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Israeli lawmakers have voted to advance a bill that would dissolve parliament and pave the way for early elections. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from ultra-Orthodox parties, while his fractious right-wing coalition appears to be facing possible collapse. Ultra...

A United Nations expert spoke out on Tuesday, May 19, about the alleged "torture" of Palestinian prisoners and "potentially unlawful deaths" in Israeli prisons since October 2023. The comments come as Israel faces growing scrutiny over detention conditions following Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack...

At least 22 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in the past 24 hours, according to the country’s Health Ministry, despite a 45-day ceasefire extension. The total death toll since March 2 when the fighting resumed between Israel and Hezbollah has reached 3,042, the ministry said in...

Israel has drastically escalated its attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip in the five weeks since halting its joint bombing with the United States of Iran, redirecting its firepower to the devastated Palestinian enclave. Conflict monitor ACLED, which tracks Israeli attacks in Gaza, said in ⁠a report...

Israeli legislators have approved a bill to establish a special tribunal with the power to impose the death penalty on Palestinians accused of involvement in the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023. Israeli and Palestinian rights groups warn that the bill will make the death penalty too easy to...

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have killed at least four people and wounded eight others, according to Lebanese media. The state National News Agency (NNA) reported injuries to two medics as they rushed to offer aid to victims of the latest attacks by the Israeli military in violation of the...

The United Nations has called for the immediate release of two Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla activists abducted by Israeli authorities last week, calling for an investigation into the “disturbing accounts of severe mistreatment”. Israel must “immediately and unconditionally” release activists...

Israel has launched multiple strikes across southern Lebanon, killing at least 10 people in further violations of the “ceasefire” declared two weeks ago. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said the latest wave of attacks on Saturday increased the total recorded over the previous 24 hours to 41. The...

Israeli military forces have intercepted boats traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla, using drones, communications jamming technology, and armed raiding parties to halt the humanitarian fleet in the middle of the Mediterranean as it heads to Gaza, according to organizers and Israeli media. “Our...

Lebanon’s prime minister has accused Israel of perpetrating a “heinous crime” in the targeting and killing of civil defense emergency workers, three of whom were among five people killed in a double Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Two successive ⁠Israeli strikes on a building in the town of...