Kat Lonsdorf

TEL AVIV — Benny Gantz, a key member of Israel's war cabinet and longtime rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced his resignation from Netanyahu's government on Sunday evening.

The low-level war between Israel and Lebanon is ramping up, with cross border rocket fire and emptied towns. There are fears that it could lead to a major conflagration.

The low-level war between Israel and Lebanon is ramping up, with cross border rocket fire and emptied towns. There are fears that it could lead to a major conflagration.

ROB SCHMITZ, HOST: It's been more than eight months of Israel's war in Gaza after the surprise Hamas attack on October 7. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has hit a new high during the 8-month Gaza war: many fear it could ignite a full-on war

There are fears of a second full-on war igniting on Israel's northern border. Hezbollah, the group based in Lebanon and backed by Iran, has been trading fire with Israeli forces across the Israel-Lebanon border. We hear from two NPR correspondents who each visited a side of that border.

Soldiers and civilians enter a rocket shelter as sirens sound in the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on the Lebanese border on June 10.

TEL AVIV — A video circulating on social media shows a wounded Palestinian man being transported on the hood of an Israeli military vehicle in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that the country's ultra-Orthodox men must serve in the army. This controversial move could threaten the future of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

A breakdown in law and order along a main route in southern Gaza has made Israel's daytime fighting pause ineffectual for aid delivery. This led to skyrocketing food prices sold on the black market.