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Stills from footage uploaded to Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's X show detained activists handcuffed and kneeling on the ground. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

Israeli national security minister's video draws international criticism over harsh treatment of detained activists

Israel’s national security minister released footage showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla being mocked and handled harshly following the vessel’s seizure in the eastern Mediterranean, drawing international criticism.

2026.5.21

President Lee Jae Myung's X post, which shared a video seemingly showing Israeli soldiers abusing a corpse, on April 10 [SCREEN CAPTURE]

President Lee likens video of Israeli soldiers abusing Palestinian child's corpse to comfort women, Holocaust

President Lee on Friday stressed the importance of human rights after sharing a clip on social media that seemingly showed Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian child's corpse, likening the scene to Japanese sexual slavery and the Holocaust.

2026.4.10

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Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, and lawmakers celebrate after Israel's parliament passes a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 30. [AP/YONHAP]

Israel approves death penalty for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic killings

Israel’s parliament on Monday passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis — a measure that has been harshly condemned by the international community and human rights groups as discriminatory and inhumane.

2026.3.31

Palestinians gather amid the rubble of destroyed buildings as they gather for their fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Feb. 19. [AP/YONHAP]

Gaza's cease-fire had some momentum. Now, some fear a new war will distract the world

Some Palestinians say they fear the widening war sparked by U.S. and Israeli attacks against Iran could overshadow the fragile situation in Gaza, just over a week after U.S. President Donald Trump rallied billions of dollars in pledges.

2026.3.2

Children walk over a pile of garbage at a makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians on a beach in Deir al-Balah, on the Gaza Strip on Jan. 16, 2026. [AP/YONHAP]

Trump's Board of Peace has several invited leaders trying to figure out how it'll work

The European Union's executive arm, Russia, Belarus and Thailand on Monday were the latest to be asked to join U.S. President Donald Trump's new Board of Peace that will supervise the next phase of the Gaza peace plan.

2026.1.20

A barefoot boy walks in the rain carrying a plastic jerrycan of water in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City on Nov. 14. [AP/YONHAP]

UN approves U.S. plan authorizing an international stabilization force in Gaza

The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved a U.S. plan for Gaza that authorizes an international stabilization force to provide security in the devastated territory and envisions a possible future path to an independent Palestinian state.

2025.11.18

President Donald Trump talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. [AP/YONHAP]

Israeli leader insists there can be no Palestinian state, ahead of UN vote leaving that door open

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state, a day before the United Nations Security Council planned to vote on a U.S.-drafted resolution on Gaza.

2025.11.17

Israeli troops are seen near the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Sept. 30. [AP/YONHAP]

Israel says militants have returned remains of 1 of the last 4 hostages in Gaza

Israel said Thursday that militants have handed over the body of one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza.

2025.11.14

People gather and shop at a local market, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Oct. 28. [REUTERS/YONHAP]

Russia proposes its own UN resolution on Gaza in challenge to U.S. draft

Russia on Thursday proposed its own draft of a UN resolution on Gaza in a challenge to a U.S. effort to pass its own text at the Security Council that would endorse President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan.

2025.11.14

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Nov. 10. [AP/YONHAP]

Netanyahu and Kushner meet as Gaza cease-fire's first phase winds down

U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the next stages of the fragile Gaza cease-fire, while Israel returned the remains of another 15 Palestinians.

2025.11.11