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A Dutch court weighs a lawsuit against arms sales to Israel

Pro-Palestinian activists have told a Dutch court that the Netherlands is violating international law by selling weapons to Israel.

Many in Gaza are eating just once a day, as hunger spreads amid aid issues

Warrants put Israeli PM and others in a small group of leaders accused of crimes against humanity

Israel’s Netanyahu ‘rejects with disgust’ international court arrest warrant

Top war-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in Israel-Hamas fighting

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Orchestra conductor mourns childhood home destroyed in Israel’s southern Lebanon offensive

Lebanese conductor Lubnan Baalbaki watched his family home in the southern border village of Odaisseh reduced to rubble in an Israeli airstrike in October. Now he’s determined to fulfil the vision his father, renowned painter Abdel Hamid Baalbaki, of creating a museum of his work and life. (Produced by Luke Garratt)

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One man dead after multiple rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israeli town

Netanyahu says ICC arrest warrant is ‘a black day in the history of nations’

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International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israel’s defense minister and Hamas official

Senate rejects effort from Bernie Sanders to block some weapons for Israel over Gaza deaths

The Senate has rejected attempts by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel. Senators were voting Wednesday on measures that would have blocked the sale of mortar and tank rounds and smart-bomb kits to Israel.

Syria’s state-run media say 36 people have been killed in a strike on the town of Palmyra blamed on Israel

US-Israel panel to look into civilian harm in Gaza is set for first meeting next month

The Biden administration says a U.S.-Israel panel to look into reports of civilian harm from the war in Gaza will meet for the first time in early December. The U.S. had called for the channel to be set up by the end of October.

US envoy says Israel-Hezbollah truce is ‘within our grasp’ as Gaza food crisis worsens after looting

U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein says an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is “within our grasp” after meeting with officials in Lebanon.

Some Arab Americans who voted for Trump are concerned about his picks for key positions

Some Arab Americans are expressing concern over Donald Trump’s picks for key positions in his next administration.

An Israeli strike in Beirut kills Hezbollah’s spokesman, while a strike in Gaza kills at least 30

A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut has killed the chief spokesman for the Hezbollah militant group. It was the latest in targeted killings of senior Hezbollah officials.

Israeli troops reach deepest point in Lebanon since Oct. 1 invasion, Lebanese media say

Lebanese state media say Israeli ground forces have reached their deepest point in Lebanon since invading six weeks ago, but they pulled back after battles with Hezbollah militants.

Lebanon’s prime minister asks Iran to help secure a cease-fire in Israel-Hezbollah war

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.

As airlines avoid Israel, UAE’s FlyDubai and Etihad keep up flights for both diplomacy and dollars

Since the Mideast wars began with Hamas’ initial Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, many international airlines have halted, restarted and halted again their flights into Israel’s main gateway to the rest of the world.

Israel demolishes village at the heart of Bedouin minority’s struggle over land

Israeli authorities have completed the demolition of a village at the heart of a yearslong struggle by the members of its Arab Bedouin minority against relocation plans.

Brief altercation between fans mars France-Israel soccer match despite heavy security

There was a brief altercation between a small number of fans early into Thursday’s Nations League soccer game between France and Israel despite heavy security inside the stadium, a week after violence erupted in Amsterdam in connection with an Israeli club team’s visit.

CIA employee accused of leaking classified info on Israeli attack plans to face charges in Virginia

A CIA employee accused of leaking classified information assessing Israel’s earlier plans to attack Iran has been ordered by a federal judge to face felony charges in Virginia.

US government employee charged in leak of classified documents assessing Israel’s earlier plans to attack Iran

Israel’s West Bank settlers hope Trump’s return will pave the way for major settlement expansion

Advocates of Jewish settlement in the West Bank believe they have reason to celebrate after Donald Trump’s election win.

Mike Huckabee, Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel, has long called himself a Zionist

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be ambassador to Israel, has long rejected a Palestinian state in territory previously seized by Israel.

Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?

A month has passed since U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin delivered an ultimatum to Israeli officials. It called on them to ramp up aid to Gaza within 30 days or risk them reconsidering arms shipments.

US says it will not change policy on Israel arms transfers after limited improvements in Gaza aid situation

US says it will not limit Israel arms transfers after some improvements in flow of aid to Gaza

The Biden administration says Israel has made some good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and therefore it will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if the situation had not improved.

Aid groups say Israel misses US deadline to boost humanitarian help for Gaza

JERUSALEM (AP) — Aid groups say Israel misses US deadline to boost humanitarian help for Gaza.

Israeli strikes kill 46 people in the Gaza Strip and 33 in Lebanon, medics say

Palestinian medical officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.

Israel’s military is building along UN-patrolled demilitarized zone in Syria, satellite images show

Israel has begun a construction project along a demarcation line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, apparently laying asphalt for a road right along the frontier.

Satellite photos show Israel building along Syria demilitarized zone. UN tells AP Israel troops entered zone during work

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Lebanon and isolated northern Gaza while Netanyahu and Trump speak

New Israeli strikes have killed dozens of people including children in Lebanon and northern Gaza. The strikes happened on Sunday.

5 siblings, some of them deaf, among those killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon

A resident of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre says an Israeli airstrike has left at least seven dead, among them five siblings, three of whom were deaf and mute. Elsewhere in Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes killed 31 people.

Officials say Qatar has decided to suspend its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel

Officials say Qatar has decided to suspend its key mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel.

Hungry Palestinians in north Gaza search for food, sealed off from aid for a month by Israeli siege

Palestinians in northern Gaza are rationing out their last supplies of food to survive, with no aid entering the area for the past month under an Israeli siege. Some have staggered out of the area, hungry and thin, into Gaza City.

In an Israeli settlement named after Trump, residents see opportunity after the election

Israeli residents of a settlement named after Donald Trump hope his return to office will breathe new life into their tiny community in the Golan Heights. Israel named the outpost after Trump during his first term.

France condemns a spat between Israeli police and French consulate staff at a Jerusalem church

The French foreign ministry says armed Israeli police forced their way into a French-owned church compound in the contested city of Jerusalem, briefly detaining two consulate members and prompting the top French diplomat to abandon his planned visit to the site.

A new law allows Israel to deport the relatives of attackers. Experts expect it to be struck down

Israel’s parliament has passed a law that would allow it to deport family members of Palestinian attackers to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip or other locations.