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Israel: No Power, Water for Gaza Until Hostages Are Returned

ICRC calls siege 'not acceptable'

(Newser) - Gaza's only power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday amid what Israel calls a "complete siege"—and the country's energy minister says supplies won't be restored until Hamas frees the hostages seized during its surprise attack Saturday. "Not a single electricity switch will be...

'Utterly Horrific' Scenes Found in Israel Kibbutz

Military says families were 'butchered' by Hamas fighters

(Newser) - Harrowing stories are continuing to emerge from the surprise Hamas attack on Israel, which killed at least 1,200 people. Hours after troops took full control of the Kfar Aza kibbutz on Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Itai Veruv told CNN there had been a "massacre" in the small farming community...

Israel Police Snip 'Another String' in Hamas' 'Bow'

Authorities say they've frozen terror group's crypto accounts

(Newser) - The Israel-Hamas war is expected to only escalate , despite more than 2,100 lives on both sides already lost. Israeli police have announced one big move after Hamas' bloody attacks over the weekend, reporting on Tuesday that they'd frozen cryptocurrency accounts used by the terror group. Israeli police said...

Report: Hamas Attack May Have Surprised Iran Leaders

But Tehran was definitely complicit, US says

(Newser) - American officials say there's no doubt that funding from Iran helped make the Hamas attack possible—but the surprise attack on Israel may also have been a surprise to Iranian leaders. The New York Times , citing "US officials and another official in the Middle East," reports that...

Israel Has 10 Iron Dome Batteries. We Have 2 More

In a letter, senators ask the batteries be sent to Israel immediately

(Newser) - A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday evening requested two Iron Dome batteries that are held by the US be sent to Israel. In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, NBC News reports Sens. Mike Rounds, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jacky Rosen, and Rick Scott said "the United States...

Israel Forms an Emergency Wartime Government

Netanyahu joins with opposition leader Benny Gantz to form small cabinet to fight Hamas

(Newser) - A top opposition Israeli politician says he has reached an agreement to enter a wartime unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports the AP . Benny Gantz, a former defense minister and military chief of staff, released what he said was a joint statement with Netanyahu. The statement said they...

Ilhan Omar Called 'Unfit to Serve' After Israel Comments

3 members of the Squad accuse Israel of operating an apartheid state

(Newser) - Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of "the Squad" in the House of Representatives and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress , on Monday took to social media to decry Israel's response to the attack by Hamas. Omar, who supports the Palestinian cause and has a...

Israel Defense Minister Says He Has 'Released All the Restraints'

Neighborhood-by-neighborhood airstrikes could be prelude to ground offensive

(Newser) - Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. Humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation of corridors to get aid into...

Bodies of 1.5K Hamas Militants Found in Israel

Israel's military also says Gaza's parliament, civilian ministries are legitimate targets

(Newser) - Around 1,500 bodies of Hamas militants have been found in Israeli territory, the Israeli military said Tuesday after announcing it had largely gained control in the south and "restored full control" over the border on the fourth day of fighting following an unprecedented surprise attack. Spokesperson Richard Hecht...

Schumer Grateful for China's New Statement on Israel

US Senate majority leader was previously upset China didn't condemn Hamas attack

(Newser) - US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday he was grateful for a strengthened statement from China condemning the killing and kidnapping of Israeli and foreign civilians by Hamas, issued during a bipartisan congressional visit to Beijing, the AP reports. Schumer told Foreign Minister Wang Yi earlier in the day...

More Than 100 Bodies Found in Israel Kibbutz

Search group found remains after standoff in farming community ended

(Newser) - The death toll from the attack on southern Israel launched from Gaza early Saturday has risen to more than 900, according to Israeli media, including more than 100 people killed in the tiny farming community of Be'eri. The volunteer search and rescue organization ZAKA said it found the bodies...

Hamas Threatens to Start Killing Hostages

Spokesman says executions will be broadcast if more Gazan civilians die in Israeli attacks

(Newser) - As Israel continued to pound Gaza with airstrikes ahead of a possible ground offensive, a spokesman for Hamas' military wing threatened to start killing hostages. The militants seized at least 150 hostages , including elderly people and children, in the cross-border attack that began Saturday morning, the New York Times reports....

Israeli Newspaper Pins Blame for Attack Solely on Netanyahu

Prime minister's policies under fire

(Newser) - As the assessments roll in after the weekend attack by Hamas on Israel, some are focusing on the logistics of the military assault . Others are taking a broader view by looking at the bigger-picture issues at play, including the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Coverage:
  • The blame: A scathing
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One Key to Hamas Attack: a Mock Israeli Settlement

Militants pulled off a 2-year campaign of deception, reports Reuters

(Newser) - Two days after the stunning Hamas attack on Israel, the question remains: How did Israeli's vaunted intelligence agency fail to see this coming ? A story at Reuters provides one of the best explanations so far, with details from Hamas insiders familiar with the planning. For two years, Hamas...

'So Petrified': Hostages' Plight Complicates Israeli War

Dozens, at the least, have been abducted

(Newser) - One disturbing element of the surprise assault on Israel has been the number of civilian hostages taken. The New York Times estimates that 150 Israelis were abducted and taken to various locales throughout Gaza. CNN simply says "dozens," though Hamas says the figure is "several times greater"...

At Least 9 US Citizens Have Been Killed in Israel

Number expected to climb; others may have been taken hostage

(Newser) - Expect the number to grow, but for now the State Department is putting the number of US citizens killed in Israel since Saturday at nine. American officials issued the first official update Monday, without identifying any of the victims yet, reports CNN . It's also possible that Americans are among...

Hamas, Hezbollah Sources: Iran Helped Plan Attack on Israel

Though US officials say there's no evidence of that yet

(Newser) - One big factor in the looming question of how Israel and its allies in the West failed to anticipate the Hamas attack that launched a war ? Iran. Senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which are Iran-backed militant groups, anonymously confirm to the Wall Street Journal that Iranian...

Israeli Airstrike Kills 19 Members of Palestinian Family

Including children, surviving family member says

(Newser) - The evacuation warning came shortly after dark. The Israeli military fired the shot just a short distance from Nasser Abu Quta's home in the southern Gaza Strip, a precautionary measure meant to allow people to evacuate before airstrikes. Abu Quta, 57, thought he and his extended family would be...

More Than 1K Dead in Israel-Hamas War
More Than 1.1K Dead
in Israel-Hamas War
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Oct 9, 2023 12:15 AM CDT

More Than 1.1K Dead in Israel-Hamas War

Flights to Israel are being canceled amid the escalating conflict

(Newser) - The death toll is more than 1,100 after the surprise Hamas attack on Israel Saturday led Israel to declare war on the militant group; of the dead, more than 700 are in Israel (including at least 260 found dead at a music festival where others were reportedly taken hostage;...

US Sends Aid to Israel, Deploys Naval Force

Ford carrier strike group heads for the Eastern Mediterranean

(Newser) - No sooner had President Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that military assistance is on its way to Israel for its war against Hamas than the Pentagon announced a deployment. Biden made the assurance in a phone call on Sunday, the New York Times reports, that included a discussion of...

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