PM tells Blinken Rafah op will happen • Former hostage describes Hamas psychological torture • Police engage in hours-long aerial manhunt • US to propose ceasefire-for-hostage resolution at UN
IDF troops operate in the West Bank. March 22, 2024.(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
Lebanon to complain to UN, saying Israel disrupts navigation systems
White House says there's still time to convince Israel against major ground operation in Rafah
The White House has not yet previewed what the administration plans to do should Israel continue with its ground invasion as planned, though it warned that it has "tools" to leverage against Israel.
ByHANNAH SARISOHN US national security spokesperson John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, US, March 1, 2024.(photo credit: REUTERS/ELIZABETH FRANTZ)Go to the full article > >
UN aid chief says need Israel to lift all impediments to Gaza aid
Guterres to visit Egyptian border as Israel says Rafah invasion is imminent
Guterres will later travel to Jordan where he will visit UNRWA facilities and have a Ramadan Iftar with Palestinian refugees and UN staff in Amman.
ByHANNAH SARISOHN United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres waits for the arrival of French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne before a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the crisis in the Gaza Strip at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., January 23, 2024. (photo credit: REUTERS/EDUARDO MUNOZ)Go to the full article > >
IDF investigating incident shown in viral leaked footage of drones targeting Gazans in Khan Yunis
The incident depicted in the video has been transferred for investigation to the General Staff’s Fact Finding and Mechanism.
ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF Palestinians inspect the site of Israeli strikes on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 23, 2023(photo credit: REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA)Go to the full article > >
'Anything short of total release is not enough,' American hostage families tell Blinken
The families reiterated that anything short of a total release of all hostages – both the living and deceased – is not enough, according to a statement from the group representing the families.
ByHANNAH SARISOHN US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken takes part in a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. One may legitimately ask whether these people really understand what they are talking about, the writer argues.(photo credit: THOMAS KIENZLE/REUTERS)Go to the full article > >
WATCH: COGAT facilitates entrance of another seven Gaza humanitarian aid trucks
Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said that the IDF would continue to facilitate humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians, who he said were taken captive by Hamas.
US: Russia, China 'refuse to condemn Hamas for burning people'
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield claimed that Russia and China vetoed the UNSC condemnation of Hamas for Oct. 7 because it was authored by the US
ByTOVAH LAZAROFFU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., March 11, 2024.(photo credit: David Dee Delgado/Reuters)Go to the full article > >
VP Harris says there is no safe exit for civilians from Rafah
ByREUTERS breaking news(photo credit: JPOST STAFF)Go to the full article > >Israel-Hamas war: What you need to know
Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 in the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
134 hostages remain in Gaza, 34 of which killed in captivity, IDF says