Alon Rom

1 month ago | spokesman.com | Mohamad El Chamaa |Susannah George |Victoria Bisset |Alon Rom

BEIRUT - Israel launched strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least seven people, authorities here said, in response to rockets fired from across the border earlier in the day. The exchange was the largest since the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect late last year. The ceasefire remained in place, but the action fueled concerns that Israel’s resumption of war in Gaza this week could imperil the truce in Lebanon.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Mohamad El Chamaa |Victoria Bisset |Alon Rom

BEIRUT — Israel launched strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least two, in response to rockets fired from across the border earlier in the day. The exchange was the largest since the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect late last year. U.N. peacekeepers said four projectiles were launched from Lebanon into Israel near Metula at around 7:30 a.m. Saturday. Israel said six were fired and three entered Israel, where they were intercepted.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Niha Masih |Alon Rom |Abbie Cheeseman

Israel said Sunday it has stopped the entry of all aid into Gaza, amid an escalating standoff over the future of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. The first phase of the ceasefire — which halted fighting for six weeks and brought several exchanges of Israeli hostages for detained Palestinians — expired Saturday, and Israel and Hamas have not agreed on a second phase.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Susannah George |Alon Rom |Victoria Bisset |Heidi Levine |Sammy Westfall |Claire Parker

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to conduct “an intensive operation” in the occupied West Bank after three empty buses in central Israel exploded in what officials said was a suspected terrorist attack. No one was injured in the attack, which involved a total of five explosives, three of which detonated on buses in parking lots in the city of Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv, according to police and local officials.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Alon Rom |Lior Soroka |Sammy Westfall

TEL AVIV — A series of explosions hit at least three empty buses in central Israel late Thursday night in what officials said was a suspected terrorist attack. Undetonated explosives were also found, officials said. Five explosives were found, said Haim Sargrof, commander of Israel Police’s Tel Aviv District. Several of the bombs were planted on buses that exploded in parking lots in the city of Bat Yam, a suburb of Tel Aviv, said Bat Yam Mayor Tzvika Brot in a statement on social media.