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The Joe Biden White House goes along all the way with Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist cabinet – to which Hamas sees terrorism as the only answer.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch a full-scale ground operation in Rafah in a bid to dismantle the remaining battalions of Hamas
- Israeli forces took control earlier in May of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in a push launched in defiance of US warnings
The US and other countries, fearing mass casualties, have tried to convince Israel not to attack Rafah. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says it’s necessary to defeat the last of Hamas’s battalions.
Israel’s vow to ‘go it alone’ masks the potentially decisive impact delays in weapons delivery will have on Gaza war and ability to mount an offensive against Hezbollah.
Giving in to Hamas would be a huge victory for the group and Iran, and project a ‘terrible weakness’, PM Netanyahu said, while also ordering the closure of ‘incitement’ news channel Al Jazeera.
As the Gaza war drags into its seventh month, conflict on Sunday was focused on Lebanon and the West Bank, but Israeli officials said further fighting in Gaza has been authorised.
Rally in Jerusalem calls for remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza to be brought home. It came as talks to secure another ceasefire that would include the release hostages resumed in Egypt.
Anger over the PM’s handling of the war in Gaza have sparked mass protests aiming to force him out of office.
Tens of thousands of Israelis thronged central Jerusalem, urging the government to reach a ceasefire deal to free dozens of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and to hold early elections.
Global hunger monitor warns that escalation of the war could push half of Gaza’s total population to the brink of starvation.
US President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza was ‘hurting Israel more than helping Israel’.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Brazilian president’s comments trivialised the Holocaust and ‘crossed a red line’.
The strikes came after PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered troops to ‘prepare to operate’ in the southern border city, where around 1.3 million people have fled, with Palestinians saying they have nowhere left to retreat.
Biden’s comments reflect the growing divide between the Democratic president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government which includes far-right ministers.
The UN agency responsible for delivering aid to Palestinian refugees is under fire over accusations by Israel that 12 staff members were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out releasing Palestinian prisoners as part of any deal to halt fighting in Gaza, repeating his vow to keep fighting until “absolute victory” over Hamas.
Obstacles have long impeded the two-state solution, which envisages Israeli and Palestinian states alongside each other.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a Palestinian state, and vowed to destroy Hamas in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the soldiers but vowed to press ahead with the offensive until ‘absolute victory’ over Hamas.
‘The UK’s position remains (that) a two-state solution … is the best route to lasting peace,’ a spokesman for UK PM Rishi Sunak said on Monday.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the ICJ won’t derail Israel’s offensive after South Africa asks the court to stop the war.
Blinken reiterated Washington’s long-standing position that a Palestinian state must stand alongside Israel, “with both living in peace and security”.
Militants in the area are now operating sporadically and ‘without commanders’, and the focus is now on the centre and south of the Gaza Strip, a spokesman says.
Israel’s Supreme Court overturned a highly contested law aimed at weakening the justices’ own power in a loss to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition.
‘We continue intensive strikes to hit Hezbollah’s deployment close to the northern border,’ military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.
Turkey’s president stepped up his attacks on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and likened Israel’s attacks on Gaza to the treatment of Jewish people by the Nazis.
Benjamin Netanyahu also said once the fighting ends that ‘for the foreseeable future Israel will have to retain overriding security responsibility over Gaza’.
Benjamin Netanyahu asks Xi Jinping to intervene personally to secure the release of woman captured during Hamas’ October 7 attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Gaza on Monday and vowed to expand the military operation, and says the war “isn’t close to finished”.
Hamas warned the remaining 137 hostages it is holding won’t survive the conflict unless Israel meets its demands and frees more Palestinian prisoners.
