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A policy adviser at the Department of Education who campaigned for President Biden has resigned over the president's handling of the war in Gaza.

The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group is heading home after months of extra duty at sea providing protection for Israel.

Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas’ military wing, had headed the group’s presence in the West Bank.

South Africa launched the case Friday at the U.N.’s top court, accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and asking the court to order Israel to halt its attacks.

Israel's military said in a statement Monday that five brigades, or several thousand troops, were being taken out of Gaza in the coming weeks for training and rest.

U.S. forces opened fire in the Red Sea Sunday, shooting down two ballistic missiles and killing several armed crews.

South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and asking the court to order Israel to halt its attacks.

Health officials say overwhelmed hospitals that now lack vascular surgeons at times had to amputate limbs, which in normal times could have been saved.

The Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups, under an umbrella of Iranian-backed militants, claimed credit for the attack.

Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, “is a place of sorrow and silence" this year, Pope Francis lamented as he pleaded for a cease-fire in Gaza.

The Israel-Hamas war has forced Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem to be called off: "This year, without the Christmas tree and without lights, there’s just darkness."

Health officials in Hamas-run Gaza say the Palestinian death toll there has surpassed 20,000. That figure was released Friday.

Gad Haggai, an Israeli American, had been thought to be among the more than 100 Israeli hostages still alive in Gaza.

National Park Service conservators removed almost all the latex and spray paint from the area around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The conservation team is scheduled to apply one more treatment and wash to remove the remaining light shadow from the spray paint on Thursday morning.

The Israeli military said that the tunnel facilitated the transit of vehicles, militants and supplies, which raises more questions about how its surveillance could have missed such preparations for Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

This is a rare report of the killing of someone with U.S.-government ties in the more than two-month war between Israel and Hamas.

An IDF official said the accidental killing of Israeli hostages was “against our rules of engagement," and was being investigated at the highest level.

The destroyer USS Carney "successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems" launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, the Pentagon said.