Israel-Hamas war

Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, blows a kiss to someone before the start of Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The US vetoes an Arab-backed UN resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says the U.S. will veto the resolution because it may interfere with ongoing U.S. efforts to arrange a deal between the warring parties that would bring at least a six-week halt to hostilities and release all hostages.

FILE - Houthi supporters attend a rally against the U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen and in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Feb. 09, 2024. Despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes, Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have launched attacks seriously damaging a ship in the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait and apparently bringing down an American drone worth tens of millions of dollars. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)

Attacks on ships and US drones show Yemen’s Houthis can still fight despite US-led airstrikes

Pro-Palestinians demonstrators wave flags as they protest outside the United Nations' highest court during historic hearings, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. The Palestinian foreign minister has accused Israel of apartheid and urged the United Nations’ top court to declare that Israel’s occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state is illegal. If the situation endures, the Palestinians say that any hope for a two-state future will die. The allegation came at the start of historic hearings into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

South Africa tells top UN court that it’s accusing Israel of apartheid against Palestinians

Workers inspect their office at a destroyed warehouse that was attacked on Monday by Israeli airstrikes, at an industrial district in the southern coastal town of Ghazieh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Israeli warplanes carried out at least two strikes near the southern port city of Sidon in one of the largest attacks near a major city, wounding a dozen of people, Lebanese state media said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Food deliveries into northern Gaza are halted because of the war’s chaos, increasing famine risk

Palestinians chant Islamic slogans while carry the bodies of children killed in the Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue at Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

More than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war, Gaza Health Ministry says

Israeli soldiers drive a tanks near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

US circulates rival UN resolution for temporary Gaza cease-fire after rejecting Arab proposal

The United States has circulated a rival U.N. Security Council resolution that would support a temporary cease-fire in Gaza after rejecting an Arab-backed resolution.

FILE - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, arrives for a German and Brazil governments meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. Israel on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, condemned Brazil's president for comparing the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Naza genocide of European Jews during World War II. The outcry further strained relations between the countries, which have deteriorated since President Lula returned to office last year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Israel says Brazil’s president unwelcome until he apologizes for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust

Israel’s foreign minister says Brazil’s president will not be welcome in Israel until he apologizes for comments he made comparing Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of a “very serious anti-Semitic attack.”

75th George Polk Awards honor coverage of Middle East and Ukraine wars, Supreme Court and Elon Musk

The New York Times is being honored with George Polk Awards for Foreign Reporting and Photojournalism for its coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell rings a bell to signify the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. European Union foreign ministers on Monday will discuss, among other issues, the situation in the Middle East and Russian aggression against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU launches mission to protect ships in Red Sea from Houthis. It won’t partake in military strikes

The European Union has launched a naval mission to help protect cargo ships in the Red Sea. Attacks on civilian maritime traffic by Houthi rebels in Yemen are hampering trade and driving up prices.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, looks up during a press conference after a board meeting of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Ursula von der Leyen announced her intention to run for a second term as EU commission president. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Ursula von der Leyen is seeking a second term as head of the EU’s powerful Commission

Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen will seek a second term as head of the European Union’s powerful Commission.

Norway will transfer funds to the Palestinian Authority after a monthslong standoff with Israel

Norway says it will transfer tax funds to the Palestinian Authority that have been frozen for months because of a dispute with Israel.

FILE - Maryam al-Khawaja poses for a photograph outside Heathrow airport, in London, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain said Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, she had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, again calling for her father's release. Maryam al-Khawaja again called on Denmark, where both al-Khawajas have citizenship, to do more to free her father, 62-year-old Abdulhadi al-Khawaja.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

Daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has cancer, urges his release

The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and again called for his release.

Riyad Al-Maliki, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority, center, and Riyad Mansour, representative of the Palestinian National Authority at the U.N., right, take their seats at the United Nations' highest court which opened historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. Six days of hearings opened Monday at the top United Nations court into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Palestinian diplomat accuses Israel of apartheid and asks UN court to declare its occupation illegal

The case at the court’s Great Hall of Justice comes against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war but it focuses instead on Israel’s open-ended control of the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip and annexed east Jerusalem.

Palestinians ride on donkey carts through destruction from the Israeli bombardment at the main road of Salah el Dein in the Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UN Security Council to vote Tuesday on resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire, US vows to use its veto

The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote Tuesday on an Arab-backed resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, which the United States announced it will veto.

FILE - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, arrives for a German and Brazil governments meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. Israel on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, condemned Brazil's president for comparing the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Naza genocide of European Jews during World War II. The outcry further strained relations between the countries, which have deteriorated since President Lula returned to office last year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Israel’s Netanyahu slams Brazilian president’s comparison of Gaza war to the Holocaust

Israel has condemned Brazil’s president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II.

A woman walks between dead bodies of Palestinians killed in the Israeli bombardments of the Gaza Strip, in front of the morgue at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel vows to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza as War Cabinet member threatens a Ramadan deadline for Rafah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is brushing off growing calls to halt the military offensive in Gaza and vowing to “finish the job.”

FILE - Israeli soldiers speak to a Palestinian woman near the site of an alleged car-ramming attack near Beit Hagai, a Jewish settlement in the hills south of the large Palestinian city of Hebron, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. The United Nations' highest court opens historic hearings Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Top UN court to hold hearings on legality of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian-claimed lands

The United Nations’ highest court opens historic hearings Monday into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Trump rails against New York fraud ruling as he faces fines that could exceed half-a-billion dollars

Trump was making his pitch in a state that is expected to be critical in November as he pivots toward a likely general election rematch against President Joe Biden.

FILE - The Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the UNRWA headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023.The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleges that Israel is intent on “destroying” it along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees and have a right one day to return home. Philippe Lazzarini in an interview with a Swiss newspaper accuses Israel of having a “long-term political goal” of eliminating the agency created decades ago to assist Palestinians who fled during the war over Israel’s creation. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

The head of the UN’s lead agency helping Palestinians accuses Israel of seeking to destroy it

The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleges that Israel is intent on “destroying” the organization along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees who have a right to return home one day.

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. International aid agencies say Gaza is suffering from shortages of food, medicine and other basic supplies as a result of the war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

What to know about the situation in the Middle East this week

As cease-fire talks have floundered, Israel has vowed to press ahead with its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip despite warnings from the U.S. to work harder to protect civilians.

Palestinian women sew diapers in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Palestinians in Gaza have experienced severe shortages of basic necessities since the war began on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

A small business in war-time Gaza sews padded cloth diapers, creating jobs and helping weary parents

A small sewing workshop making cloth diapers with cotton padding in Gaza’s crowded city of Rafah is helping desperate parents with babies afford a basic necessity.

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Missile fire targets ship off Yemen in the Red Sea, likely fired by Houthi rebels

Missile fire has apparently targeted a ship off Yemen in the Red Sea. Friday’s assault is the latest attack suspected to have been carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels amid Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

FILE - The White House is seen at sunset in Washington, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. President Joe Biden plans to welcome Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House in May, hosting a state visit after reneging on his promise to visit Africa last year. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Friday that the visit set for May 23. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden plans to welcome Kenyan president to White House for state visit in May

President Joe Biden plans to welcome Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House in May, hosting a state visit after reneging on his promise to visit Africa last year.

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows wall construction in Rafah, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Satellite photos show Egypt building a wall near Gaza Strip as Israeli offensive on Rafah looms

Egypt is building a wall and is leveling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah.

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. International aid agencies say Gaza is suffering from shortages of food, medicine and other basic supplies as a result of the war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel’s defense chief says military ‘thoroughly planning’ offensive in crowded Gaza border town

Israel’s defense minister says Israel is “thoroughly planning” its promised military offensive in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.

Anemone wildflowers bloom in Re'im, southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the site of a cross-border attack by Hamas on the Nova music festival where hundreds of revelers were killed and kidnapped into the Gaza Strip. As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel. Nowhere is the show more dramatic than in southern Israel, near Gaza, where brilliant red anemones burst forth with such intensity that rolling hills seem to grow red carpets. The flowers are especially symbolic this year, during the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Southern Israel was filled with blood and death. Brilliant red wildflowers now bloom among the ashes

As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel. Nowhere is the show more dramatic than in southern Israel, near Gaza, where brilliant red anemones burst forth with such intensity that rolling hills seem to grow red carpets.

Police are on horsebacks outside the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations' top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Israel is urging the top UN court to reject a new South African request on Gaza provisional orders

Israel is urging the United Nations’ highest court to reject an urgent South African request to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah breach provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide.

Ahmad Khdour, center right, takes part in the funeral preparations of his son Mohammad Khdour, 17, at the hospital's morgue in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. Khdour, a U.S. citizen born in Florida, was shot Saturday while driving with a cousin on a hillside by what his family alleges was Israeli fire. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

US investigators visit homes of two Palestinian-American teens killed in the West Bank

The American embassy is investigating two shootings of Palestinian-American teenagers in the West Bank, the latest of which occurred Saturday.

FILE - Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Israel has formally complained after the Vatican No. 2 spoke of the “carnage” in Gaza and what he termed a disproportionate Israeli military operation following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

Israel complains after Vatican denounces ‘carnage’ and disproportionate response in Gaza

Israel has formally complained after a senior Vatican official spoke of “carnage” in Gaza. The Israeli Embassy to the Holy See called the comments by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, “regrettable.”

Israeli helicopter flies over Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Israeli forces storm the main hospital in southern Gaza, saying hostages were likely held there

Israeli forces have stormed the main hospital in southern Gaza in what the army says is a search for the remains of hostages taken by Hamas.

Amal Atwi, the mother of Hussein Jalal Mohsin, who was killed in an Israeli strike last night, mourns during his funeral procession in Qantara village, south Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. The civilian death toll from two Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon has risen to 10, Lebanese state media reported Thursday, making the previous day the deadliest in more than four months of cross-border exchanges. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israeli airstrikes killed 10 Lebanese civilians in a single day. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate

Lebanon’s state-run news agency says the civilian death toll from two Israeli strikes in Lebanon the day before has now risen to 10, making it the single deadliest day in more than four months of near-daily cross-border exchanges.

F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet takes off from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as the 'IKE', in the south Red Sea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

On the USS Eisenhower, 4 months of combat at sea facing Houthi missiles and a new sea threat

Sailors aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying attack drones fired by Iranian-backed Houthis.

FILE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, center, is silhouetted against television lights while giving an interview at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Feb. 18, 2023. The Munich Security Conference has been long regarded as a celebration of the U.S.-led post-World War II international order. In 2024, though, it will be more of a reflection of America's political turmoil. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

US to confront Trump-driven political turmoil at the Munich Security Conference

The Munich Security Conference has been long regarded as a celebration of the U.S.-led post-World War II international order.

FILE - In this image provided the Ministry of Defence, an RAF Typhoon aircraft takes off to conduct further strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen, from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. Russia and China on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting global shipping. (AS1 Jake Green/Ministry of Defence via AP, File)

Russia and China clash with US and UK over attacks on Yemen rebels for strikes on Red Sea ships

Russia and China accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea.

FILE - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President Sally Kornbluth speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington. Kornbluth has suspended a student group that has held demonstrations against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as protest over the war continue to rattle universities around the country. In a video statement Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, Kornbluth said the group, Coalition Against Apartheid, held a demonstration Monday night without going through the permission process that all groups are required to do. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

MIT suspends student group that protested against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza

BOSTON (AP) — The president of MIT has suspended a student group that has held demonstrations against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as protests over the war continue to rattle universities around the country.