No clear winner in Israeli election as negotiations to follow

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party won more votes than his main challenger, but both sides will likely struggle to cobble together a coalition.

• Oct 29

Israeli military closing West Bank crossings before elections

The Israeli military's operation comes in response to a gun attack that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others in the West Bank.

• Oct 26

Israeli election to test Netanyahu's ability to hold power

On Tuesday, Israel will hold its first parliamentary elections since the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks. Essentially one man is on the ballot: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. How might Israeli policy change if the opposition succeeds?

• Oct 25

Israel vows major West Bank operation after attack kills 2 troops

Israel's Netanyahu says he ordered the military to cordon off a major city in the occupied West Bank after an attack by Palestinian gunmen that killed two Israeli soldiers.

• Oct 23

Israel detains 40 ultra-Orthodox men accused of draft dodging

At least 40 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men were arrested at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on suspicion of attempting to evade the country's military draft.

• Oct 20

U.S. lauds Israel for arresting 10 over West Bank settler attacks

Israeli police say they arrested 10 people over alleged Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians and a U.S. journalist as more attacks on Palestinians are reported.

• Oct 19

Huckabee calls for prosecution of journalist's West Bank attackers

The ambassador condemned the attack as "vicious" and called for the prosecution of those involved.

• Oct 18

EU diplomats say they were attacked by settlers in West Bank

Footage circulating online appears to show several diplomats being attacked in the vicinity of the village of Taybeh, Israeli police said.

• Oct 18

Sally Rooney books off U.K. shelves over Palestine Action support

Irish author Sally Rooney's books are no longer being supplied to U.K. retailers over her support for the banned group Palestine Action.

• Oct 15

Saudi airport hit again, a day after deadly strike killed 13

The strike on King Khalid International Airport, the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade, marked a major escalation in the war between Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis and the kingdom.

• Oct 12

U.K., Israel both claim a moral win with apparent truce in diplomatic feud

Israel had threatened to close the U.K.'s century-and-a-half-old Jerusalem consulate over new British sanctions, but they found a way to avoid "blowing the whole relationship up."

• Oct 8

For families of children killed in Israel and Gaza, pain has not dulled

Relatives of Hind Rajab in Gaza and Shiri Bibas and her children in Israel speak to CBS News three years after the Oct. 7 attacks.

• Oct 7

Oct. 7, 2023, Pearl Harbor and 9/11 echo the same failures

Israel learned a lesson three years ago that America has learned, at least twice, and every time the consequences are disastrous.

• Oct 7

How Israeli and Palestinian kids are coping 3 years after Oct. 7 attacks

CBS News asks two teenagers, one from either side of the Israel-Gaza border, how their lives have changed since the Hamas attack three years ago.

• Oct 7

$1.7 million raised in scheme for Hamas, including from U.S. donors, feds say

Saleem Alzaq, a 45-year-old Gaza man who prosecutors allege is a longtime Hamas member, was charged with helping operate the fundraising campaign claiming to provide humanitarian aid, according to an indictment.

• Oct 2

Was Netanyahu's fiery U.N. speech aimed at his own political survival?

Israel's embattled leader lashed out at New York's mayor in a heated U.N. address, but a veteran analyst says his real targets were Israeli voters and President Trump.

• Sep 25

Israel's Netanyahu addresses U.N. as many leaders walk out

Benjamin Netanyahu focused on Iran, and on defending Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank amid condemnation from fellow leaders at the U.N.

• Sep 24

Ambassador says son is fighting for his life after attack in West Bank

Neria Leiter, the son of Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, was seriously injured in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank.

• Sep 23

War-damaged Gaza building collapses, killing at least 20 people

Health officials in Gaza say a building damaged months ago by an Israeli strike has collapsed, killing people from 6 displaced families who had taken shelter inside.

• Sep 16

Israeli official calls for revocation of "NAZA" filmmakers' citizenship

The documentary "NAZA" includes interviews with purported Israeli intelligence officers who claim the systematic use of AI-powered targeting systems in Gaza.

• Sep 14

Netanyahu calls claim he was warned of Oct. 7 attack "malicious libel"

Israel's leader says a report claiming the UAE warned him in advance of Hamas' 2023 terror attack is politically motivated lies, but it's fueling fierce pre-election furor.

• Sep 9

U.S. envoy warns U.K. against new plan to sanction Israeli settlements

Britain and 11 other U.S. allies say they'll sanction trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, citing an "unprecedented level of settler violence."

• Sep 8

Kushner attributes the lack of progress on Gaza to upcoming Israeli elections

U.S. efforts to advance plans​ to disarm Hamas and open the way for investment into rebuilding Gaza have stalled.

• Sep 7

Israel orders criminal probe into killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza

Israel says military police will investigate the killing of Hind Rajab, a young girl in Gaza whose death at the hands of its forces drew an international outcry.

• Aug 19

U.S. diplomat calls Israeli strikes on Syria base "unnecessary escalation"

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack says an Israeli attack on a Syrian air force base was an "unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability."

• Aug 18

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