Israel's president has tasked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with forming the next government, a setback for Netanyahu, but a 61-seat majority remains out of reach.
Isaac Herzog has chosen Gadi Eisenkot for the first attempt to form Israel’s next government. But the 67 recommendations that put him ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu do not amount to an agreed coalition, and Netanyahu remains in office pending a
GAZA CITY — The storm did not arrive as a surprise. The surprise, for many families in Gaza, is that there is still so little between them and the night, a tent
As US President Donald Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Mar-a-Lago on Monday, the fragile Gaza ceasefire, brokered under American auspices, hung by a thread, frayed by repeated Israeli violations
CAIRO — Hamas confirmed on Monday the deaths of two key figures in its military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, Mohammed Sinwar, its former leader, and Abu Ubaida, the movement’s longtime spokesman. The
In a chilling escalation of collective punishment, Israeli forces have killed over 706 relatives of Palestinian reporters while indefinitely imprisoning Gaza’s heroic physicians, Netanyahu jets to Mar-a-Lago to plead for US backing
GAZA — In the shattered husk of Gaza’s once-bustling Al-Shifa Hospital, 168 Palestinian doctors received their diplomas on Friday, their white coats stark against the rubble of a facility Israel has reduced
The deafening roar of Israeli airstrikes and the relentless hum of surveillance drones have replaced hymns and prayers across Gaza this Christmas, as the besieged enclave’s remaining 600 Christians marked one of
In a chilling declaration that lays bare the colonial ambitions undergirding Israel’s assault on Gaza, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Tuesday that Israeli forces would maintain permanent military control over the
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV delivered an unequivocal moral challenge to the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics during his first Christmas Eve Mass as pontiff, declaring that refusing to help the poor,
The United States Department of Justice Department announced Wednesday that investigators have discovered more than one million additional documents potentially connected to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, significantly expanding what was
In a rare intervention into geopolitical affairs, King Philippe of Belgium used his Christmas address to wade into one of Europe’s most contentious financial disputes, publicly supporting his government’s steadfast opposition to
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