Israel-Hamas War

The Lebanese Health Ministry says that 1,974 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in the country since Oct. 8, 2023.

Protesters gathered outside the home of Illinois Treasurer Mike Frerichs over investments connected to Israel, NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Israel announced Monday that it had begun a ‘limited, localized and targeted’ ground incursion into Lebanon.

The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had begun a “limited, localized” operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, opening a new front in its war against the Lebanese militant group.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is setting the agenda in the Middle East in recent months, with a frustrated Biden White House unable to shape events or defuse a spreading conflict.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah led the group since 1992 turning it into Lebanon’s most powerful force. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike Friday afternoon.

The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday in a series of massive explosions that targeted the leader of the militant group and leveled multiple high-rise apartment buildings.

The U.S., France and other allies are jointly calling for an immediate 21-day cease-fire to allow for negotiations in the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 600 people in Lebanon.

The Israeli army chief says the military is preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon after Hezbollah hurled dozens of projectiles into Israel, including a missile aimed at Tel Aviv.

Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander Tuesday as part of a two-day bombing campaign that has left more than 560 people dead.

The increasing strikes and counterstrikes have raised fears of all-out war, even as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza and tries to negotiate the release of scores of hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Hezbollah has vowed to continue its strikes in solidarity with Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group.

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced that it fired a barrage of missiles at a military base deep inside Israel early Sunday following an Israeli airstrike more than a day earlier that killed at least 37 people, including one of the militant group’s senior leaders as well as women and children.

Israel says that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country’s north to allow its residents to return to their homes there is now an official war goal as it considers a wider military operation in Lebanon.

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing those displaced by the war in Gaza has killed at least 19 people and wounded 60.

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza has killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others.

The White House on Friday requested that Israel investigate the death of a 26-year-old American woman, Aysenur Eygi, in the occupied West Bank.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other militants in connection with the Oct. 7 rampage in Israel.

An Israeli-American family that became an international symbol in the struggle to free hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza laid their son to rest on Monday after the discovery of his body and those of five others brought a fresh outpouring of grief.

An Israeli-American family that became an international symbol in the struggle to free hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza laid their son to rest on Monday after the discovery of his body and those of five others brought a fresh outpouring of grief. JC Navarette has the story.

A rare general strike in Israel to protest the failure to return hostages held in Gaza led to disruptions around the country.