Palestinian telecom provider says internet service in Gaza has been cut off by Israeli bombardment
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian telecom provider Paltel says internet service in Gaza Strip has been cut off by Israeli bombardment. Services were cut Friday evening, following a heavy round of Israeli airstrikes that lit up the night sky over the darkened territory. The Palestinian Red Crescent, the main emergency service in Gaza, said it was cut off from its operations room in the strip because of the internet blackout.
Israel-Hamas war upends years of conventional wisdom. Leaders give few details on what comes next
JERUSALEM (AP) — Just three weeks into the deadliest war between Israel and Hamas, it is already clear that the bloodshed has shaken the region for years to come and flipped long-standing Israeli assumptions upside down. Israel’s military and intelligence services were exposed as incompetent and poorly prepared. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decades of attempts to sideline the Palestinians and U.S. efforts to manage the conflict, rather than solve it, badly backfired. Israelis’ sense of personal security was shattered, and the international community’s traditional approach of urging Israel to withdraw from occupied land in exchange for peace now appears out of the question.
On Day 2 of multistate search for mass killing suspect, Maine residents shelter behind locked doors
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Authorities are scouring hundreds of acres of family-owned property, sending dive teams to the bottom of a river and scrutinizing a possible suicide note in the second day of their intensive search for an Army reservist accused of fatally shooting 18 people in Maine. Two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that authorities found an apparent suicide note in a home associated…
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