Israel-Hamas war

Bombed-out buildings on the eastern edge of Gaza City are visible across the double fence that separates the Strip from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

They fled kibbutzim after Hamas attacked. Now, many Israelis must decide whether to go back

Months after Hamas attackers killed 1,200 people, a string of Israeli farming communities they targeted just across the border fence with Gaza remain all but empty.

An explosion rises in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel and Hamas dig in as pressure builds for a cease-fire in Gaza

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, second from left, meets with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Pentagon urges Israel to protect civilians in Gaza as military chiefs meet at time of high tensions

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations, holds to abstain her vote as the United Nations Security Council passed a cease-fire resolution in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first demand to halt fighting at U.N. headquarters, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

UN demand for Gaza cease-fire provokes strongest clash between US and Israel since war began

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment are brought to a hospital in Rafah, Gaza Strip. Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Palestinians describe bodies and ambulances crushed in Israel’s ongoing raid at Gaza’s main hospital

This satellite photo captured by Planet Labs PBC shows the construction of an airstrip on Abd al-Kuri Island, Yemen, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. As Yemen's Houthi rebels continue to target ships in a vital Mideast waterway, satellite pictures analyzed by The Associated Press show what appears to be a new airstrip being built at an entrance to that crucial maritime route. No country has claimed publicly the active construction taking place this month on Abd al-Kuri Island, a barren stretch of land rising out of the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. However, satellite images shot for the AP appear to show workers have laid out "I LOVE UAE" next to the runway, an abbreviation for the United Arab Emirates. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

An airstrip is being built on a Yemeni island during the ongoing war, with ‘I LOVE UAE’ next to it

As Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to target ships in a Mideast waterway, satellite pictures analyzed by The Associated Press show what appears to be a new airstrip being built at an entrance to that crucial maritime route.

Doctors perform surgery on a patient at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Sunday, March 17, 2024. An international team of doctors has been working the past two weeks at the facility amid shortages of supplies. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war’s toll on Palestinian children

An international team of doctors was prepared for the worst before visiting a hospital in central Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers his speech after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, Pool)

Talks resume on bringing Israeli officials to the US to discuss Gaza operation, the White House says

Talks have restarted aimed at bringing top Israeli officials to Washington to discuss potential military operations in Gaza.

American track and field athlete Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, is photographed during an exhibition press day, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 in Paris. Ahead of this summer's Paris Olympics, an exhibit in the French capital shows how the Games have been a "mirror of society" since the beginning of the 20th century. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

A Paris exhibit shows how the Olympics mirror society, from Nazi propaganda to fighting inequalities

An exhibit in the French capital before this summer’s Paris Olympics shows how the games have been a “mirror of society” since the beginning of the 20th century.

FILE- This June 6, 2019, file photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington. The U.S. on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an online media site called Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash, for allegedly supporting Hamas. U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says that after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against Israel — the online entity began a fundraising effort in support of the militant organization. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

US sanctions online media site Gaza Now and its founder for allegedly supporting Hamas

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an online media site called Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash, for allegedly supporting Hamas. On Wednesday, U.S.

FILE - A plate of food is held on Aug. 6, 2023, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

783 million people face chronic hunger. Yet the world wastes 19% of its food, UN says

A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022.

Women mourn during the funeral procession of paramedics who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Hebbariye village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Israeli airstrike on a paramedic center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group killed several people of its members. The strike was one of the deadliest single attacks since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border more than five months ago. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

The Latest | Airstrikes and rocket fire on Lebanon-Israel border as death toll climbs

A series of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has killed at least 16 people, including paramedics.

Paramedic workers search for victims in the rubble of a paramedic center that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike early Wednesday in Hebbariye village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Israeli airstrike on a paramedic center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group killed several people of its members. The strike was one of the deadliest single attacks since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border more than five months ago. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 16, militant rockets kill 1 Israeli as cross-border violence soars

Lebanon’s state news agency says Israeli airstrikes killed nine people in southern Lebanon, including paramedics who were preparing to respond to the first strike.

Old observation towers stand near a fence as smoke rises after an explosion in the Gaza Strip, seen from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

As those who fled Israel’s border villages weigh whether to return, what hangs in the balance?

Months after Hamas attackers killed 1,200 people, a string of Israeli farming communities they targeted just across the border fence with Gaza remain all but empty.

US imposes more Iran sanctions and hits Syrian regime with penalties for drug trafficking

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a group of firms and one individual across six countries involved in commodity shipments and business transactions that benefit Iran’s military and the Houthi militant group in Yemen and Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

The Secretary-General of the Islamic Group Sheikh Mohammed Takkoush, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Takkoush allied with Hamas and Hezbollah said Tuesday they are closely coordinating with both groups along the southern border with Israel where they have claimed responsibility for several attacks over the past months. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Sunni militant group head says coordination with Shiite Hezbollah is vital to fight Israel

The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel on Lebanon’s border says the conflict has helped strengthen cooperation between the two groups.

Members of Brothers and Sisters in Arms and Bonot Alternativa (Women Building an Alternative) protest Israel's exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service, near the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

With its soldiers mired in Gaza, Israel fights a battle at home over drafting the ultra-Orthodox

As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a divide in the country and rattled the government coalition.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Feb. 17, 2024. Trump is urging Republican leaders in Michigan to target Black voters in the swing state. Trump met with Michigan GOP chair Pete Hoekstra last Tuesday, March 19, in Florida to strategize his reelection bid and keyed in on "nontraditional Republican voters," Hoekstra said Monday, March 25. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Trump tells Michigan’s Republican chair to ramp up outreach to Black voters in Detroit, chair says

Former President Donald Trump is urging Republican leaders in Michigan to target Black voters in the swing state.

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at 40 Wall Street after a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, March 25, 2024, in New York. A New York judge has scheduled an April 15 trial date in former President Donald Trump's hush money case. Judge Juan M. Merchan made the ruling Monday.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Trump urges Israel to ‘finish up’ its Gaza offensive and warns about global support fading

Former President Donald Trump says he would have responded the same way as Israel did after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas but urged the country to “finish up” its offensive and “get this over with,” warning about international support fading.

Relatives and supporters of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group leads the Purim parade in Jerusalem, Monday, March 25, 2024. For the first time after 42 years and amid the Israel-Hamas war, Jerusalem holds a Purim parade on Monday. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Jerusalem marks festive holiday of Purim in shadow of war

Tens of thousands of people have celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem, though the traditionally boisterous celebrations have been muted this year by the Israel-Hamas war.

Christians walk in the Palm Sunday procession on the Mount of Olives in east Jerusalem, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Thousands of Christians attend Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem against a backdrop of war

Thousands of Christian faithful attended Palm Sunday celebrations at Jerusalem’s sacred Mount of Olives on the first day of Holy Week.

Israeli airstrike in northeastern Lebanon wounds 3, local official says

A mayor in northeastern Lebanon says an Israeli airstrike has wounded at least three people. The airstrike was reported near the city of Baalbek, which is a stronghold of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks after his visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Arabic reads, "Rafah border crossing". (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

UN chief says it’s time to ‘truly flood’ Gaza with aid and calls starvation there an outrage

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says it’s time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid” and calls the starvation inside the enclave a “moral outrage.”

Residents displaced from her home in southern Lebanon by clashes on the border with Israel carry food on Friday, March 15, 2024. Roughly 60 displaced families are sheltering at an abandoned hotel in the town of Marwanieh, Lebanon, and are celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan there. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon’s displaced celebrate Ramadan amid fears that border conflict might become the ‘new normal’

About 60 families are celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at an abandoned hotel in southern Lebanon, far from their homes.

FILE - This combo image shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, March 9, 2024 and President Joe Biden, right, Jan. 27, 2024. Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020 presidential election. But presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump appears to stoke more fear and anger among voters from his opposing party than President Joe Biden does from his. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo, File)

Biden and Trump win Louisiana’s presidential primary having already clinched nominations

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won Louisiana’s primary on Saturday, collecting more delegates after they already clinched their party nominations.

A general view shows a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, March. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

The UN Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding a Ramadan cease-fire

The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but the United States warned the measure could hurt negotiations to halt Israeli-Hamas hostilities.

Houthi supporters attend a rally against the U.S. airstrikes on Yemen and the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza SAtrip, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

US fighter jets strike storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen

U.S. fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier struck three underground storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen late Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gestures, as he departs, at Ben Gurion International airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday March 22, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein, Pool Photo via AP)

Israel’s Netanyahu rebuffs US plea to halt Rafah offensive. Tensions rise ahead of Washington talks

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has once again left the Middle East empty-handed. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected American appeals to call off plans for a promised ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Frankie Miranda, Hispanic Federation president, applaud, during a visit, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, March 22, 2024. Harris visited Puerto Rico on Friday as part of a whirlwind trip to tout the federal aid the U.S. territory has received following deadly hurricanes and attend a Democratic fundraiser. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Kamala Harris marks first visit to Puerto Rico as vice president, riling some in the US territory

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has visited Puerto Rico as part of a whirlwind trip to tout the federal aid the U.S. territory has received following deadly hurricanes and attend a Democratic fundraiser.

Egypt increases fuel prices following depreciation of local currency

The Egyptian government has raised fuel prices in a move that is bound to exacerbate inflationary pressures on an already-struggling population.

A general view shows a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, March. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Russia and China veto US resolution calling for immediate cease-fire in Gaza

Russia and China have vetoed a U.S.-sponsored U.N. resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians.

Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

US calls for vote Friday on UN resolution declaring that immediate Gaza cease-fire is `imperative’

The United States is calling for a vote Friday on a newly revised and tougher U.N. resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war is “imperative” to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians.

Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Blinken says an Israeli assault on Gaza’s Rafah would be a mistake and isn’t needed to defeat Hamas

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that a major Israeli ground assault on the southern Gaza town of Rafah would be “a mistake” and unnecessary to defeating Hamas.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and the House Republican leadership meet with reporters as lawmakers work to pass the final set of spending bills to avoid a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Johnson says he plans to invite Netanyahu to address the US Congress

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, a show of support from Republicans amid growing Democratic criticism of Netanyahu’s leadership.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in Las Vegas. Trump on Monday, March 18, 2024, charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders.(AP Photo/John Locher, File)

US Jews upset with Trump’s latest rhetoric say he doesn’t get to tell them how to be Jewish

Many Jewish faith leaders and commentators are decrying what they say are inflammatory remarks by Donald Trump.