The Israeli military announced Thursday an expansion of its month-old ground operation in northern Gaza to include part of Beit Lahiya, a town that has been heavily bombed since the earliest days of the war, where Israel says Hamas militants have regrouped.

Like the Biden administration, which worked for a cease-fire in Gaza that never was, Trump wants the war there to end sooner rather than later. In a phone call ahead of the election, the president-elect told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wrap up major military operations in Gaza before Inauguration Day.

Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday want Donald Trump, who won the US election, to end the war between Israel and Hamas that has devastated their territory.

Two Jewish students at DePaul University in Chicago who were “visibly showing their support for Israel” were targeted by masked attackers, the university said.

Masked attackers punched two Jewish students at DePaul University in Chicago who were showing their support for Israel, the university's president said.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz waits for his British and French counterparts for a meeting, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Jerusalem August 16, 2024. REUTERS/Florion Goga/File Photo JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel Katz,

The House censured the only Palestinian American in Congress, Rashida Tlaib, over her remarks on Israel and Palestine.