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- Britain faces legal action over its move of pausing UNRWA funding
- Freed Hamas hostage tells all: sexual assault and torture in captivity
- Hezbollah aircraft located within vicinity of an Israeli kibbutz: IDF
It's Day 173 of the raging Israel-Hamas war, and it appears more Americans are changing their views of how Israel has been handling its military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip – at a time when cracks in the U.S.-Israel alliance were underlined by Washington's decision to not veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
More than five months into the Gaza war, tensions in Israel's northern border in Lebanon are heating up once more following a deadly rocket barrage toward an Israeli community by Iranian-backed Hezbollah that killed an Israeli and injured three others, one critically.
Israel and Hezbollah have said they would rather prevent an all-out war but have been exchanging near-daily fire, with tensions picking up this week following earlier rocket barrages by the Lebanon-based terror group.
- Israel reportedly struck at least 3 Rafah homes overnight
- US, UK conduct joint strikes in Yemeni district: Arab report
- 55% of Americans now disapprove of Israel's military offensive in Gaza: Gallup poll
- Hamas hardens stance on freeing remaining hostages: Arab media
- Hostages' loved ones sit inside cages in Tel Aviv streets in dramatic protest
- Iran's Raisi meets Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran
- US sanctions fundraisers linked to Hamas financing
At least seven people were killed after Israeli warplanes struck in Hebbariyeh, Lebanon, sources revealed. The Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) strikes were said to have targeted an emergency and relief center in the southern Lebanon village.
In Jordan, chaos ensued in the vicinity of the Israeli embassy in Amman after demonstrators marched toward the embassy in the third day of protests in support of Hamas, which carried out the grisly massacre of more than a thousand Israelis and foreign nationals on Oct. 7 and triggered a nearly six-month war.
Washington denied that it conducted strikes in Syria following reports that a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed along with several others in U.S. airstrikes.
Back in war-torn Gaza, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Al-Amal Hospital in southern Gaza's Khan Yunis has been "taken out of service." This comes following an Israeli raid at the hospital.
Fierce fighting in the Gaza Strip and tensions across the Middle East stem from the decades-long violence in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict that fuels Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to yield to international calls for an immediate ceasefire.
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US announces sanctions on Hamas-linked fundraisers
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced sanctions on two individuals and three entities accused of being "key financial facilitators involved in fundraising for Hamas."
"Treasury remains committed to degrading Hamas' ability to finance its terrorist activities, including through online fundraising campaigns that seek to funnel money directly to the group," said Brian E. Nelson, Under Secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.
The department previously sanctioned Hamas leaders and financiers, officials, representatives, financial networks associated with the terror group, and its "facilitators of virtual currency transfers."
