The huge sales come as U.S. plans to broker an end to the nearly two-year war between Israel and Hamas have stalled.

A key ally of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pushed back against a European Union proposal to suspend Israel’s preferential trade benefits in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Israel shut the sole gateway between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan on Friday, a day after a driver bringing humanitarian aid from Jordan for Gaza opened fire and killed two Israeli military personnel there.

Javier Bardem and Hannah Einbinder join a Hollywood boycott of Israel's film industry over Gaza, as Israel's culture minister also moves against its film academy.

Iran says it executed a man accused of spying for Israel, but activists dispute the claim, saying he was tortured into a false confession

The Trump administration is seeking congressional approval to sell Israel $6.4 billion in support equipment and weapons including attack helicopters and troop carriers, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The backlash against Israel over the humanitarian toll of the war in Gaza has spread into the arenas of sports and culture.

O N SEPTEMBER 14TH, after showing Marco Rubio, America’s secretary of state, the massive, 2,000-year-old blocks of the Western Wall at Jerusalem’s holiest site, Binyamin Netanyahu declared the alliance between their countries to be “as strong and as durable as the stones…we just touched”. Unfortunately, he is wrong.

Five countries, including one that provides significant financial contributions to Eurovision, threatened to boycott the contest.

Israel’s minister of culture has vowed to cut funding for the country’s film academy and its annual awards show after a movie about a Palestinian boy’s dream of seeing the ocean won big.

From the music, film to publishing industries, growing numbers of Western artists are calling for a cultural boycott of Israel over the Gaza war, hoping to emulate the success of the apartheid-era