Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
'No one feels safe': Palestinians in fear as Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 490 women and children
Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/LightRocket via 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 th...
Oct 10, 2023
Horrors emerge from Hamas infiltration of Israel on Gaza border
Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images(TEL AVIV, Israel) -- Indiscriminate killing. Kidnappings. Homes raided and a music festival under attack. More than 900 Israelis have been killed as a result of the most...
Oct 10, 2023
Detained "Wall Street Journal" reporter Evan Gershkovich loses appeal in Russian court
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The detained Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich, has had his appeal for release denied by a Russian court for the third time. The Moscow City Court re...
Oct 10, 2023
US surging air defense and other munitions to Israel, official says
200mm/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A senior U.S. defense official on Monday said the Hamas attack on Israel is different from previous conflicts in Gaza, likening the violence by Hamas militants as "IS...
Oct 10, 2023
'A nightmare': Israeli dad waits to hear fate of wife, daughters abducted by Hamas
ABC News(GAZA) -- Israeli father Yoni Asher said he's been living a "nightmare" since learning Hamas militants had taken his wife and two young daughters hostage in an unprecedented surprise attack by...
Oct 09, 2023
Woman says she ran for miles to flee deadly music festival attack in Israel
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Noam Manket was among a crowd of thousands of people enjoying a music festival in southern Israel Saturday when rockets began firing overhead. Manket said she watched as fellow c...
Oct 09, 2023
What is Hamas? The militant group behind surprise attack on Israel has ruled Gaza for years
(NEW YORK) -- Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza, on Saturday launched an unexpectedly complex and deadly attack on Israel that officials said included w...
Oct 09, 2023
A mother's agony: Israeli mom worried Hamas took her daughter hostage
YAHEL GAZIT/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images(TEL AVIV, Israel) -- As Jennifer Damti sat between her two daughters in her Tel Aviv home Sunday, she was unable to hold back tears, saying she is w...
Oct 09, 2023
Death toll rises to more than 1,000 after powerful earthquakes strike western Afghanistan
ABC News(HERAT, Afghanistan) -- The death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has risen to over 1,023, with more than 1,600 injured, the UN’s Office for the Coordination ...
Oct 08, 2023
Death came from sea, air and ground: A timeline of surprise attack by Hamas on Israel
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on Saturday, sirens echoed across the country just before dawn, and citizens soon realized it was not a ...
Oct 08, 2023