Following Hamas' terror attack on Israel in October 2023, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon, have humiliated the anti-Israel government in Iran, while the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and the return of Trump are stirring uncertainty in the region. Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.

Israel must strike Iran now, hitting high-value targets within the Islamic Republic, in order to provide the second Trump administration with leverage over the New Eurasian Axis and to end the radical clerics' rule.

Two Israeli soldiers who served in the war in Gaza this year speak to NPR about how they are wrestling with what they witnessed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to have his prostate removed, according to his office

Israeli forces detained more than 240 Palestinians including dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday, including its director, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave and Israel’s military.

This Chanukah I join Jews around the world in celebrating Israels recent military victories, that parallel the holidays commemoration of the Maccabees triumphant war against the powerful Syrians, more than two millennia ago. Yet, in disabling her enemies Israel may have elevated internal forces that will make it painful for liberal Zionists like myself to embrace the Jewish state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday after being diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, his office says.

The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he and colleagues "escaped death narrowly" when an Israeli airstrike targeted Yemen's main airport.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection from a benign prostate enlargement and will undergo surgery.

The director of the last operating hospital in the northern Gaza Strip has been arrested by Israel Defense Forces after patients there were forcibly removed, Palestinian health officials said Saturday.

The doctor was arrested Friday along with dozens of other staff and taken to an interrogation center.

Israel's military called the hospital director a suspected Hamas operative while providing no evidence.

Gaza's Health Ministry said Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was arrested by Israeli forces along with dozens of other staff and taken to an interrogation center.

View of IsraelGaza border on Dec. 28, as U.S. and Arab mediators work on a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas.

The announcement comes a day after Israeli troops stormed the hospital, forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, according to the ministry.

The Israel Defense Forces raided and burned a hospital in northern Gaza that the military says served as a Hamas terrorist stronghold. In Jerusalem, the IDF said it intercepted a missile that Houthi rebels had launched from Yemen after deadly strikes from Israel. The Houthis have vowed to escalate their attacks until Israel agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Health Ministry in Gaza says Israel’s army has detained the director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza

The announcement comes a day after Israeli troops stormed the hospital, forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.