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An Israeli soldier takes up position on the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. U.S. and Mideast mediators appeared optimistic in recent days that they are closing in on a deal for a two-month cease-fire in Gaza and the release of over 100 hostages held by Hamas. But on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the militant group's two main demands — that Israel withdraw its forces from Gaza and release thousands of Palestinian prisoners — indicating that the gap between the two sides remains wide. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

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Where the sides stand on securing a cease-fire in Gaza and freeing the hostages
By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press
Tue,01/30/24-1:21PM , 63 Reads
U.S. and Mideast mediators appeared optimistic in recent days that they were closing in on a deal for a two-month cease-fire in Gaza and the release of over 100 hostages held by Hamas.
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Palestinians flee Israeli ground offensive in Kahn Younis, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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What is UNRWA, the main aid provider in Gaza that Israel accuses of militant links?
By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press
Sun,01/28/24-7:48AM , 41 Reads
Israel’s allegations that 12 employees of a United Nations agency were involved in Hamas’ Oct.
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Civil defense workers search for survivors inside an apartment following a massive explosion in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. The TV station of Lebanon's Hezbollah group says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri was killed Tuesday in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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With each strike, fears grow that Israel, the US and Iran's allies are inching closer to all-out war
By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press
Mon,01/08/24-12:54AM , 164 Reads
In the last week alone, an Israeli airstrike has killed a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, Hezbollah struck a sensitive Israeli base w
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Palestinians walk between the rubble of a destroyed building in Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Oct. 12, 2014. An urban battle during the 2014 Gaza war offers a glimpse of what an Israeli ground offensive would look like, in 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

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Urban battle from past Gaza war offers glimpse of what an Israeli ground offensive might look like
By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press
Sun,10/15/23-11:09PM , 128 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — A battle that killed dozens of civilians and more than a dozen Israeli soldiers nearly a decade ago offers a glimpse of the type of fighting that could lie ahead if Israeli forces roll into Gaza as expected to punish Hamas for its rampage across southern Israel last week.
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