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Walz and Vance face off in policy-focused VP debate; Traces of carbon dioxide found on Pluto's moon.
Rights groups say documented instances of violence by settlers against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have been escalating since Hamas' attack on Oct. 7, 2023. CBS News' Haley Ott reports on how it impacts Palestinian residents living and working there.
President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke over the phone on Wednesday, according to the White House, after Israel promised a retaliatory attack on Iran. President Biden said he would not support an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities or oil installations. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
President Biden spoke with Benjamin Netanyahu after Israel's leader warned support for Iran ally Hezbollah would bring Lebanon "suffering like we see in Gaza."
As Israeli airstrikes continue to pound Beirut for a third week, one doctor describes how exhausted medical staff are struggling to cope with the overwhelming influx of new patients and the psychological toll of treating war injuries. He told CBS News the airstrikes can be heard and felt, even in the hospital. "It's like an earthquake every time," he said. Despite intense fear for his own life and his family, he remains committed to remaining in Lebanon and fulfilling the oath he took as a doctor to continue to save lives.
Iran has launched missiles toward Israel, the Israel Defense Forces say. Sirens in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem warned Israelis to shelter in place. The U.S. is assisting Israel with missile interceptions, according to a defense official, while President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris monitor the situation in the Middle East. Errol Barnett anchored CBS News' special report.
Iran has confirmed through its United Nations mission that it launched a missile attack against Israel. The Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. say they intercepted some of the missiles, but Iranian media is touting the attack as a success, CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports from Tel Aviv.
Iran's mission to the United Nations issued a statement confirming the missile attack launched toward Israel, calling it a "legal, rational, and legitimate response to the terrorist acts of the Zionist regime." CBS News' Robert Berger, Chris Livesay and Olivia Gazis have more.
In the year since Israel declared war on Hamas in retaliation for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, Gaza's health ministry estimates more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed, many of them women and children. With limited access to the territory, CBS News relies on producer Marwan al-Ghoul to show the world what is happening there. Warning: some of the images are disturbing.
President Biden plans to speak on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday for the first time in two months as the war rages in the Middle East. Netanyahu is calling on Lebanon to "rise up" against Hezbollah's leaders, while Israel's army battles Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah forces fired a barrage of rockets at Israel while more Israeli troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his military killed the potential next leader of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday after killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah last month. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports on the recent fighting.
Israeli ground operation in Lebanon looms; New evacuations as Line Fire flares up in California.
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller weighed in on reports that the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group is seeking a cease-fire deal with Israel. Miller took questions on when the U.S. wants a diplomatic solution installed to end the conflict in the Middle East.
The next president will have to manage a delicate situation as the threat of an all-out war escalates.
Hezbollah rockets hit Haifa as the militant group's acting leader vows to continue striking Israel, the Associated Press reports. This comes as more Israeli troops enter Lebanon. CBS News' Chris Livesay has the latest from Tel Aviv.
As Israeli airstrikes intensify in Lebanon, Dr. Pierre Yared and Sister Hadia Abi Chelbi, co-directors of Lebanon's only burn center, are seeing a heavy influx of severely and critically injured patients at their hospital. Without help from the government, the burn center at Geitaoui Hospital, a Christian nonprofit organization, was forced to increase its capacity from nine beds to 25. But many patients have to stay hospitalized for at least three months because they are suffering burns over 80-85% of their bodies, Yared said. As the situation continues to escalate, both fear the facility might not have the space and supplies to keep treating incoming patients and pay their exhausted staff.
CBS News relies on producer Marwan al-Ghoul to help tell the story of the war in Gaza, where he and his family have been trapped for a year.
The UN estimates 90% of the more than 2 million people who live in Gaza have been displaced, many more than once, by bombs that Israel says targets Hamas. As the war marks one year, Hamas has renewed its pledge to continue fighting. On Monday, Israel paused to remember victims of the Oct. 7 attack while Palestinians demanded a cease-fire.
The Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday fired dozens of rockets toward northern Israel as Israel's military expands its ground operations in southern Lebanon. CBS News reporter Haley Ott has more.
CBS News relies on producer Marwan al-Ghoul to help tell the story of the war in Gaza, where he and his family have been trapped for a year. Warning, some of these images are disturbing.
Israel says it has killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike over Beirut with Israeli forces expanding their ground operations inside Lebanon. CBS News reporter Haley Ott has the latest on the Middle East.
A look at key moments since Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel, sparking a war that, a year later, threatens to ignite the Middle East.
Limited access to Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war started makes it hard to analyze the destruction, but satellite data paints a grim picture.
CIA Director William Burns warned Monday of the potential for simmering clashes in the Middle East to spread across the region.
Exactly one year after Hamas' terrorist rampage in Israel, 101 hostages are still missing and the death toll is still climbing.