The proposed council resolution reiterates its demand that all parties comply with international humanitarian law.
War in Israel
The seriousness of the attacks has led multiple shipping companies to order their ships to hold in place and not enter the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Israeli leaders to discuss scaling back major combat operations in Gaza but said Washington was not imposing a timetable.
“What helped me survive there was that my daughters were with me,” Doron Katz Asher said. “I had something to fight for.”
Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem are major boons for the city, where tourism accounts for 70 percent of its yearly income. But the streets are empty this season.
The entryway to the tunnel is just a few hundred yards from the heavily fortified Erez crossing and a nearby Israeli military base.
The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom and Germany called for a “sustainable” cease-fire, saying too many civilians had been killed.
Antisemitism has sprung back to virulence in the U.S., deeply unsettling American Jews, many of whom had viewed it as a relic of past generations, destined to fade away.
Since Hamas operatives crossed into Israel on a killing and kidnapping spree, a society that enjoyed years of calm and rising prosperity remains haunted by scenes of slaughter.
Protesters demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip blocked traffic near Los Angeles International Airport on Friday afternoon.
A U.S. warship shot down 14 suspected attack drones over the Red Sea on Saturday, and a Royal Navy destroyer downed another drone, the British and American militaries said.
Two U.S. military leaders are traveling to Tel Aviv to advise the Israeli government on how to transition to a more limited campaign against Hamas and prevent a wider regional war.
Three Israeli hostages mistakenly shot by Israeli troops in Gaza had been waving a white flag when they were killed, a military official said.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and one other warship to remain in the Mediterranean Sea for several more weeks.
A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels slammed into a cargo ship Friday in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, authorities said.