The announcement that Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant had been dismissed was apparently orchestrated for just five minutes before the evening news, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported.

Israel's parliament passed a law early Thursday that would allow it to deport family members of Palestinian attackers, including the country's own citizens, to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip or other ...

Several large airstrikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs early Thursday morning, including one on a site adjacent to Lebanon's only international airport.