TheHamas militant groupattacked Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare, "we are at war." Israel says at least 1,400 people there, most of them civilians, were killed in the coordinated, multi-frontedterror attacklaunched from the Gaza Strip,...
able to regroup and repeatwhat it did on Oct. 7.” He said the U.S. believes that humanitarian pauses can be a “critical mechanism in protecting civilians, in getting aid in and getting foreign nationals out, while still enabling Israel to achieve ...
Ethnic studies professors demanded the University of California stop referring to Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians as "terrorism," arguing in a letter to administrators that such language endangers students. "We call on the UC administrative leadership to retract its charges of terrorism, to uplif...
In a statement, the Al-Qassam Brigades said it fired the rockets in response to the Israeli killings of civilians in the Gaza Strip. Sirens blared in central Israel, and explosions were heard in Tel Aviv, a Xinhua correspondent reported. Loud explosions were also reported in other Israeli citi...
The global body, alongside Israel, Egypt and the U.S., have been in ongoing talks to get fuel into Gaza for the first time since hostilities began on 0ct. 7. Aid agencies have said that the lack of critical fuel supplies have made their efforts to assist civilians in the besieged encla...
There was no immediate comment from Israel on the incident. Meanwhile, Lebanon's al-Jadeed TV confirmed the death of al-Arouri and three of his bodyguards in a building in Dahieh, a suburb in southern Beirut. It added that the strike also killed civilians and injured about 20 others, wit...
civilians. In mid-March the IDF said that it would evacuate a portion of the civilians in Rafah to “humanitarian islands” that it would set up in the center of the Gaza Strip. On March 25, for the first time since the outbreak of the war, the United Statesrefrainedfrom vetoing a ...
4. The passage suggests that the Hamas attack: A) was an attempt to gain leverage in peace talks. B) revealed weaknesses in Israel's defense. C) was anticipated by Israeli intelligence. D) killed mostly Palestinian civilians. 5. Which of the following words could best replace the word "ta...
A long-anticipated Israeli ground incursion into the embattled Gaza Strip has yet to materialize, a week since the Israel Defense Forces instructed civilians in Gaza City to evacuate southward — but the offensive could take place imminently, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant signaled on Thursday...
On October 7th, Hamas killed over 1,000 Israeli civilians in the worst terrorist attack in the country's 75 year history. The militants appear at ease in the videos, slowly searching houses filled with signs of everyday life — a freshly-made breakfast, an iPad, a pair of shoes — as ...