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307 articles shownof 307 totalLast updated 2026-09-07 08:44 UTC
il energy 8 31m ago 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 18h ago 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 20h ago 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 21h ago 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 1d ago 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 2d ago 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 2d ago 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 2d ago 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 3d ago 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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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 4d ago 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 4d ago 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 5d ago 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 6d ago 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 6d ago 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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il economy 7 Aug 23 4 min read Updated

Water Wars Go Global: Gaza's Pipes, Iran's Hackers, and America's Own River Crisis

Water conflicts hit a record 420 incidents in 2024, and 2026 is proving worse: Gaza's water system is nearly destroyed, Iranian-linked hackers hit 30 Minnesota water utilities, and the Colorado River just got a 10-year rescue plan that experts say still isn't enough. Water is now a weapon, a target, and a diplomatic bargaining chip, all at once.

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il defense 8 Aug 23 4 min read

Israel Orders Faster Demolition of Hezbollah Sites as Lebanon Ceasefire Talks Stall in Rome

Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the IDF to speed up demolition of Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon after a seventh round of Rome talks produced little beyond a framework for limited Israeli withdrawal from two pilot zones. A weekend strike on Ansar killed 11 people, including three children, the worst single toll since the June ceasefire.

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il defense 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Israel's Chief Rabbi Says Palestinians Are Not a People, Days After Security Minister Called for Killing 30 to 40 a Night

Israel's Chief Rabbi David Yosef told a Jerusalem audience that Palestinians are not a people, have no rights, and that Gaza and West Bank cities belong to Jews. It's the second inflammatory statement from a senior Israeli figure in less than a week, after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for killing 30 to 40 people a night in Gaza. Neither man speaks for the Netanyahu government's formal policy, but both hold real institutional power.

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il defense 8 Aug 22 4 min read

Israel Struck a Syrian Air Base, Skipped Warning the US, and Nearly Dragged NATO Ally Turkey Into a Fight

US envoy Tom Barrack says Israel gave no advance warning before hitting Syria's Abu al-Duhur air base on August 18-19, calling the strike an 'unnecessary escalation' that risked a direct clash with Turkey. Israel's defense minister says Washington got the intelligence beforehand and blasted Barrack's account as inaccurate. Both things can't be fully true, and nobody in Washington seems eager to force the issue.

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il politics 8 Aug 22 3 min read

Israel Advances E1 Settlement Bids as Eight Nations and Seven More Warn It Could Kill Two-State Solution

Israel's Housing Ministry put out bids for more than 1,200 housing units in E1, the West Bank corridor that would cut off East Jerusalem from a future Palestinian state. Eight Arab and Muslim countries, plus seven Western nations including the UK, France and Germany, condemned the move within days of each other. Israel's foreign minister told Britain to stop lecturing the Jewish people about where they can live.

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us politics 5 Aug 22 2 min read Updated

Younger American Jews Show Weaker Ties to Israel, Poll Finds. Israeli Leaders Say They're Worried

An AP-NORC survey shows younger Jewish Americans place less importance on Israel as part of their identity than older generations do. Israeli officials and Jewish organizational leaders call it a strategic problem, while separate polling shows Israeli trust in Trump's commitment to Israel's security fell sharply this year.

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il economy 7 Aug 22 4 min read

Gaza's Cemeteries Are Full: Families Now Bury Their Dead in Relatives' Graves

Nearly three years of war and roughly 1,200 deaths since October 2025's ceasefire have left Gaza without enough burial ground. More than 40 cemeteries have been destroyed, forcing families to stack bodies in existing graves or bury loved ones under a stone with a name scrawled on paper. Recovery crews, working with two rented excavators, say more than 8,000 bodies remain buried under rubble.

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tr politics 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Turkey Asks Interpol to Issue Red Notice for Netanyahu Over Gaza Flotilla Raid

Turkey's justice minister asked Interpol to arrest Netanyahu on genocide charges tied to Israel's May interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Interpol almost certainly won't act on it. This is Erdogan grandstanding through a court system he controls, not a functioning international legal process.

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il defense 7 Aug 22 4 min read

Israel Resumes Strikes in South Lebanon After Two Soldiers Killed, Rome Talks Stall on Hezbollah Disarmament

Israeli forces killed two soldiers and injured four by an IED in Majdal Zoun, triggering the heaviest single-day IDF strike total on Lebanon since June 21. A seventh round of US-brokered talks in Rome produced no breakthrough on withdrawal or Hezbollah's disarmament, while 360,000 Lebanese remain displaced and Iran-linked fronts from Yemen to the Gulf keep heating up.

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il politics 8 Aug 20 4 min read

Israel Opens Bidding on 1,234 West Bank Homes in E1, UK Calls It "Destructive"

Israel's Housing Ministry published a tender Tuesday for 1,234 homes in the E1 corridor east of Jerusalem, land that would split the West Bank in two. The UK summoned Israel's top diplomat and threatened sanctions; Israel's foreign minister called Britain's objection patronizing and one-sided.

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il politics 8 Aug 20 4 min read

Israel Admits Troops Fired on Hind Rajab's Car, Opens Criminal Probe Two and a Half Years Later

The IDF confirmed Wednesday its soldiers fired on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab and killed the ambulance crew sent to rescue her, reversing years of denial. Israeli rights groups note that criminal probes like this rarely produce convictions, and the military still declined to open a criminal case in the World Central Kitchen deaths.

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us defense 7 Aug 19 4 min read

IDF Admits Soldiers Wrote Numbers on Palestinian Detainees During Jenin-Area Raid; US Ambassador Condemns Separate Settler Attacks

During a Monday raid on the West Bank village of Qabatiya, Israeli soldiers wrote identification numbers on detainees' foreheads and arms, and the IDF confirmed it happened. Separately, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee publicly blasted extremist settlers for seizing a Palestinian American family's home, calling it terrorism. Both incidents point to the same underlying problem: enforcement and accountability in the West Bank are a mess, and Israeli officials themselves are struggling to control actors on their own side of the ledger.

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il health 7 Aug 19 4 min read

907 Aid Workers Killed, Hurt or Kidnapped in 2025, UN Says. Gaza and Sudan Lead the Toll

The UN's humanitarian office says 2025 set a record for violence against aid workers, with 907 killed, injured or kidnapped worldwide, driven partly by cheap armed drones. Gaza logged 186 deaths, Sudan 71, and the deaths keep piling up in 2026 while donor funding keeps shrinking. Nobody's held accountable and nobody's slowing the drones down.

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il tech 6 Aug 19 4 min read

ServiceNow Bet $7.75 Billion on an Israeli Cybersecurity Startup After Its Stock Cratered 42%

ServiceNow paid $7.75 billion cash in April 2026 for Armis, an Israeli device-security startup, after its own stock fell as much as 42% earlier in the year on fears that AI would kill traditional SaaS. The founders split roughly $930 million and now run their old company as a unit inside a $180 billion enterprise giant.

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il defense 8 Aug 19 4 min read

Israel Bombs Syrian Airbase Eight Times, Trump Administration Calls It an Unnecessary Escalation

Israel struck the Abu al-Duhur Airbase in Idlib, Syria eight times overnight Monday into Tuesday, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed responsibility hours later, saying he was blocking a Turkish troop deployment to the base. The Trump administration publicly rebuked an ally over it, which tells you how seriously Washington is treating the risk of a Turkey-Israel collision inside Syria.

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il health 7 Aug 19 4 min read

Gaza's Missing: 7,000-8,000 Still Unaccounted For as Families Bury 112 Recovered Bodies Nearly Three Years Later

Almost three years after an Israeli strike killed more than 300 members of the Abu Sharia and al-Hasayna clan, Gaza City finally buried 112 of the recovered dead on August 5, 2026. Civil Defence officials say roughly 7,000 to 8,000 people remain missing across the territory, with Israeli restrictions on heavy equipment and DNA testing making recovery and identification painfully slow.

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il health 8 Aug 18 4 min read

Gaza Cancer Patients Are Dying at Two to Three Times the Pre-War Rate, Doctors Say

Palestinian doctors and international outlets report cancer deaths in Gaza running two to three times higher than before October 2023, after Israeli strikes destroyed the territory's only specialized oncology hospital and roughly 4,000 approved medical-transfer patients remain stuck waiting for exit permission. Israel says evacuations require receiving-country coordination and security screening, and disputes that it is deliberately blocking care, but the math on who is actually getting out is grim regardless of intent.

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us politics 7 Aug 17 4 min read

Trump's Ambassador to Israel Calls Settler Siege of Ohio Man's Home "Terrorists," as New Outposts Go Up Elsewhere in West Bank

Israeli settlers surrounded three homes near the village of Qusra for over a week, trapping a Palestinian American from Ohio and his family without power, water, or food. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, a longtime settler-movement ally, called it a horrific act of terror, an unusually blunt break from his own past positions. Israeli officials call it the work of fringe vigilantes while new illegal outposts keep popping up elsewhere in the territory.

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il politics 8 Aug 17 2 min read Updated

Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Calls for Killing '30 to 40' People in Gaza Nightly

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's national security minister and a member of Netanyahu's security cabinet, said Israel should kill 30 to 40 people in Gaza every night, going beyond people who pose an immediate threat. He has no authority to order military strikes, but he runs Israel's police and prisons and is polling well ahead of Israel's October 27 election.

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il politics 8 Aug 16 4 min read

Kushner Meets Hamas Chief in Egypt, Heads to Netanyahu Next as Gaza Plan Stalls

Jared Kushner sat down with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt on Sunday, then heads to Israel Monday to meet Netanyahu, who publicly rejected the Board of Peace's 15-point withdrawal plan last week. The holdup: whether Hamas disarms before or during an Israeli pullback, and Netanyahu isn't budging without full disarmament first.

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il politics 7 Aug 16 4 min read

Netanyahu Cited a Fake Iranian Nuclear Quote That Started With an Indian X Account

An unverified quote attributed to IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi went from a Hindu-nationalist X account in India to Israeli media to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's own speech, then to a US senator and Fox News, according to an Ynet investigation by journalist Ronen Bergman. No Iranian speech, transcript, or wire report has ever surfaced backing the quote, and Tehran has denied it. Whether this was sloppy verification or deliberate spin, the chain of custody on a supposed nuclear admission should have involved more than a retweet.

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us health 5 Aug 16 3 min read

American Surgeon Says He Amputated Gaza Girl's Leg Without Anesthesia After Supplies Ran Out

Orthopedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter told Al Jazeera he amputated a five-year-old girl's leg in Gaza without anesthesia because supplies had run out, and staff sang to her during the procedure. The account, if accurate, points to a real medical supply crisis in Gaza that deserves scrutiny regardless of which side of the broader war someone supports.

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us politics 6 Aug 16 4 min read

Trump Won't Endorse Netanyahu as Israeli Polls Show Likud Trailing 75 Days Before Election

Donald Trump has declined four times to endorse Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel's October 27 election, even after a Netanyahu aide told Trump directly that his boss was winning. Polls say otherwise, showing Netanyahu's coalition well short of a majority and trailing former IDF chief Gadi Eizenkot's opposition bloc. Trump's silence tracks growing friction over Gaza, Iran and Lebanon strategy, not a personal break with Netanyahu.

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il politics 7 Aug 14 4 min read

Syria's al-Sharaa Says He Won't Help Disarm Hezbollah, Floats Security Deal With Israel

In an Al Jazeera interview, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said he's open to a security arrangement with Israel but won't touch Hezbollah's disarmament or Lebanon's internal politics. He's the former al-Qaeda-linked militant who took Damascus by force in December 2024. Whether he actually runs a democracy or just says the right words to Western cameras is still an open question.

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us defense 7 Aug 14 4 min read

CIA Doubted Israeli Warning Behind Trump's Secret Turkey Plane Switch

Reuters and the Washington Post have reported that CIA analysts viewed an Israeli-sourced warning of an Iranian assassination plot against Trump as low-confidence and uncorroborated. The Secret Service moved Trump to an alternate aircraft in Ankara anyway, and Turkish intelligence says it found no evidence backing the threat either.

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il defense 7 Aug 13 4 min read

Israeli Army Evacuates Palestinian Families, Not Settlers, After Days-Long Siege in Qusra

Since settlers surrounded three Palestinian homes in Qusra on Sunday, August 9, cutting off water and power, the Israeli military's Thursday operation ordered roughly a dozen Palestinian households out of their own homes while settlers largely stayed put. The U.S. ambassador to Israel called the settlers terrorists; Israel's own government called the siege deplorable, but no arrests have been announced.

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il tech 7 Aug 13 4 min read

Anthropic Now Reportedly Eyeing $6 Billion Acquisition of Israeli Startup Decart While Investors Chase a $3 Trillion IPO

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to buy Decart AI, an Israeli startup building world-simulation models, for roughly $6 billion, a deal that would be Anthropic's largest acquisition ever if it happens. It comes as backers now openly float valuations above the already-reported $2 trillion IPO target, with one investor calling $3 trillion the low end. None of this is finalized, and Anthropic's SEC filing remains confidential.

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il tech 7 Aug 13 4 min read

Anthropic in Talks to Buy Israeli Startup Decart for $6 Billion as IPO Target Reportedly Reaches $2 Trillion

Anthropic is negotiating to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for roughly $6 billion, its largest deal ever, while backers reportedly position the company for a $2 trillion valuation ahead of a fall IPO. The company still has to answer investor questions about Chinese competition, Trump administration friction, and data center backlash before any of that gets priced into a prospectus.

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il defense 7 Aug 13 4 min read

Firefighters in South Lebanon Say Israeli Drones and Flares Are Igniting Wildfires Since June Ceasefire

Civil defense officials in southern Lebanon say Israeli military drones, incendiary rounds, and flares have sparked wildfires burning 30-40% of land near the border since a June 17 ceasefire, according to The Guardian. Firefighters say drone strikes have forced them to retreat mid-effort, and one town mayor says the goal is to make the area uninhabitable.

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ve politics 6 Aug 13 4 min read

Venezuela and Israel Restore Consular Ties After 17 Years, Break Signals Post-Maduro Realignment

Venezuela and Israel announced Tuesday they are restoring consular relations, ending a 17-year rupture that began under Hugo Chavez in 2009. The deal follows Israeli earthquake aid to Venezuela in June and comes seven months after the U.S. removed Nicolas Maduro from power in January, with interim President Delcy Rodriguez now steering Caracas toward Washington.

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il defense 7 Aug 12 4 min read

Israeli Strikes and Village Demolitions Continue in South Lebanon While Rome Ceasefire Talks Proceed

Two years after the November 2024 ceasefire, Israeli forces are still shelling, demolishing, and setting fire to villages in southern Lebanon, even as the two sides just wrapped a seventh round of border talks in Rome. Lebanese officials call it a slow-motion effort to make return impossible. Israel says it is destroying Hezbollah infrastructure. Both things can be true, and neither side has produced independent verification that settles the question.

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