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The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza.

One of the three suspects arrested by Israeli police for allegedly firing flares at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence helped lead a left-wing protest movement against the government’s judicial reforms last year.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of WBUR’s “Here and Now,” UNRWA Communications Director Juliette Touma stated that the recent theft from an aid convoy in Gaza was not like the multiple instances of looting of aid trucks that they’ve seen before and was rather

The Hamas-controlled Gaza Interior Ministry said on Monday that more than 20 Palestinian residents of Gaza were killed in a “crime prevention operation” by Hamas “security forces” and “tribal committees.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday that Hezbollah had fired rockets that struck United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers in southern Lebanon — not once, but twice in the same day.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise visit Tuesday to central Gaza to send a message: that Hamas will not return to power in the territory, and that there will be a heavy price to pay for any harm to hostages.

Canadian police are disrupting a growing number of Islamic State terrorist plots in major cities, a resurgence driven by ISIS recruiting young Canadians to its ranks.

An antisemitic protest targeted the Hillel building, the center of Jewish religious and communal life, at Harvard University on Monday night, as it hosted a lecture by a former spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Jewish people and homosexuals should be more careful while in heavily Arabic areas of Berlin, the German capital city’s police chief warned.

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Monday, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan responded to a question on if he sees the Afghanistan withdrawal as part of his legacy and if there’s anything he’d do differently in

An Israeli Arab woman, Safaa Qaat Awad, was identified as a victim of a Hezbollah rocket attack that hit the northern Israeli town of Shfar’am.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Monday in a speech to Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, that Israel had in fact targeted the Iranian nuclear weapons program in its response to Iran’s missile attack last month.

Hezbollah has reportedly agreed to ceasefire terms proposed by the United States, according to the Lebanese government — though the terror group has “comments” that may indicate it has not fully accepted the deal.

Freed Israeli hostage Ofir Engel, 19, told journalists in Los Angeles on Monday that he wants to share his story with the world, so that people will everywhere will know the true brutality of the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group.

Multiple reports this weekend indicated that the remaining senior terrorists of Hamas, spurned by Qatar, have relocated to Turkey.

Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is allegedly attempting to push a joint statement at the G20 that lacks explicit condemnation of Russia.

Iranian officials signaled they might be willing to return to nuclear negotiations under the second Trump administration after meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi in Tehran last week.

Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told journalists Monday that progress on a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon depended on Israel’s security demands, so that Israelis evacuated from the border region can return to their homes.

Female soldiers from a combat intelligence unit in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) deployed in southern Lebanon for the first time in the country’s history, according to media reports.

A lesbian in California who happens to be Jewish says that her friends in the LGBTQ+ community are shunning her because she voted for Donald Trump due to his support for Israel against terrorism.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed Hezbollah’s chief of media relations, Mohammed Afif, in an airstrike in Beirut on Sunday, according to Reuters.

Mehri Talebi Darestani, head of the Women and Family Department of the ominous Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Tehran, announced on Wednesday that a “hijab removal treatment clinic” will be created to provide “scientific and psychological treatment” for women who refuse to obey Iran’s harsh headscarf laws.

The Iranian regime has given the government of Lebanon the go-ahead to reach a ceasefire with Israel on behalf of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group that began the war in October 2023 but has since been beaten badly.

Axios reported Friday that Israel did, in fact, hit Iranian nuclear facilities in its response last month to Iran’s ballistic missile attack, confirming reporting by Breitbart News based on a theory first floated by Israeli columnist Caroline Glick.

So-called “high-risk” match between France and Israel saw scuffles and protests but thanks to a major police operation little violence. 

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) said that Mike Huckabee, President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel, “has been making statements that [seem] to back up Netanyahu” and Netanyahu “has committed

Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Iran on Thursday that the “margins for maneuver are beginning to shrink” for a “diplomatic solution” to the issue of Iran’s nuclear program.

Billionaire entrepreneur and incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) director Elon Musk met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations to seek ways to reduce Mideast tensions, according to the New York Times.

President-elect Donald Trump promised Thursday to end all restrictions and delays on arms deliveries to Israel on his first day in office, according to Amit Segal, a reporter for Israel’s Channel 12 News and Yedioth Ahronot newspaper.

The U.S. handed a ceasefire proposal to Lebanon on Thursday that could end the Third Lebanon War, which has raged between the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror organization and the State of Israel for nearly two months.

Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said Thursday that his country has been offered “the status of partner membership” by BRICS, the China-dominated economic bloc whose founding members also include Russia, India, and Brazil.

Paris police fired tear gas cannisters at violent activists protesting a gala evening fundraising for the IDF on Wednesday night.

A heavy police presence but few visiting fans are expected when France hosts Israel in Nations League soccer on Thursday.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed terrorist organization in Gaza, released a video Wednesday of Russian-Israeli hostage Sasha Trufanov, 29, apparently in an effort to pressure Israel to stop trying to rescue the hostages.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of WBUR’s “Here and Now,” Washington Post Reporter John Hudson discussed the nomination of Mike Huckabee to be the United States Ambassador to Israel by President-Elect Donald Trump and said that “For a number of Christian Evangelicals, which Huckabee identifies

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and musician John Ondrasik performed at a pro-Israel event at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on Monday — defying the anti-Israel protest that has rocked the Ivy League campus.