The Latest Breaking News from Israel

Biden administration on alert for potential Iranian attacks after Hezbollah leader's killing by Israel. Tensions rise in the Middle East.

Federal government warns against importing ‘radical ideologies of conflict’ and threatens to cancel visa of anyone inciting ‘discord’

Israel carried out an air strike on a Beirut apartment block on Monday, a Lebanese security source said, killing four people in its first such raid on the heart of the city since the outbreak of the Gaza war last year.

An eerie calm on Sunday engulfed the rubble-strewn Beirut site where an Israeli air strike killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, flattening buildings in the Iran-backed group's stronghold.

The United States said Sunday that it had a strong military presence in the Middle East after deploying reinforcements amid Israel's widening of the war to include hundreds of targets in Lebanon.

Lebanon's army is "repositioning and regrouping forces" at the southern border following threats of an Israeli incursion, a military official said on Monday, as the US State Department said Israel told the US it had begun conducting small raids targeting Hezbollah inside Lebanon. Read our blog to see how the…

The onslaught in the Middle East has brought to the world’s attention once again the “crime of crimes”, genocide.

NZ Labour's most vocal pro-Palestinian MP has avoided party sanction despite retweeting a statement justifying Hamas' October 7 attack.

Israel’s military has struck more targets in Yemen and Lebanon, including a strike on central Beirut for the first time since 2006, in the wake of Friday’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah