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Hamas and Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has spoken three times with Donald Trump since Tuesday's election and they «see eye-to-eye regarding the Iranian threat and all of its components.» Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday. The Israeli airstrike in Lebanon killed at least 23 people including seven children in Aalmat village north of Beirut, far from the areas in the east and south where Hezbollah militants have a major presence. Lebanon's Health Ministry said another six people were wounded. There was no Israeli evacuation warning. There was no immediate Israeli comment.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TEL AVIV—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies celebrated Donald Trump’s win, assuming the former president’s return to the White House will bring it with the kind of support for Netanyahu’s policies that characterized Trump’s first term in office. But this time around, things are different.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Israeli government said it was sending planes to the Netherlands to evacuate its citizens after street violence following a soccer game in Amsterdam, where Israeli fans were chased down and beaten in what Israeli and Dutch leaders called antisemitic attacks. It is unclear what set off the violence.

Emanuel Macron congratulated Donald Trump on his recent and apparent victory in the US Presidential Elections 2024 while he became one of the first world leaders to do so. According to Huffpost, in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), Emanuel Macron expressed his readiness to collaborate with Donald Trump while referencing to their four year old partnership.

Iran's leadership and allies are bracing for what they would regard as a dreadful outcome of the imminent U.S. presidential election: A return to power of Donald Trump. Opinion polls suggest the Republican Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris remain locked in a close contest. But Iranian leaders and their regional allies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen are concerned that Trump could well triumph on Nov. 5 and this could spell more trouble for them. Iran's main concern is the potential for Trump to empower Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike Iran's nuclear sites, conduct targeted assassinations and reimpose his «maximum pressure policy» through heightened sanctions on their oil industry, according to Iranian, Arab and Western officials. They anticipate that Trump, who was president in 2017-21, will exert utmost pressure on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to cave in by accepting a nuclear containment deal on terms set by himself and Israel.

ceasefire between Israel and its foes Hamas and Hezbollah ran aground on Friday as Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 people in the Gaza Strip, according to medics in the Palestinian enclave, and bombed Beirut's southern suburbs. The Israeli military said it killed senior Hamas official Izz al-Din Kassab in an airstrike in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis and described him as one of the last surviving high-ranking members of Hamas responsible for coordinating with other groups in Gaza. U.S. envoys had been working to secure ceasefires on both fronts ahead of the U.S. presidential election next Tuesday.

Israeli cabinet ministers were to start voting later on Thursday on a long-awaited wartime budget for 2025 that will rein in spending and raise a host of taxes to pay for the military conflicts that have engulfed the country. The wars in Gaza and Lebanon have cost Israeli coffers tens of billions of shekels on spending for defence — equipment and in manpower after hundreds of thousands of citizens were called into reserve duty — and in compensation for those impacted. «Our security also depends on the economy. We cannot have a strong military if we have no way of financing it,» Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the outset of the cabinet meeting before the budget vote, which could run into the night.

Israel's latest action shows the heights it can take its saga of 'victimhood facilitating overkill'. Knesset passed two bills on Monday that bar UN's dedicated humanitarian agency for Palestinians, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), to operate in Israel. This effectively guts UN's capacity to provide humanitarian aid.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, has had a bad week. Elon Musk’s X suspended his new Hebrew-language account, and the Israel Defense Forces unleashed a devastating series of air raids against his country’s military infrastructure.

Benjamin Netanyahu said he's open to a short truce in the country's war with Hamas that would lead to the release of a small number of the around 100 hostages still held by the militant group in Gaza. Netanyahu's remarks followed a meeting between his top negotiator and senior Qatari and US officials in Doha on Monday, aimed at reviving stalled cease-fire talks following Israel's killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar this month. Discussions centered on a plan proposed by Egypt, one of the mediators between the warring sides. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday proposed a two-day suspension of hostilities and the freeing of four hostages in exchange for a number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the West Bank’s economy could collapse if Israel doesn’t preserve its banking relationship with Palestinian financial institutions in the territory it occupies, highlighting another potential source of instability as Israel also fights foes in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yellen and several of her global counterparts urged the Israeli leader’s government to approve a waiver that would continue to allow Palestinian and Israeli banks to correspond.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—Two weeks before Israeli warplanes struck Iran Saturday morning, President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on the parameters of the attack in a half-hour phone call, their first in almost two months. After mounting worry that Israel might strike Iran’s oil infrastructure or even nuclear installations, the Israeli leader set his sights on military targets—to the relief of American officials.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TEL AVIV—Shortly before 2 a.m. on Saturday in Israel, airmen and women wearing bomber jackets bearing the Star of David climbed into the cockpits of about 100 jet fighters, spy planes and refueling aircraft at an Israeli military base.

Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to retaliate for a missile barrage three weeks ago that fanned fears of a region-wide war. Iranian media said four army soldiers will killed, but there were no reports of major damage and the Opec member's oil and nuclear facilities — which the US had urged Israel to avoid — appear to have been untouched. Iran didn't immediately vow to respond. Instead, it played down the scale and effectiveness of the attack and suggested its warnings in recent weeks against an aggressive strike had worked to deter Israel. Israel said its fighter jets hit missile-making facilities and that its operation was «completed,» suggesting it planned no more strikes. Numerous explosions were reported around Tehran, the city of Shiraz and the western provinces of Khuzestan and Ilam.

Kamala Harris in the interview on ‘60 minutes’, reported New York Post. The network had to come with this acknowledgement as the former US President Donald Trump appeared with the claim that the editing was deceitful and it held an intention of making the appearance of Kamala Harris more articulate. According to New York Post, CBS News has rejected the assertions made by Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump firmly and labeled them as ‘false’. CBS News asserted that the editing of different portions of Kamala Harris’s answer to the repeated question regarding the actions taken by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amidst the unrest situation in the Middle East asked by the interviewer Bill Whitaker was done for clarity. New York Post noted that in a statement, CBS also came with an explanation that this version of the show has appeared to be more succinct with the allowance for a broader level of discussion with the segment of 21 minutes. Karoline Leavitt, the campaign spokesperson of Donald Trump has argued that the admission of CBS has confirmed the accusation of manipulation made by them for presenting Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris in a way which is more favorable.

Donald Trump has revealed that he had spoken to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu where they had a discussion over call regarding the conflicts in the Middle East, reported Slate. Donald Trump asserted that Benjamin Netanyahu eventually ignored US President Joe Biden’s warnings regarding the troop movements in Rafah of Gaza which led to the death of Yahya Sinwar, infamous Hamas leader, as per a report. Former US President Donald Trump also added that Benjamin Netanyahu asked for his advice that how should Israel respond to missile attacks coming from Iran, following which Donald Trump suggested Benjamin Netanyahu to do whatever is needed to be done, reported Slate. Also Read: Donald Trump edges past Kamala Harris in this poll for the first time since July

Hezbollah claimed responsibility Tuesday for a drone attack last week targeting the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and acknowledged that some of its fighters have been take captive by the Israeli army. Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif made the remarks during a press conference in Beirut's southern suburbs that was cut short following an Israeli evacuation warning for the area. An Israeli strike hit a target hundreds of metres (yards) away from the site of the conference just minutes after journalists left, an AFP video journalist said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A month of Israeli military successes, capped by the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, is boosting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity and strengthening his political hand. Netanyahu, who turned 75 on Monday, has once again shown incredible staying power as a politician, after his popularity suffered in the wake of last year’s Oct.

air strikes targeted south Beirut on Sunday after the Israeli army warned civilians to evacuate the stronghold of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, state media said. The reported strikes came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement of trying to assassinate him by attacking his residence. «Enemy (Israeli) airplanes carried out two strikes this morning on Beirut's southern suburbs, one of them hitting a residential building in Haret Hreik» near a mosque and a hospital, the National News Agency reported.

Keir Starmer told Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu that he was «alarmed to hear about the drone launched towards» his residence earlier Saturday, the UK leader's office said. Netanyahu has accused Iran-backed Hezbollah of trying to assassinate him, after his office said a drone was launched Saturday toward his residence in the central town of Caesarea while he and his wife were elsewhere. Iran's United Nations mission later said that Lebanon's Hezbollah group — armed and financed by Tehran — was behind the drone attack, which Netanyahu's office has noted caused no injuries.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Istanbul