Israel’s military quietly drew down troops in devastated northern Gaza earlier in the war. But it has continued to carry out airstrikes and raids in areas where it says Hamas has resurfaced, including Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, leaving what the hea...
Monday Israel starts pulling out of 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank. After it's cleared, the land will be handed over to Palestinian control. Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ilene Prusher explains how - and why - this will happen.U.S. Newspapers...
An Israeli drone strike in Beirut killedSaleh Arouri, a top Hamas official in exile, as Israeli troops fight the militant group in Gaza. December 2023 Seyed Razi Mousavi, a longtime adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria, was killed in a drone attack outside of Dama...
Israel withdrew troops and settlers in 2005 but kept control over Gaza’s airspace, coastline, population registry and border crossings, excepting one into Egypt. Hamas seized power from forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007, confining his Palestinian Authority to parts of the occupied We...
Israel pulls ground troops, focuses underground ISRAEL - GAZA BORDER-- Israeli ground forces havebegun pulling out of the Gaza Strip, but the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say theoperation to quiet rocket firefrom the Palestinian territory isnot over yet, and they remain focused on destroying the...
prisoners, a wider withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, and the declaration of a permanent end to the war. The third phase would include the exchange of bodies ofdeceasedhostages and fighters, the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and the opening of the Gaza Strip’s border ...
The Israel Defense Forces are pulling out some troops from southern Gaza six months after the start of the Israel-Hamas war. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams breaks down how Israel is characterizing its latest move.
Netanyahu, who had just returned from a trip to Gaza, said a brigade commander on the ground told the prime minister that troops needed more time on location to complete their operation. At this time, hostage families began vocalizing their dissent, saying “there is no time.” As he res...
From CNN’s Ibrahim Dahman and Eyad Kourdi Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in Gaza, as seen from southern Israel, on December 26. (Leo Correa/AP) The Israel Defense Forces is using its ground, air, and naval troops to strike at what it says are “terror targets” in the...
At least 118 people were killed and 760 injured when Israel Defense Forces troops opened fire on starving Palestinian civilians who were gathering around food aid trucks, according to eyewitnesses and the health ministry in Gaza. The IDF has denied that account, saying it fired warning shots to ...