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Netanyahu to ABC’s Muir: ‘No cease-fire’ without release of hostages
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again rejected the idea of a cease-fire in Gaza unless hostages are released, speaking in an exclusive interview with ABC News “World News [Read More…]
Hostage situation shuts down major airport in Germany for 18 hours
ABC News (HAMBURG) — One of Germany’s largest airports was shut down for more than 18 hours after a man believed to be armed and holding his 4-year-old child hostage drove a vehicle through a [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: 88 UN aid workers killed, highest in a single conflict
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
Hostage situation shuts down major airport in Germany for 18 hours
ABC News (HAMBURG) — One of Germany’s largest airports was shut down for more than 18 hours after a man believed to be armed and holding his 4-year-old child hostage drove a vehicle through a [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel strikes 450 Gaza sites, takes Hamas compound, IDF says
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
Hostage situation shuts down major airport in Germany for 18 hours
ABC News (HAMBURG) — One of Germany’s largest airports was shut down for more than 18 hours after a man believed to be armed and holding his 4-year-old child hostage drove a vehicle through a [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: 60 hostages killed in bombings, Hamas’ military arm claims
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
Magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Nepal: USGS
John Elk III/Getty Images (NEPAL) — A strong magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Nepal just before midnight on Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 5.6 magnitude quake had a depth of 17.9 kilometers (11.12 miles) [Read More…]
Some families of US citizens say they face being separated when exiting Gaza
MOHAMMED ABED / Contributor/Getty Images (GAZA) — Moments after President Joe Biden announced the Rafah crossing would open for “wounded Palestinians and for foreign nationals to exit Gaza,” hundreds of American families held their breath, [Read More…]
Family of US hostages believed to be taken during Israeli kibbutz massacre plead for release
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The family of an American-Israeli couple believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas when it attacked Israel on Oct. 7 is recounting the agonizing details of what they know [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Blinken recounts video of dad, sons targeted at kibbutz
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Blinken and Netanyahu meet amid continuing hostilities
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: American who escaped Gaza describes chaos at border
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
People in Gaza share what life is like amid bombardment of Israel-Hamas war: ‘We’re all humans’
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (SDEROT, Israel) — An Israeli fighter jet roared overhead as it dropped a bomb near where Lena Beseiso and her family were hunkered down in the war-torn Gaza Strip. The 57-year-old Palestinian-American citizen, [Read More…]
Rafah crossing: What is happening at the Egypt-Gaza border?
Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some people in Gaza have been given clearance to leave for the first time via Egypt’s Rafah border crossing since Oct. 7, when the terrorist group Hamas [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Border crossings continue in Rafah for second day
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
Rafah crossing: What is happening at the Egypt-Gaza border?
Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some people in Gaza have been given clearance to leave for the first time via Egypt’s Rafah border crossing since Oct. 7, when the terrorist group Hamas [Read More…]
‘We expect American citizens to exit’ Gaza Wednesday, Biden says
Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After weeks of negotiations on the matter, President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that some Americans trapped inside Gaza have left and more would be allowed to exit in [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 American aid workers cross from Gaza into Egypt
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with [Read More…]
Palestinian student describes destruction and fear in Gaza amid Israel’s siege
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gazan Younes Elhallaq is hiding from airstrikes in a home with 30 of his family members — seven families housed in four rooms under one roof. Many of them evacuated [Read More…]