and Washington leans on new Gulf alliances instead.

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us politics 7 Aug 29 4 min read

Israel Seizes UNRWA's Last Jerusalem Facility Days After U.S. Watchdog Flags Over 100 Staffers for Hamas Ties

Israeli forces raided and shut down UNRWA's last major East Jerusalem facility on Tuesday, a 74-year-old vocational school that trained 340 Palestinian refugee teens a year. One day later, a U.S. inspector general reported that more than 100 current and former UNRWA staffers have been referred to the State Department over alleged Hamas ties, with one already barred from U.S. contracts for helping coordinate the October 7 attack. UNRWA calls the raid an illegal breach of UN property; Israel says it won't host an agency it accuses of sheltering terrorists.

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il finance 5 Aug 29 4 min read

Israeli Crime Syndicates Launder Millions Through Bitcoin and Tether, Police Fight Back With Blockchain Tracing

Israeli organized crime groups have shifted their money laundering operations to Bitcoin and Tether, with a $13 million case indicted in April 2026 exposing corrupt IDF and police officials in the scheme. Israeli law enforcement is countering with a $2.4 million Chainalysis contract and cooperation from Tether itself, but crime groups are adapting faster than regulators can track them.

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il defense 8 Aug 29 5 min read

Gaza Ceasefire Stalls as Israel Rejects 15-Point Disarmament Roadmap, UN Envoy Warns of ‘Point of No Return’

Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace's top envoy for Gaza, told the UN Security Council the ceasefire is fraying and Gaza has no room left for another catastrophe. Israel has rejected the Board's 15-point roadmap outright, refusing to withdraw a single soldier until Hamas surrenders every weapon it holds, while Hamas has yet to disarm at all. Both sides are blamed by Mladenov for failing to meet their commitments, and a separate fight over a $400 million provision for Hamas-era debts is now drawing fire from Capitol Hill.

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us politics 6 Aug 27 4 min read

45 Senate Democrats Tell Netanyahu to Rein In West Bank Settler Violence

Nearly the entire Senate Democratic caucus signed a letter demanding Israel investigate settler violence and the deaths of nine American citizens in the West Bank since 2022. It's a real letter about real deaths, but it lands in the middle of a midterm year where Israel has become a litmus test that's splitting the Democratic Party in half.

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us politics 8 Aug 27 4 min read

Trump's Own Gaza Envoy Says Israeli Strikes Are Undermining the Ceasefire He's Trying to Sell

Nikolay Mladenov, the man running Trump's Gaza peace plan, told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that ongoing Israeli strikes are stalling Hamas disarmament and risk collapsing the whole deal. Israel says it won't pull back until Hamas actually disarms, and Jared Kushner is telling Hamas the clock is running out too. Everyone claims to want the same plan. Nobody agrees on who moves first.

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us defense 8 Aug 26 4 min read

Trump Sends Saudi Nuclear Deal to Congress, Still Ties It to Israel Recognition Saudi Arabia Won't Give

Trump submitted the classified US-Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress on Monday, starting a 90-day review clock, while sticking to his demand that Riyadh normalize relations with Israel first. The Saudis have not agreed to that, Israel's Netanyahu opposes Palestinian statehood, and critics on Capitol Hill say the deal skips the enrichment restrictions the UAE accepted in 2009.

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il defense 6 Aug 24 4 min read

14-Year-Old Killed by Israeli Gunfire in West Bank Raid, Buried as Second Teen Death in Days

A 14-year-old Palestinian, Islam Ahmad Maher Ajouri, was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid on the Askar refugee camp near Nablus and buried Sunday. His death comes two days after Israeli settlers shot and killed a 17-year-old in a separate rock-throwing incident near Hebron, part of a West Bank death toll that has passed 1,100 Palestinians since October 2023.

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il health 7 Aug 23 3 min read

Only 12 of Gaza's 34 Oxygen Plants Still Work, Health Ministry Says, as Israel Restricts Spare Parts

Gaza's Health Ministry says 22 of 34 hospital oxygen stations have failed and only 4 of 30 cylinder-filling machines still work, blaming Israeli restrictions on spare parts entering the territory. Israel has not issued a public response to the specific oxygen claims, and the numbers come from a single source, the Hamas-run ministry, that Israel disputes on other matters.

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il politics 7 Aug 23 4 min read

Nasser Hospital Strike That Killed AP Journalist Mariam Abu Dagga Gets Fresh Reconstruction. IDF Inquiry Still Open a Year Later

A year-plus after the August 25, 2025 double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital killed journalist Mariam Abu Dagga, Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri and 13 others, the Independent published a detailed reconstruction based on witness accounts and visual analysis. The IDF opened an inquiry within days and has since launched separate criminal investigations into other Gaza incidents, but no findings on the hospital strike have been made public, and no one has been charged.

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