James Hider

2 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Daniel Estrin |Carrie Kahn |James Hider

TEL AVIV, Israel — The new U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, told NPR he is "outraged" at the leaders of Britain, France and Canada for condemning Israel's new military offensive in Gaza. " The prolonged suffering for everybody is on Hamas, and I'm outraged that the U.K., Canada, France, they're blaming the wrong perpetrator," Huckabee, the former Republican governor of Arkansas, said in an interview Wednesday at a U.S. Embassy office in Tel Aviv.

2 months ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | James Hider |Michele Kelemen

President Trump said that the United States will hold direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program, starting Saturday.   "We have a very big meeting, and we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious," Trump said, as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office. During his first term, Trump withdrew from the 2015 landmark nuclear deal with Iran negotiated by then-President Barack Obama.

2 months ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | James Hider

Israel has launched a wave of deadly attacks against Gaza, a move that appears to have put an end to the fragile ceasefire that came into effect almost two months ago and aimed at ending almost 16 months of war. The Gaza Ministry of Health said Tuesday the death toll from the Israeli wave of attacks in Gaza was now at least 300 with more than 1,000 people injured. Khalil Al Daqran, the spokesman of the health ministry, confirmed the numbers to NPR in a brief interview.

Jan 17, 2025 | kpbs.org | James Hider |Jerome Socolovsky

Updated January 17, 2025 at 18:32 PM ETThe Israeli government has approved a ceasefire and hostage deal with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, leading to a possible end to 15 months of a devastating war in Gaza that spread to other parts of the Middle East. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's full cabinet voted in favor of the U.S.-backed deal late Friday, according to The Associated Press and Israeli news outlets, following earlier approval by his security cabinet.

Jan 17, 2025 | wlrn.org | James Hider

Updated January 17, 2025 at 18:32 PM ETThe Israeli government has approved a ceasefire and hostage deal with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, leading to a possible end to 15 months of a devastating war in Gaza that spread to other parts of the Middle East. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's full cabinet voted in favor of the U.S.-backed deal late Friday, according to The Associated Press and Israeli news outlets, following earlier approval by his security cabinet.