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21 Oct 1949

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Israel's Prime Minister

Relatives mourn next to the body of their loved one after an Israeli airstrike on a medical clinic in Gaza on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Dozens more die in Gaza as Israel intensifies assault

Over 250 people are said to have been killed since Thursday, while Trump says residents are starving and he expects ‘a lot of good things’ in the next month.

16 May 2025 - 8:24PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Dozens killed in overnight strikes on southern Gaza city, hospital says

16 May 2025 - 8:29AM

Israel-Gaza war

Gaza rescuers say 80 killed in Israeli strikes

15 May 2025 - 1:03PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel’s Netanyahu vows ‘full force’ offensive in Gaza, relocate Palestinians

The Israeli PM pledged the Gaza offensive to defeat Hamas, amid international backlash and plans for Palestinian displacement.

13 May 2025 - 10:27PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged a full-force Gaza offensive to defeat Hamas. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas releases Israeli-American hostage from Gaza

Hamas handed over 21-year-old Edan Alexander, who was held in Gaza since October 2023.

13 May 2025 - 10:42AM

United States

Trump’s Middle East trip raises doubts about Israel’s ‘ironclad’ standing with US

Trump is set to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, during his trip, but not Israel. Some Israelis are concerned about the state of its relationship with the US.

12 May 2025 - 8:26PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 15, mostly women and children

More civilians die as Israel’s military continues its offensive against Hamas in war-torn Gaza.

12 May 2025 - 12:29PM

A woman during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday. Photo: Reuters

Middle East

Israel strikes Yemen after Houthi missile attack on main airport

Israel’s prime minister had vowed to retaliate for Sunday’s missile attack on Ben-Gurion International Airport.

6 May 2025 - 11:44AM

Israel

Israel opposition leader fears violence over move to sack Shin Bet chief

‘If we don’t stop this, there will be a political murder here … Jews will kill Jews,’ Yair Lapid said.

21 Apr 2025 - 4:34AM

Israel-Gaza war

Hundreds of patients evacuated as Israel strikes hospital for fifth time

The attack, on one of the enclave’s few functioning hospitals, was against Hamas fighters exploiting the facility, Israel said.

13 Apr 2025 - 7:25PMvideocam

A Palestinian doctor at the site of the destroyed Al Ahli Baptist hospital on Sunday following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Photo: EPA-EFE

US-Iran tensions

Trump says US, Iran beginning direct talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme

During meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu at the White House, Trump warned Tehran of ‘great danger’ if talks are not successful.

8 Apr 2025 - 3:41PMvideocam

US President Donald Trump, right, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill dozens as Netanyahu heads to US for war talks

Israel’s PM said he would discuss the Gaza war and a tariff imposed on Israel with Trump.

7 Apr 2025 - 3:54PM

Israel

Netanyahu to discuss tariffs with Trump in Washington visit

Unspecified Israeli goods exported to the US will face a 17 per cent tariff, despite Israel’s move to cancel its tariffs on US imports.

5 Apr 2025 - 9:51PM

Israel-Gaza war

My Take | Cancelled HKU event offers a chance to address fate of Gazans

Antisemitism is a heinous form of racism, but the most pressing moral question of our time is whether Palestinians still have the right to exist.

27 Mar 2025 - 2:51AM

Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage ADL’s Never Is Now summit at Javits Center on March 3, 2025 in New York City. Photo: Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu says strikes on Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

Israeli strikes killed more than 400 and shattered months of relative calm in Gaza since ceasefire began.

19 Mar 2025 - 8:05PMvideocam

A Palestinian man weeps next to a truck carrying the bodies of the victims of overnight Israeli strikes in northern Gaza on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu’s move to fire security agency chief threatens new crisis in Israel

Opponents organised protests on Monday after Ronen Bar’s dismissal while a former court president warned against the ‘dangerous’ move.

18 Mar 2025 - 1:54AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu seeks to oust Israel’s domestic security service chief

Israeli leader at odds with Shin Bet’s chief over the October 7 attack and possible links between employees in Netanyahu’s office and Qatar.

17 Mar 2025 - 2:52PM

United States

My Take | Is Donald Trump the real-life Manchurian candidate?

Internet speculation may be off the mark, but his tilt towards Moscow will enable Putin to prevail over Europe and regain leverage over China.

5 Mar 2025 - 9:00PM

Donald Trump addressing a joint session of Congress. Photo: DPA

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas armed wing says it will hand over bodies of 4 hostages ‘tonight’

Hamas has released hostages, and the bodies of four dead hostages, in large public ceremonies.

27 Feb 2025 - 8:12AM

Middle East

Israeli PM orders ‘intensive’ West Bank operations after bus explosions

At least three empty buses exploded in Bat Yam, a city outside Tel Aviv on Thursday evening.

21 Feb 2025 - 5:18PM

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas returns 4 Israeli bodies said to include a mother and her 2 children

Thursday’s handover could provide impetus for negotiations on the second stage of the ceasefire that have hardly begun.

20 Feb 2025 - 8:58PM

A woman is overcome with emotion as the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including a mother and her two children, are handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas to hand over 4 bodies, including Bibas children, and 6 living hostages

The militants say Shiri Bibas and sons Ariel and Kfir were killed in an Israeli attack, but Israel says their deaths have not been confirmed.

19 Feb 2025 - 2:13AMvideocam

People carry placards with pictures of child hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas in Tel Aviv, Israel, on February. Photo: Reuters

Middle East

Israel says army retreating from Lebanon, but for 5 outposts

Israel had been due to finalise its withdrawal by February 18, after it missed a January deadline.

18 Feb 2025 - 5:09PM

Israel-Gaza war

‘We’re not clinging to power’: Hamas ready to stop governing Gaza to extend truce

This concession, announced by Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qasim, aims to fulfil one of Israel’s demands for a second phase of the truce.

18 Feb 2025 - 12:27AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas to free hostages as planned to keep Gaza ceasefire from collapsing

The militant group had originally said it would stop freeing captives, leading Israel to threaten to return to war.

14 Feb 2025 - 8:15PMvideocam

A protester holds a sign on a highway in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday after Hamas said it would delay a planned hostage release. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel PM threatens to resume Gaza fighting if hostages not released Saturday

Netanyahu’s warning heightened fears that a fragile three-week-old Gaza ceasefire was on the verge of unravelling.

12 Feb 2025 - 10:49AM

An Israeli tank on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, amid the ceasefire. Photo: Reuters

United States

Israel PM Netanyahu gives golden pager to Trump

The gift is said to symbolise a turning point in the war against Hezbollah, when Israel used exploding pagers against the Lebanese group.

7 Feb 2025 - 6:09PMvideocam

Middle East

Saudi Arabia rejects Israel’s push for ties without Palestinian state

Riyadh’s rejection came swiftly after Israel’s PM said establishing formal relations ‘is not only feasible, I think it’s going to happen’.

5 Feb 2025 - 2:19PMvideocam

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