Ireland, Spain, Norway announce recognition of Palestinian state
They urged other countries to follow suit. Read more
War in the Middle East
House Speaker Johnson inviting Netanyahu to address Congress
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters at the Capitol he had given Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer until Tuesday to sign a letter inviting Netanyahu to address a joint meeting. Read more
Blinken says he’ll work with Congress on potential ICC sanctions
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Blinken he wanted to see renewed U.S. sanctions on the court in response to the move announced by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on Monday. Read more
Israeli forces raze parts of Gaza’s Jabalia, hit Rafah with airstrikes
Israel said it has returned to the camp, where it had claimed to have dismantled Hamas months ago, to prevent the militant group that controls Gaza from regrouping. Read more
Israel launches strikes across Gaza as U.S. envoy meets Netanyahu
Sullivan was expected to press for Israel to go after Hamas militants in a targeted way, not with a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the White House said before the discussions. Read more
Israel pushes further into north Gaza, recovers slain hostage
Israel has conducted renewed military sweeps this month of parts of northern Gaza where it had declared the end of major operations in January. Read more
Israel recovers bodies of 3 hostages taken Oct. 7
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, identified the bodies as those of Amit Buskila, Shani Louk and Yitzhak Gelernter. Read more
House passes bill to force Biden to reverse Israel arms pause
White House officials said the president would veto it, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, said it was “not going anywhere” in the Senate. Read more
Israel moves into Hamas stronghold, pounds Rafah without advancing
The slow progress of Israel’s offensive, more than seven months after it was prompted by Hamas’ deadly cross-border raid, highlighted the difficulty of achieving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aim of eradicating the militant group. Read more
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Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, battles rage in northern Gaza
Israel’s international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into Rafah, where many Palestinians fled and Israel says four Hamas battalions are holed up. Israel says it must root out the remaining fighters. Read more
U.S. military pier starts moving toward Gaza
The U.S. military opted to pre-assemble the maritime pier at Israeli port of Ashdod earlier this month due to weather conditions at the Gaza site where it will now be installed. Read more
South Africa seeks halt to Israel’s Rafah offensive at World Court
The hearings at the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, come after South Africa last week asked for additional emergency measures to protect Rafah, a southern Gaza city where more than a million Palestinians have been sheltering. Read more
Israeli defense chief challenges Netanyahu over Gaza plans
Netanyahu hinted, in a riposte, which did not explicitly name Gallant, that the retired admiral was making “excuses” for not yet having destroyed Hamas in a conflict now in its eighth month. Read more
Fighting flares anew in Gaza as Hamas regroups
Hamas said its fighters were engaged in “fierce clashes” with Israeli soldiers near Jabalia and that the fighters had fired heavy-caliber mortar shells at Israeli forces in Zeitoun. Read more
Billionaire investor calls on Harvard to embrace ‘Western values’
Griffin, the founder of U.S. hedge fund Citadel, said that the U.S. had “lost sight of education as the means of pursuing truth and acquiring knowledge” over the past decade. Read more
Pro-Israel website targets pro-Palestinian student protesters
The site has accused over 250 U.S. students and academics of supporting terrorism or spreading antisemitism and hatred of Israel. Read more
Israel’s use of weapons may have violated international law
The conclusion came in a State Department report to Congress required under a new National Security Memorandum (NSM) that President Joe Biden issued in early February. Read more
Mass arrests at Penn and MIT amid Gaza protests
The dawn raids were the latest efforts by school and local authorities to end such demonstrations at dozens of universities around the country. Read more
Hillary Clinton accuses protesters of ignorance of Mideast history
“They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or frankly about history, in many areas of the world, including in our own country,” she said. Read more
Israel strikes eastern Rafah as ceasefire talks end with no deal
A senior Israeli official said that the latest round of indirect negotiations in Cairo to halt hostilities had ended. Read more
USC’s faculty senate censures president and provost over commencement
The body that represents the University of Southern California’s faculty voted today to censure the university’s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, citing both leaders’ mishandling of events around commencement. Read more
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