Israel

When GPS Signals Can't Tell Beirut From Jerusalem

Faced with rising tensions between Iran and Israel, the Israeli army has reportedly decided to jam certain GPS signals throughout its territory. In recent days, people using Waze, Google Maps, and Moovit, among other location-based programs, reported GPS outages throughout the central region of Israel, with maps indicating that users are in ...

Shin Bet Thwarts Plot to Kill Ben Gvir

The Israeli Security Agency, also known as Shin Bet, has hindered a plot authored by Arab Israelis and Palestinians to carry out terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank, abduct Israeli soldiers, and even kill National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. A group of Arab Israelis and Palestinians working together to carry out terror acts in ...

Biden and Netanyahu Wrap Up Gaza Phone Discussion

President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday amid growing domestic pressure to set conditions on US military support amid domestic outrage over the killing of seven aid workers in Gaza. In their first call since Monday's Israeli strike that killed the employees of the US-based World Central Kitchen ...

More Than 600 Lawyers Demand UK Cease Arms Exports to Israel

Over 600 lawyers urged the British government to halt arms exports to Israel after three Britons were killed in a strike, citing concerns over potential breaches of international law and the worsening situation in Gaza. A letter signed by more than 600 lawyers on Thursday placed more pressure on the UK government to suspend arms export licences ...

Israel Announces ‘Temporary’ Opening of Aid Routes Into Gaza

Israel announced on Friday that it would allow a "temporary" delivery of aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, threatened by famine, via the port of Ashdod and the Erez crossing, a day after an unusual warning from its major American partner. Israel announced on Friday that it would allow "temporary" aid deliveries into famine-threatened northern Gaza, ...

Israel Loses 'Communication War' in Gaza, Says Trump

Former US President Donald Trump said that Israel is "losing the PR war" in Gaza because of the images coming out of the territory and it must end the conflict quickly. "Every night, they're releasing tapes of a building falling down. They shouldn't be releasing tapes like that," Trump said in an interview broadcast on The Hugh Hewitt Show on ...

UN Rights Council Demands Halt of Arms Sales to Israel

The UN Human Rights Council called on Friday for a halt to all arms sales to Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza, in a resolution that evoked fears of genocide against Palestinians. The UN Human Rights Council demanded on Friday a halt in all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of "genocide" in its war in Gaza, which has killed more ...

Thousands of Iranians Condemn Israel and Demand Revenge

Thousands of people chanted against Israel and the United States at Friday's funeral for seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. Guards chief General Hossein Salami warned that Israel "cannot escape the consequences" of Monday's strike, which levelled the five-storey consular ...

Gaza: Guterres Denounces Israel's Use of AI

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed serious concern on Friday over reports that Israel was using artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza. According to a report in the Israeli magazine +972, Israel used artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza, in some cases with as little as 20 seconds of human ...

CIA Chief Heading to Cairo for Hostage Talks

CIA Director Bill Burns will travel to the Egyptian capital Cairo this weekend for talks on freeing hostages held in Gaza, US media said on Friday. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declined to say if Burns would be involved but told journalists that "the United States will be present for those talks." Burns will meet Mossad chief ...

US Loses Patience and Expects “Results” from Israel

Israeli strikes on seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen in Gaza represent one tragedy apiece for the Biden administration, but the United States is unlikely to make any major policy changes towards its ally. President Joe Biden has stood firmly by Israel amid months of mounting domestic and international outcry over the humanitarian toll ...

New Talks in Cairo as Israel Prepares for Iranian Retaliation

Truce talks in Gaza are due to resume this weekend in Cairo, where Joe Biden has urged negotiators to convince Hamas, while Iran is preparing its retaliation to Israel's attack on its Damascus consulate. American and Israeli negotiators were expected in Cairo over the weekend for a renewed push to reach a ceasefire-hostage deal in a war that has ...