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Mourners gather around the bodies of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli army airstrikes as they are brought to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Why did Netanyahu end the Gaza ceasefire?

The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January.
 
Cyprus' defense minister Vasilis Palmas, left, and minister of Justice and Public Order Marios Hartsiotis talk to the media at a coordination center in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Monday, March 17, 2025 after a migrant shipwreck off Cyprus' coast leaves 7 dead and 2 survivors. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Major search continues after deadly migrant boat sinking off Cyprus coast

 
The body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli army airstrikes is brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What to know about why Israel launched dozens of attacks across Gaza, raising fears of all-out war

 
A woman reacts over the body of a person killed during overnight Israeli army airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes across Gaza kill more than 400 and shatter ceasefire with Hamas

 
A dead person killed during an Israeli army strike is taken into the hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday March 18, 2025.(AP Photo/ Mohammad Jahjouh)

Israel launches deadly wave of airstrikes across Gaza after ceasefire talks stall

 

Palestinians mourn loved ones killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Palestinians mourned their loved ones outside morgues in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday who were among hundreds killed in an overnight Israeli bombardment of the territory. (AP video: Abdel Kareem Hana, Mariam Daqqa, Mohammad Jahjouh/ Production: Wafaa Shurafa)
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Netanyahu’s push to fire Israel’s domestic security chief sparks an uproar, AP Explains

People search for bodies under rubble in Yemen’s Saada after U.S. strike

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Palestinians cross from the Israeli military Qalandia checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah to Jerusalem, to participate in the Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Hamas says it will release a US-Israeli hostage and 4 bodies, but Israel expresses immediate doubt

 
People take part in a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 9, 2025, demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

How many hostages are left in Gaza?

 
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaybani, left, speaks during a news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein following their meeting, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March.14, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraqi prime minister says

 
People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza

 

AP EXPLAINS

Rockets fired from Gaza and intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system over Israeli skies are seen from Gaza City, on May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

A look at the terms — and tensions — in the Israel-Hamas draft ceasefire deal

 
A girl watches as Mohammad Eid mourns his cousin Dima, along with her uncle and grandfather, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, during their funeral in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What are the main obstacles to a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages?

 
Youngsters hold a photograph of the jailed leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, Abdullah Ocalan as they gather to watch live on a tv screen a Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, or DEM, delegation members releasing an statement from Ocalan, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Metin Yoksu)

What to know about the latest effort to end Turkey’s 40-year Kurdish conflict

 
Newly-elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reviews the honor guard upon his arrival at the Lebanese Parliament to be sworn in as a new president, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Who is Joseph Aoun, a low-profile army chief who is now Lebanon’s president?

 
Effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hang from traffic lights as Egyptian anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, to watch U.S. President Barack Obama, not seen, live on a TV broadcast from Washington, speaking about the situation in Egypt, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

What will Syria’s future look like? The answer could lie in other Arab countries’ recent pasts

 
A father hugs his daughter, his other children nearby, as they wait for evacuation in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Two AP journalists in Ukraine and the Mideast break down the wars they covered in 2024

 
FILE - A United Nations helicopter carrying Italian peacekeepers takes off from the UNIFIL headquarters for a patrol over the Blue Line, a U.N.-drawn boundary between Lebanon and Israel, in the costal town of Naqoura, southern Lebanon, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

UN Resolution 1701 is at the heart of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. What is it?

 
Rescuers use an excavator as they search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a building in Beirut, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

What to know about the ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah

 
Amphetamine pills, known as Captagon, hidden inside an electrical component at the warehouse where the drug was manufactured before the fall of Bashar Assad government at a facility in Douma city, outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

What Assad’s fall has revealed about Syria’s trade in the stimulant drug Captagon

 
FILE - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid cross into the Gaza Strip from Erez crossing in southern Israel, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Why is only limited aid getting to Palestinians inside Gaza?

 
FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Warrants put Israeli PM and others in a small group of leaders accused of crimes against humanity

 
FILE – President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel museum in Jerusalem, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Trump promises to bring lasting peace to a tumultuous Middle East. But fixing it won’t be easy

 
A view of Tehran capital of Iran is seen, early Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Five things to know about Israel’s attack on Iran

 
FILE - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Israel and UN are maneuvering fraught but fundamental ties during Middle East wars

 

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Masih Alinejad, 48, a prominent Iranian American human rights activist gives an interview Press in Berlin, Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad set to testify at trial of men accused of plotting to kill her

 
Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a ceremonial swearing-in of Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's new director of the FBI, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Justice Department and FBI announce a new task force to target Hamas over Oct. 7 attack

 
Houthi supporters chant slogans during an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Trump warns Iran it will face ‘consequences’ of further attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels

 
Ronen Bar, chief of Israel's domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP, File)

Netanyahu’s push to fire Israel’s domestic security chief sparks an uproar

 
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish child walks through the streets in costume during the Purim festival celebrations in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Ultra-Orthodox communities celebrate Purim in Israel

 
Iranian Shiite cleric Mehdi Karroubi gestures during a news conference on Iran's parliamentary elections in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

A son says a leader of Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests will be freed from house arrest

 
This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (U.S. Navy via AP)

What to know about Yemen’s Houthi rebels as the US steps up attacks on Iran-backed group