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Hapag-Lloyd’s $4.2B acquisition of ZIM faces likely Israeli rejection
Hapag-Lloyd's proposed $4.2 billion acquisition of ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is heading toward rejection in Israel, with a majority of government agencies expected to oppose the deal on national security and economic sovereignty grounds, according to Israeli financial media reports…
Israel raises ‘serious concerns’ over Trump’s Hamas disarmament deal
Israel has formally conveyed "serious security concerns" to the White House over the proposed agreement to disarm Hamas, marking the first public pushback from Jerusalem since President Donald Trump announced the deal last week. The objections threaten to complicate what…
UN condemns Israeli demolitions in south Lebanon despite ceasefire
The United Nations on Saturday condemned the scale of Israeli military demolitions across southern Lebanon, warning that the ongoing destruction is devastating civilian infrastructure and cultural heritage despite a ceasefire framework between Israel and Hezbollah.
Iran vows to strike US, Israeli energy sites if attacked
Iran issued a stark warning on Saturday that it would strike Israeli infrastructure and American energy facilities across the Middle East if the United States launches a new round of military operations against the Islamic Republic, as reports indicated President…
U.S., Israel plan bombing of Iran energy targets
The United States and Israel are planning a bombing campaign targeting energy infrastructure in Iran, with strikes possible throughout the weekend, CBS News reported on Friday, citing multiple sources. The operation would mark one of the harshest escalations yet in…
Hamas accepts Gaza disarmament framework but sets conditions for Israel
President Donald Trump declared on Thursday evening that his Board of Peace had reached a "historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza," calling it a "monumental step toward lasting peace and security."…
Netanyahu vows to reject US demand for troop withdrawals
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that he will defy US President Donald Trump's demand to withdraw Israeli forces from southern Syria, southern Lebanon, and Gaza, setting the stage for a tense White House meeting on…
Gaza death toll tops 73,300 as strikes persist despite ceasefire
Israeli airstrikes and gunfire have continued to kill Palestinians across the Gaza Strip this week, with Gaza's Health Ministry reporting on Friday that the overall death toll since October 2023 has risen to 73,317, including 1,191 killed since the US-brokered…
Netanyahu to meet Trump at White House on Tuesday
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Washington on Monday and meet President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, his office confirmed on Thursday. The visit ends weeks of uncertainty over whether the meeting would materialize and…
Lebanon’s Aoun to meet Trump to press for Israeli withdrawal
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, marking the first face-to-face encounter between the leaders of the two countries in nearly 20 years, as Beirut presses Washington to help secure…
Israel says Iran moved centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain
Israeli intelligence has assessed that Iran relocated centrifuges and other critical nuclear equipment into subterranean tunnels beneath Pickaxe Mountain, a heavily fortified facility near the Natanz nuclear complex, according to Israeli and U.S. officials. Israel shared the intelligence with the…
Israel advances 1,024 new settlement units in West Bank
Israel is pushing forward with plans to construct 1,024 new housing units across the occupied West Bank, targeting more than 1,069 dunams of Palestinian land, according to the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission. The announcement marks another expansion in…
Israel destroys 3 more schools in southern Lebanon
Lebanon's Education Minister Rima Karami accused the Israeli military of looting and demolishing three public schools in southern Lebanon, bringing the total number of educational institutions destroyed by Israeli forces to at least 20.
Trump administration bars Israel from joining US strikes on Iran
The Trump administration does not want Israel to participate in the renewed American military campaign against Iran, fearing that Israeli involvement could complicate the conflict and reduce Washington's control over it, CNN reported Friday citing two Israeli sources. The report…
Hamas dissolves Gaza governing body, offers power to UN-backed panel
Hamas announced on Monday the dissolution of the Emergency Committee that has administered the Gaza Strip, along with the resignation of its acting chairman, in what the group described as a step toward transferring civilian governance to a UN-backed technocratic…
Iran says nuclear talks won’t advance until Lebanon commitments are met
The diplomatic architecture President Trump built to end the US-Iran war is straining under pressure from both Israel and Iran, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly defies the agreement's terms on Lebanon while Iran's chief negotiator warns that nuclear…
Israel, Lebanon reach framework deal after extended Washington talks
Israel, Lebanon, and the United States reached a framework agreement at the State Department on Friday following an extended fourth day of indirect negotiations in Washington, marking what U.S. officials described as a step toward a partial Israeli withdrawal from…
Israeli envoy clashes with UN officials over child violations report
Nearly 25,000 children caught in armed conflict suffered a record number of grave violations in 2025, and for the first time in three decades of United Nations monitoring, government forces — not armed groups — were responsible for the majority…
Israel calls Trump’s Iran deal a ‘catastrophic capitulation’
Israel absorbed with alarm the terms of President Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran on Thursday, with analysts and officials across the political spectrum describing the agreement as a disaster that fails to achieve any of the country's war aims.
Vance warns Israel not to alienate its ‘only powerful ally’ over Iran deal
U.S. Vice President JD Vance issued a pointed rebuke to Israeli critics of the Trump administration's memorandum of understanding with Iran on Thursday, warning them not to alienate Washington as a widening gap emerges between the two allies over the…
Israel vows to hold Lebanon territory indefinitely, defying US-Iran peace deal
Hours after the United States and Iran announced a framework agreement to end their months-long conflict, Israel declared it would not withdraw from territories seized in Lebanon, setting up a direct challenge to the newly brokered peace deal.
Israel strikes Tyre, killing 8, defying Iran warning
Israeli airstrikes hit the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 32 others, according to Lebanon's health ministry, in a move that defied both an Iranian threat of retaliation and U.S.-brokered efforts to…
Hezbollah rejects U.S.-brokered ceasefire as strikes kill 4 in Lebanon
Hezbollah rejected the latest U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon's government on Thursday, as Israeli airstrikes killed at least four people in Lebanon and a United Nations peacekeeper died in crossfire, underscoring the fragility of diplomatic efforts to end…
Israel strikes Beirut suburb targeting Iranian militia missile commander
Israel's air force carried out a targeted strike on the Choueifat area on the outskirts of Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday afternoon, the first such attack near the Lebanese capital in weeks, as the military said it was targeting the…
Trump urges Arab leaders to normalize Israel ties as Iran deal nears
President Donald Trump told the leaders of several Arab and Muslim-majority countries during a phone call on Saturday that he expects them to normalize relations with Israel and join the Abraham Accords once a deal to end the war with…
U.S. has ‘almost completely excluded’ Israel from Iran talks, officials say
The United States has "almost completely excluded" Israel from ongoing negotiations with Iran, Israeli defense officials told The New York Times this week, as a widening rift between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to reshape…
Turkey sends flights to repatriate Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel
Israel has begun deporting approximately 430 activists detained from the Global Sumud Flotilla after Israeli naval forces intercepted the Gaza-bound aid convoy in international waters west of Cyprus, a move that has triggered a wave of international condemnation intensified by…
EU calls treatment of Gaza flotilla activists ‘completely unacceptable’
The European Commission on Wednesday declared that the treatment of detained Gaza flotilla activists shown in a video released by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was "completely unacceptable," joining a growing chorus of international condemnation that has triggered…
Israel advances to Eurovision final amid protests and chants
Israel's Noam Bettan qualified for the Eurovision Song Contest grand final on Tuesday night in Vienna, performing his song "Michelle" over audible chants of "stop the genocide" from audience members inside the Wiener Stadthalle. Two people who disrupted the broadcast…
Eurovision opens in Vienna amid unprecedented Israel boycott
The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest opened its first semifinal in Vienna on Tuesday evening under the shadow of an unprecedented boycott, with five countries refusing to participate and three public broadcasters declining to air the event altogether over Israel's continued…