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Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu’s push to fire Israel’s domestic security chief sparks an uproar

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired or forced out a string of top officials since the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza. The country’s domestic security chief is the newest target.
 
Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu seeks to dismiss Israel’s internal security chief as power struggle boils over

 
President Donald Trump is escorted by Col. Paul Pawluk, Vice Commander of the 89th Airlift Wing, right, as he walks from Marine One before boarding Air Force One, Friday, March 14, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Why Trump is singling out South Africa and accusing it of being anti-white and anti-American

 
People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo//Oded Balilty)

Hamas says it will only release American-Israeli hostage if ceasefire deal is implemented

 
Palestinians perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Middle East latest: Hamas says it will free a US-Israeli hostage to keep ceasefire talks rolling

 

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At least 28 killed in Gaza, mostly women and children, from Israeli strikes

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children, the territory’s Health Minister said on Thursday. (AP Video: Mohammad Jahjouh & Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Relatives and friends of Israeli soldiers who were killed and of those who were kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack take part in a march in southern Israel, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, demanding the creation of a committee of inquiry to investigate the events on that day. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The Latest | Israeli delegation arrives in Cairo for Gaza cease-fire talks

 
FILE - Palestinians transport a captured Israeli civilian, Noa Argamani, on a motorcycle from southern Israel, in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023. Human Rights Watch released a report Wednesday, July 17, 2024, saying Hamas-led armed groups committed numerous war crimes during the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that precipitated the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo, File)

Global rights group finds Hamas-led militants committed war crimes on Oct. 7

 
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli strikes in southern, central Gaza kill more than 60 Palestinians, including in ‘safe zone’

 
An Israeli soldier moves on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Hamas says Gaza cease-fire talks haven’t paused and claims military chief survived Israeli strike

 
FILE - This image taken from video and released by the militant group Hamas on Aug. 26, 2005, shows a man identified as Mohammed Deif. An Israeli attack on the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday July 13, 2024, killed 71 people and injured scores, the Health Ministry in Gaza said, while an Israeli official said it targeted the head of Hamas' military wing. The Israeli official identified the target of the strike in Khan Younis as Mohammed Deif, believed by many to be the chief architect of the Oct. 7 attack that killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and triggered the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/File)

Israel targets Hamas’ military leader in Gaza. Who is he and what does it mean for the war?

 
Palestinians evacuate a body from a site hit by an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 13, 2024. Israel said it targeted Hamas' shadowy military commander in a massive strike Saturday in the crowded southern Gaza Strip that killed at least 71 people, according to local health officials. Hamas immediately rejected the claim that Mohammed Deif was targeted. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strike targets the Hamas military commander and kills at least 90 in southern Gaza

 
FILE - Women touch a board with the names of people who died in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center, at the site of the attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, July 18, 2019. Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the attack, President Javier Milei's government sent Congress a bill to hold the trial in absentia, which would allow the accused, fugitives, to be tried. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Argentina designates Hamas a terrorist group in show of support for Israel

 
In this image taken from video, Palestinians returned to scenes of destruction in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood on Thursday, July 11, 2024, after Israeli troops withdrew following a two-week offensive. (AP Photo)

Emergency workers uncover dozens of bodies in a Gaza City district after Israeli assault

 
An Israeli soldier dismounts from his tank near the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel, Friday, July 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

The Latest | Israeli strike kills 4 aid workers in Gaza ‘safe zone,’ UK-based group says

 
Families and friends of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for their return as they begin a four-day march from Tel Aviv to the Prime Minister's house in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

The Latest | Israel will send cease-fire negotiators to Cairo for more talks, Netanyahu says

 
A Palestinian woman hugs her son wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli military orders the evacuation of Gaza City, an early target of its war with Hamas

 
Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Airstrike kills 25 in southern Gaza as Israeli assault on Gaza City shuts down medical facilities

 

Hamas says ongoing Israeli operations in Gaza City could have ‘disastrous repercussions’ for the cease-fire talks

 
Israeli soldiers move near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, July 8, 2024. Israeli forces advanced deeper into the Gaza Strip's largest city in pursuit of militants who had regrouped there, sending thousands of Palestinians fleeing on Monday from an area ravaged in the early weeks of the nine-month-long war. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza City as Hamas warns that escalation threatens cease-fire talks

 
ADDS DETAILED INFORMATION Blood can be seen in the aftermath of the Israeli airstrike on a U.N.-run school-turned-shelter that killed at least 16 Palestinians in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 6, 2024, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel’s military said it struck several “terrorists” operating in the area of the school and had tried to lessen the risk to civilians. (AP Photo/Saher Alghorra)

Gaza destruction likely helped push Hamas to soften cease-fire demands, several officials say

 
A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest marking nine months since the start of the war and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israeli protesters block highways, call for cease-fire to return hostages 9 months into war in Gaza

 
Relatives mourn over the body of a Palestinian man killed in an Israeli airstrike on a U.N.-run school-turned-shelter that killed at least 16 people in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 6, 2024, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel’s military said it struck several “terrorists” operating in the area of the school and had tried to lessen the risk to civilians. (AP Photo/Saher Alghorra)

Hamas clears the way for a possible cease-fire in Gaza after dropping key demand, officials say

 
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, light a fire to keep away mosquitoes and other insects, which have recently infested the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

The Latest | Hamas says ‘positive response’ from mediators to its cease-fire amendments

 
FILE - Palestine's Mohammed Rashid (3) and Qatar's Abdel Aziz Hatim compete for the ball during the Asian Cup round of 16 soccer match between Qatar and Palestine at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Rashid once worked as a forklift driver in a Chicago warehouse (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

Palestinian soccer team plans to play World Cup qualifiers in the West Bank

 
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo /Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel weighs Hamas’ latest response to Gaza cease-fire proposal as diplomatic efforts are revived

 

The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says the Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has passed 38,000

 
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo /Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel approves plans for nearly 5,300 new homes in West Bank settlements

 
FILE - Palestinians transport a captured Israeli civilian, Noa Argamani, on a motorcycle from southern Israel, in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023. Victims of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in Israel sued Iran, Syria and North Korea on Monday, July 1, 2024, saying their governments supplied the militants with money, weapons and know-how needed to carry out the assault that precipitated Israel's ongoing war in Gaza. (AP Photo)

Lawsuit accuses Iran, Syria and North Korea of providing support for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel

 
The sun sets behind the buildings in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Saturday, June 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The UN starts to move tons of aid from US-built pier after security fears suspended work there

 
FILE - A woman and her children walk past a wall with photographs of hostages who were kidnapped during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, Feb. 26, 2024, in Jerusalem. On Monday, June 24, Israelis who were taken hostage or lost loved ones during the attack filed suit against the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, claiming it has helped finance the militants by paying agency staffers in U.S. dollars and thereby funneling them to money-changers in Gaza who allegedly give a cut to Hamas. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Israelis’ lawsuit says UN agency helps Hamas by paying Gaza staff in dollars

 
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital morgue in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Netanyahu says he won’t agree to a deal that ends the war in Gaza, testing the latest truce proposal

 
A group of Israelis on an educational tour visit the home of the Siman Tov family on Friday, June 21, 2024. The parents and three children were killed and their home was torched by Hamas militants on the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel. A new kind of tourism has emerged in Israel in the months since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. For celebrities, politicians, influencers and others, no trip is complete without a somber visit to the devastated south that absorbed the brunt of the assault near the border with Gaza. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Some visitors to Israel have a new stop on their tours: Hamas’ destruction in the south

 
In this combination image, Hamas' leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, speaks on April 13, 2022, in Gaza City, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on June 18, 2024, in Tel Aviv. The fate of the proposed cease-fire deal for Gaza hinges in many ways on Sinwar and Netanyahu. Each faces significant political and personal pressures that may be influencing their decision-making and neither seems in a rush to make concessions to end the war. (AP Photo)

The fate of the latest cease-fire proposal hinges on Netanyahu and Hamas’ leader in Gaza

 
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Rifts seem to appear between Israel’s political and military leadership over conduct of the Gaza war

 
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about conflict sexual violence before a screening of "Screams Before Silence," in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Monday, June 17, 2024. The presenter-led documentary film with Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Meta, is about the rape and mutilation of Israeli women on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Harris meets with former Israeli hostage who described being sexually assaulted in Gaza

 
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