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Ben Wolfgang

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Ben Wolfgang is a National Security Correspondent for The Washington Times. His reporting is regularly featured in the daily Threat Status newsletter.
Previously, he covered energy and the environment, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, and also spent two years as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration.
Before coming to The Times in 2011, Ben worked as political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

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Wounded Palestinians sit on the floor at the al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Israel-Hamas war escalates; civilian suffering grows

Israel ramped up airstrikes Tuesday against Hamas targets in Gaza and warned that any Hezbollah fighters approaching the northern border with Lebanon "will be killed," while fears mounted in Washington over danger President Biden may face on his high-stakes trip to the region.

October 17, 2023
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Israel has been striking targets throughout Gaza since a bloody, cross-border attack by Hamas militants killed over 1,300 Israelis on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel says it killed Hamas leader who led Oct. 7 attacks; thousands flee Gaza

An airstrike killed a Hamas leader who commanded the deadly Oct. 7 terrorist assault that killed more than 1,300 Israeli civilians, Israeli officials said Saturday, while thousands of residents raced to get out of an increasingly chaotic and dangerous Gaza Strip ahead of a possible full-scale ground incursion.

October 14, 2023
Palestinians fleeing from northern Gaza to the south after the Israeli army issued an unprecedented evacuation warning to a population of over 1 million people in northern Gaza and Gaza City to seek refuge in the south ahead of a possible Israeli ground invasion, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel launches first ground raids in Gaza

Israel on Friday confirmed its troops carried out their first ground raids in the Gaza Strip against Hamas targets, as the Israeli military prepares for what looks to be a much larger incursion after it warned more than 1 million Gaza residents to flee the northern section of the strip immediately.

October 13, 2023
Mourners gather in grief around the bodies of Danielle Waldmann and her partner Noam Shai during their funeral in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Tivon Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. The couple was killed when Hamas militants went on a brutal rampage through southern Israel last Saturday, part of an unprecedented, multi-front attack on the country.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas fighters had ISIS flags amid massacre, Israel says

Hamas fighters carried Islamic State flags with them during Saturday's attack on Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces said Thursday, posting on social media photos of the infamous black ISIS banner apparently found in one militant's belongings.

October 12, 2023
Israeli-Americans, Jews and supporters of Israel rally in support of Israel and against Saturday's attack on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023 in Beverly Hills, Calif. The taking of an estimated 100 to 150 Israeli and foreign national hostages by Hamas in its lightning attack Saturday has introduced a searing new complication into the struggle. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

‘Nightmare’: American in Israel says 5 family members taken captive by Hamas

For Abbey Onn, the blaring of sirens last Saturday at first "didn't seem scary." But the Virginia native, who has lived in Israel with her family for the past eight years and has grown accustomed to the sound, soon discovered in the most gut-wrenching way possible that the nation was facing a major terrorist attack -- and her family was trapped in the crossfire.

October 10, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023.(Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu vows massive response in ‘war to ensure our existence’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that his military has "only started" its massive counterattack against the Hamas militants who rampaged through his country on Saturday, likening the Iran-backed Palestinian group to the Islamic State jihadi movement.

October 9, 2023
President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) ** FILE **

Iran denies it helped Hamas plan, execute terror assault on Israel

Iran denied Monday any direct involvement with the deadly Hamas terror assault on Israel over the weekend, pushing back on growing suspicion that the Gaza-based militant group must have had significant help to execute such a well-coordinated attack.

October 9, 2023
Israelis evacuate a site struck by a rocked fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hamas clash could undercut Arab-Israeli diplomatic thaw

The immediate goals of Hamas' brutal assault on Israel over the weekend appear simple: Kill and kidnap as many Israelis as possible, and spark chaos and fear among the "Zionist" regime that the terror group sees as its mortal enemy.

October 8, 2023
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations, killing hundreds and taking captives. Palestinian health officials reported scores of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Iran celebrates ‘sacred wrath’ of Hamas attack on Israel

A top Iranian military official on Sunday celebrated the "sacred wrath" waged by Hamas against Israel, saying that the massive surprise attack launched by the terrorist group over the weekend will ultimately result in the crumbling of the "Zionist regime."

October 8, 2023