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Israeli officials have just announced the formation of a five-member war management cabinet as the country continues to battle Hamas militants. Among the cabinet's members are Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister and military chief of staff Benny Gantz. CBS News' Haley Ott has more.
Horrors are still emerging from the communities where Hamas militants went on a bloody killing spree. After finally wrestling back control of the Kfar Aza kibbutz, a small farming community, Israeli security forces discovered what a military spokesperson said could only be described as “a massacre.” CBS News' Holly Williams reports.
Israeli-American Aryeh Ziering was among the first Israeli soldiers killed in action in southern Israel at the height of Hamas' brutal assault. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab has his story.
CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab talks to the American parents of a soldier serving in the Israeli military who died in the first wave of response to the Hamas attack. Americans Mark and Debbie Ziering from New York and Maine moved to Israel because they thought it would be a good place to raise children.
Ella Bargil, a 17-year-old living in Israel, took shelter for hours during the Hamas terror attack over the weekend. She told CBS News, "It was the scariest thing that's ever happened in my life."
Israeli emergency responders with years of experience doing the grim work of recovering bodies broke down in tears Wednesday as they told CBS News what they'd witnessed in the aftermath of Hamas' brutal terror attack on Israel. The depth of the horror unleashed Saturday by Hamas on Israeli communities near the border with the Gaza Strip was still emerging five days later. CBS News' Holly Williams and Imtiaz Tyab report from Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure on Wednesday created a war-time Cabinet overseeing the fight to avenge a stunning weekend attack by Hamas militants.
House members are receiving a classified briefing on the Israel-Hamas war with President Biden expected to ask Congress for new funding to send to the Israelis. But a stalemate in the House speaker race will prevent Congress from appropriating funds. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has more.
Israeli woman Mor Bayder says her grandmother was killed by a militant amid the ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict – and that her family found out after the militant allegedly uploaded a video of her grandmother's body to Facebook.
Israeli woman Mor Bayder said she opened Facebook after leaving a bomb shelter to "the greatest imaginable disaster ... My grandmother on the ground, in her own home, murdered, in a video."
In the wake of Hamas' surprise attack on Israel, Sen. Tim Scott is among the Republicans criticizing President Joe Biden over last month's prisoner swap with Iran.
The death toll in the Israel-Hamas war continued to climb early Wednesday, five days after the Palestinian militant group launched a massive, highly coordinated terror attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. CBS News' Haley Ott and David Martin have the latest on the war. And Ella Bargil, a teenager in Israel, joined CBS News to share her story of survival.
Images from the grisly attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip reveal some of the devastating aftermath from the surprise strike.
The parents of an Israeli-American soldier who was among the first to die in Hamas' terror attack say they still "believe in peace," as their son did.
"The depravity of it is haunting," an Israeli military official told CBS News of the scene in Kfar Aza, where an emergency responder says even babies were beheaded.
President Biden on Tuesday condemned Hamas' bloody attacks on Israel and said at least 14 Americans were among those killed. He also said Americans are among those being held captive by Hamas. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said that while he could not confirm the exact number of U.S. citizens being held hostage, 20 or more Americans are missing. CBS News' Weijia Jiang reports.
The Harvard president issued a stronger statement condemning Hamas, but she stopped short of rebuking students who blame Israel for the deadly attacks.
Israel's war with Hamas has the entire nation working for a common goal, and as CBS News' Haley Ott reports, one Israeli-American was eager to drop his life in the U.S. to join the fight.
President Biden reiterated U.S. support of Israel on Tuesday, vowing to continue sending military assistance. The president and members of his administration spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the situation room. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe has the latest.
Israel says it has sealed the border with Gaza as the counteroffensive against Hamas intensifies. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams is on the ground with more.
Michele Freund, an American physician assistant, was on vacation in Israel when Hamas first attacked. Freund knew she needed to help, so she began volunteering at a hospital in Tel Aviv. CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell reports.
The Israel-Hamas war intensified Tuesday as the Israeli military took out what they said were Hamas strongholds in Gaza and reporters got a close-up look at some of the atrocities carried out by the militants. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab has the latest from Tel Aviv. Plus, CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe reports on President Biden's response to the attacks.
A music festival in Israel was the site of one of the first attacks by Hamas over the weekend. Amit Musaei, who attended the festival, joins CBS News to share his story of escape.
More than 800 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian authorities. The humanitarian crisis is now expected to worsen as Israeli forces gear up to launch a ground invasion. Mike Lyons, retired U.S. Army Major and military analyst, joins CBS News to discuss what that operation could look like.
While war rages in the Middle East, the U.S. House is at a virtual standstill as the Republican conference works to elect a new speaker. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion has more on the race for speaker.
The potential operations for Venezuela presented to Trump included options for strikes on land, multiple sources said.
Thousands of pages of Epstein documents released by the House Oversight Committee include emails and texts with close contacts that often touched on President Trump.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton of Arkansas told CBS News the threat is "severe and growing."
The government is starting to reopen after President Trump signed a bill to fund the government through Jan. 30.
Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba's office was violently vandalized Wednesday by a person who earlier in the day had been denied entry to the building because he had a baseball bat, two sources said.
President Trump had threatened to sue the corporation for $1 billion over a program it aired in 2024 about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte has referred California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to the Justice Department, sources told CBS News.
A spokesman for Sen. John Fetterman said a "ventricular fibrillation flare-up" led to him feeling light-headed.
A man convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom has been executed in Florida, which was the record 16th death sentence carried out under Gov. Ron DeSantis.