“There must be full accountability,” Biden said in a statement released Wednesday. “And Israel must do more to ensure that incidents like this never happen again.” Advertisement The deaths of American citizens in the West Bank have drawn international atten...
Israel Warned about Hassling American Citizens
Israel's military said Hamas' attack and ongoing rocket fire had killed more than 1,300 people as of Friday, and at least 27 Americans are known to be among the dead. In Gaza, the Health Ministry said at least 1,799 people, including 583 children, had been killed by Israel's retali...
In an interview with CNN, as he’s done repeatedly in recent months, he adopted some of Hamas’s talking points about Israel indiscriminately killing civilians. He said that if it invaded Rafah—Hamas’s last stronghold in Gaza—“I’m not supplying the weapons.” The alleged motive for th...
Margaret Brennan: When you watch the news right now and you see what has happened in Israel-- not just about the people killed, but the hostages that have been taken, what is that like for you? Emad Shargi: I cannot imagine what it must feel like to have your daughter, your son, ...
The Israel Defense Forces had released a statement on activity in the area where Eygi was killed and said the "incident" is under review. "The IDF is looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired in the area. The details of the incident and th...
in the West Bank,” U.S. ambassador to Israel Jack Lewposted on Xon Friday morning. “We are urgently gathering more information about the circumstances of her death, and will have more to say as we learn more. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of Am...
southern Tel Aviv office building before being apprehended, police and witnesses said. Later Thursday, authorities said three people, among them the American citizen, were killed and six wounded in a shooting and vehicle attack in the West Bank. It was not clear why the American was in Israel...
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist whom Israel admits was likely killed by one of its soldiers in theWest Banka week ago, was laid to rest on Saturday morning. Eygi, a 26-year-old from Seattle who held U.S. and Turkish citizenships, was buried in her hometown in the town...
More than 600 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Oct. 7, some belonging to militant groups and others civilians, according to the United Nations. That’s a sharp rise from what was already the bloodiest year on record before Oct...