57+ min ago   (416+ words) TURMUS AYYA, Ramallah, Sept 5 (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee met on Saturday with Palestinians, including the families of U.S. citizens killed by Israeli settlers, in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank that ​has been the target…...

13+ hour, 4+ min ago   (113+ words) Sept 4 (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Friday it ​struck southern Lebanon ‌after Hezbollah launched a drone attack towards Israeli soldiers. Three people were killed ‌and ​23 were ⁠injured in Israeli ⁠strikes on south Lebanon, according to the country’s health ministry....

21+ hour, 18+ min ago   (721+ words) JERUSALEM, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Two Israeli ministers floated proposals this week for the mass removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, resurfacing an idea voiced repeatedly by right-wing politicians over the past three years as they seek to rally supporters ahead…...

1+ day, 25+ min ago   (455+ words) By Maya Gebeily and Rami Ayyub BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Israel’s military has cleared Hezbollah fighters holed up in tunnels under the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday, though the Iran-backed…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (742+ words) By Maya Gebeily and Ahmad Al Kerdi TYRE, Lebanon, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The schoolyard in southern Lebanon echoed with the squeals of playing children despite the beating sun and distant booms of Israeli airstrikes. But for most of the youth there,…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (378+ words) BEIRUT, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Syria has begun destroying the remnants of a clandestine Assad-era chemical weapons program that it recovered in May, the first such destruction in a decade, a Syrian envoy and ​a U.N. representative said on Thursday. Reuters reported…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (581+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Dozens of civil rights and advocacy groups are urging Congress to scrap a defense bill provision that would deepen U.S.-Israeli military technology ties, according to a letter seen by Reuters, at a time of growing U.S....

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (230+ words) Sept 3 (Reuters) – Israel will release five Lebanese citizens detained in southern Lebanon after finding they had no links to militant ​groups, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office ‌said on Thursday. It said the decision came amid negotiations with Lebanon to recover…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (722+ words) BEIRUT, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Iran has warned the United States that it would respond forcefully to an Israeli offensive on a mountainous ridge in southern Lebanon where Iranian military personnel are holed up alongside Hezbollah fighters, three officials briefed on the…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (619+ words) By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Haseen Alwazeer CAIRO/GAZA, Sept 3 (Reuters) – A group of farmers has been working to preserve Gaza’s native crops by rebuilding a local seed bank that was destroyed during Israel’s war in the enclave and by encouraging…...