IBRAHIM HAZBOUN

A plane uses a fire retardant to extinguish a fire burning in a forest near Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
A wildfire closes main highway linking Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and sends 12 people to the hospital
A wildfire has shut the main highway linking Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, sending at least a dozen people to the hospital and turning the skies over Jerusalem gray.
 
Displaced Palestinians, carrying their belongings, wood and other items, move between southern and northern Gaza along a beach road away from the areas where the Israeli army is operating after Israel's renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip, in the outskirts of Gaza City, Friday March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza and destroy its only cancer hospital
Israeli forces have destroyed Gaza’s only specialized cancer hospital as ground forces advance deeper into the Gaza Strip.
 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa during a joint press conference following their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Turkey and Israel face mounting tensions over future of post-Assad Syria
The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government has aggravated the already tense relations between Turkey and Israel, with their conflicting interests in Syria pushing the relationship toward a possible collision course.