The violence threatened to unravel a fragile truce in effect since April 8 that brought an end to weeks of US-Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic, which has retaliated with strikes across West Asia and by blocking the strait,

“Jonathan Pollard is positioning himself on the hard right, advocating full military independence, the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza, and Israeli resettlement there, while attacking Netanyahu from the right as insufficiently tough,” Barak Sella, senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, told Military.com.

The Israeli strike, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said targeted a senior Hezbollah commander, is the first to hit Beirut's suburbs since the April ceasefire.

Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who served 30 years for spying for Israel, says he will run in upcoming Israeli elections.

The airstrike on the Haret Hreik neighborhood targeted the leader of the Radwan forces, Hezbollah's elite and battle-hardened fighting unit, Israeli authorities said.

BEIRUT, May 6 (Reuters) - Israel struck Beirut on Wednesday for the first time since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last month, with Israel saying it targeted a commander of the militant group's elite Radwan force in the city's southern suburbs.

The letter underlines how the Democratic Party — both its leaders and the base — has grown increasingly critical of Israel.

Israel wants Iran to stop enrichment, dismantle underground nuclear sites, restrict missiles, and cut ties to Hamas and Hezbollah, experts say.

The war in Iran has added to a tectonic shift in public opinion — a bipartisan swing away from Israel. Some on the far-right are fighting to keep President Trump’s movement aligned with the Jewish state.

The fire-bombing suspect, ​Mohamed ⁠Soliman, 46, an Egyptian national, entered his ⁠plea to dozens of felony counts, including ⁠first-degree murder under two definitions o

Israel has expanded its control of Gazan territory and is considering more intense military action, further squeezing the war-torn enclave.