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Turmoil from the battle between Israel and Hamas has spilled over into the West Bank and sparked the most widespread Palestinian protests in years

Israel said it is deploying troops to the Gaza frontier ahead of a potential ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory amid continued cross-border conflict.

Fighting between Israel and the militant group Hamas has killed more than 100 people, with the death toll largely among Palestinians, over the past few days, with an exchange of airstrikes and rocket fire escalating to mob violence in the streets. Whether Americans know it or not, our country is already embroiled in this conflict, explains NBC News and MSNBC...

Israel says it is massing troops along the Gaza frontier and calling up 9,000 reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory

The cross-border violence between Israel and Palestinian militants showed no signs of abating as both sides pressed ahead with rocket attacks in Israeli cities and airstrikes in Gaza.

The largest U.S. airlines are canceling flights to Tel Aviv as violence flares between Israel and Palestinians

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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Chicago on Wednesday as tensions in the Middle East continue to build between Israel and Palestinians. The protesters gathered in downtown Chicago Wednesday for a rally, then marched through the city to the Israeli consulate, where they held a lengthy rally to call attention to the growing conflict that has seen at…

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Chicago on Wednesday as tensions in the Middle East continue to build between Israel and Palestinians. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez has the latest details.

Israel is pressing ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip

A large group of protesters gathered Wednesday in downtown Chicago amid escalating tensions between Israel and Palestinians. After gathering at the intersection, protesters began to march northward on Michigan Avenue, then gathered near the Israeli consulate, closing Canal Street between Adams and Washington and Madison between Canal and Clinton. The protest is taking place as Israel continues to launch airstrikes…

A large group of protesters gathered Wednesday near the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago amid escalating tensions between Israel and Palestinians. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

The United Nations is warning that rocket attacks and airstrikes between Palestinian militants and Israeli security forces may soon spiral out of control.

Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza on Wednesday morning, as Hamas and other Palestinian militants fired rockets at Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva.

Israel has stepped up attacks on the Gaza Strip, flattening a building used by Hamas and killing at least three militants

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that his country will increase its airstrikes against Gaza militants as tensions in the region continue to escalate. Since Monday evening, some 26 Palestinians — 16 militants, nine children and a woman — have reportedly been killed in Gaza in Israelis strikes. Rockets fired by Gaza militants killed two Israeli civilians and wounded…

Palestinian militants have launched dozens of rockets from Gaza and Israel unleashed new air strikes against them

Israeli authorities are bracing for more violence over the weekend after a recent spate of shootings and as tensions soar over the threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinians from their homes in east Jerusalem. Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians and seriously wounded a third after they opened fire with makeshift submachine guns on a base in the occupied...

Six weeks after Israel’s fourth election in less than two years, things are starting to feel a bit like Groundhog Day. 

A partial list of victims shows that at least 10 boys and teens under the age of 18 were among 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews killed in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel.