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Today marks one year since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and the escalation of violence in the Middle East. Jeff Semple joins Miranda Anthistle from Jerusalem to discuss how Israeli citizens are marking the day and the developing conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

One year after the deadliest day in Israel’s history, peace seems further away than ever with no reprieve in sight. At memorials across the country, Israelis mourned the dead and comforted the anguished families whose loved ones are still held hostage in Gaza. Jeff Semple reports from Jerusalem.

The world’s eyes are on Lebanon and the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, but one of the places largely forgotten is the occupied West Bank. Israeli settler violence has grown since the Hamas attacks. Almost 700 people in the West Bank have been killed. Jeff Semple reports from Jerusalem on the situation there.

Amid ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, an Israeli airstrike reportedly targeted Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to slain Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Global’s Jeff Semple reports from Jerusalem.

On the eve of a sombre anniversary, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu has sent a clear message that the fight is not over yet. Several powerful explosions rocked southern Beirut on Sunday after what some are calling “the worst night so far” in Lebanon’s capital. And at least 26 people were killed in attacks on a...

An Israeli airstrike on an apartment in central Beirut killed at least nine people, including seven Hezbollah-affiliated civilian first responders. Meanwhile, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering a range of responses to Iran’s missile barrage, including targeting Iran’s oil rigs, its air defence systems and perhaps even Iran’s coveted nuclear program. Jeff Semple...

For the second time in months, Iran has unleashed a barrage of missiles at Israel, marking another sharp escalation in Middle East tensions. Jeff Semple reports from Jerusalem on how people in both Israel and Iran reacted, and how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responding to the attack.

As Israel weighs a military response to that missile barrage by Iran, the IDF is not letting up on its assault on Lebanon and its troops are now fighting Hezbollah militants in deadly close combat. On Wednesday, Israel was burying eight of its soldiers who were killed in southern Lebanon, the first to die in...

Israel is expanding the scope of its invasion into Lebanon, warning people in the south to leave their homes until further notice. IDF troops were on the ground there and say another soldier was killed there in battle Thursday. At the same time Israel is fighting on another front Thursday night, striking a Palestinian refugee...

As Israel weighs a military response to that missile barrage by Iran, the IDF is not letting up on its assault on Lebanon and its troops are now fighting Hezbollah militants in deadly close combat. On Wednesday, Israel was burying eight of its soldiers who were killed in southern Lebanon, the first to die in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to continue Israel’s fight with Hezbollah on Thursday, even with world leaders in New York today pushing for a proposed 21-day pause on the war. Thousands are fleeing Lebanon as a ground invasion from Israel draws closer. Jeff Semple reports from Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to continue Israel’s fight with Hezbollah on Thursday, even with world leaders in New York today pushing for a proposed 21-day pause on the war. Thousands are fleeing Lebanon as a ground invasion from Israel draws closer. Jeff Semple reports from Jerusalem. Jon Wells —a member of the Blood...

Speaking on Tuesday from Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the possibility that it could introduce arrest warrants against Netanyahu and other top officials for alleged violations of international law. “This is an outrage of historic proportions,” Netanyahu said.

U.S. government employees at the embassy in Jerusalem and their families are being restricted from travelling outside the greater Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Be’er Sheva areas amid threats from Iran to retaliate for an airstrike on its embassy compound in Damascus.

Reaction has been muted in Israel, Iran and the U.S., following reports of an Israeli strike on Iran. There are tentative hopes the strike was limited enough to avoid Iran and Israel spilling into uncontrolled violence. Crystal Goomansingh reports from Jerusalem.

Reaction has been muted in Israel, Iran and the U.S., following reports of an Israeli strike on Iran. There are tentative hopes the strike was limited enough to avoid Iran and Israel spiralling into uncontrolled violence. Crystal Goomansingh begins our coverage in Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Jackson Proskow looks at the U.S. response to the strike. More...

Israel bombed at least four homes in Rafah on Wednesday, raising new fear among the more than a million Palestinians sheltering in the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip that a long-threatened ground assault could be coming. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his cancellation of a planned visit...

Israeli police forcefully dispersed Ultra Orthodox Jews protests trying to block roads in Jerusalem on Monday, shortly after the top Israeli court heard challenges to exemptions granted to Ultra Orthodox Jews from military conscription.

During a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared and formalized his cabinet’s rejection of the international community’s “attempt to unilaterally impose on Israel a Palestinian state.”

The three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, were born in Jerusalem. There are temples and shrines to all three within a short walk of each other. And thousands of years later — as Daniele Hamamdijian reports — the struggle between them is still going on.