A former close aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, he was ordered to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security breach.
President Donald Trump’s key peace envoy will host new Gaza talks with Arab and Muslim officials on Friday in Miami, a State Department official tells the AP.
New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Hanukkah while held captive in Gaza months before they were killed.
Iceland's national broadcaster has announced it will boycott next year's Eurovision Song Contest due to discord over Israel's participation.
A Hamas leader is calling for international pressure on Israel before the Palestinian militant group moves forward with the next phase of the ceasefire in the territory.
Israeli police have forcibly entered the United Nations agency compound for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem.
A Hamas official says the group is ready to discuss “freezing or storing” its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel.
Dressed in traditional Palestinian prints and a suit, Eman Hassan Lawwa and Hikmat Lawwa walked hand-in-hand past the crumbled buildings of southern Gaza in a line of couples dressed exactly the same as them.
Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians, following Hamas' return of the remains of an Israeli hostage.
Children and families in Gaza are scooping muddy water from their tents and trying to protect the few belongings that remain after two years of war.
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on Oct. 10.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state.
President Donald Trump has made clear how much he wants to see Saudi Arabia and Israel normalize relations.
The United States has stepped up calls for U.N. consensus on its plan for Gaza as Russia is circulating a rival proposal.
Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are converging on southern Ontario as tensions rise between the U.S. and traditional allies like Canada over defense spending and trade.
Israeli and Palestinian officials say dozens of masked Israeli settlers have attacked a pair of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank.
The United States has produced a draft text for the U.N. Security Council that would provide a mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza for at least two years.
Thirteen families whose loved ones were taken hostage during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack are still waiting for Hamas to return their remains from Gaza.
President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to visit Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism about Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement during a visit to Israel even as they acknowledged significant challenges remain.
The U.S. State Department says it has “credible reports” that Hamas could violate the ceasefire with an attack on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Britain believes its experience in Northern Ireland could help achieve a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
British officials are working to overturn a decision preventing Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a Europa League soccer game at Aston Villa.
Huwaida Arraf stood defiantly in front of microphones, fresh off a plane after being released from Israeli captivity on Monday.
President Donald Trump is warning Hamas that “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them” if internal bloodshed persists in Gaza.
A Metro Detroit civil and human rights attorney is returning to America after she was released from Israeli custody.
In an emotional and historic exchange on Monday, Hamas released the final 20 living hostages held since the Oct. 7 terror attack, while Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under a U.S.-brokered cease-fire deal that President Donald Trump called “the dawn of a new Middle East.”
The Egyptian president says U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace proposal represents the “last chance” for peace in the region.
President Donald Trump has left for Israel and Egypt to celebrate the U.S.-brokered ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.
Early on Sunday mornings, tolling bells call the faithful to worship at the three churches in Taybeh.
A U.S. peace plan has propelled former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the forefront of efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
A senior Hamas official says the terrorist organization is still waiting for a formal declaration of a cease-fire from Israel, even as both sides appear to have agreed on the first phase of a deal aimed at ending months of violence in Gaza.
The United Nations says 170,000 metric tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian aid is ready to enter Gaza.
President Donald Trump is celebrating a breakthrough in the two-year conflict in the Middle East, calling it something people said could never be done.
World leaders have expressed hope for peace after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a breakthrough deal between Israel and Hamas.
Six South African activists who were detained by Israel while attempting to reach Gaza as part of an aid flotilla claim that they were subjected to harsher treatment than others.
Israel’s World Cup qualifying match at Italy next week is expected to attract more pro-Palestinian protesters outside the stadium in Udine than ticket-holding spectators inside the soccer arena.
Israeli authorities say they have deported another 171 activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla, including Greta Thunberg.
Hundreds of thousands of people across several European cities have marched in support of Palestinians and an aid flotilla's attempt to reach Gaza.
Hundreds of thousands of Italians and Spaniards marched in Rome, Barcelona and Madrid against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in a massive show of growing international anger at the two-year war.
A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict.
Pro-Palestinian Protesters have approached the gates of the Italy soccer team's training center to demand its upcoming World Cup qualifier against Israel is not played because of the war in Gaza.
Israeli forces have intercepted the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israel’s sea blockade of war-ravaged Gaza as protesters around the world rally against Israeli actions and the arrests of some 450 activists who were on the boats.
Forty years ago, Israeli warplanes struck the Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters outside Tunisia’s capital.
Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza say the Israeli navy intercepted at least 19 of their boats as they approached the besieged Palestinian territory.
After facing months of genocide accusations, pariah status and global pressure to halt the war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed on a ceasefire proposal with President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump has laid out a 20-point proposal that would end the war in Gaza and free remaining hostages.
The United Nations has added 68 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say that Israeli strikes on Yemen’s capital the previous afternoon killed at least nine people and injured scores in Sanaa.
European soccer body UEFA is moving toward a vote to suspend its member federation Israel over the war in Gaza, people familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Two major news agencies are demanding that Israel clarify what happened during strikes last month that killed five journalists as part of the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza.
Israeli troops and tanks are pushing deeper into Gaza City as more people flee the devastated area.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that Europe must stake claim to its independence in the face of challenges from Russia, new and hostile trade realities and other major powers.
An international activist flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza says it was attacked for the second night in a row.
Some prominent Hollywood figures have signed onto a pledge to boycott certain Israeli film institutions.
Israel’s military warned Gaza City residents to evacuate ahead of its plans to take control of what it portrays as Hamas’ last remaining stronghold and where hundreds of thousands of people remain under conditions of famine.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state has angered Israel and the U.S. Macron wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, emphasizing such a step would be key to Israel's security.
Pope Leo XIV is demanding that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.
Police have arrested seven people after they occupied an office at Microsoft's headquarters in Washington state.
Health officials say Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza have killed five journalists, including a freelancer who worked for The Associated Press.
Norwegian soccer’s profits from hosting Israel in a men’s 2026 World Cup qualifying game will be donated to humanitarian work in Gaza.
Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas.
An Italian hospital says a 20-year-old Palestinian woman has died after being transferred from Gaza for treatment.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting that ceasefire efforts are now focused on a comprehensive deal that would release the remaining hostages in Gaza all at once.
President Javier Milei of Argentina is helping to launch a $1 million initiative to improve diplomatic relations between Israel and several Latin American countries.
Mohamed Salah is questioning UEFA’s “farewell” to former Palestinian soccer player Suleiman Obeid who was reportedly shot and killed by Israeli forces while awaiting aid in Gaza.
London police said Sunday that 532 people were arrested the previous day when supporters of a pro-Palestinian group recently outlawed as a terrorist organization intentionally broke the law to test the government’s ability to enforce the ban.
After decades of inaction and frozen negotiations, the issue of an independent Palestinian state living in peace with Israel was back in the spotlight at a high-level U.N. conference — and France and Saudi Arabia who spearheaded the effort are determined to keep up the momentum.
Witnesses and health workers say Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians sought food.
President Donald Trump’s latest tariff moves have drawn worry from Wall Street as stocks slumped and Treasury yields fell sharply.
A growing number of Jewish Americans are urging Israel to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza, though the ongoing war with Hamas remains a tension point.
The Senate has rejected an effort from Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the sale of U.S. bombs and firearms to Israel.
Britain has announced it will recognize a Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, stops building settlements in the West Bank, and commits to a two-state solution.
An independent U.N. investigator and outspoken critic of Israel’s policies in Gaza says the sanctions recently imposed on her by the Trump administration will seriously impact her life and work.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. will partner with Israel to run new food centers in Gaza.
A high-level U.N. conference gave “unwavering support” to a two-state solution and called on Israel to commit to a Palestinian state.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September, unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza and takes steps to long-term peace.
A new poll shows support for Israel’s military action in Gaza has dropped among U.S. adults, with only about one-third approving.
France is calling on the European Union to pressure Israel to agree to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
President Donald Trump has expressed concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, urging Israel to ensure food reaches the people there.