Commercial airlines have, for days now, halted all flights in and out of Israel due to the ongoing conflict with Iran. CNN spoke to multiple Americans in central Israel who are still struggling to leave the country.
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CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports from Tamra, a village in northern Israel inhabited by predominantly Palestinian citizens of Israel, where multiple civilians were killed after an Iranian rocket struck their home.
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Ksenia Karelina, a Russian-American woman who was serving 12-year prison sentence for treason in Russia, has landed in the United States. Her release was part of a prisoner swap in exchange for an accused smuggler held in the US.
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As the war in Gaza continues, a group of Israeli teens are saying no to the draft, a requirement for most secular Jews and other minorities over the age of 18. Since the war began, a dozen of these so-called "refuseniks" have publicly refused to enlist in the Israeli army, citing conscientious grounds. Their protest comes at a price: Some have served over 100 days in prison for their beliefs. And more are planning to follow suit. CNN joined the group to a weekly Tel Aviv pro-democracy protest, where they hoped to draw attention to why they are refusing to fight.
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Israeli survivor of deadly suicide bombing grapples with the release of the man who ordered the attack
CNN's Jeremy Diamond meets Oran Almog, who lost five members of his family and was blinded in a suicide bombing in Haifa in 2003. Two decades later, the man who ordered the attack was freed from Israeli prison in exchange for Israeli hostages held in Gaza. But most Palestinian prisoners being freed are not convicted murderers.
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Foreign citizens urged to leave Lebanon ‘as soon as possible’ as regional tensions spike
Retired US Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling joins CNN as the Middle East braces for possible Iranian retaliation for the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran.
‘Going to a very bad place’: Israeli reservists who refuse to return to Gaza cite military’s destructive approach
Like thousands of Israeli reservists, Michael Ofer Ziv and Yuval Green were called up to war following the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7th. After serving in Gaza and witnessing the military's destructive approach, they tell CNN's Jeremy Diamond why they, and dozens of others, are refusing to serve again.
More than 130 Israeli reservists sign letter refusing to fight in Gaza and Lebanon
Israel accuses an ‘unprecedented’ number of Israelis of spying for Iran
Israel has arrested more than two dozen suspected Iranian spies over the last several months. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports.
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