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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/14/tzipi-livni-israel-gaza-arrest

British court issued Gaza arrest warrant for former Israeli minister
Tzipi Livni

Warrant issued over war crimes accusations was withdrawn when it
emerged former minister had cancelled plan to visit


* Ian Black and Ian Cobain
* guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 December 2009 19.34 GMT

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni

Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. Photograph: Gali Tibbon / AFP

A British court issued an arrest warrant for Israel's former foreign
minister over war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza this year - only
to withdraw it when it was discovered that she was not in the UK, it
emerged today.

Tzipi Livni, a member of the war cabinet during Operation Cast Lead,
had been due to address a meeting in London on Sunday but cancelled
her attendance in advance. The Guardian has established that
Westminster magistrates' court issued the warrant at the request of
lawyers acting for some of the Palestinian victims of the fighting
but it was later dropped.

The warrant marks the first time an Israeli minister or former
minister has faced arrest in the UK and is evidence of a growing
effort to pursue war crimes allegations under "universal
jurisidiction". Israel rejects these efforts as politically
motivated, saying it acted in self-defence against Hamas rocket
attacks from Gaza.

Livni, head of the opposition Kadima party, played a key role in
decisions made before and during the three-week offensive.
Palestinians claim 1,400 were killed, mostly civilians; Israel
counted 1,166 dead, the majority of them combatants.

No one involved in the Westminster episode was prepared to confirm,
on the record, what had transpired in a chaotic series of highly
sensitive legal moves. But a pro-Palestinian group welcomed news of
the abortive move as "long overdue".

The Foreign Office, clearly deeply embarrassed by the episode, said
in a statement: "The UK is determined to do all it can to promote
peace in the Middle East and to be a strategic partner of Israel. To
do this, Israel's leaders need to be able to come to the UK for talks
with the British government. We are looking urgently at the
implications of this case."

Livni's office said she had decided in advance not to come to the UK
but lawyers seemed unaware of that when they approached the court
last week. The judge refused to issue the warrant until it was clear
Livni was in fact in the country, as he was erroneously informed on
Sunday.

The former minister had been scheduled to speak at a Jewish National
Fund conference. "Scheduled meetings with government figures in
London could not take place close to the conference and would have
necessitated a longer-than-planned absence from Israel," her office
told the Ynet website.

It is the second time in less than three months that lawyers have
gone to Westminster magistrates court asking for a warrant for the
arrest of an Israeli politician. In September the court was asked to
issue one for the arrest of Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister,
under the 1988 Criminal Justice Act, which gives courts in England
and Wales universal jurisdiction in war crimes cases.

Barak, who was attending a meeting at the Labour party conference in
Brighton, escaped arrest after the Foreign Office told the court that
he was a serving minister who would be meeting his British
counterparts. The court ruled he enjoyed immunity under the State
Immunity Act 1978.

According to Israeli sources, ministers who wish to visit the UK in a
personal capacity have begun asking the Israeli embassy in London to
arrange meetings with British officials. These offer legal protection
against arrest.

Livni, crucially, cannot enjoy any such immunity as she is an
ex-minister. Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister, is in the same
position.

Because of the potential damage to UK-Israeli relations - and because
of legal pitfalls facing those who disclosed information about the
application - few people with any detailed knowledge of it were
prepared to comment today.

The Ministry of Justice, Scotland Yard and clerks at the magistrates
court refused to discuss the matter. A statement issued by HM Court
Service implied that there had been no application for an arrest
warrant, stating "there is no record of any such hearing". A
spokeswoman maintained that this was not a misleading statement.

Samuel Hayek, chairman of the Jewish National Fund UK, the charity
whose conference Livni had been due to attend, said: "I am not at
liberty to confirm her precise reasons for not attending." He added:
"In any event, it is regrettable that the British government is
unable to conduct free dialogue with Israel's most senior statesmen
and politicians."

Tayab Ali, the solicitor who tried to obtain a warrant for the arrest
of Barak on behalf of 16 Palestinians, said his firm was "ready,
willing and able to act for clients to seek the arrest of anyone
suspected of war crimes" who travelled to the UK.

Livni's office described her as "proud of all her decisions regarding
Operation Cast Lead". It added: "The operation achieved its
objectives to protect the citizens of Israel and restore Israel's
deterrence capability."

Het Israelisch Fascisme 5

'Jonathan Cook
The National
February 13. 2009

NAZARETH // The near-tie in parliamentary seats between the centrist Kadima party and the right-wing Likud is evidence of a dramatic lurch rightward by the Israeli electorate this week.

Kadima leader Tzipi Livni won a wafer-thin victory after the final results were released yesterday because traditional left-wing voters defected to her from Meretz and the once-dominant Labor party.

Likewise Mr Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party failed to muster the necessary votes to ward off Ms Livni’s challenge because traditional Likud supporters drifted into the camp of the far-right, voting for Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party.

The one certainty of the outcome, according to Neve Gordon, a political scientist at Ben Gurion University in the Negev, is that the Right is in the ascendant. “The results clearly testify to the fact that a large majority of the elected politicians are against an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement based on the two-state solution.”

In the coming days, Shimon Peres, the president, will tap the party leader most likely to establish a stable government. Ostensibly Mr Netanyahu, wearing the Right’s mantle, appears better placed than Ms Livni, despite having only 27 to her 28 seats.

But in reality both must court the mid-size parties to stand a chance of forming a government, and in the fractious atmosphere of Israeli politics that will be no easy matter.

Top of the list to woo has been Mr Lieberman, widely seen as kingmaker. It is hard to imagine any arrangement that does not include his Yisrael Beiteinu party.

Ms Livni cannot pass the threshold of 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-member parliament without drawing in 13 seats from Labor as well as Mr Lieberman’s 15 mandates and the seats of one of the two ultra-Orthodox parties.

Few observers believe such a coalition can be constructed. Most in the battered Labor party want to sit on the opposition benches while they rebuild the party, and would certainly object to joining Yisraeli Beiteinu. Their power-hungry leader, Ehud Barak, would probably tear apart his party if he tried to join either a Kadima or Likud government.

Ms Livni, meanwhile, has been clutching at a straw: that she and Mr Lieberman share some common political ground. Both appear to want a two-state solution offering minimal concessions to the Palestinians, both are passionately secular and both are enthusiastic about centralising political power, possibly through Israel’s reform into a presidential system.

Nonetheless, Mr Lieberman’s agenda is more openly anti-Arab than Ms Livni’s and ultimately he may have to answer to his voters, who expect a right-wing government.

Mr Netanyahu can pass the 61-seat threshold only if he calls on Yisrael Beiteinu and the 11 seats of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, as well as a further 12 from smaller far-right and religious parties.

His chief problem is that Yisrael Beiteinu and Shas are more implacable enemies than natural allies. During the campaign, Shas’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Yosef Ovadia, even equated Mr Lieberman with Satan.

The latter’s “sin” is that he wants to end a monopoly on marriage ceremonies fiercely guarded by the rabbis. It is a plank of his platform he cannot easily discard. He draws heavy support from the one million so-called Russians who left in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Many are of questionable Jewishness and have been denied the chance to marry in Israel by the rabbinate.

Three other factors are likely to weigh on Mr Netanyahu’s mind.

First, there is a long and not always harmonious history between himself and Mr Lieberman. During Mr Netanyahu’s premiership in the late 1990s, Mr Lieberman was both head of his private office and director-general of the Likud party.

Privately Mr Netanyahu is known to regard his protégé as dangerously ambitious. Mr Lieberman is already being touted as the country’s next prime minister but one, a role he would like to see become more presidential – and, some would say, dictatorial.

Second, the formation of what will be effectively a coalition of the far-right, in which Mr Lieberman would be all too visible, would isolate Mr Netanyahu internationally and probably set him on a collision course with the new administration in Washington.

And third, a lengthy police inquiry into Mr Lieberman’s shady business dealings is reaching a climax. According to well-placed sources, the police have established a watertight case of corruption. “If Lieberman is charged, his party will be finished. It’s a one-man show,” said Dr Gordon, the political scientist.

In the circumstances, the natural solution for both Mr Netanyahu and Ms Livni might be to set aside their differences and establish a unity government, possibly with Yisrael Beiteinu as the junior partner.

The inclusion of Kadima in a Netanyahu government would provide precisely the diplomatic cover Mr Netanyahu needs to make his government durable. It would also keep Mr Lieberman on the sidelines. Ms Livni says she will not concede the top job, though she may relent over the coming days.

However, Dr Gordon thinks Kadima may see it as in its interests to sit in the opposition for the time being, watching a weak Netanyahu government flounder.

“Remember, Olmert had 78 seats in his coalition. The best Netanyahu can probably hope for is 65. There is a global financial crisis coming and a potentially hostile administration in Washington. If I were Livni, I’d sit this one out.”

Similar sentiments were voiced yesterday by Kadima’s Meir Sheetrit, the interior minister. He said Mr Netanyahu would be forced to lead “an extremist religious coalition”. “If a government like this is established I anticipate it will have a very hard life.”

Whatever emerges, the legitimacy of Israel’s system of governance is in the spotlight. Domestic political paralysis is likely to ensue, and Israelis face the threat of another short-lived government. Most Israeli commentators agree that the country desperately needs to overhaul the political system, either through electoral reform or a Lieberman-style presidential revolution.

Both changes would make the government more stable by increasing the large parties’ power. But with the smaller parties in no hurry to vote for their own extinction, no one is expecting reform soon.'

Zie: http://www.jkcook.net/Articles2/0373.htm#Top

Irgun. Jewish Terrorism

Menachem Begin kust de Irgun-vlag op 4 augustus 1948, toen de terroristen opgingen in het Israëlische leger.


http://deisraellobby.blogspot.com/2009/10/de-waarschuwing.html


Het was dezelfde Begin die later schreef dat het judaisme terrorisme niet afkeurt.

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Amerikaanse versie van Wiesje interviewt Livni...


New York Times reporter calls Zionist terrorism ‘romantic’


A little-noticed comment in a New York Times interview with Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has critics arguing that it shows the media has a "double standard" when it comes to terrorism.


In an interview published Tuesday, Livni, the leader of Israel's centrist Kadima party, boasted that her parents, both members of the Zionist militant group Irgun in the 1940s, were the first couple to be married in the newly-formed state of Israel.


"Both of them were in the Irgun," Livni said. "They were freedom fighters, and they met while boarding a British train. When the British Mandate was here, they robbed a train to get the money in order to buy weapons."


To which New York Times reporter Deborah Solomon responded: "It was a more romantic era."

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0626/nyt-calls-zionist-terrorism-romantic/ 

New York Times reporter calls Zionist terrorism ‘romantic’

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A little-noticed comment in a New York Times interview with Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has critics arguing that it shows the media has a "double standard" when it comes to terrorism.
In an interview published Tuesday, Livni, the leader of Israel's centrist Kadima party, boasted that her parents, both members of the Zionist militant group Irgun in the 1940s, were the first couple to be married in the newly-formed state of Israel.
"Both of them were in the Irgun," Livni said. "They were freedom fighters, and they met while boarding a British train. When the British Mandate was here, they robbed a train to get the money in order to buy weapons."
To which New York Times reporter Deborah Solomon responded: "It was a more romantic era."
"I've met interviewer Deborah Solomon -- smart lady," writes Philip Weiss, who brought attention to the comment on his blog. "I wonder whether she was inoculated, as I was, by Zionism, and to what degree. This is typically one-sided."

Weiss points out that Irgun, which was fighting for the creation of a Jewish state, was responsible for the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946. That attack killed 91 people, including US and British nationals, and is believed to remain to this day as the most deadly militant attack in the history of the conflict between Israel and its neighbors.
Irgun's membership was absorbed into the Israeli Defence Force after the creation of Israel. Its political arm is a predecessor to today's Likud party, whose leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, is prime minister of Israel.
Matt Duss at ThinkProgress goes even further than Weiss in his criticism of the Times' portrayal of Irgun.
"What’s amazing here is not only does Solomon neglect to challenge Livni’s characterization of her parents’ membership in a terrorist group as 'freedom fight[ing],' Solomon herself volunteers further assistance in the whitewash," he opines.
Duss points out that, at the time of Irgun's attacks, the Times itself referred to the group's activities as "terrorism."
"Can you imagine any mainstream American journalist performing this service in regard to Hamas terrorism? I doubt it," Duss writes.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0626/nyt-calls-zionist-terrorism-romantic/


Irgun staat voor terrorisme, tegen Palestijnse bevolking alswel tegen de Britse militairen die tegen de nazi's vochten.



Israel has been a terrorist state from its beginning, and has its foundations in terrorism. Three Israeli prime ministers were or are terrorists:

• Menachim Begin took part in terrorist acts in the 1940s, including the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people.
  
  
  

  Begin ordered ... the destruction of the central British administrative offices in the King David Hotel. — Jewish Virtual Library

  
  
  
  
  

  In 1946, Jewish terrorists agitating for their own state in British-occupied Palestine blew up Jerusalem's King David Hotel, killing 91. Two years later, an independent Israel was established. "There were a lot of innocent British women and children killed there," says Hanson. "But in the end, it worked; the British left." — Some Dirty Little Secrets About Terrorism

• Yitzhak Shamir was the operations commander, and later leader, of the Stern Gang, a terrorist group which was responsible for a string of political assassinations.
  
  
  
  

  Shamir was a member of two militant Jewish underground organizations which ... were active in counter-terrorist acts against Arabs as well as sabotage against the British. — The Department for Jewish Zionist Education (Note the use of the term counter-terrorist to disguise terrorism.)

  
  
  
  
  

  In post-war British-mandated Palestine the words Stern Gang equalled "terrorism" — assassinations, bombings, the full works. ... Yitzhak Shamir had been the gang's operations commander. ... By appointing Shamir Foreign Minister, Prime Minister Menachem Begin had selected the organiser of two famous assassinations: the killing of Lord Moyne, the British Minister representative in the Middle East, in 1944, and that of Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN's special Mediator on Palestine, in 1948. — Stern Gang: what does 'mekhabbel' mean?

  
  
  
  
  

  During the fight for Jewish statehood, extremist military groups sometimes resorted to the use of terrorist tactics. One such instance occurred in 1948 when members of the Jewish underground organization LEHI (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) killed UN Peace Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte to protest his diplomatic efforts to modify the Palestine partition plan. ... Yitzhak Shamir reputedly played a role in planning the assassination; however, he was never tried and went on to become Prime Minister of Israel. — The Assassination of Count Bernadotte

• Ariel Sharon initiated the Sabra-Shatila massacre in which between 1000 and 3000 people (mostly Palestinians) were murdered, and now leads a terrorist campaign against all Palestinians living in the occupied territories of the West Bank.
  
  
  
  

  As commander of the notorious Unit 101, Sharon led attacks on Palestinian villages in which women and children were killed. The massacre in the West Bank village of Qibya, on October 14, 1953, was perhaps the most notorious. His troops blew up 45 houses and 69 Palestinian civilians — about half of them women and children — were killed. — The Electronic Intifada

  
  
  
  
  

  No one has ever been tried for the massacre, but an official Israeli commission of inquiry found that Israel's defense minister at the time, Ariel Sharon, "bears personal responsibility" as well as "indirect responsibility." It was Sharon, after all, who had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to invade Beirut and surround the camps. ... Like Pinochet and other war criminals, Sharon and his Phalangist underlings should be brought to book; if they can successfully evade justice, then it will give heart to killers everywhere. — Marking a Massacre, The Nation

  
  
  
  
  

  Sharon's preemptive logic undercuts all form of dialogue and negotiations. Its rule of thumb is violence, and then more violence, whether it manifests itself as a military attack or as an aggressive act of dispossession. So while it may seem that the bloody routine is in some way preordained, it is actually Sharon's preemptive zeal alongside Hamas' and Islamic Jihad's fundamentalism that has clouded the horizon and concealed, as Arendt might have said, the possibility for a better future. — Neve Gordon, Sharon's Preemptive Zeal, Counterpunch, 2003-09-24

  See also:
• Ariel Sharon: Profile of an Unrepentant War Criminal
• Sharon's willing accomplices
• Gilad Atzmon: Sharon is the right man for the Job
• The Likud Party was founded by terrorists.
  
  
  
  
  

  The terrorists of the 1940's were given full amnesty after establishing their nation, so instead of being brought to justice, they were able eventually to take power and keep all dissenters in line through terror and fear. The terrorists have become statesmen of the Jewish State. They have little moral ground to condemn modern Arab terrorists for doing what they themselves did in the 1940's and 1950's and have continued to do to the present day. — Zionism in Bible Prophecy: Part 6

  And, of course, the terrorist state of the U.S.A. continues to support the terrorist state of Israel by giving it tanks, planes, rocket launchers and financial support to the tune of three billion dollars a year (why?), with which Israel has built up the fourth-largest military machine in the world. Israel's hegemony over the Middle East will continue, however, only as long as American money makes it possible. One day this money will no longer be forthcoming, for one reason or another. That will be Israel's Day of Reckoning. And none too soon either.
  
  
  
  
  

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  • Ronald Bleier: In the Beginning, There Was Terror
  • G. J. Neuberger: The Great Gulf Between Zionism and Judaism
    
    
    
    

    Jacob de Haan, a former distinguished Dutch diplomat ... initiated talks with Arab leaders with a view toward the eventual establishments of a state there in which Jews and Arabs would have equal rights. In this way he hoped to forestall the creation of a Zionist state. Despite threats to his life, de Haan, fully aware of the ultimate dangers of a Zionist state, continued his talks and negotiations. On the eve of his departure in 1924 for Britain to meet with authorities there, he was assassinated by the Haganah, the Zionist paramilitary force, in the center of Jerusalem as he came from evening prayers.

  • David Hirst: The Lavon Affair
    
    
    
    

    In July 1954 Egypt was plagued by a series of bomb outrages directed mainly against American and British property in Cairo and Alexandria. ... The trial established that the bombings had indeed been carried out by an Israeli espionage and terrorist network.

  • More Evidence Mossad Killed JFK Over Israeli Nukes
  • Israel's 'Use' Of Its Nuclear Weapons Against US
  • John Pilger: The Unmentionable Source of Terrorism
    
    
    
    

    [Israel, the] creation, then guardian of the west's empire in the Middle East, the Zionist state remains the cause of more regional grievance and sheer terror than all the Muslim states combined. Read the melancholy Palestinian Monitor on the Internet; it chronicles the equivalent of Madrid's horror week after week, month after month, in occupied Palestine. No front pages in the West acknowledge this enduring bloodbath, let alone mourn its victims. Moreover, the Israeli army, a terrorist organisation by any reasonable measure, is protected and rewarded in the west.

  • FBI evidence of Mossad involvement in September 11 attacks on the U.S.?!
  • A short history of Israeli state terrorism
  • Wayne Madsen: Rahm Emanuel's father specialized in bus bombings in Palestine

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  Is Israel Planning a Nuclear Terrorist Attack in the US?

  • MadCow Morning News reported on 2004-05-20:
    
    
    
    

    For the second time in the past two weeks Israelis in a moving van have been detained near a U.S. nuclear facility, this time at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base near St. Marys, GA., near Sea Island, host of the G-8 Summit next month.

  • Paul Howard, 2004-05-27: Terror In The US? — Back To The Old Shell Game
    
    
    
    

    The Bush administration has come out full force this week with what they claim are mountains of intelligence that claim Al Queda is determined to hit America before the elections in a massive attack. ... Could this be a way of trying to cover the fact that Israeli reservist teams have been found in this country working for "moving companies", yet they keep getting arrested around US nuclear facilities? And why do these people keep getting arrested, only to have the Feds step in to make sure they are released?

  • R. Leland Lehrman: Israeli Nationals, Nukes, And Attacks On US Nuclear Facilities

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  The Assassination of Rafiq Hariri

  A contributor to Al Jazeera's website wrote:
  
  
  
  

  If some recent events are put together the finger pointing at Israel and the U.S. for Hariri's assassination will be more justified. The U.S. wants to attack Iran but fears that any attempt to do so will put Israel at risk from Hezbollah and Syrian troops. Being desperate, the U.S. connived with France to pass the most unacceptable and ridiculous resolution ever in UN history while they are in Iraq and Afghanistan, they want Syria out of Lebanon so that Israel has a free hand on Hezbollah in case of any attack on Iran. After the resolution failed to garner support, now the U.S. is using another strategy to cause a civil war in Lebanon. Al Hariri's assassination is clearly the combined efforts of the CIA and the Mossad.

  See more on the assassination of Rafiq Hariri at Syria is Doomed.
  And for a mention of a few acts of Israeli state terrorism from 1950 to the present see this article by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad: Motive and Precedent in the Gemayel Assassinatio
  http://www.serendipity.li/zionism/israel_terr.htm
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  

  History of terrorism

  
  

  Middle East

  
  

  

  The King David Hotel after the bombing
  Operating in the Palestine, Irgun was a clandestine militant Zionist group that split off from another militant group, Hagannah, in 1931.^[74] The group was founded by Avraham Tehomi, who was inspired by Ze'ev Jabotinsky's belief that only Jewish armed force would ensure the establishment of a Jewish state.^[75][76] Like Hagannah, Irgun sought to end British rule^[77] by assassinating police, capturing British government buildings and arms, and sabotaging British railways. It also smuggled Jews into Palestine^{[citation needed]}. Its tactic of attacking Arab communities, including bombing a crowded Arab market, is considered among the first examples of terrorism directed against civilians.^[78] Irgun's most famous attack was the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel, the British Military headquarters in Jerusalem. Ninety-one people, both soldiers and civilians, were killed.^[79] After the creation of Israel in 1948, Menachem Begin (Irgun leader from 1943 to 1948) transformed the group into the political party which later became part of Likud.^[80]
  Lehi (Lohameni Herut Yisrael, a.k.a. "Freedom Fighters for Israel," a.k.a. Stern Gang) was a revisionist Zionist group that splintered off from Irgun in 1940.^[78] Abraham Stern formed Lehi from disaffected Irgun members after Irgun agreed to a truce with Britain in 1940.^[77] Lehi assassinated prominent politicians as a strategy. For example, on November 6, 1944, Lord Moyne, the British Minister of State for the Middle East, was assassinated.^[81] The act was controversial among the Zionist militant groups, Hagannah sympathizing with the British and launching a massive man-hunt against the other Lehi and Irgun. After Israel's 1948 founding, Lehi was formally dissolved and its members integrated into the Israeli Defense Forces.<sup>[82]
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_terrorism</sup>

Tehran Fires Missile Barrage at Israel

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Iran War Live Updates: Tehran Fires Missile Barrage at Israel After U.S. Claims Progress on Talks

Israeli officials said missiles launched from Iran had hit Tel Aviv and other parts of the country. President Trump said there had been “very strong talks” with Iran to end the war, though Iranian officials did not confirm that.

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John YoonGabby Sobelman and Aurelien Breeden

Gabby Sobelman reported from Rehovot, Israel.

Here’s the latest.

Waves of Iranian missiles targeted Israel and Iraq on Tuesday, according to authorities in both countries, after the United States and Iran sent conflicting signals about whether they were negotiating to end the war in the Middle East.

The attacks were a sign that Tehran is still able to inflict damage across the region despite weeks of intense U.S.-Israeli bombardment and of sustained retaliatory strikes.

The Israeli authorities said missiles launched from Iran hit Tel Aviv and other parts of the country on Tuesday. It was unclear in some cases if the impacts were caused by missiles or by falling debris from interceptions, but they caused extensive damage to at least three residential buildings and set cars on fire. At least six people were treated for injuries in Tel Aviv, according to the national emergency service.

One of the Iranian missiles that hit Tel Aviv carried a warhead of around 100 kilograms, or 220 pounds, according to Col. Miki David of the Israeli military. This missile was “something we have not yet encountered in the war,” he said.

A volley of six Iranian ballistic missiles also hit the semiautonomous Kurdish region in Iraq on Tuesday, killing six Kurdish fighters and wounding 30 others, the Kurdistan Regional Government said in a statement. Iran did not immediately comment publicly on the attack.

The barrages from Iran came despite repeated assurances from American and Israeli officials that the Iranian ballistic missile program was severely battered, though experts have said that Iran may have tried to conserve missiles for a prolonged war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel was “smashing” Iran’s missile program. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said in past weeks that Iran’s ability to manufacture and launch missiles had been severely curbed and that Iran’s missile launch volume was down 90 percent from the start of the war.

There were also more drone and missile launches toward Gulf nations. Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said that its forces had intercepted multiple drones, while the Kuwaiti authorities said their air defenses were responding to missiles and drones. Neither country said where these missiles and drones came from.

The fresh hostilities followed President Trump’s comments on Monday that the U.S. and Iran were engaged in “very strong talks” to end the war, which began on Feb. 28 when the U.S. and Israeli militaries launched an assault on Iran. He said that he would postpone a deadline for a threatened attack on Iranian power plants until Friday while the discussions took place. But the speaker of Iran’s Parliament denied that any such talks were happening, accusing Mr. Trump of making false statements to calm volatile energy markets.

The Israeli military separately pressed on with its campaign against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon. Israel issued evacuation warnings to the residents of several villages in southern Lebanon, saying that it would be targeting the Iran-backed militant group.

Here’s what else we’re covering:

• Death tolls: Iran’s U.N. ambassador said that at least 1,348 civilians had been killed in the country since the start of the war — a toll that has not been updated for over a week. More than 1,000 people in Lebanon have been killed, the authorities there said on Thursday. At least 15 people were killed in Iranian attacks on Israel, officials said. The American death toll stood at 13 service members.

• Oil prices: The international benchmark for crude oil hit $114 a barrel on Monday and was trading above $100 on Tuesday. Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for a fifth of the world’s oil, along with recent attacks on oil and gas infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, are rippling through the world’s economy. Read more ›

• Qatar: A remote work mandate in Qatar, put in place earlier this month because of the war, has ended, Qatar’s state news agency reported. Qataris in the public and private sectors will return to in-person work on Tuesday, it said.

• U.S. troops: Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and some elements of the division’s headquarters staff to support U.S. military operations in Iran, defense officials said. Read more ›

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Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said Tuesday that the war in Iran violated international criminal law. He appeared to criticize his own government for not being prepared to be more clear in its condemnation. He went on to say that there seems little doubt that “the justification based on an imminent attack on the U.S. does not hold water.” Steinmeier, who made the comments at an event in Berlin, went on to call the war a politically disastrous mistake.

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The Israeli military released a flurry of new evacuation warnings for southern Lebanon on Tuesday, ordering residents of nine towns and villages to leave their homes and flee several miles north. The sweeping evacuation orders in the country’s south in recent weeks have heightened fears of a large-scale Israeli ground invasion. Hours before the new warnings, Israel’s defense minister said that the country intends to control areas as deep in Lebanon as the Litani River, which lies around 15 to 20 miles north of the Israeli border. 

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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines on Tuesday declared a ⁠state of national energy ​emergency amid global oil supply disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East.

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The Lebanese government has withdrawn its approval of Iran’s ambassador, Mohammad Reza Sheibani, and given him until March 29 to leave the country, Lebanon’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. The Lebanese government cited “Iran’s violation of diplomatic norms and established protocols between the two countries,” but did not elaborate. The government typically uses such language to refer to interference in Lebanese internal affairs, especially in regard to Iran’s support for the Hezbollah militia.

March 24, 2026, 7:47 a.m. ET31 minutes ago

Natan Odenheimer and Gabby Sobelman

Israel Katz, Israel’s defense minister, said Monday that Israel intends to control areas in Lebanon as deep as the Litani River, which lies about one to three miles from the Israeli border, as it continues its operations against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia. He also confirmed that the Israeli military is following a model used last year in the war in Gaza, where swaths of buildings were razed in urban areas, as part of operations against what Israeli officials said was a renewed Hamas insurgency. The demolitions exacerbated what was already a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

March 24, 2026, 7:47 a.m. ET31 minutes ago

Natan Odenheimer and Gabby Sobelman

Katz said Tuesday that the Israeli military is flattening homes in border villages as part of the operations, claiming that they are being “used as terrorist positions.” Katz said Tuesday that Israeli forces had destroyed all five bridges over the Litani River, saying that Hezbollah used them to transport militants and weapons. The bridges are vital for the Lebanese population living south of the river, the majority of whom have been displaced by the fighting.

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March 24, 2026, 6:46 a.m. ET2 hours ago

Erika Solomon

Reporting from Iraq

Iranian missile attacks hit the semiautonomous Kurdish region in Iraq on Tuesday, killing six Kurdish fighters and wounding 30 others, the Kurdistan Regional Government said in a statement. The volley of six Iranian ballistic missiles came in two separate attacks at dawn on Tuesday, according to the statement.

“While we condemn in the strongest terms this attack and all other terrorist attacks on the Kurdistan Region, we affirm that we have every right to respond to any aggression against our people and our land,” said the statement, from the KRG’s Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs. Iran did not immediately comment publicly on the attack.

March 24, 2026, 3:19 a.m. ET5 hours ago

Gabby Sobelman

Reporting from Rehovot, Israel

One of the waves of Iranian missiles launched toward Israel on Tuesday resulted in four impact sites, the Israeli authorities said. It was not clear if all were missile hits or debris from interceptions. They caused extensive damage to at least three residential buildings and set cars on fire. In Tel Aviv, six people were treated for injuries, said Eli Bin from the national emergency service. One of the strikes in Tel Aviv was an Iranian missile with a warhead of around 100 kilograms, or 220 pounds, said Col. Miki David of the Israeli military. This missile was “something we have not yet encountered in the war,” David said.

March 24, 2026, 1:26 a.m. ET7 hours ago

John Yoon and Rawan Sheikh Ahmad

The Israeli military reported more Iranian missiles launches toward Israel on Tuesday. It said search and rescue teams were going to several places in southern and central Israel where impacts were reported. Yoel Moshe, an official with the national emergency rescue service, said that they were searching an impact site in Tel Aviv for casualties. Earlier on Tuesday, an impact was reported in northern Israel after reports of Iranian missile launches.

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March 23, 2026, 10:05 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Ephrat Livni

International breaking news reporter

Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, at the briefing in Canberra with the E.U. chief on Tuesday condemned Iranian actions in the Strait of Hormuz. 

“This is having an impact on the global economy,” he said. But he did not directly respond to a reporter’s question about whether Australia might get drawn into securing the strait, saying his country has provided support for the United Arab Emirates at its request, including moving an aircraft to the region and supplying “AMRAAMs” or Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles for defense.

March 23, 2026, 10:01 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Ephrat Livni

International breaking news reporter

Asked whether the E.U. would contribute to a maritime operation to secure the Strait of Hormuz, Ursula von der Leyen, the E.U. chief, said, “Leaders in the European Union have been very clear that when the hostilities end, they could envisage an operation.”

“We think that it is time to go to the negotiation table and to end the hostilities,” she added Tuesday in Australia. “The situation is critical for the energy supplies worldwide. We all feel the knock-on effects on gas and oil prices, our businesses and our societies.”

March 23, 2026, 9:22 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Ephrat Livni

International breaking news reporter

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she is “deeply concerned” about the conflict in the Middle East. Speaking at a briefing on Tuesday in Canberra, Australia’s capital, she called on Iran to “immediately” cease retaliatory attacks and allow free navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway that has been rendered perilous in recent weeks. “The recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces is unacceptable and must be condemned,” she said.

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March 23, 2026, 8:54 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Ephrat Livni

International breaking news reporter

Kuwait’s electricity ministry said that seven power lines in several areas of the country were taken out of service after they sustained damage from falling debris caused by air defense interceptions, Kuwait’s state news agency reported early Tuesday morning. The Kuwaiti army said on social media that it was confronting drone and missile attacks for the second time since about midnight.

March 23, 2026, 8:51 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Ephrat Livni

International breaking news reporter

The Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq said that a commander and some of his fighters were killed in a strike targeting their headquarters in Anbar Province, Iraq’s state news agency said Tuesday morning. The group blamed the United States for the attack. The P.M.F. is an umbrella organization of militias under Iraqi state supervision, some of whom support Iran and have targeted American assets including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad amid the conflict in the Middle East.

March 23, 2026, 7:17 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Hwaida Saad and Ephrat Livni

War planes were flying over Beirut as a series of airstrikes by the Israeli military that began late on Monday night continued into Tuesday morning. At least seven explosions were heard around the Lebanese capital. The Israeli military said earlier it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut.

March 23, 2026, 6:58 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Ephrat Livni

International breaking news reporter

The Israeli military said that search-and-rescue teams were operating at a scene in northern Israel where there were reports of an impact early Tuesday morning. The statement came after the military said that it had identified missiles launched from Iran. The national emergency rescue service, Magen David Adom, said paramedics were treating a woman who was injured on the way to a shelter but reported no other casualties.

March 23, 2026, 6:56 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Ephrat Livni

International breaking news reporter

A remote work mandate in Qatar, which was put in place earlier this month amid the war in the Middle East, has been terminated, Qatar’s state news agency reported in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the Middle East. Qataris in the public and private sectors will resume in-person work on Tuesday, it said.

March 23, 2026, 2:06 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Greg Jaffe and Eric Schmitt

Reporting from Washington

Pentagon officials are weighing the deployment of airborne troops.

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Troops from the 82nd Airborne Division deploying from Fort Bragg, N.C., to Eastern Europe in response to the war in Ukraine in 2022.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times

Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and some elements of the division’s headquarters staff to support U.S. military operations in Iran, defense officials said.

The officials described the military’s actions as prudent planning, noting that nothing had been ordered by the Pentagon or U.S. Central Command, which declined to comment. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing planning.

The combat forces would come from the 82nd Airborne’s “Immediate Response Force,” a brigade of about 3,000 soldiers capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours. These forces could be used to seize Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export hub.

Another possibility being considered, should President Trump authorize U.S. troops to seize the island, is an attack by about 2,500 troops from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is on its way to the region.

The airfield on Kharg Island was damaged by the recent U.S. bombing raids so former U.S. commanders said it was more likely to first bring in Marines, whose combat engineers could quickly repair airfields and other airport infrastructure. Once the airfield is repaired, the Air Force could start flowing matériel and supplies, as well as troops, if necessary, by C-130s.

In that scenario, it is possible that the troops from the 82nd Airborne would augment the Marines. The upside of going with paratroopers is they can arrive overnight. The downside is they do not bring any heavy equipment, such as heavily armored vehicles, that would offer protection if Iranian forces counterattacked, current and former officials said.

The Marines lack the sustainment and staying power of the forces from the 82nd Airborne, which could be used to relieve the Marine forces after the initial attack on the island, current and former officials said.

The headquarters element from the 82nd Airborne would be used as a subordinate headquarters for mission planning and coordination in what is becoming an increasingly complex battle space. In early March, the Army abruptly canceled the 300-member headquarters’s participation in an exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, La.

Army officials said they made the decision to keep the division’s command element at Fort Bragg, N.C., just in case the Pentagon ordered the ready brigade to the Middle East. The command did not want to have its headquarters caught out of place if the balloon went up for them. The cancellation was reported earlier by The Washington Post.

The 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force, or ready brigade, has deployed on short notice several times in recent years, including to the Middle East in January 2020 after the Baghdad Embassy was attacked, to Afghanistan in August 2021 for evacuations and to Eastern Europe in 2022 to support operations in Ukraine.

March 23, 2026, 1:33 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Erika Solomon

Trump postpones power plant strikes, but Iran’s infrastructure is already battered.

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President Trump’s order to postpone strikes on Iran’s power plants gives the country a small reprieve, but U.S. and Israeli strikes have already battered critical infrastructure and stoked popular outrage over the war, even among Iranians who oppose their government.

Mr. Trump and Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, have at times urged Iranians to rise up against their government, but the U.S.-Israeli attacks are angering Iranians already struggling with the conflict’s devastating cost.

The attacks are also drawing international criticism. Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, warned on Monday that “what we have seen in recent days in the Middle East risks reaching a point of no return.”

“War on essential infrastructure is war on civilians,” she said in a statement. “It must stop. Every effort to de-escalate is critical.”

Overnight Sunday into Monday, parts of the capital, Tehran, were plunged into darkness. It wasn’t clear what caused the blackout, but Israel had said earlier that it would target the city’s infrastructure, without offering specifics.

On Saturday, strikes on Andimeshk, in southwestern Iran, damaged the city’s only hospital, according to Iranian media. And strikes last Wednesday on the South Pars offshore gas field, a cornerstone of Iran’s domestic energy supply, sparked widespread fears of an energy crisis in the country.

Israeli strikes on Tehran’s fuel depots turned the skies orange and enveloped the capital in toxic fumes and acid rain. And on the very first day of the war, a U.S. strike on a girls’ elementary school killed some 175 people, most of them children.

Mr. Trump’s threats to attack power plants if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz rattled even vehement critics of the government who have vocally supported the U.S.-Israeli campaign.

Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed Shah, urged the United States and Israel to distinguish between attacking the Iranian people and the country’s government, while the activist Masih Alinejad asked that attacks spare infrastructure that more than 90 million people depend on.

Omid Memarian, a senior Iran analyst at DAWN, a nonprofit in Washington, said the strikes reflected a failed strategy by Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu.

The attacks, he said, “have achieved what the Islamic Republic had long tried and failed to do: convincing people that the military campaign is not against the government, but against the Iranian people, the Iranian state, and their very existence.”

In a social media post on Monday, Mr. Trump said he had postponed his ultimatum to allow five days of talks with Iran over ending hostilities. Iranian officials have publicly dismissed it as a ploy ahead of further U.S. attacks.

Iran is already retaliating against strikes, including attacking a Bahraini desalination plant after Iranian desalination facilities were struck. Iranian officials have warned those efforts would become more aggressive if their own infrastructure came under attack, potentially destabilizing the region even more.

Esfandyar Batmanghedilij, who heads the economic think tank Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, argued that if Washington had followed through with Mr. Trump’s threats, it could have drastically escalated the level of attacks.

He noted that Iran had nearly 500 power plants, compared to 50 in Israel. The largest Iranian plant only provides 4 percent of Iran’s total capacity, he wrote, while Israel’s largest plant provides a fifth of the country’s energy.

“If Trump hits a major power plant, Iran will respond by hitting utilities in the Gulf states and Israel — including power plants and desalination facilities — and will count on the fact that it has to hit fewer targets to have a bigger impact,” he said.

Sanam Mahoozi contributed reporting

March 23, 2026, 1:31 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

Ravi Mattu

Energy crisis will not end quickly if war ends, I.E.A. chief warns.

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Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, speaks in Canberra, Australia, on Monday.Credit...Lukas Coch/Australian Associated Press, via Reuters

The energy crisis caused by the Iran war is worse than the combined effect of the oil shocks in the 1970s, the leader of the International Energy Agency said on Monday, warning that it would take time to resolve even if the war were to end soon.

Fatih Birol, the executive director of the I.E.A., accused global decision makers of not appreciating the severity of the crisis. Speaking at an event in Canberra, Australia, he added that his agency, an organization of 32 nations, was in talks with governments in Asia and Europe about releasing more oil from their strategic reserves. Less than two weeks ago, it coordinated the biggest release of stockpiled oil in history.

“If it is necessary, of course, we will do it,” he said.

Mr. Birol cautioned that the severity of the shock meant that even once the fighting ended, the market would not recover quickly. “It will take some time to come back to the normal days we had before the war was started,” he said.

Hours later, international oil prices fell more than 10 percent after President Trump said the United States and Iran had held productive talks on ending the war. But Iran denied that discussions had taken place, and Mr. Trump has made conflicting statements throughout the war, highlighting the uncertainty that still hangs over the conflict and energy markets.

International oil prices spiked again early Monday, with the international benchmark crude topping $114 a barrel and then falling to around $100. 

Iran has retaliated against U.S. and Israeli airstrikes by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for about a fifth of oil transport, and targeting the energy infrastructure of American allies in the Persian Gulf.

Mr. Birol said he had refrained from speaking out publicly for the first three weeks of the war, but he was now ratcheting up his warnings about the lasting effects on oil and gas supplies and prices on the global economy. Last week, he told The Financial Times that the war in Iran was the biggest threat to global energy security in history.

On Monday, he said the war had caused the global oil supply to drop by 11 million barrels a day, more than 10 percent, compared with a loss of 10 million barrels per day from the oil shocks in 1973 and 1979 combined.

Mr. Birol added that the conflict in the Middle East had had a bigger impact on natural gas supplies than Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Iran’s retaliation against Israeli strikes on its energy infrastructure has included targeting the Ras Laffan complex in Qatar, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas processor. Qatar is the world’s third largest exporter of L.N.G. and a major supplier to Europe and Asia. The attacks have knocked out about 17 percent of the country’s L.N.G. export capacity and could take up to five years to restore it, according to Saad al-Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister.

Mr. Birol made his comments at the start of a global tour that he kicked off in the Asia-Pacific region, which relies heavily on oil and other commodities that are shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.

March 23, 2026, 12:47 p.m. ETMarch 23, 2026

David M. Halbfinger and Johnatan Reiss

Reporting from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

Israel says its own errant artillery fire killed a farmer, not a Hezbollah rocket.

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Ofer Moskovitz, 60, holding avocados on a dirt road near Israel’s border with Lebanon last week.Credit...Ammar Awad/Reuters

Israel’s military said on Monday that its own errant artillery had killed an Israeli avocado farmer a day earlier near the Lebanese border.

Tributes rolled in for the farmer, Ofer Moskovitz, a colorful raconteur who was killed on Sunday in Misgav Am, a kibbutz on the border with Lebanon. He was buried an hour south by car, in Kibbutz Amiad, near the Sea of Galilee.

Mr. Moskovitz, 60, who was better known as “Poshko,” had been featured in the Israeli news in recent days as a spokesman for Misgav Am, a tiny, 400-person community. He described how Israelis along the border cope with danger and how he could see Hezbollah flags hanging on Lebanese homes.

“A missile or a drone could fall on me at any moment. It’s Russian roulette,” he told a Haifa radio station in an interview on Friday, according to Ynet, an Israeli news site.

Hezbollah announced that it had fired a rocket barrage at Misgav Am at 8 a.m. on Sunday, and the Israeli military initially said that Mr. Moskovitz, who was riding in a car that was blown up, was killed in that attack.

Late Sunday, however, the military said it was investigating the possibility that Mr. Moskovitz had been killed by its own mistaken fire. And on Monday, it said an initial review had shown flaws in the planning and execution of its artillery fire, which was meant to support Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.

Five rounds fired “at an incorrect angle” were aimed at the Misgav Am ridge instead of toward the enemy target, the military said in a statement. It offered an apology to Mr. Moskovitz’s family and to the Misgav Am community.

Reached hours after the funeral on Monday, Mr. Moskovitz’s older brother, Ron Moskovitz, 63, said that the family harbored no animosity toward the soldiers responsible.

“In war, these are things that happen,” he said. “I, as a soldier or an officer — this could have happened to me, too. So I asked: Who are the people who are walking around with feelings of guilt? And we asked to pass on to them, to tell them, that we’re sending them a hug — because they, too, are victims of what happened.”

But Mr. Moskovitz was less forgiving of Israel’s political leadership. “The residents of the North were promised that the threat had been removed,” he noted, recalling a string of similarly triumphant — and, it turned out, false — assurances from the government.

“People want to be told the truth,” he added. “There are nuances, there are complexities. Leaders who are incapable of communicating complexity to their people — they should not be leaders.”

Mr. Moskovitz described his brother as larger than life, with unusual charisma and a wonderful sense of humor. He had arrived in Misgav Am for his military service and stayed afterward, serving as an unofficial spokesman for the Upper Galilee region and especially for its farmers.

He celebrated the birth of his second grandchild only last week.

“It’s an extreme transition from joy to sorrow that you can only understand if you’re Israeli,” Mr. Moskovitz said.