Raf Sanchez
Foreign Correspondent @NBCNews | Middle East + beyond | raf.sanchez@nbcuni.com | IG: https://t.co/aJyLESUn9T
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Potentially major development in Netanyahu's effort to weaken Israel's supreme court: Israel's center-Right defence minister is making a statement tonight. Israeli media is report...
Palestinian media reporting that Israeli forces have killed at least two people during a raid in Jenin. Israeli military confirms its forces are in Jenin refugee camp right now.
NEW: Israel's military says it shot dead a potential suicide bomber with possible links to Hizbollah in northern Israel on Monday. The incident has been under a gag order for two...
In Israel, US defense secretary Austin stresses the importance of "an independent judiciary" to a functioning democracy. Comes as thousands of Israelis are on the streets protesti...
NEW: White House says it informed the Kremlin of Biden’s trip to Kyiv ahead of time. “We did so some hours before his departure for deconfliction purposes,” Jake Sullivan says.
NEW: Biden makes a long-awaited trip to Kyiv, meeting Zelenskyy at the presidential palace four days before the one-year anniversary of the war. https://t.co/wXlhAC87Lf
NEW: Ukraine’s top general says Russian missiles fired from Black Sea crossed into airspace of Moldova and then Romania (a NATO country) before back into Ukraine. No confirmation...
We’ve been hearing ongoing explosions for hours in Kharkiv. Russian strikes also reported in Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and others. Cities across the country under Russi...
21 people killed - including a child - in last night’s Russian strike on Dnipro, according to local authorities. 73 people injured, including 14 children. 35 people unaccounted fo...
Interesting dynamic between Wagner Group + Russian govt over who gets credit for Russian gains in Soledar. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner's chief, said last night the city had fallen...
Israel’s new far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, went to al-Aqsa / Temple Mount in Jerusalem early this morning. Hamas earlier threatened retaliation if he wen...
Biden speaking now at the G20 in Bali after his meeting with Xi