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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians as...

Hamas Targets Israel Nuclear Site, Oil Line to Arab World as Conflict Death Toll Rises On 5/12/21 at 11:22 AM EDT Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades said Wednesday in a message seen by Newsweek that they were "directing a rocket strike involving 15 rockets for Dimona," which houses Israel's secretive nuclear site. Rocket warning sirens could be heard there as well as in a number of areas across Israel's Negev region and further north including the cities of Ashkelon and Tel Aviv. As hundreds of rockets were launched by Al-Qassam Brigades and fellow Gaza-based forces like Palestinian Islamic Jihad's A...

Israeli paramedics on Wednesday said a 6-year-old was killed and multiple people were wounded in a rocket attack on an apartment building in the southern Israeli city of Sderot as violence escalated between the Isra

As the death toll from the most serious conflict between Israel and the Palestinians for nine years mounted throughout the day, international leaders called for restraint amid fears of a full-scale war. But Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, bucked the trend by demanding in a phone call with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, that the international community “give Israel a strong and deterrent lesson” over its conduct toward the Palestinians. Amid reports that Egyptian mediators were attempting to broker a deal to end the fighting, Benny Gantz, the Israeli defence mini...

___ WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden says that “Israel has a right to defend itself” amid a barrage of rockets fired by Hamas and other Palestinian groups from Gaza. Biden says he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid the dayslong outbreak of violence that has killed dozens. Says Biden: “My expectation and hope is that this will be closing down sooner than later.” He adds, “Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory.” Israel escalated its air campaign in Gaza on Wednesday, killin...