1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (520+ words) A three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2009, which killed more than 1,400 people, including an estimated 1,100 civilians, spurred Venezuela’s Socialist president at the time, Hugo Chavez, to expel the Israeli ambassador in protest and end diplomatic relations. Seventeen years…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (323+ words) BOGOTA — Colombia’s newly appointed hard-right government on Monday recognized Israel’s claim over the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967. The United States was until now the only country to recognize Israel’s annexation of the territory in 1981. Colombian President…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (922+ words) The statement issued after this week’s meeting in Jordan was blunt about what might happen next. Jordan’s foreign minister called the meeting because of mounting evidence that the Israeli government is surreptitiously changing a decades-old agreement meant to ensure intercommunal…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1183+ words) US President Donald Trump touted it as a “historic breakthrough.” But so far the new Gaza peace deal, announced last week and meant to help end the fighting and ease the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave, only seems…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (740+ words) WASHINGTON — They went to war together against Iran, but Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s relationship is under strain after the US president reportedly called the Israeli premier “crazy.” Trump unleashed a profane tirade over the phone at Netanyahu over Israel’s…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (243+ words) JERUSALEM — Israel’s president on Tuesday invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government prosecutors to his official residence in hopes of brokering a settlement to end an ongoing corruption case against the Israeli leader. President Isaac Herzog’s office issued the invitation…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (346+ words) BUDAPEST — Hungary’s incoming prime minister Peter Magyar said last Monday the country will execute International Criminal Court warrants against anyone, after he invited Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu — wanted under just such a warrant — to Budapest later this year. In 2024, the…...

5+ mon, 8+ hour ago   (425+ words) JERUSALEM — Israel said it would partially reopen Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt on Wednesday, after it closed the key gateway when it launched a joint attack on Iran with the US. “The Rafah Crossing will reopen for movement in both…...