Benjamin Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s criticism this week over US weapons deliveries to his country is “vexing,” the White House said on Thursday. “Those comments were deeply disappointing and certainly vexing to us, given the…
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Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators called on Israel and Hamas Saturday to “finalize” the truce deal outlined by US President Joe Biden, as Israeli forces pounded Rafah in southern Gaza. Fighting has raged in the besieged Gaza Strip since…
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a US threat to withhold some arms would not prevent Israel from continuing its offensive in Gaza, indicating it might proceed with an invasion of the packed city of Rafah against the…
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A Montreal daily faced accusations of anti-Semitism on Wednesday over its depiction in a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire. La Presse, a digital-only French-language newspaper, showed Netanyahu with…
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that no one would stop Israel from achieving victory in its war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. “No one will stop us — not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil and no one else. It…
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza will continue for “many more months,” pushing back against persistent international cease-fire calls after mounting civilian deaths, hunger and mass…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to confirm on Saturday that new Qatar-mediated negotiations were underway to recover hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, after a source said Israel’s lead negotiator met Qatar’s prime minister.…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumed on Monday, despite the country’s continuing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The trial was suspended after the Palestinian militant group’s Oct. 7 attack on…
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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down “immediately,” without waiting until the end of the country’s war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas. “Netanyahu should leave…
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Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes early on Monday and its aircraft struck southern Lebanon overnight, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of his top generals and his war cabinet to assess the escalating…
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