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"What I can say, without a doubt, is that Iran is broadly complicit in these attacks," U.S. deputy national security adviser Jon Finer said on "CBS Mornings" Monday. "Iran has been Hamas' primary backer for decades. They have provided them weapons. They have provided them training. They...
Blinken, however, said, “It is our view now that a cease-fire would simply leave Hamas in place, 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 protectin...
'It's simply depravity in the worst imaginable way,' Blinken says of attacks carried out on civilians U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference, Thursday Oct. 12, 2023, in Tel Aviv. Jacquelyn Martin | AP Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the imagery...
In an earlier statement on Tuesday, the IDF said it had cancelled a "large number" of attacks in recent days, which it said was done to avoid civilian casualties. The lieutenant colonel added if it is directed to open a humanitarian corridor by the government, then...
The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip has risen to 31,923, with 74,096 others wounded, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said Wednesday.■
This year as in years past, The Associated Press was there up close to document the world’s conflicts and their toll on civilians. From the Israel-Hamas war to Russia’s grinding battles against Ukraine, 2023 has shown the dangers of armed conflicts breaking out into region-wide combat. ...
In response to the Israeli threats, Hamas' military wing's spokesman Abu Obeida warned in an audio statement that "any targeting of our people in their homes without prior warning will be regrettably faced with the execution of one the hostages of civilians we are holding." ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk condemned attacks on civilians in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian military group Hamasin a statement out Tuesday. Israeli forces have engaged in a series of retaliatory strikes following a Saturday offensive by Hamas, which open...
have made it clear that both governments believe there's no "moral equivalence" to draw between Hamas' attacks on Israeli citizens — including the slaughter of families in their homes and hundreds of young people at a music festival — and the measures the Jewish state says it has had to ...