BY JOSEF FEDERMAN, BASSEM MROUE AND LEE KEATH TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday pushed back against growing U.S. pressure for a “humanitarian pause” in the nearly month–old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza, insisting there would be
BY WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY AND LEE KEATH DEIR AL–BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops battling Hamas militantsencircled Gaza City on Thursday, the military said, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. U.S. and Arab leaders raised pressure on Israel to ease its siege of Gaza
BY CHRIS MEGERIAN AND AAMER MADHANI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden said he thought there should be a humanitarian “pause” in the Israel–Hamas war, after his campaign speech Wednesday evening was interrupted by a protester calling for a cease–fire. “I think we need a pause,” Biden said.
BY JOSEF FEDERMAN Over the past five days, Israeli ground troops have pushed deeper and deeper into Gaza in their war against Hamas, launched in response to a bloody Oct. 7 cross–border raid by the Islamic militant group. A growing array of units, including naval, air and ground
BY NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY AND LEE KEATH KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gazaon Monday, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli prime minister rejected
BY AAMER MADHANI, CHRIS MEGERIAN, WILL WEISSERT AND SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — As the 3–week–old Israel–Hamas war enters what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says could be a “long and difficult” new stage, President Joe Biden is calling on Israeli and Arab leaders to think hard
BY HELEN WIEFFERING AND GRACE EKPU OKITIPUPA, Nigeria (AP) — It was the dead of night when the ship caught fire, Patrick Aganyebi remembers, but the flames made it seem as bright as day. The explosion that night woke him and knocked him to the floor. He tucked
BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND SAMY MAGDY DEIR AL–BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early Sunday near Gaza’s largest hospital, which is packed with patients and tens of thousands of Palestinians seeking shelter, residents said. Israel has said Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have a command
BY WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEF FEDERMAN AND BASSEM MROUE DEIR AL–BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel knocked out internet and communications in the Gaza Strip in stepped–up bombardment Friday night, largely cutting off its 2.3 million people from contact with each other and the outside world and creating a
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BY NAJIB JOBAIN, KAREEM CHEHAYEB AND AMY TEIBEL RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops and tanks briefly raided northern Gaza overnight, the military said Thursday, engaging with Hamas fighters and targeting anti–tank weapons in order to “prepare the battlefield” before an expected ground invasion. The third Israeli
BY LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. fighter jets launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a slew of drone and missile attacks against U.S. bases and personnel in the region that
BY JOEY CAPPELLETTI AND CHRISTINE FERNANDO DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) — Many of Michigan’s top Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, took part in a huge pro–Israel rally at a suburban Detroit synagogue days after Hamas’ deadly attack on the country earlier this month, with some of them dancing and
BY MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — A low–key lawmaker in Congress for less than a decade, new House Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t recognizable to most Americans. But the social conservative and devoted ally of former President Donald Trump has been a quiet force within the Republican conference
BY LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI AND KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson is the new speaker of the House, but the ally of Donald Trump inherits many of the same political problems that have tormented past GOP leaders, tested their grasp of the gavel
BY NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY AND JOSEPH KRAUSS RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas on Monday released two elderly Israeli women held hostage in Gaza as the United States expressed increasing concern that the escalating Israel–Hamas war will spark a wider conflict in the region, including attacks on
