Gas prices expected to spike in South Florida as Israel-Iran conflict escalates
Florida gas prices face upward pressure heading into this week.
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Florida gas prices face upward pressure heading into this week.
Gas prices across Florida, already at their lowest point in a month, are poised to rise sharply as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies.
An analyst says US gas prices will start to rise this week and could jump 30 cents/gallon by July 4th due to the Israel-Iran conflict.
Israel and Iran traded more missile attacks Sunday despite calls for a halt to the fighting, with neither country backing down as their conflict raged for a third day.
The exchange of fire comes as talks on Iran's nuclear program in Oman between the U.S. and Iran were called off.
Sirens sounded in Israel as Iran launched dozens of ballistic missiles in retaliation for Israel's strikes on its nuclear facilities.
Morgan Rynor reports Milan Ben Yair, who was born in Miami but now lives in Israel, said he woke to an emergency alert on his phone telling people to prepare for a "significant threat" and stay close to a "protected space."
Israel's military says Iran launched more than 100 drones at Israel Friday morning, following the Israeli strike last night targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, scientists and senior military commanders.
U.S. officials have been told Israel is fully ready to launch an operation into Iran, multiple sources say.
An aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists was intercepted by Israeli forces en route to Gaza and arrived at an Israeli port on Monday. Turkey calls it an illegal and "heinous attack."
Judi Lynn Weinstein and Gad Haggai, U.S.-Israeli dual nationals, were killed in Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack, but their bodies had been held in Gaza.
The American dual national Edan Alexander has been handed over by Hamas more than 19 months after he was taken hostage.
The overall toll of 52,243 includes nearly 700 bodies for which the documentation process was recently completed, the Hamas-run health ministry said in its latest update.
The Israeli military backtracked on its account of killing 15 Palestinian medics last month after phone video appeared to contradict its claims.
The meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes amid a stepped-up offensive in Gaza that the Israeli military said is aimed at putting pressure on Hamas to release the remaining hostages.
A toddler unearthed an ancient treasure dating back to the Middle Bronze Age during a trip to the archaeological site Tel Azekah earlier this month.
Israel previously threatened Gaza with "complete destruction and devastation" if Hamas didn't hand over the remaining hostages.
Israel has reportedly killed 500 people with its renewed assault in Gaza, as its threats to Palestinian civilians take on an increasingly menacing tone.
The theater angered the city's mayor with screenings of the controversial documentary "No Other Land."
Officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza say the new Israeli assault has killed more than 400 people, as Israel accuses Hamas of refusing to extend the ceasefire.
Hamas said it accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals, but Israel cast doubt on the offer.
The air strike comes just before talks on the future of the truce are set to begin again this week.
Three days into Israel's Gaza aid freeze, one aid group says a resumption is imperative: "With humanitarian needs sky high, more aid access is required, not less."
Hundreds of aid trucks have entered Gaza daily since the ceasefire began on Jan. 19, and it was unclear what the immediate impact of the aid cutoff would be.
"Facing South Florida" devotes the entire half hour to taking an up-close look at President Donald Trump's first month in office.
