Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich dismissed nationwide protests as a failure, urging Prime Minister Netanyahu to ignore pressure and order the IDF to fully defeat Hamas in Gaza.

Families of hostages held in Gaza are stepping up their campaign to secure their release by holding a strike across Israel.

For Netanyahu, the calculation is now straightforward: win the war quickly, and the rest will sort itself out. In March 2024, with the US presidential race heating up and just five months after the October 7 massacre,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the expansion of Israeli plans to temporarily take over Gaza beyond just Gaza City on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no hunger in Gaza, but malnourished children are regularly arriving at Nasser Hospital.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended a new military offensive in Gaza that’s more sweeping than previously announced, declaring in the face of growing condemnation at

The Israeli prime minister has served longer and feuded more bitterly with his generals than any prime minister in Israeli history.

Hamas has long called for a comprehensive deal but says it will only release the remaining hostages in return for the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The group has refused to lay down its arms, as Israel has demanded.

Ten Nobel Prize winners are among a slate of 23 of the most highly-regarded economists in the US and Europe who penned a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to rescind his plans to militarily occupy Gaza City, and urging him to allow unrestricted food aid into the enclave.