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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has had to defend his stance on Israel after an op-ed he penned more than three decades ago, in which he disparaged the Palestinian people, resurfaced.

Israel says it expects to be imminently and simultaneously attacked by “Iran’s axis of evil” -- Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and Iranian military forces.

Israel Defense Forces discovered a large tunnel that is big enough to allow vehicles to pass through on the border between Gaza and Egypt, officials said Sunday.

During a conference call Sunday, Blinken stressed to US allies the need to put last-minute diplomatic pressure on Iran and Hezbollah to try to minimize their retaliation, three sources briefed on the call told Axios.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will also attend the meeting, the White House said.

The cease-fire and hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas have been effectively put on hold and will not resume until Iran fires its looming attack on the Jewish state and the terror group elects a new chief to replace its assassinated leader.

"The evidence was sufficient to conclude that they may have been involved in the seventh of October attacks," UN rep Farhan Haq said.

Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily strikes for the past 10 months during the war in Gaza.

Russian President and Iran-ally Vladimir Putin has called on Tehran to avoid attacking civilians during its expected assault on the Jewish state over the assassination of Hamas' top leader.

The Hezbollah terrorist group is expected to hit Israel in the coming days independent of Iran's own looming retaliatory strike, sources briefed on the matter say.

President Biden and his counterparts in Egypt and Qatar on Thursday called on Israel and Hamas to meet next week and hammer out the “remaining gaps” in a framework agreement for a cease-fire.

The sight of an assault rifle perched in front of a ball pit filled with squealing toddlers is incongruous but not uncommon these days in Israel. Its owner, attending to his crying 5-year-old, is a volunteer for a rapid response counter-terrorist...

The founders of the Uncommitted National Movement claimed that Kamala Harris "expressed an openness" to meeting with them to discuss an arms embargo against the Jewish State.

An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school compound housing displaced families killed around 100 people, the Hamas-run Gaza government said on Saturday.

President Masoud Pezeshkian is reportedly fighting with hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders to avoid slipping into full-scale war with Israel.

Sinwar -- who had called on his Palestinian terror group to continue the war until Israel is destroyed -- has asked Egyptian and Qatari mediators to help push for an end to the fighting as hostage negotiations continue, a source familiar with the...

The updated assessment on Tehran's expected retaliation suggests the attack could even come before Thursday, sources told Axios reporter Barak Ravid.

A group of teenage ultimate Frisbee players from Israel were banned from an international competition in Belgium last week after a vandal scrawled antisemitic statements near their playing field — and the heartbroken kids and coaches have been left...

Hezbollah fired about 30 rockets from Lebanon toward northern Israel Sunday night, as tensions in the region remained high following the assassination of a top Hamas leader last month.

The sight of an assault rifle perched in front of a ball pit filled with squealing toddlers is incongruous but not uncommon these days in Israel. Its owner, attending to his crying 5-year-old, is a volunteer for a rapid response counter-terrorist...