Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Scene of a 'massacre': Inside Israeli kibbutz decimated by Hamas fighters
ABC News(KAFAR AZAR, Israel) -- Amid the palm trees and tidy lawns of southern Israel's Kafar Azar kibbutz, death and destruction are evident in all directions, the scene of a massacre left behind by ...
Oct 11, 2023
How Israel's geography, size put it in the center of decades of conflict
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Israel's geography and relatively small size have been some of the major factors behind the decades of conflict between it and surrounding nations, according to an expert. A...
Oct 11, 2023
'No one feels safe': Palestinians in fear as Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 1,055 people
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Hundreds of targets have been hit in Gaza by Israel following the Saturday incursion from Hamas terrorists, the group that controls the Palestinian territory of Ga...
Oct 11, 2023
6.3-magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan days after devastating weekend quakes
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A 6.3-magnitude earthquake has shaken Western Afghanistan, just days after two quakes of the same magnitude left more than 1,200 dead. The quake struck 28 kilo...
Oct 11, 2023
The 'horrendous' toll on children caught in the Israel-Gaza conflict
Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Israel-Hamas conflict is taking a "horrendous toll" on families, humanitarian organizations decried this week, amid reports of the slaughter and kidnappi...
Oct 11, 2023
What is Israel's Iron Dome air defense system -- and was it overwhelmed?
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden has announced that the United States is "surging" additional military assistance to Israel, including missile interceptors "to replenish Iron...
Oct 11, 2023
What is Hezbollah? The militant group has long been one of Israel's biggest foes
Marwan Naamani/picture alliance via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the days after Hamas' surprise attack on Israel from Gaza, Israeli forces have also been engaging in skirmishes with Hezbollah alo...
Oct 10, 2023
'Feels like the world is ending': Impacts of strikes in Gaza already devastating
Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images(TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, and LONDON) -- "I think Gazans' worst fear at the moment is the sun setting." Nour Alsaqa, a 23-year-old from Gaza City, along with the 2.3 million peop...
Oct 10, 2023
Mom says sons snatched by Hamas while on the phone with her
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Since her two sons, ages 12 and 16, were abducted Saturday by Hamas militants who burst into safe room at their father's home, an Israeli mother says she has been unable to ...
Oct 10, 2023
Hamas' hostages: What could happen next?
Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the days drag on since Hamas terrorists launched an attack on Israel, pressure is building for the U.S. and Israel to help the scores of hostages...
Oct 10, 2023