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Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that intense fighting against Hamas is "very close" to an end. In an interview with Israeli Channel 14 TV news, Netanyahu on Sunday said that "the intensive phase of the…

Jerusalem: The Israeli Health Ministry has reported 19 cases of West Nile fever diagnosed since the beginning of May, with several of them detected in the last two days. The Ministry noted on Friday in a statement that 17 of the…

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the White House to lift all restrictions on weapons shipments to Israel, imposed by US President Joe Biden's administration over the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza's…

Jerusalem, Israel's military has said that its troops have defeated about half of the Hamas forces in Gaza's Rafah. According to a statement issued on Monday by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), soldiers from the 162nd Division,…

Jerusalem: The Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure has announced a strategic plan for the country's energy transition from traditional fossil fuels to biological, synthetic, and hydrogen fuels by 2050. The plan's purpose…

Like every other Israeli military operation during the eight-month-long war, the army was not lenient in killing civilians including children as it rescued the 4 hostages.

Jerusalem: Israel's centrist War Cabinet Minister, Benny Gantz, has announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency government and called for new elections. In response, Netanyahu released a statement on…

Gaza: The Palestinian Mayor of central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, Iyad al-Mughari, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, Palestinian medical and security sources have said. The mayor was killed, along with a number of his family…

Jerusalem: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said in a statement that it destroyed a tunnel in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. The statement issued on Wednesday added that the 2-km-long tunnel "was used by terrorists for force build-up…

Jerusalem: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said that they have confirmed the deaths of another four Israeli hostages taken to the Gaza Strip by Hamas on October 7, 2023, claiming the Gaza-ruling group is still holding their bodies.…

Jerusalem; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he accepted the invitation to address a joint meeting of the US Congress in Washington. In a statement, the Israeli Prime Minister said on Saturday that he plans to speak…

Jerusalem: Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has announced his rejection of a request by his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Albares to remove the restrictions on the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem. A week ago, Israel announced that…

Jerusalem: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that no official message has been received from the Brazilian government regarding the decision to recall the ambassador to Israel Frederico Meyer. Earlier on Wednesday, Brazil…

Tel Aviv: Amid growing international condemnation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the strike which killed scores of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday was a "tragic mishap". At least 45 people were killed…

Cairo: Countries in the Middle East and the European Union have condemned Israel's airstrike on tents housing displaced civilians in northwestern Rafah of the Gaza Strip, which reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least 45 Palestinians…

The army said they were killed on the day of the attack at the Mefalsim intersection and their bodies were taken to Gaza.

Support for the warrants from three European Union countries also exposes divisions in the West's approach to Israel.

A panel of three judges will consider the prosecutor’s evidence and determine whether to issue the arrest warrants and allow a case to proceed.

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Karim Khan said Monday he had applied for an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes including "wilful killing".

Israelis are divided into two main camps: those who want the government to put the war on hold and free the hostages, and others who think the hostages are an unfortunate price to pay for eradicating Hamas.