WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pushed back on statements from Israeli leaders that their occupation of the Gaza Strip will remain open-ended. Blinken said it is “in Israel’s interest to find a way to take an off-ramp in Gaza,” because Israel has achieved two of its stated goals in the besieged [&helli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced the commencement of military exercises in the southern Golan Heights and northern Jordan Valley. In a statement, the Israeli army said: “In the coming hours, a military drill will begin in two separate areas in the northern Jordan Valley and the southern Golan Heights as part of […]...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz has threatened to attack Lebanese state targets if a cease-fire deal with Lebanon collapses. “There will no longer be an exemption for the state of Lebanon,” Katz said during a visit to the border area with Lebanon. On Tuesday, at least 10 people were killed in overnight ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Knesset member Gideon Saar as the foreign minister, replacing Israel Katz who became a defense minister. A hardliner, Saar takes the helm of Israeli diplomacy at a time when Tel Aviv presses ahead with its deadly genocidal wars on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Born [&hellip...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has issued a threat to Hezbollah’s new chief Naim Qassem that he would meet the same fate as his predecessor, Hassan Nasrallah, whom Israel assassinated September 27 in an airstrike. Katz responded to Qassem’s first official speech, where the Hezbollah leader pledged to co...
Israel has barred the UN secretary-general from entering the country, declaring him officially unwelcome. Foreign minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday he has declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata in Israel and banned him from entering the country. Several UN officials similarly have been banned in recent months, ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has said that Tel Aviv will only accept a cease-fire in Lebanon when pro-Palestinian resistance group Hezbollah has been pushed away from the border to the north of the Litani River and disarmed, according to the Israeli media. “The only acceptable way for Israel to agree to […...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed his departure to New York for the second time amid unprecedented attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon that threaten to spark a full-scale war. Originally scheduled to leave on Monday, Netanyahu’s trip has been rescheduled for Wednesday, according to Israel’s Army Radio. The ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said that attacks on the Lebanese group Hezbollah will continue until Israeli residents displaced from northern Israel can safely return to their homes. “Hezbollah is beginning to experience the strength of the Israeli army, and there is already a strong sense that they are being hunte...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has rejected the idea of mass displacements of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank after hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for the “temporary evacuation” of Palestinian civilians to carry out an operation. “We reject the idea of mass displacements of Palestinians in the West...
