Israel-Hamas War News

At least 27 people were killed when an Israeli airstrike exploded as people played soccer at a school turned shelter in southern Gaza.

Several displaced Palestinians had sought shelter at the school in Khan Younis that was hit by the airstrike. The Israeli military said it targeting a Hamas member who participated in the Oct. 7 attack.

Two members of Hezbollah were reported killed in Syria, near the border with Lebanon, and the Israeli police said that the Hezbollah rocket barrage that followed killed a man and a woman in the Golan Heights.

The lawsuit was part of a wave of litigation against universities over accusations of antisemitism related to campus protests over the war in Gaza.

Organized looters are attacking aid convoys in search of contraband cigarettes, officials say, as needed aid languishes.

Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuks, the outgoing chief of Israel’s Central Command, rebuked the Israeli government’s policies in the West Bank and condemned “nationalist crime” by Jewish settlers.

With the survivor generation shrinking and antisemitism on the rise around the world, Israel’s Holocaust memorial is stepping up efforts to safeguard its vast collection of artifacts and testimony.

Sullivan & Cromwell is requiring job applicants to explain their participation in protests. Critics see the policy as a way to silence speech about the war.

Nemat Shafik, the university president, called the sentiments in the text messages “unacceptable and deeply upsetting.”

The left-wing alliance includes the divisive Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a combative politician who has been accused of antisemitism.

The negotiations had been stalled for weeks until Hamas announced on Wednesday that it had exchanged some ideas with mediators on a new way forward.

Many British Muslims and other voters have demanded that party leaders more vocally condemn the rising death toll and deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The latest order, which the United Nations estimated affects about 250,000 people, was the largest since October, the U.N. said.

Gazans who had already been forced to flee again and again were once more hauling their belongings out of eastern Khan Younis after the Israeli military’s new evacuation orders in southern Gaza.

In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.

The one-minute commercial, which was created by a group formed by former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, seeks to bring attention to atrocities linked to Hamas.

Amos Hochstein’s trip to France comes after comments by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken that Israel had “effectively lost sovereignty” near the border with Lebanon because of attacks by Hezbollah.

Israel’s military leadership wants a cease-fire with Hamas in case a bigger war breaks out in Lebanon, security officials say. It has also concluded that a truce would be the swiftest way to free hostages.

Rights groups denounced the detention of Al-Shifa Hospital’s director and thousands of other Gazans without trial, while Israeli leaders faulted his release as a government failure.

Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Gaza’s largest hospital, was taken into custody in late November during an Israeli military raid on the facility.

The Israelis had sought to link the hospital director to Hamas operations at Al-Shifa, and his release after seven months without charges prompted extensive finger-pointing.

Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was released on Monday after more than seven months in Israeli detention without charges.

In the towns of Tulkarm and Jenin, armed militants are flocking to more hard-line factions, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, while the Israeli military tries to rein them in.

The New York City Pride March, now in its 54th year, attracted tens of thousands in Manhattan. It was interrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

The results from Friday’s election, which drew record-low turnout for a presidential race, will force a runoff on July 5 between a reformist and an ultraconservative.

In a new video, Noa Argamani, a hostage rescued on June 8, called for the release of the remaining captives.

A recent flurry of diplomacy aims to head off a conflict that could pit the United States directly against Iran.

Under a tentative deal, Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, would help the Palestinian Authority stave off financial collapse if five illegal West Bank outposts are authorized.

Palestinian officials and residents said heavy strikes hit the Shajaiye neighborhood of Gaza City and reported multiple casualties. The Israeli military said it could not immediately comment on the strikes.

Israel said the operation was carried out in coordination with the U.S. and others, and that 68 people, including sick and injured patients and their escorts, were allowed to leave.

Iran has expanded its most sensitive nuclear production site in recent weeks. And for the first time, some leaders are dropping their insistence that the nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Palestinian officials and residents described strikes and blasts as Israel’s public broadcaster reported that the Israeli military had returned to fight Hamas in Gaza City’s east.

As well as the officer who died, another was severely wounded during the operation in Jenin, a bastion of armed resistance to Israel’s occupation. One Palestinian was also reported wounded.

Israeli officials toured the northern border as U.S. officials stressed the need for a diplomatic solution to tensions with the militant group Hezbollah.

The festival said it would no longer be sponsored by the U.S. Army or weapons manufacturers, which had prompted artists to withdraw from this year’s gathering.

A panel of global hunger experts warned this week that the Gaza Strip could soon face famine, but to many Gazans, it feels as if one has already arrived.

Israel’s insular ultra-Orthodox community has long been exempt from military service. The Supreme Court’s decision to end that exemption could change the country’s social and political dynamics.

Mr. Bowman’s win in 2020 seemed to herald an ascendant progressive movement. In 2024, the center is regaining power.

The Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, like similar institutions across the city, was consumed by strife over how to manage education about the conflict.

Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York, a member of the House’s left-wing “squad,” was defeated by George Latimer in a race that exposed Democratic fissures.

Miriam Adelson long operated in the shadow of her powerful husband, Sheldon Adelson. Now, after his death, she is playing in politics as a solo practitioner for the first time.

Hamas confirmed the death of a sister of Ismail Haniyeh and her family. The Israeli military said it was aware of the reports but could not “currently confirm” that it had struck the Haniyeh family home.

A pro-Israel political group has spent millions to defeat Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York.

The court ruled there was no legal justification for the ultra-Orthodox exemption from service, a decision that threatened to split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wartime government.

Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, was meeting with the C.I.A. director and the secretary of state on Monday as Israel signaled a potential shift in its military campaign in Gaza.

About 100 Israelis sued the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, saying it pays local employees in dollars that buoy the terrorist group. But the case faces high legal hurdles.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the conflict is about to enter a new stage. Here are four ways that may play out, both in Gaza and at Israel’s northern border.

The swift backlash to the fight between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators over the weekend has reignited debates about the boundaries of acceptable protest.

As Houthi rebels intensify strikes on vessels headed for the Suez Canal, global shipping prices are soaring, raising fears of product shortages and delays.

As the city budget deadline looms, the targets of Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts are rallying their bases.