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US policies strengthen Benjamin Netanyahu – whose political preference in the short term is an open-ended war, not a deal

Israel seems to have endless support from the United States no matter what it does or says.

Israeli negotiators were in Cairo Friday for talks on a Gaza truce, a spokesman said, but a dispute over the presence of Israeli troops on Gaza's southern border remained among sticking points.

Warring sides indicate breakthrough not imminent as renewed fighting rages in parts of Palestinian territory

It would be a brave – or foolhardy – analyst who presumes to predict the outcomes of the talks which continue in Doha. But the fate of Gaza and its 2 million inhabitants as well as the 109 remaining Israeli hostages being held in Gaza, will depend on a political…

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Watch as Israelis pay their respects at a funeral on Thursday, 22 August, for a hostage whose body was retrieved from captivity in Gaza and brought to Israel during a military operation.

Hopes were dwindling Thursday for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where fighting raged despite pressure from the United States on Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas to reach an agreement.

The Palestinian Health Ministry says three people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a home in the occupied West Bank

As delegates assembled in Chicago for the start of the Democratic National Convention on August 19, something surreal was happening 6,000 miles away in Israel. In Tel Aviv, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, declared that Israel had accepted a “bridging proposal” to move towards a ceasefire. He insisted…

Number of homes struck in Golan Heights, with one person wounded