A group of Palestinian students disrupted a meeting of European Union diplomats in the West Bank on Tuesday and attacked some of their cars with stones, smashing the
May 15, 2024
The city of Amsterdam on Tuesday said it would severely restrict attendance to the annual national World War II remembrance on May 4, in a bid to keep the ceremony safe and to
May 15, 2024
Hundreds of students gathered at university campuses in Lebanon on Tuesday to protest against Israel, the country's first coordinated university
May 15, 2024
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor is facing demands for speedy action against Israeli leaders, and a blistering Russian attack over the ICC’s arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin stemming from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine
May 15, 2024
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it plans to move ahead on more than $1 billion in arms sales to Israel
May 14, 2024
In the coming days, the U.S. military in the eastern Mediterranean is expected to jab one end of a hulking metal dock into a beach in northern Gaza
May 14, 2024
The U.S. military's cost estimate to build a pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid has risen to $320 million, a U.S. defense official
May 14, 2024
Police moved in to clear dozens of protesters who had set up tents in a courtyard at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday to protest against the war in Gaza,
May 14, 2024
Israel's Independence Day is normally a raucous affair, celebrated with day parties and barbecues in parks, but this year, celebrations — from Monday evening through Tuesday — were muted
May 14, 2024
World Central Kitchen (WCK) said it would resume operations in the Gaza Strip on Monday, a month after seven workers of the U.S.-based charity were killed in an Israeli air strike.
May 14, 2024
Far-right allies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are raising pressure on the embattled leader to reject a new Gaza ceasefire, jeopardising his
May 14, 2024
The U.S. has seen measurable progress in the humanitarian situation in Gaza, U.S.
May 14, 2024
War is wreaking havoc on land, water and critical infrastructure in Ukraine and Gaza. Two experts on peace and conflict explain how to include such impacts in peace agreements.
May 14, 2024
The United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in both southern and northern Gaza
May 14, 2024
Israel has agreed to listen to U.S. concerns and thoughts before it launches an invasion of the border city of Rafah in Gaza, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on
May 14, 2024
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday only the United States could stop Israel attacking the border city of Rafah in Gaza, adding that the assault, which he expects
May 14, 2024
A Hamas delegation will visit Cairo on Monday for talks aimed at securing a ceasefire, a Hamas official told Reuters on Sunday, as mediators
May 14, 2024
A Democratic senator on Sunday questioned whether the Biden administration was properly assessing whether Israel was complying with international law, following
May 14, 2024
A humanitarian aid flotilla destined for Gaza was halted after Guinea Bissau decided to remove its flag from two vessels, activist group Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on
May 14, 2024
Aid shipments to Gaza from Cyprus resumed late on Friday, a Cypriot source and a UAE official said, with a ship carrying food to the besieged Palestinian enclave after a pause
May 14, 2024
Hamas released a new video on Saturday that appeared to show two Israeli hostages who have been held in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel.
May 14, 2024
Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian gunmen who opened fire at them from a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, the military said on Saturday.
May 14, 2024
Some senior U.S. officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find "credible or reliable" Israel's assurances that it is using U.S.
May 14, 2024
Hamas said it had received on Saturday Israel's official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it before submitting its reply, the group's
May 13, 2024
The Dutch government on Friday said it would consider resuming funding for the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) in Gaza if the agency implements recommendations to strengthen
May 13, 2024
U.N. investigators examining Israeli accusations that 12 staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA took part in the Oct.
May 13, 2024
An Egyptian delegation met Israeli counterparts on Friday, looking for a way to restart talks to end the war in Gaza and return the remaining Israeli hostages, an official
May 13, 2024
Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have spread across U.S. university and college campuses in recent weeks, leading to disruptions and arrests
May 13, 2024
An Israeli assault on southern Gaza's Rafah area would spell disaster for civilians, not only in Gaza but across the Middle East, the head of an aid
May 13, 2024
Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far
May 13, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza
May 12, 2024
The discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals, said by Palestinian authorities to contain hundreds of bodies, have triggered
May 12, 2024
Britain's foreign secretary has said that halting arms exports to Israel is “not a wise path” and would only strengthen Hamas
May 12, 2024
Celebrity Chef Jose Andres called seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces in Gaza "the best of humanity" on Thursday during a memorial service at the Washington
May 11, 2024
South Africa has urged the United Nations’ top court to issue more emergency measures to restrain Israel, saying its military incursion in Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in Gaza.”
May 10, 2024
The Arabic language spokesperson of the U.S.
May 10, 2024
The northern Gaza Strip is still heading toward a famine, the deputy U.N. food chief said on Thursday, appealing for a greater volume and diversity of
May 10, 2024
A United Nations agency known as UNRWA is the main player in crisis response in Gaza – but Israel will no longer work with UNRWA, and border crossings are not consistent in getting aid through.
May 10, 2024
The U.N. says heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 110,000 people to flee north
May 10, 2024
The U_N_ General Assembly has overwhelmingly passed a resolution to give Palestine more “rights and privileges.”
May 10, 2024
The U.N. General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and has called on the Security Council to reconsider Palestine's request to become the 194th member of the United Nations
May 09, 2024
The U.S. is warning that Israel will be dealing a strategic victory to Hamas if it carries through with plans for an all-out assault on Rafah
May 09, 2024
Some U.S. students at Washington, D.C.'s Jackson-Reed High School filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging the public high school's administrators censored them
May 09, 2024
The Islamist movement Hamas published a video on Wednesday apparently showing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American seized during Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel and taken
May 09, 2024
One major land crossing into Gaza was shut down after a Hamas rocket attack, another by an Israeli incursion
May 09, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a U.S. threat to withhold some arms would not prevent Israel from continuing its offensive in Gaza, indicating it might proceed with an invasion of the packed city of Rafah against the wishes of its closest ally
May 09, 2024
The Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks, an official from the World Food Programme
May 09, 2024
Tens of thousands of displaced and exhausted Palestinians have packed up their tents and other belongings and fled the southern city of Rafah for other parts of Gaza
May 09, 2024
Turkey on Wednesday accused the United States of having a policy of double standards on human rights, saying Washington's annual rights report failed to reflect Israel's assaults in
May 09, 2024
In sometimes violent confrontations, police have broken up a protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam Wednesday in a second straight day of unrest over the war in Gaza
May 08, 2024
The U.S. has paused a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel over concerns that the country has not adequately taken civilian safety into account in its upcoming military operation in Rafah, and that the massive weapon would inflict additional civilian casualties
May 08, 2024
Israel has taken significant steps in recent weeks on allowing aid into Gaza, the U.S. special envoy for humanitarian issues said on Tuesday, but considerable
May 08, 2024
U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday he was "horrified" by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves
May 08, 2024
The Israeli military says it has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza but a United Nations agency says no aid has yet entered
May 08, 2024
The U.N. World Health Organization says it has only three days of fuel for its medical operations in southern Gaza, and shortages have already forced one of three hospitals in the city of Rafah to shut down
May 08, 2024
The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of the U.S. That's according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter
May 08, 2024
The US put a pause on an arms shipment to Israel as it launched a Rafah offensive. This is not the first time the US and Israel have publicly disagreed, despite their strong diplomatic relationship.
May 07, 2024
An announcement by Hamas that it had accepted a cease-fire proposal sent people in the streets of Rafah into temporary jubilation
May 07, 2024
Israel has launched an operation on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, and seized control of the Gaza side of the key Rafah border crossing with Egypt
May 07, 2024
Israel has yet to provide evidence for its accusations that hundreds of staff with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)
May 07, 2024
President Joe Biden on Monday met with U.S.
May 07, 2024
A team of mid-ranking Israeli officials has arrived in Cairo to assess whether the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas can be persuaded to shift on its latest
May 07, 2024
President Joe Biden has condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world.”
May 07, 2024
A United Nations expert on Monday warned there was a risk that mental illnesses could manifest themselves years from now among the people of Gaza due to the current conflict.
May 07, 2024
Relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza will mark the start of Passover, a week-long festival that celebrates freedom, with a renewed plea to the government
May 07, 2024
Israeli troops have seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing in what the White House described as a limited operation
May 07, 2024
The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned after accepting responsibility for the failures that allowed the devastating Hamas-led attack on Israel
May 07, 2024
Police in riot gear blocked access to the University of Chicago’s Quad early Tuesday
May 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that calls to impose a blockade of Gaza similar to Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad during World War Two were unacceptable and
May 07, 2024
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk voiced support on Monday for Israel after it came under attack by Palestinian Hamas militants, saying one challenge was "ultimately stopping the
May 07, 2024
Israeli forces have dismantled the Hamas brigade in Gaza's southern Khan Younis as part of an almost four-month-old war in which 10,000 Palestinian fighters have been killed and
May 07, 2024
An armed man took staff hostage at a Procter & Gamble factory in northwestern Turkey on Thursday in an apparent protest against Israel's military campaign in Gaza, the Demiroren
May 07, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of people chanted "Death to Israel" in rallies across Iran to mark the Islamic Revolution's 45th anniversary on Sunday, with some burning U.S. and Israeli flags
May 07, 2024
Tension between Israel and Iran should not distract from the situation in Gaza and the first priority of the international community should be ending the Israeli occupation of
May 07, 2024
In a number of stories and novels, lost limbs represent both physical and metaphorical loss.
May 06, 2024
The head of the United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza has entered “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of war between Israel and Hamas
May 06, 2024
President Joe Biden has urgently warned Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu against launching an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the divide between the two leaders continues to grow along with the mounting Palestinian death toll
May 06, 2024
U.S. university presidents have joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis for a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz
May 06, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and reach a fair and lasting peace in the region during a meeting with Hamas leader Ismail
May 06, 2024
Thousands of Israeli demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday to call for new elections and demand more action from the government to bring the hostages held
May 06, 2024
Israel's military said on Monday it had begun encouraging residents of Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city as part of a 'limited scope' operation, but did not immediately
May 06, 2024
An annual Jewish pilgrimage to Tunisia's Djerba synagogue and celebration has been cancelled due to the war in Gaza, the head of the organising committee, Perez Trabelsi, told
May 06, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected international pressure to halt the war in Gaza in a fiery speech marking the country’s annual Holocaust memorial day
May 05, 2024
Hamas says the latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks has ended in Cairo
May 05, 2024
Israel's Holocaust commemorations this year have a searing significance for six elderly survivors now deeply scarred by the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 that sparked
May 05, 2024
Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appeared slim on Sunday as Hamas reiterated its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, and
May 05, 2024
Weekend commencement ceremonies at some U.S. universities went off with few interruptions despite the national wave of protests over the Israel-Hamas war
May 04, 2024
A British Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals says he was denied entry to France to speak at the French Senate
May 04, 2024
A Hamas delegation is in Cairo and Egyptian state media say there has been “noticeable progress” in cease-fire talks for Gaza
May 04, 2024
Israel this week briefed Biden administration officials on a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of a potential Rafah operation to root out Hamas militants in the southern Gaza city
May 03, 2024
A top U.N. official says hard-hit northern Gaza is now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory
May 03, 2024
Traumatised 10-year-old students stare at their destroyed schools in Gaza, a grim reminder of the education and time with friends in the playground lost since the war
May 03, 2024
Senior U.S. officials raised concerns with their Israeli counterparts on Thursday about Israel's plans for military operations in the
May 03, 2024
The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be “at imminent risk of death” if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah
May 03, 2024
Police in Paris entered France's prestigious Sciences Po university on Friday and removed student activists who had occupied its
May 03, 2024
The United Nations says the world hasn’t seen anything like the unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza since World War II, and it would take at least until 2040 to restore the homes devastated in Israel’s bombing and ground offensive if the conflict ended today
May 02, 2024
A wave of student protests has spread across U.S. campuses over the last two weeks, led by students who have pitched tents or occupied buildings in protest of the Israel-Hamas war
May 02, 2024
Hamas has formally accepted a cease-fire deal that could end the war in Gaza
May 02, 2024
A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner
May 02, 2024
Hamas said Thursday that it will send a delegation to Cairo as soon as possible to keep working on cease-fire talks, in response to Egypt’s latest proposal
May 02, 2024
Before and after police officers arrested more than 100 people at Columbia University who were protesting the war in Gaza, New York Mayor Eric Adams blamed “outside agitators” for leading the demonstrations
May 01, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Israeli leaders in his push for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas to impress on them that “the time is now" for an agreement that would free hostages and bring a pause in the nearly seven months of war
May 01, 2024
Dozens of Google workers who were fired after internal protests surrounding a lucrative contract that the internet company has with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labor regulators in an attempt to get their jobs back
April 30, 2024
Israel is determined to launch an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there
April 30, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war
April 30, 2024
Israel plans on opening a major humanitarian aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza
April 30, 2024
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a phone call on Monday from U.S.
April 29, 2024
Protests are roiling college campuses across the U.S. as upcoming graduation ceremonies are threatened by disruptive demonstrators, with students and others sparring over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and its mounting death toll
April 29, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is beginning his seventh diplomatic mission to the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war began more than six months ago
April 29, 2024
A senior Qatari official has urged both Israel and Hamas to show “more commitment and more seriousness” in cease-fire negotiations
April 28, 2024
Student anti-war protesters at U.S. college campuses are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while some universities have moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters
April 28, 2024
The State Department says Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East on his seventh diplomatic mission to the region since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began more than six months ago
April 27, 2024
Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States have peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university after days of tensions
April 27, 2024
Hamas says it is reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as Egypt intensifies efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war and stave off a possible Israeli ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah
April 27, 2024
U.N. investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers from the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians who Israel claims were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that spurred the latest war in Gaza
April 26, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has determined that an Israeli military unit committed gross human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago
April 26, 2024
Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza
April 26, 2024
A relative says a premature Palestinian infant, who was rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died
April 26, 2024
Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said its fighters fired anti-tank missiles and artillery shells at an Israeli military convoy in a disputed area along the border, killing an Israeli civilian
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israeli tanks pushed back into some areas of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday which they had left weeks ago, while warplanes conducted air strikes on Rafah,
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israel has moved in a "significant way" but Hamas is the barrier to a deal that would see fighting in Gaza paused and hostages released, State Department spokesperson Matthew
April 26, 2024
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has rejected an Israeli ceasefire proposal, saying on Saturday it had handed to mediators in Egypt and Qatar its response to
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S. and Israeli officials planned to hold a virtual meeting on Monday to discuss the Biden administration's alternative proposals to an Israeli military invasion of
April 26, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revived moves on Monday to shutter Qatari satellite television station Al Jazeera in Israel, pledging to take "immediate action" to close the
April 26, 2024
Israeli military strikes killed dozens of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new
April 26, 2024
The United States' top general said on Thursday that Israel had not received every weapon that it has asked for, in part because President Joe Biden's administration was not
April 26, 2024
Famine is both a risk and "quite possibly" present in at least some areas in northern Gaza, a senior State Department official told Reuters on Friday, while adding that the
April 26, 2024
Joe Biden on Friday acknowledged "the pain being felt" by many Arab Americans over the war in Gaza and over U.S. support of Israel and its military offensive
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday his cancellation of a planned visit to Washington by top aides this week was meant to show Hamas that Israel would not
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has told the White House it wants to reschedule a canceled meeting on a planned Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza city of
April 26, 2024
Israeli soldiers have been posting photos and videos of themselves toying with lingerie found in Palestinian homes, creating a dissonant visual record
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan held a second day of talks on Tuesday with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as the U.S
April 26, 2024
A U.N. humanitarian office spokesperson called on Tuesday for Israel to revoke a decision barring food deliveries to northern Gaza from the U.N.
April 26, 2024
The White House said on Monday it was very disappointed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had canceled a high-level Israeli delegation's planned visit to Washington after
April 26, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would have reacted the same way Israel did after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, but that Israel was losing international support and
April 26, 2024
The only effective and efficient way to deliver heavy goods to meet Gaza's humanitarian needs is by road and includes an exponential increase in commercial
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will not send a delegation as planned to Washington if the United States does not veto a U.N.
April 26, 2024
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said on Monday that countries should pressure Israel to stop attacking Lebanon following a U.N.
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Monday it has informed mediators that it will stick to its original proposal on reaching a comprehensive ceasefire, which includes the
April 26, 2024
The United States has made a "bridging proposal" for the number of jailed Palestinians that should be released by Israel in exchange
April 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Egypt's border with Gaza on Saturday to renew pleas for a ceasefire that could bring relief to a territory devastated by
April 26, 2024
Officials from 36 countries and U.N. agencies gathered in Cyprus on Thursday to discuss how to expedite aid to besieged Palestinians in Gaza via a sea route launched last
April 26, 2024
Oil prices sank in early Asian trading on Friday on the possibility of a nearing Gaza ceasefire, which could loosen global supply, at the same time a stronger U.S
April 26, 2024
Israel will take control of Rafah even if it causes a rift with the United States, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday, describing the Gazan city packed
April 26, 2024
An agreement reached by U.S. congressional leaders and the White House on a massive bill funding military, State Department and a range of other government
April 26, 2024
The U.N.
April 26, 2024
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S.
April 26, 2024
Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now
April 26, 2024
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit the Middle East this week, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The U.N. children's agency said on Sunday over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza in Israel's offensive, adding many kids were suffering from severe
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN on Sunday that U.S.
April 26, 2024
Famine is expected between now and May in the north of the Gaza Strip where 300,000 people remain trapped by fighting, a U.N.-backed report said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
Egypt's foreign minister said on Monday the U.S. should make clear to Israel what the consequences of a military push into the south Gaza city of Rafah on the border with Egypt would
April 26, 2024
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday after meetings in Washington that the United States should put more pressure on Israel to allow
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Air drops and a maritime corridor will not be enough to make up for supplies transported by trucks into Gaza, where people are on the
April 26, 2024
A rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza red lines has set up a potential showdown between the two leaders, raising questions about
April 26, 2024
As a U.S C-130 aircraft flew over the Gaza Strip to drop food to people facing famine, there were few visible signs of life in the jumbled rubble of what
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called for increased international pressure on Israel to ensure more humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza, and said Ankara will increase
April 26, 2024
Turkey views the airdrop of humanitarian aid to Gaza and a plan to deliver aid via a maritime route as positive developments, but thinks they fall short of resolving the core
April 26, 2024
The German Air Force will take part in humanitarian airdrops into Gaza, amid an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe, at the request of the foreign ministry in Berlin, government
April 26, 2024
The U.S. may urge partners and allies to fund a privately run operation to send aid by sea to Gaza that could begin before a
April 26, 2024
A deepening rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza red lines has set up a
April 26, 2024
The United States and Jordan carried out a new airdrop of humanitarian aid to Gaza's Palestinians on Sunday, parachuting in more than 11,500 meals, the U.S. military said.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Friday called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Sudan, prompting China to remind it not to forget about
April 26, 2024
A temporary port system that the U.S. is seeking to build to speed up aid to Gaza will take "likely up to 60 days" to complete and involve
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military carried out its fourth airdrop of aid into Gaza on Friday, a U.S. official told Reuters, amid an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal
April 26, 2024
A U.N. expert on Friday criticised U.S. efforts to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza, such as plans for a temporary port and recent air drops, which he said were "absurd"
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Thursday sparked pockets of protest across the United States, with activists asking him to push for a
April 26, 2024
The head of the European Commission said on Friday a maritime aid corridor could start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend,
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the two of them were headed for a "come to Jesus" meeting over the issue of
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union speech on Thursday that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military carried out its third airdrop of aid into Gaza on Thursday, dropping more than 38,000 meals amid an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal
April 26, 2024
A Hamas delegation left Cairo on Thursday, but will continue with Gaza ceasefire talks until an agreement is reached with Israel, the Palestinian group said in a
April 26, 2024
The United States on Tuesday revised language in a draft United Nations Security Council resolution to back "an immediate ceasefire of roughly six-weeks
April 26, 2024
The United States is working to get aid into Gaza through as many channels as possible to remedy the humanitarian disaster amid Israel's war
April 26, 2024
The United States supports the United Nations doing a review into an aid-related incident in Gaza last week where dozens of people were
April 26, 2024
The White House on Monday said a temporary ceasefire in Gaza was essential to a hostage deal and called on Hamas to accept the terms currently on the table, as talks to secure a
April 26, 2024
The United States and Jordan carried out a new air drop of humanitarian aid to Gaza's Palestinians on Tuesday, parachuting in more than 36,800
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and other top U.S. officials in Washington on Monday as the White House ramps up
April 26, 2024
Senior leaders at multiple global media outlets signed a letter urging Israeli authorities to protect journalists in Gaza, saying reporters have been working
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military will start carrying out airdrops of food and supplies into Gaza in the coming days, joining other countries like France, Jordan and Egypt that have done the
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Friday his intention to order a military air drop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, four U.S. officials told Reuters, speaking on
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. military would drop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in the coming days, and that Washington would be doing everything it could
April 26, 2024
From air drops of humanitarian aid to supply ships from Cyprus, the United States is urgently seeking ways to feed the people
April 26, 2024
The U.S. is urgently seeking information on what took place in northern Gaza on Thursday, where health authorities said more than 100 Palestinians had been shot
April 26, 2024
A halt to fighting in the Gaza Strip as early as next week would trigger indirect talks to end hostilities along Lebanon's southern border with
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Thursday the United States was checking reports of Israeli troops firing on people waiting for food aid in Gaza and that he believes the deadly
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is considering airdropping aid from U.S. military planes into Gaza as land deliveries become increasingly difficult
April 26, 2024
Israel has agreed to resume transferring tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority to fund basic services and bolster the West Bank economy, and money has begun
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden's support for Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza will be put to a test on Tuesday in Michigan, home to a large Arab American
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced his resignation on Monday, as the Palestinian Authority looks to build support for an expanded role following
April 26, 2024
Israel is committed to winning the war in Gaza and eliminating Hamas regardless of the economic toll on the country, Economy and Industry Minister Nir
April 26, 2024
The United States, Egypt, Qatar and Israel have come to an understanding of "basic contours" of a hostage deal for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Sunday said it was not clear yet whether a hostage deal would materialize from ongoing talks, declining to discuss specifics but saying the
April 26, 2024
There was "excellent progress" in talks with Egypt to enhance its IMF loan program, and "comprehensive support" was needed to help the country deal with
April 26, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called on the international community to take a more active role towards an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and a two-state solution to the conflict
April 26, 2024
Two senior U.S lawmakers who held talks with Israeli and Arab leaders said on Tuesday that they were hopeful a deal could be struck allowing a humanitarian
April 26, 2024
China expressed "strong disappointment" over the United States blocking a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war calling for an immediate humanitarian
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden spent months wanting a "pause" in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
Israel expects to continue full-scale military operations in Gaza for another six to eight weeks as it prepares to mount a ground
April 26, 2024
The Gaza Strip's second-largest hospital has been put "completely out of service", a spokesperson for the Gaza health ministry said on Sunday.
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration is preparing to send bombs and other weapons to Israel that would add to its military arsenal even as the U.S. pushes for a ceasefire in Gaza, the Wall Street
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S., Arab and European officials met in Munich on Friday to discus progress on formulating a plan for post-war Gaza that would be linked to
April 26, 2024
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday apologized for remarks she made at a Jewish philanthropy event in New York City that went viral on social media and
April 26, 2024
Egypt's foreign minister said on Saturday that while his country would deal with civilians humanely, the displacement of Palestinians remained unacceptable.
April 26, 2024
The United States is reviewing reports that Israel has harmed civilians in its war in Gaza under a set of guidelines aimed at ensuring countries
April 26, 2024
Palestinians jammed into their last refuge in Gaza voiced growing fear on Wednesday that Israel will soon launch a planned assault on the southern city of Rafah
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was ready to support any action leading to the release of Israeli hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
Canada on Monday joined those urging Israel not to mount a ground invasion against Gaza's southern Rafah neighborhood, saying such an attack would be devastating for Palestinians.
April 26, 2024
Oil prices fell in early Asian trade on Monday after Israel said it had "concluded" a series of strikes in southern Gaza, slightly easing concerns about supply from
April 26, 2024
Any Israeli ground offensive in Rafah on the Gaza border will "blow up" the hostage exchange negotiations," Hamas-run Aqsa Television channel quoted a senior Hamas leader as saying on
April 26, 2024
At least 28,064 Palestinians have been killed and 67,611 others injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the health ministry in Gaza said in a statement on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
The Abu Mustafa family's tent is hard against the high concrete and metal fence separating Gaza from Egypt in Rafah, the last
April 26, 2024
Trapped in and around Rafah amid fears of a "bloodbath," more than 1 million terrified Palestinians waited for Israel to complete a plan
April 26, 2024
The United States is aware of reports that two Americans in Gaza were detained by Israeli forces in a raid early on Thursday and is seeking more information, the State
April 26, 2024
U.S. officials made their most pointed criticism so far of Israel's civilian casualties in Gaza as it turns the focus of its offensive to Rafah, but there was
April 26, 2024
A U.N. team has begun its mission to northern Gaza to assess conditions for civilians who remain there and assess what needs to be done to allow displaced Palestinians to return
April 26, 2024
Oil prices rose on Thursday after Israel rejected a ceasefire offer from Hamas, as talks continued to try to end the Gaza conflict and wider Middle East tensions
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday total victory in Gaza was within reach as he rejected the latest offer from Hamas for a ceasefire to ensure the return
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected a proposal for a Gaza war truce by Hamas, saying victory was within reach and only total defeat of the movement
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Hamas has proposed a three-stage ceasefire plan in response to Qatari and Egyptian mediators in which the group would exchange Israeli hostages it captured on Oct. 7 for Palestinian
April 26, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has submitted a ceasefire proposal to end the four-month conflict in Gaza. Israel said it was studying the proposal.
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S. officials will visit the 2024 election battleground state of Michigan on Thursday to meet with Arab-American and Muslim leaders critical of
April 26, 2024
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Reuters on Tuesday that the group intends for the release of the largest number possible of Palestinians who are being held in Israeli prisons.
April 26, 2024
Displaced again and again by Israel's military offensive on Gaza, Mahmoud Amer and his family have now pitched their tent close to gravestones in a cemetery in
April 26, 2024
Israel's chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday that 31 of the remaining hostages held in Gaza were pronounced dead.
April 26, 2024
Israel has begun investigating possible breaches of the law by its forces during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, the military said on Tuesday, following reports
April 26, 2024
Graffiti and campaign posters have turned streets and office towers in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv into a tapestry of the rise and fall of hopes of recovering hostages held in
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration would redirect any funds for UNRWA to other aid agencies working in Gaza if Congress passes legislation that would bar funding of the
April 26, 2024
The head of the main U.N.
April 26, 2024
Palestinians huddling under bombardment in Gaza said on Monday they hoped a visit to the region by the U.S. secretary of state would finally deliver a truce, in time
April 26, 2024
Humanitarian issues in Gaza will be a top priority for U.S.
April 26, 2024
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met on Wednesday with top Israeli official Ron Dermer in Washington to discuss the flow of humanitarian aid
April 26, 2024
Some 70 U.S. cities have passed resolutions on the Israel-Gaza war with most calling for a ceasefire, a Reuters analysis of city data shows, placing more pressure on
April 26, 2024
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday described the U.N.
April 26, 2024
Hamas is unlikely to reject a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received from mediators this week, but will not sign it without assurances that Israel has committed to ending
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan will meet on Wednesday with top Israeli official Ron Dermer on the Gaza conflict, a White House official said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
The White House said on Monday that talks to secure a new release of hostages held by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza were constructive and promising but there was
April 26, 2024
An Israeli intelligence dossier that prompted a cascade of countries to halt funds for a U.N.
April 26, 2024
The White House said on Sunday there was no change in its Israel policy after NBC News reported the United States was discussing using weapon
April 26, 2024
Former U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States has created a channel with Israel to discuss concerns over incidents in Gaza in which civilians have been killed or injured by the Israeli
April 26, 2024
As a child, Sarah Jackson survived the Nazi Holocaust.
April 26, 2024
Israeli forces relentlessly bombarded areas around two hospitals in Gaza's main southern city Khan Younis on Thursday,
April 26, 2024
Arab countries are not keen to get involved in the rebuilding of Gaza if the Palestinian enclave will be "leveled" again in a few years and stress the importance of
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Palestinians see little respite from Israeli bombardment that has shattered Gaza despite Israel's announcement of a new "more targeted" phase of its war
April 26, 2024
The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South
April 26, 2024
U.S. spy agencies assess that Islamist group Hamas and another Palestinian group fighting Israel used Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital to command
April 26, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked morning traffic on Wednesday around Los Angeles International Airport and New York's John F.
April 26, 2024
The U.N.
April 26, 2024
As the war in Gaza enters an 11th week, Israelis appear resigned to a long road before the military achieves its stated aim of destroying Hamas and bringing
April 26, 2024
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign minister has met a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official in Abu Dhabi where they discussed international efforts to achieve a ceasefire in
April 26, 2024
The U.S. wants and expects Israel to shift its military operations in Gaza to a lower-intensity phase during which there will be more
April 26, 2024
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday deplored the conflict in Gaza as a "moral failure" of the international community and urged
April 26, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan asked his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken in a call on Sunday for Washington to use its influence over Israel to halt Israeli attacks on Gaza
April 26, 2024
A Jewish group demanding a ceasefire in Israel's war in Gaza held protests on Thursday in eight U.S. cities on the eighth night
April 26, 2024
Almost three in four Palestinians believe the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct, and the ensuing Gaza war has lifted support for the Islamist group both there and in
April 26, 2024
Israeli citizens said on Wednesday the army should not back off from its unrelenting offensive to crush Hamas, despite the U.N.
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday he will discuss with Israeli officials their timetable for the war in Gaza during a visit to Israel.
April 26, 2024
Israel enjoys U.S. support for its goals of destroying Hamas and recovering hostages held by the Palestinian militants, but the allies differ about what might follow the Gaza war
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Sunday the United States should also be held responsible for Israeli attacks on Gaza and the loss of Palestinian lives.
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the United States' veto of a U.N.
April 26, 2024
The impact of the Israel-Hamas conflict on Gaza's healthcare sector has been "catastrophic", the World Health Organization chief said on Sunday at an emergency board meeting, saying
April 26, 2024
There needs to be an immediate end to the fighting in Gaza but governments worldwide do not seem to see it as a priority, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Friday in
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a rare move on Wednesday to formally warn the Security Council of a global threat from the Gaza
April 26, 2024
Turkey rejects plans to establish a post-war buffer zone in Gaza because it would be disrespectful to Palestinians, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
U.S. aid chief Samantha Power arrived in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, where she is expected to announce more than $21 million in additional
April 26, 2024
Fearful of being killed in an Israeli bombardment, families in Gaza were packing up and fleeing on Tuesday, heading for a pocket of land further
April 26, 2024
The French helicopter carrier Dixmude has docked in Egypt and could start treating wounded children from Gaza later this week, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said
April 26, 2024
Israel's Mossad intelligence service is hosting its Qatari counterparts to confer on the recovery of hostages held by Hamas and other elements of a Gaza truce that was mediated
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the United Nations on Thursday of being slow to attend to the spiralling humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying its relief workers
April 26, 2024
Qatari foreign ministry said on Wednesday Hamas and Israel have agreed on a humanitarian pause in Gaza hostilities for four days, subject to extension, the starting time of the which
April 26, 2024
A group of U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden's energy security adviser Amos Hochstein was traveling to Israel on Monday to discuss issues related to the northern border with Lebanon, including how to
April 26, 2024
In the past week, two University of Arizona educators were suspended and a University of Southern California professor was relegated to teaching remotely while the school
April 26, 2024
Israel, the United States and Hamas are close to an agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post
April 26, 2024
Israel's war cabinet has agreed to allow 140,000 liters (36,985 gallons) of fuel into Gaza every two days after a request from
April 26, 2024
The United States expressed deep concern on Thursday that Jordanian medics were wounded in shelling near their field hospital in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza has shut down and about 45 patients who urgently need surgery have been left in the reception area, hospital chief Atef al-Kahlout told al Jazeera on
April 26, 2024
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Israel cannot leave a vacuum in Gaza and would have to maintain a strong force there for the near future to prevent Hamas from re-emerging in the
April 26, 2024
The Israel-Gaza conflict is a "worrying manifestation" of geopolitical challenges for the U.S.-backed multinational economic corridor, India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
More than 1,000 officials in the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United Arab Emirates plans to maintain diplomatic ties with Israel despite international outcry over the mounting toll of the war in Gaza and hopes to
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday his country does not seek to conquer, occupy or govern Gaza after its war against Hamas but a "credible force" would be needed to
April 26, 2024
The Rafah border crossing into Gaza was closed on Wednesday due to an unspecified "security circumstance," U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said.
April 26, 2024
Street battles raged in Gaza City with Hamas fighters using tunnels to ambush Israeli forces, as the United
April 26, 2024
Turkey's parliament removed Coca Cola and Nestle products from its restaurants on Tuesday over their alleged support for Israel amid the conflict in Gaza, according to a parliament
April 26, 2024
As the death toll in Gaza tops 10,000, the Biden administration faces growing pressure at home and abroad to compel Israel to take steps to
April 26, 2024
The border authority in Hamas-controlled Gaza on Monday said that the Rafah border crossing is open only for evacuations by Egyptians and foreigners listed since Nov. 1.
April 26, 2024
Several U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United Nations aid chief said on Friday that there had been "some progress" in ongoing negotiations to allow fuel into the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip for the first time since
April 26, 2024
State-organised rallies were held across Iran on Saturday marking the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy with cries of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" in support of Palestinians
April 26, 2024
Palestinians reported a deadly Israeli air strike on a U.N.-run school in northern Gaza serving as a shelter on
April 26, 2024
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi will tell U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israeli forces on Thursday encircled Gaza City - the Gaza Strip's main city - in their assault on Hamas, the military said, but the
April 26, 2024
Palestinians in Gaza sheltering from an intensifying Israeli bombardment that has killed thousands of people are running out of clean water and face growing
April 26, 2024
At least 195 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Hamas-run government media office said.
April 26, 2024
In Los Angeles, a man screaming "kill Jews" attempts to break into a family's home.
April 26, 2024
The White House on Tuesday said 66 trucks of humanitarian assistance entered Gaza in the last 24 hours and that dozens more are expected to be cleared for deliveries.
April 26, 2024
At least 320 foreign passport holders crossed on Wednesday to Egypt from Gaza in a first batch of evacuations from the besieged enclave, three Egyptian security sources and a
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday would not acknowledge differences between the U.S. and Israel over the military assault on Gaza, but emphasized
April 26, 2024
Israel summoned the Russian ambassador on Sunday to lodge a protest at Moscow's hosting last week of a delegation from Hamas, the Palestinian militant group whose Oct. 7 attack
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.N.
April 26, 2024
Palestinians traumatized by Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip in a bid to destroy militant group Hamas were struggling to make contact with family and friends on Sunday.
April 26, 2024
Qatar-mediated negotiations between Israel and Hamas aimed at de-escalating fighting in Gaza continued on Saturday, a source briefed on the negotiations said, even as Israel intensified
April 26, 2024
Hundreds of protesters demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas forced officials on Friday to close Grand Central Terminal, one of New York City's major transit hubs, the
April 26, 2024
Elon Musk said on Saturday that SpaceX's Starlink will support communication links in Gaza with "internationally recognized aid organizations".
April 26, 2024
Israel would allow a dramatic increase in aid to Gaza in the coming days, an official said on Sunday, calling on Palestinian civilians to head to what he described as a "
April 26, 2024
Israel is rejecting calls for respite in Gaza as its closest allies in the West have coalesced around the idea of "humanitarian pauses",
April 26, 2024
Hamas said on Saturday its militants in Gaza were ready to confront Israeli attacks with "full force" after Israel's military widened its air and ground attacks
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan told Pope Francis in a phone call on Thursday that Israel's attacks on Gaza amounted to a massacre, and that the silence of international community
April 26, 2024
Israeli efforts to rehabilitate southern communities ravaged by the Oct.
April 26, 2024
Almost half of Israelis want to hold off on any invasion of Gaza, according to a poll published on Friday, in what may indicate a dip in support for the planned next stage of the
April 26, 2024
European Union leaders agreed at a summit on Thursday to call for the establishment of "humanitarian corridors and pauses" to get urgently needed aid into Gaza.
April 26, 2024
Nearly 600,000 internally displaced people are sheltering in 150 facilities of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, while at least 40 UNRWA installations
April 26, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah told French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday that ending Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza is an urgent necessity and warned there could
April 26, 2024
Israel has agreed to delay the invasion of Gaza for now, so the U.S. can rush missile defences to the region, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. and Israeli
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration wants to ensure safe passage for people out of Gaza, especially for U.S. citizens, White House national security spokesman John Kirby
April 26, 2024
The United States has advised Israel to hold off on a ground assault in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and is keeping Qatar
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed the Israel-Hamas conflict and other wars in a telephone conversation on Sunday, the Vatican said.
April 26, 2024
Some of Israel's actions in its war against Hamas, like cutting off food and water for Gaza, could "harden Palestinian attitudes for generations" and weaken
April 26, 2024
Israel will not hold off on a possible ground invasion of Gaza over the issue of captives being held there, Israel's energy minister told German tabloid newspaper Bild.
April 26, 2024
Hamas fighters engaged with an Israeli force that infiltrated the Gaza Strip and returned to their base after destroying some Israeli military equipment, the Palestinian group's armed
April 26, 2024
European Union leaders will call this week for a "humanitarian pause" in the Israel-Hamas war so that humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza can safely reach those in need,
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that a visit by U.S.
April 26, 2024
Several thousand people gathered in Sarajevo city centre on Sunday, waving Palestinian and Bosnian flags and demanding a halt to the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
Israel's military has warned Gaza residents that they risk being identified as accomplices "in a terrorist organisation" if they do not move south, Palestinians
April 26, 2024
Canada's National Department of Defence said on Saturday that Israel was not behind the Al-Ahli hospital strike in Gaza on Oct. 17.
April 26, 2024
Dozens of Hollywood actors and artists, including comedian Jon Stewart and Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, wrote on Friday to U.S.
April 26, 2024
France's President Emmanuel Macron on Friday welcomed the release of two American hostages in Gaza, highlighting Qatar's role and saying he hoped similar initiatives
April 26, 2024
Egypt opens a summit on the Gaza crisis on Saturday to try to head off a wider regional war but assembled Middle Eastern and European leaders are
April 26, 2024
The United States is committed to ensuring that civilians in Gaza will continue to have access to food, water and medical care without it being diverted by Hamas, President Joe Biden said
April 26, 2024
An unclassified U.S. intelligence report, seen by Reuters on Thursday, estimated the death toll from a blast at a Gaza hospital was "probably at the low end
April 26, 2024
A U.S. analysis of currently available data indicates that "Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday," a spokeswoman for the White House
April 26, 2024
An escalation of the Israel-Gaza war into a broader conflict could deliver another shock to world growth and halt disinflationary
April 26, 2024
Lebanese security forces used teargas and water cannon to repel scores of protesters demonstrating on Wednesday near the U.S. embassy in Beirut against what they said was Israel's
April 26, 2024
Jordan on Wednesday will host a four-party summit in Amman with U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israel will not allow humanitarian supplies into Gaza from the Israeli side of the border but will not block aid coming from Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office
April 26, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that humanitarian aid would be made available to Palestinians who flee Gaza City southward, but did not immediately provide details on
April 26, 2024
Israeli air strike killed senior Hamas armed commander Ayman Nofal in Gaza, the Hamas armed wing Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group that is an ally of Hamas and took part in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel from Gaza, has denied Israel's accusations that it was behind a strike on
April 26, 2024
A blast at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds of Palestinians just before U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it needs urgent access to Gaza to deliver aid and medical supplies, as the UN agency warned of a humanitarian crisis in the Israeli-
April 26, 2024
A Russian-drafted U.N.
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that Moscow wanted to help prevent a humanitarian
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis' representative in the Holy Land said on Monday he was willing to exchange himself for Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas and held in Gaza
April 26, 2024
At least 2,750 Palestinians have been killed and 9,700 wounded in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the enclave's health ministry said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
An Egyptian-controlled border crossing into Gaza is expected to reopen amid diplomatic efforts to get aid into
April 26, 2024
A bipartisan majority of Americans wants the U.S. to help get Palestinian civilians out of harm's way in Gaza amid Israel's war against Hamas
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israeli security forces killed nine Palestinians and wounded dozens in confrontations across the West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian
April 26, 2024
The U.S. government on Saturday encouraged its citizens in Gaza to move south toward the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to be ready for its possible reopening
April 26, 2024
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched in central London on Saturday, calling for an end to Israel's military action in the Gaza Strip which was triggered by last
April 26, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel's week-old retaliation for the Hamas assault from Gaza was "only the beginning," though he did not elaborate on what
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned on Sunday of the risk of conflict escalating in the Middle East, and said the
April 26, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken by phone on Saturday on the crisis in Israel and Gaza, a statement from his ministry said.
April 26, 2024
As an unrelenting Israeli bombardment intensified on Saturday, bakeries in Gaza were running out of bread, drinking water was in short supply and power outages
April 26, 2024
Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move within 24 hours is going to be a "tall order," White House national security spokesman John Kirby said
April 26, 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain was aligned the United States' view that Israel should take precaution to protect civilians in Gaza, after the Israeli military called for
April 26, 2024
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied across the Middle East and beyond on Friday in support of Palestinians and condemnation of Israel as it intensified its strikes on
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military is placing no conditions on its security assistance to Israel, U.S.
April 26, 2024
An Israeli invasion of Gaza will face an enemy that has built a formidable armoury with Iran's help, dug a vast tunnel network to
April 26, 2024
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Friday discussed Israel's war against Hamas with the head of the powerful Tehran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which has
April 26, 2024
Hamas armed wing Al Qassam Brigades said in a statement that 13 captives were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza in the last 24 hours.
April 26, 2024
The United States is talking to Israeli officials and others about the idea of a safe passage for Gaza civilians after Israel's air strikes
April 26, 2024
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday criticised the United States for moving a carrier strike group closer to Israel, saying that it would commit "serious massacres" in Gaza
April 26, 2024
Israeli troops have killed at least 1,000 Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated from Gaza in incursions that began at the weekend, and have reinforced all communities in Israel as
April 26, 2024
The United States on Monday led a moment of silence at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to commemorate the lives of people killed in the major Hamas attack on
April 26, 2024
Several U.S. nationals have died since the start of Hamas' surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, a National Security Council spokesman said Sunday, adding that U.S. officials remained in
April 26, 2024
North Korean state media on Tuesday blamed Israel for causing bloodshed in Gaza, weighing in the military clashes between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas for the first time.
April 26, 2024
Israel said on Monday its troops backed by helicopters had killed armed infiltrators entering the country from Lebanon, raising fears
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that at least 11 American citizens were among those killed in Israel following the weekend's attacks by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
April 26, 2024
The International Monetary Fund on Sunday said it was closely monitoring developments in Israel and Gaza, and it was too early to assess any economic impact.
April 26, 2024
Arab League Chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit headed to Moscow on Sunday for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the situation in Gaza after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas
April 26, 2024
Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip have killed at least five people
April 25, 2024
A memorial at the National Cathedral in Washington will honor seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza earlier this month
April 25, 2024
President Joe Biden has met at the White House with Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American girl who was held hostage in Gaza for several weeks at the start of Israel's war with Hamas
April 24, 2024
Hamas has released a hostage video showing a well-known Israeli-American who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza
April 24, 2024
Germany said that it plans to follow several other countries in resuming cooperation with the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians in Gaza after the publication of an independent review of its neutrality
April 24, 2024
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza
April 24, 2024
The $95 billion foreign aid package approved by the U.S. Congress provides military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenishes U.S. weapons systems and gives humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
April 24, 2024
The United Nations is calling for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops
April 23, 2024
Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce that it’s blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago
April 22, 2024
The Israeli military say the head of its intelligence corps has resigned over Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
April 22, 2024
Israel's State Attorney on Sunday indicted the sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on charges of incitement and showing solidarity with a terror group, after she allegedly
April 21, 2024
Israel's military said its soldiers opened fire at three Palestinians who attacked them on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, where
April 21, 2024
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 13 people, including nine children
April 21, 2024
Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as
April 20, 2024
Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the territory's southernmost city of Rafah has killed at least nine people, six of them children
April 20, 2024
The U.N. World Food Program has agreed to help deliver aid for the starving civilians of Gaza once the U.S. military completes a pier for transporting the humanitarian assistance by sea
April 19, 2024
The House is preparing to push a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage
April 19, 2024
Google has fired 28 employees in the aftermath of protests over technology that the internet company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, further escalating tensions surrounding a hot-button deal
April 18, 2024
Israel has vowed to respond to Iran’s unprecedented weekend attack
April 18, 2024
The Chinese and Indonesian foreign ministers called for an immediate and lasting cease-fire in Gaza after a meeting in Jakarta on Thursday, condemning the humanitarian costs of the ongoing war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians
April 18, 2024
The United Nations is appealing for $2.8 billion to provide desperately needed aid to 3 million Palestinians, stressing that tackling looming famine in war-torn Gaza requires not only food but sanitation, water and health facilities
April 17, 2024
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have called for an immediate cease-fire and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza
April 16, 2024
The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale have announced they won’t open the Israeli exhibition until there's a cease-fire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages
April 16, 2024
World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles
April 15, 2024
The unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel early Sunday ratcheted up regional tensions
April 14, 2024
Under heavy U.S. pressure, Israel has promised to ramp up aid to Gaza dramatically, saying last week it would open another cargo crossing and surge more trucks than ever before into the besieged enclave
April 11, 2024
It was hours after sundown when eight aid trucks and three support vehicles started their journey into Gaza
April 11, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza a mistake
April 10, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has not informed the U.S. of any specific date for the start of a major offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah
April 10, 2024
Turkey and Israel have announced tit-for-tat trade barriers as relations between them further deteriorated amid the war in Gaza
April 09, 2024
Germany is strongly rejecting a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations’ top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other support to Israel in its deadly assault on Gaza
April 09, 2024
The United Nations’ top court is opening hearings in a case that seeks an end to German military and other aid to Israel
April 08, 2024
A grieving father who lost his son, Jacob Flickinger, after Israeli airstrikes killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers spoke to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with a clear message
April 07, 2024
A top Iranian military adviser has warned Israel that none of its embassies are safe following a strike in Damascus last week that killed two elite Iranian generals
April 07, 2024
The United Nations’ top court is hearing a case on Monday that seeks an end of German military and other aid to Israel
April 07, 2024
Israel’s military says it has recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza
April 06, 2024
The Israeli military’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza has triggered unprecedented criticism from European leaders
April 06, 2024
President Joe Biden has written to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar, calling on them to press Hamas for a hostage deal with Israel
April 05, 2024
The Israeli military has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission
April 05, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that measures the Israeli government has announced to expand the flow of aid into Gaza are welcome but may not be enough to meet the Biden administration’s demands for dramatic improvements in humanitarian conditions in the territory
April 05, 2024
When Israel declared war against Hamas last October, it stood unified at home and enjoyed broad backing from around the world following an unprecedented attack by the Islamic militant group
April 05, 2024
Former President Donald Trump offered a tough message to Israel in its war against Hamas on Thursday, urging the country to: “Get it over with.”
April 04, 2024
President Joe Biden has told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that future U.S. support for Gaza war depends on new steps to protect civilians and aid workers
April 04, 2024
Human Rights Watch says an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Gaza last October killed at least 106 civilians, including 54 children
April 04, 2024
Israel says it’s taking steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, including reopening a key border crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza
April 04, 2024
A Palestinian American doctor who has volunteered in Gaza walked out of a meeting with President Joe Biden this week
April 03, 2024
Britain’s main opposition parties are demanding that the Conservative government publish legal advice it has received on whether Israel has broken international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza
April 03, 2024
Pope Francis has led thousands of people in a moment of silence to pray for the aid workers killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza
April 03, 2024
Israeli airstrikes have killed aid workers delivering food in Gaza
April 03, 2024
Several humanitarian aid organizations have suspended operations in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike killed seven World Central Kitchen workers
April 02, 2024
An Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world Tuesday
April 02, 2024
On Monday, the Israeli military withdrew from its second devastating raid on Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, leaving it in ruins, with the walls blown out and frame blackened
April 01, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel, calling it a “terror channel” that spreads incitement, after parliament passed a law clearing the way for the closure
April 01, 2024
American and Israeli officials are planning talks to discuss the potential expansion of Israel’s war against Hamas to the southern Gaza city of Rafah
April 01, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will return to the table for cease-fire talks with Hamas
March 29, 2024
A video showing a Lebanese nun asking young students to pray for the “men of the resistance,” a reference to Hezbollah fighters, has sparked controversy in Lebanon
March 29, 2024
The top United Nations court has ordered Israel to take measures including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into Gaza to tackle crippling shortages in the war-ravaged enclave
March 28, 2024
A series of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has killed at least 16 people, including paramedics
March 28, 2024
An international team of doctors was prepared for the worst before visiting a hospital in central Gaza
March 28, 2024
Talks have restarted aimed at bringing top Israeli officials to Washington to discuss potential military operations in Gaza
March 27, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an online media site called Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash, for allegedly supporting Hamas
March 27, 2024
Around 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Wednesday morning, according to the Israeli military
March 27, 2024
Months after Hamas attackers killed 1,200 people, a string of Israeli farming communities they targeted just across the border fence with Gaza remain all but empty
March 27, 2024
Hamas has rejected the latest cease-fire proposal, accusing Israel of ignoring its core demands, which include an end to the war and a full withdrawal from Gaza
March 26, 2024
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet with Israel’s minister of defense and discuss ways to address the Hamas threat other than conducting a ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah
March 26, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says he would have responded the same way as Israel did after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas but urged the country to “finish up” its offensive and “get this over with,” warning about international support fading
March 25, 2024
In mid-March, a line of trucks stretched for 3 kilometers along a desert road near a crossing point from
March 25, 2024
Aid groups that visited a packed Gaza hospital have described an “unimaginable” situation in which large open wounds were left untreated
March 25, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
March 25, 2024
U_N_ Secretary-General António Guterres says it's time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid" and calls the starvation inside the enclave a “moral outrage.”
March 23, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but the United States warned the measure could hurt negotiations to halt Israeli-Hamas hostilities
March 23, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the final stop in his sixth urgent trip to the region since the start of the war
March 22, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is huddling with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to discuss post-conflict plans for Gaza as relations between the United States and Israel are souring further over Israel's war against Hamas
March 21, 2024
European Union leaders are gathering to consider new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine
March 21, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the “gaps are narrowing” in indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over another cease-fire and hostage release that the U.S., Egypt and Qatar have spent several weeks trying to broker
March 21, 2024
Israel is determined to launch an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to the hundreds of thousands of civilians sheltering there
March 20, 2024
Mourners were holding funeral prayers Wednesday morning outside a hospital in central Gaza for 28 people killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes on urban refugee camps
March 20, 2024
Purim is widely depicted as the most joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits and noisemakers
March 20, 2024
A new report warns that famine is imminent in Gaza as fighting between Israel and Hamas continues
March 19, 2024
Destroying Hamas in Rafah would required a ground incursion by Israeli forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday following a call by the White House to rethink
March 19, 2024
The incoming Palestinian prime minister has laid out wide-ranging plans for a revitalized Palestinian Authority and an independent trust fund to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction in a mission statement acquired Tuesday by The Associated Press
March 19, 2024
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken in their first interaction in more than a month as the divide has grown between allies over food crisis in Gaza, conduct of war
March 18, 2024
Israel is urging the top United Nations court to reject the latest request by South Africa for interim orders to prevent starvation in Gaza
March 18, 2024
Israeli forces have launched another raid on the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, accusing Hamas militants of using it as a base
March 18, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is railing against international criticism of his government amid the devasting war with Hamas
March 17, 2024
Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to restart in earnest in Qatar as soon as Sunday
March 16, 2024
Two AP journalists aboard an American aid flight to Gaza observed the wreckage to the strip's north as the plane delivered much-needed food aid to Palestinians below
March 15, 2024
A ship carrying 200 tons of aid is approaching the coast of Gaza to inaugurate a sea route from Cyprus
March 15, 2024
The United States has circulated the final draft of a United Nations Security Council resolution that would support international efforts to establish “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war
March 15, 2024
Seventy-eight protesters have been ordered to do five hours of community service and pay restitution to avoid criminal proceedings for allegedly blocking traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for hours in November to demand a cease-fire in Gaza
March 15, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections
March 14, 2024
Egypt’s top diplomat has appealed for an urgent increase in aid going into Gaza by land, even as a ship loaded with some 200 tons of food was on its way to the enclave, where hundreds of thousands have been driven to the brink of starvation
March 14, 2024
With each passing day, the relatives of hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7 face a deepening despair
March 14, 2024
South Africa’s foreign minister says her country’s citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home
March 13, 2024
The father of an Israeli soldier killed during the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 said he was going through a living hell a day after learning of the death and called for
March 13, 2024
Violent clashes overnight have left multiple Palestinians dead in the West Bank, and Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed two people at a checkpoint near Jerusalem before being shot Wednesday
March 13, 2024
Four U.S. Army boats, loaded with tons of equipment and steel pier segments, have left Virginia and are heading to Gaza
March 12, 2024
An international charity says its aid ship bound for Gaza has set sail from Cyprus
March 12, 2024
The Israeli military says about 100 projectiles were launched from Lebanon into Israel on Tuesday, a day after Palestinians in Gaza began fasting for the holy month of Ramadan
March 12, 2024
More than 20 progressive groups are coming together to forcefully reject pro-Israel groups’ efforts to primary challenge liberal members who've been critics of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza
March 11, 2024
With no end to fighting in sight, Palestinians in Gaza have begun fasting for the holy month of Ramadan as hunger worsens across the strip and pressure grows on Israel over the growing humanitarian crisis
March 11, 2024
Palestinians have begun fasting for Ramadan
March 11, 2024
President Joe Biden has stepped up public pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, warning he's “hurting Israel” and speaking candidly about “come to Jesus” conversations with the leader over the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza
March 10, 2024
Just before an opera-ballet set in conflict, La Scala’s principal dancer Roberto Bolle, general manager Dominique Meyer and other members of the dance company, orchestra and stage crew faced the audience as the curtain rose
March 10, 2024
Muslims around the world are welcoming the arrival of Ramadan, a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, intense prayer, charity and feasts
March 10, 2024
A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza is on its way to the Mediterranean
March 10, 2024
President Joe Biden says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in how he is approaching its war against Hamas in Gaza
March 09, 2024
Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians says it will resume its funding
March 09, 2024
A massive floating pier that will allow ships to sail up to Gaza and offload aid will soon sail from the U.S. to the Mediterranean Sea as the U.S. looks at ways to address Gaza's dire food needs
March 09, 2024
Efforts are ramping up to deliver more desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza, with the United States and Europe focusing on opening a sea route in a signal of the West’s growing frustration with Israel’s conduct in the war
March 08, 2024
A top European Union official is in Cyprus on Friday to inspect preparations to send desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza by sea
March 08, 2024
President Joe Biden will announce a plan in his State of the Union address to establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast to boost humanitarian aid for the beleaguered territory
March 07, 2024
Hamas says its delegation has left Cairo and that talks on a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release will resume next week
March 07, 2024
China reiterated calls to admit Palestine to the U.N. on Thursday, and Norway warned companies against doing business in Israeli settlements, as international criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza mounted
March 07, 2024
Nearly five months of fighting has left much of Gaza in ruins and created a worsening humanitarian catastrophe
March 06, 2024
More of President Joe Biden’s top Senate allies are demanding that the U.S. act directly to ease Palestinian civilian suffering in Gaza and are joining calls to cut military aid if Israel refuses to change course
March 05, 2024
A United Nations report has found credible allegations that sexual assaults took place during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel
March 05, 2024
A Missouri Girl Scout troop that made bracelets to raise funds for children in Gaza was ordered to stop and threatened with legal action by regional scout leaders
March 04, 2024
Israel has ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees
March 04, 2024
A severely wounded 4-year-old boy from Gaza has come to the U.S. for medical care and a prosthetic arm after an Israeli airstrike killed his family
March 04, 2024
An Israeli official says a top Israeli Cabinet minister's trip to Washington has angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
March 03, 2024
The Israeli military on Saturday promised an exhaustive and truthful investigation into the deaths of Palestinians queuing for aid in Gaza this week, an incident that has drawn
March 02, 2024
US officials say American military C-130 cargo planes have airdropped food and aid in pallets over Gaza
March 02, 2024
The U.S. military on Saturday carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, two U.S. officials said.
March 02, 2024
President Joe Biden has announced that the U.S. will begin airdropping sorely needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
March 01, 2024
The European Union says it will pay $54 million to the main provider of aid in Gaza next week
March 01, 2024
The head of a Gaza hospital where some of the wounded from bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy were taken says more than 80% percent had been struck by gunfire, suggesting heavy shooting by Israeli troops
March 01, 2024
Three dozen leaders at news organizations around the world are expressing solidarity with reporters doing the dangerous work of covering the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
February 29, 2024
Aid groups are appealing to the European Union to release tens of millions of euros in funding due to the main U.N. agency that helps most people in Gaza
February 29, 2024
Gaza health officials say more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israel-Hamas war nearly five months ago
February 29, 2024
Hospital officials say an apparent Israeli strike on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City has killed and wounded dozens
February 29, 2024
Aid convoys carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, Israeli officials said
February 28, 2024
The families of hostages held in Gaza and their supporters are launching a four-day march from southern Israel to Jerusalem to demand their loved ones be set free
February 28, 2024
At least one quarter of Gaza’s population – 576,000 people – are one step away from famine and virtually the entire population desperately needs food resulting in aid trucks being shot at, looted and overwhelmed by hungry people, top U.N. officials say
February 28, 2024
Israeli media are reporting that mediators are making progress on an agreement for a weekslong cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and the release of dozens of hostages held in Gaza as well as Palestinians imprisoned by Israel
February 25, 2024
Brazil’s president has alleged that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians
February 24, 2024
Relatives of hostages still being held by Hamas and other militant groups have endured a nightmare
February 23, 2024
Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes killed at least 48 people in southern and central areas of the besieged territory overnight as alarm rose over the worsening humanitarian crisis
February 22, 2024
The head of the Jewish Community in Denmark says the number of antisemitic incidents registered since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza has reached levels not seen since World War II
February 22, 2024
Israeli police say three gunmen opened fire on the road near a checkpoint in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing one Israeli and wounding at least eight, as violence persists in the territory
February 22, 2024
The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel says it has found evidence of “systematic and intentional” rape and sexual abuse during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that ignited the war in Gaza
February 21, 2024
South Africa has argued at the United Nations’ top court that Israel is responsible for apartheid against the Palestinians and that Israel’s occupation of land sought for a Palestinian state is “inherently and fundamentally illegal.”
February 20, 2024
UNICEF says one in six children are acutely malnourished in the isolated and largely devastated northern Gaza
February 20, 2024
Arab nations are putting to a vote a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, knowing it will be vetoed by the United States but hoping to show broad global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war
February 20, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war
February 19, 2024
Historic hearings are opening at the United Nations' top court into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state
February 19, 2024
The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleges that Israel is intent on “destroying” the organization along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees who have a right to return home one day
February 17, 2024
Leaders at an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza and called for its immediate end
February 17, 2024
A top U.S. envoy says Israel has not presented specific evidence that Hamas is diverting U.N. aid shipments entering Gaza
February 17, 2024
As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel
February 16, 2024
In a phone call Thursday, President Joe Biden again cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against moving forward with a military operation in Rafah without a “credible and executable plan” to protect civilians
February 16, 2024
Arable land has been destroyed, as have food production sites. But even before the current operation in Gaza, Palestinians there suffered high rates of food insecurity.
February 15, 2024
Israeli troops have entered the the main hospital in southern Gaza in what the army said was a limited operation seeking the remains of hostages taken by Hamas
February 15, 2024
Palestinian medics say Israeli forces fired into the main hospital in southern Gaza, killing a patient and wounding six others
February 15, 2024
The president of MIT has suspended a student group that has held demonstrations against Israel's military campaign in Gaza
February 14, 2024
The White House has announced that Palestinians living in the U.S. will be shielded from deportation as the Israel-Hamas war continues, citing “significantly deteriorated” conditions on the ground in Gaza
February 14, 2024
Palestinians have begun evacuating the main hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis after weeks of heavy fighting had isolated the medical facility and claimed the lives of several people inside
February 14, 2024
The South African government says it has lodged an “urgent request” with the U.N.’s International Court of Justice to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah are a breach of provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide
February 13, 2024
Egypt has threatened to void its decades-long peace treaty with Israel if Israel begins a large-scale offensive on Rafah, where some 1.4 million Palestinians shelter in densely packed tent camps on the border with Egypt
February 12, 2024
President Joe Biden is hosting Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington and the two leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing effort to free hostages in Gaza and growing concern over a possible Israeli military operation in the port city of Rafah
February 12, 2024
The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City
February 10, 2024
The White House is downplaying sharp criticism from President Joe Biden and a senior national security official over Israel's war against Hamas
February 10, 2024
A new directive by President Joe Biden is appearing to ease a split among Democrats over his military support for Israel’s war in Gaza
February 09, 2024
The Senate is moving toward a final vote on an emergency spending package that would provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and provide food, water and other humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza
February 09, 2024
The director of the main U.N. aid agency for Palestinians says Israeli restrictions are preventing food for 1.1 million people from reaching war-battered Gaza
February 09, 2024
The Israel-Hamas conflict is putting a spotlight on all of the different people affected by the war, including Israel soldiers from Ethiopian, Filipino and Bedouin backgrounds.
February 09, 2024
At least nine people, including children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight into Friday in the central area of the Gaza Strip and in the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt, witnesses and hospital officials said
February 09, 2024
Biden administration officials are meeting with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Michigan
February 08, 2024
The family of two American brothers trapped in Gaza says Israeli forces have detained the two U.S. citizens in a raid on their home
February 08, 2024
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 13 people in Rafah on the border with Egypt
February 08, 2024
Hamas has put forward a detailed plan for a new cease-fire and hostage release deal with Israel, which will be discussed when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli leaders
February 07, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to brief Israel’s leaders on Hamas’ response to a proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of scores of hostages as the war enters a fifth month with both sides dug in and pursuing thus far elusive goals
February 07, 2024
The war in Gaza has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe that has prompted shortages of the most basic necessities
February 07, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Cairo for a meeting with Egyptian leaders that U.S. officials say will concentrate mainly on the task of negotiating a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
February 06, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Saudi Arabia on his fifth visit to the region since the outbreak of the war in Gaza
February 05, 2024
Criticism of President Joe Biden by a far-right minister in Israel’s government has sparked outrage at a sensitive time for Israel's relations with Washington
February 04, 2024
The European Union is worried about reports that the Israeli military intends to take its battle against Hamas to the town of Rafah at Gaza’s border with Egypt
February 03, 2024
Hamas officials say the group is studying a proposed cease-fire deal that would include prolonged pauses in fighting in Gaza and swaps of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, but at the same time appeared to rule out some of its key components
February 02, 2024
A new poll shows half of U_S_ adults believe Israel's war in Gaza has “gone too far."
February 02, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has told The Associated Press that his country could officially recognize a Palestinian state after a cease-fire in Gaza, without waiting for the outcome of what could be years-long negotiations between Israeli and the Palestinians on a two-state solution
February 01, 2024
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israel's offensive in the territory has killed more than 27,000 people
February 01, 2024
South Africa’s foreign minister says Israel has ignored the ruling by the U.N.’s top court last week by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza
January 31, 2024
An array of U.N. organizations have united to warn of “catastrophic consequences for the people of Gaza” if key donor countries don’t resume funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main lifeline for people in the besieged territory
January 31, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 150 people have been killed in the territory in the last 24 hours and another 313 were wounded as Israeli forces continue to battle militants, even in the northern part of the territory
January 31, 2024
U.S. and Mideast mediators appeared optimistic in recent days that they are closing in on a deal for a two-month cease-fire in Gaza and the release of over 100 hostages held by Hamas
January 30, 2024
Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medical workers have stormed a hospital in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants
January 30, 2024
Israeli lawmakers on Monday voted to ban the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from operating within Israel, alarming some of Israel's Western allies who fear this will further
January 29, 2024
The U.N. aid agency serving Palestinians in Gaza faces more funding cuts amid accusations that 12 of its employees were involved in Oct. 7 attack that sparked the Israel-Hamas war
January 29, 2024
Israel’s president has accused the U.N. world court of misquoting him in a ruling that ordered Israel to take steps to protect Palestinians and prevent a genocide in the Gaza Strip
January 28, 2024
Israel’s allegations that 12 employees of a United Nations agency were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack have led several Western countries to cut off funding and reignited debate over Gaza’s biggest humanitarian aid provider
January 28, 2024
President Joe Biden is increasingly contending with protests inside and outside his events from progressives upset about U.S. support for Israel in its offensive in Gaza
January 28, 2024
The secretary-general of the United Nations has called on countries to resume funding the main agency providing aid in Gaza
January 28, 2024
Holocaust survivor Gad Partok never thought he'd live to see horrors like the ones he witnessed as a young boy in Tunisia when Nazis invaded his town and killed many of his neighbors
January 27, 2024
President Joe Biden has spoken with his Egyptian and Qatari counterparts ahead of a trip by his CIA director meant to press toward a deal to secure the release of more hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a pause to fighting in Gaza
January 26, 2024
The U.N. world court has come down hard on Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians
January 26, 2024
The International Court of Justice is reading out its decision on whether to order Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza
January 26, 2024
Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations’ top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide
January 26, 2024
Gaza’s Health Ministry and witnesses say Israeli troops opened fire as a crowd of Palestinians gathered for humanitarian aid in Gaza City, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens
January 25, 2024
The death toll from a strike on a crowded shelter in Gaza has risen to 12, with over 75 wounded
January 25, 2024
Antisemitism is on the rise in Belgium since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a war in Gaza
January 25, 2024
The passenger in a pickup truck where an American-Palestinian was fatally shot in the West Bank says the shooting was unprovoked
January 25, 2024
A 72-year-old Israeli woman held captive by Hamas militants for nearly 50 days has told an Israeli TV channel that she was held at length in a dark, humid tunnel where she met Hamas' top leader in Gaza
January 24, 2024
Efforts to reach a new cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam
January 24, 2024
The United Nations’ top court says it will issue a decision Friday on South Africa’s request for interim orders in a genocide case against Israel, including that Israel halt its offensive in Gaza
January 24, 2024
Medics say hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people are unable to leave the main hospital in Khan Younis because of the fighting there
January 24, 2024
Israeli forces are battling Palestinian militants near the main hospital in Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis
January 24, 2024
Israel and Hamas have moved closer to agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Gaza when Israeli hostages and Palestinians
January 24, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron will travel to Israel on Wednesday where he is expected to raise concerns over the high number of Palestinians killed and push for a "
January 24, 2024
Israel and Hamas broadly agree in principle that an exchange of Israeli hostages for
January 23, 2024
The Israeli military says its forces have encircled the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, the Palestinian territory’s second-largest city
January 23, 2024
Intense international mediation efforts are working toward exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners
January 22, 2024
Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip is pounding the southern city of Khan Younis
January 22, 2024
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back on Monday after speculation that a new release of Gaza hostages was in the works, saying Israel was taking an unspecified
January 22, 2024
European Union foreign ministers say the creation of a Palestinian state is the only credible way to achieve peace in the Middle East
January 22, 2024
Dozens of family members of hostages held by Hamas stormed a committee meeting in Israel’s parliament, demanding a deal to win their loved ones’ release
January 22, 2024
Amid a tough reelection fight, Mayor London Breed has declined to veto a non-binding resolution from the San Francisco supervisors calling for an extended cease-fire in Gaza
January 21, 2024
The United Nations agency promoting gender equality says women and children are the main victims of the war in Gaza, with an estimated 16,000 killed
January 20, 2024
U.S. fighter jets struck Houthi rebel sites in Yemen for a sixth time Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to fire
January 19, 2024
Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli hostage held in Gaza
January 18, 2024
Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza’s overwhelmed remaining hospitals which can’t deal with the estimated 60,000 injured people and daily arrival of hundreds more hurt in Israeli’s military offensive, a U.N. health emergency expert said Wednesday, while a doctor with the International Rescue Committee said the situation in Gaza’s hospitals was the most extreme she had ever seen
January 18, 2024
Israeli strikes have hit Gaza City and soldiers are battling militants in southern Gaza as the heads of three major U.N. agencies say the enclave desperately needs more aid to ward off famine and disease outbreaks
January 15, 2024
The White House says “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, even as Israeli leaders vow to intensify their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group
January 14, 2024
The Israel-Hamas war has quickly shattered many records when it comes to the history of conflicts between the bitter enemies
January 13, 2024
Thousands of demonstrators have converged opposite the White House to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza, while children joined a pro-Palestinian march through central London
January 13, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says no one can stop Israel's war against Hamas, including the world court
January 13, 2024
As communities across the U.S. celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this weekend, some people are taking a cue from the civil rights icon’s history of protest amid the war in Gaza and the looming presidential election
January 13, 2024
Sunday marks 100 days that Israel and Hamas have been at war
January 13, 2024
Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem have been captivated by the proceedings in a faraway courtroom where the first hearing in an unprecedented case against Israel was held
January 11, 2024
A former France basketball player serving as an ambassador for the Paris 2024 Olympics has been forced to quit her role because of a controversy linked to a social media post related to the situation in Gaza
January 11, 2024
Israeli military operations in Gaza are focused on the southern city of Khan Younis and urban refugee camps in the territory’s center
January 10, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to seek governance reforms
January 10, 2024
Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
January 10, 2024
The United States defended its veto of a call for the immediate suspension of hostilities in Gaza at a U.N. meeting and again faced demands by the Palestinians and many other countries for a cease-fire now in the Israel-Hamas war – as well as by a group of rabbis in the balcony
January 10, 2024
Supervisors in San Francisco have approved a resolution calling for an extended cease-fire in Gaza that condemns Hamas as well as the Israeli government
January 09, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says four key Arab nations and Turkey have agreed to begin planning for the reconstruction and governance of Gaza once Israel’s war against Hamas ends
January 08, 2024
An apparent Israeli airstrike has killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza
January 07, 2024
A cumbersome process of Israeli inspections and other hurdles are slowing the entry of aid into Gaza
January 06, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Turkey is committed to playing “a positive, productive” role for postwar Gaza and prepared to use its influence in the region to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from broadening even more
January 06, 2024
At least six people have been killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight
January 05, 2024
The U.S. has coordinated with Israel, Egypt and others in rescuing the mother of a U.S. serviceman and her American brother-in-law who were pinned down during heavy fighting in Gaza City
January 03, 2024
Critics say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly using his perch as wartime leader to improve his political fortunes
January 03, 2024
Israel’s army says several thousand troops will be taken out of Gaza in the coming weeks
January 02, 2024
A top United Nations official is warning of deteriorating conditions across Gaza and reiterating calls for Israel to immediately halt its bombardment to allow aid to get in
December 29, 2023
An Israeli kibbutz hard-hit by Hamas' assault on southern Israel has announced the death of Judih Weinstein — an American-Canadian-Israeli woman who had been thought to be held hostage in Gaza
December 28, 2023
Israeli officials are stepping up threats against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah
December 28, 2023
Israeli forces are bombarding cities, towns and refugee camps across Gaza, killing dozens of people
December 28, 2023
The number of Israeli soldiers wounded in the war with Hamas is growing
December 28, 2023
A Palestinian town with a typical population around 75,000 has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of people seeking refuge as Israel expands its ground offensive across Gaza
December 27, 2023
The Netherlands’ former deputy prime minister and Mideast expert has been appointed the United Nations coordinator for humanitarian aid to Gaza, where there are more than 2 million desperate civilians in need of food, water and medicine
December 26, 2023
Gaza's more than 54,500 war-wounded include a growing number of amputees who face hard choices and challenges as they try to survive in a war zone
December 26, 2023
Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah says he “shares the pain” of grieving families at Christmas amid the Israel-Hamas war
December 25, 2023
The State Department says some 300 U.S. citizens, green-card holders or close family members are trapped in Gaza by the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants
December 23, 2023
The U.N. Security Council has adopted a watered-down resolution calling for immediate speeded-up aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza — but without the original call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas
December 22, 2023
From Jesus' biblical birthplace of Bethlehem to New York City, many Palestinian Christians this Christmas season are gripped with helplessness, pain and worry amid the Israel-Hamas war
December 22, 2023
The U.S. has spent more than $7 billion on humanitarian aid and building infrastructure in the Palestinian territories in recent decades, while sending more than $3 billion a year to Israel for its military
December 22, 2023
The World Bank says the ripple effects of the war in Gaza are likely to knock Lebanon’s fragile economy back into recession
December 21, 2023
A United Nations report finds that more than half a million people in Gaza are starving because not enough food has entered the territory since the outbreak of war 10 weeks ago
December 21, 2023
The U.N. Security Council has again delayed a vote on a watered-down resolution to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza
December 21, 2023
San Francisco prosecutors have begun charging 80 protesters who last month snarled traffic for hours on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza
December 18, 2023
Some of Israel’s closest European allies have pressed for a cease-fire in the war with Hamas
December 17, 2023
An Israeli airstrike has killed a U.S. Agency for International Development contractor in Gaza
December 16, 2023
Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger Square
December 16, 2023
The top two U.S. military leaders are traveling to Tel Aviv to advise the Israeli government on how to transition from major combat operations against Hamas in Gaza to a more limited and precise campaign
December 16, 2023
A number of European Union leaders are trying to use mounting concern about civilian deaths in Israel’s military offensive against Hamas to rally their partners around a united call for a ceasefire in Gaza
December 15, 2023
At least nine Israeli soldiers have been killed during an ambush that's one of the deadliest single attacks Palestinian militants have carried out since the ground invasion of Gaza began
December 13, 2023
Mass forced movement of people has been used in conflicts to serve three goals: population control, territorial expansion and as a sorting mechanism. All three could be in play in Gaza.
December 11, 2023
Israel says it’s prepared to fight for months or longer to defeat Gaza’s Hamas rulers
December 11, 2023
Israel’s military is pushing ahead with its punishing air and ground offensive in Gaza, bolstered by a U.S. veto derailing U.N. Security Council efforts to end the war
December 09, 2023
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December 07, 2023
The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says there's no safe haven in Gaza for civilians — not even U.N. shelters and “safe zones” designated by Israel
December 06, 2023
Sen. Bernie Sanders and a robust group of Democratic senators say they're done “asking nicely" for Israel to do more to reduce civilian casualties in its war against Hamas in Gaza
December 04, 2023
Muslim community leaders from several swing states are pledging to withdraw support for U.S. President Joe Biden, citing his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza
December 02, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris has engaged in a quick round of diplomacy with Arab leaders while attending the U.N. climate summit in the United Arab Emirates
December 02, 2023
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the Mideast this week looking to press for agreements to extend the Gaza cease-fire, step up the release of hostages held by Hamas and limit Palestinian civilian casualties if fighting with Israel resumed
December 01, 2023
Israel and Hamas have resumed fighting after a weeklong cease-fire, and Israel says 136 hostages remain in Gaza
December 01, 2023
Dozens of young Israeli men and women who survived the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre at a rave party in southern Israel have been taking part in support sessions to help deal with their trauma at a retreat in Cyprus
December 01, 2023
Nearly two months after Hamas infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages, dozens of people are still unaccounted for
December 01, 2023
In the depths of captivity in Gaza, they formed an unlikely but prized friendship
November 30, 2023
It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS
November 29, 2023
The Biden administration has told Israel it must operate with far greater precision in southern Gaza if it renews a ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group
November 28, 2023
Oakland’s City Council has passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war after hours of hearing impassioned rhetoric about the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza
November 28, 2023
Details about the conditions of the released hostages' captivity in Gaza are emerging through stories their family members are telling
November 26, 2023
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi says his country wants a meeting of Mediterranean officials this week to help bridge a gap between Arab and European countries in calling for a humanitarian pause in Gaza to become a permanent cease-fire
November 26, 2023
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Irish ambassador over a tweet celebrating the release of a 9-year-old girl from Hamas captivity
November 26, 2023
Tens of thousands of people have turned out on central London’s streets Saturday for a pro-Palestinian march calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza
November 25, 2023
President Joe Biden spent much of his day after Thanksgiving focused on work
November 24, 2023
Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape
November 23, 2023
Since Hamas fighters carried out the deadliest attack on Israel in decades, Israeli officials have vowed to crush the Palestinian militant group and its enigmatic leader in Gaza
November 22, 2023
When people find themselves displaced from their homes, finding or creating beauty can be just as vital as food, water and shelter − and serves as a form of resistance and resilience.
November 22, 2023
High levels of diarrhea, scabies and respiratory infections have been reported as bombing campaign progresses – and children are the most vulnerable.
November 21, 2023
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has accused Israel of war crimes and genocide in Gaza during a virtual meeting of leaders of developing countries including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping
November 21, 2023
A majority of South African lawmakers have voted in favor of a motion calling for the closure of the Israeli embassy and the cutting of diplomatic ties until Israel agrees to a cease-fire in Gaza
November 21, 2023
Nearly a month ago, the Israeli military unveiled a detailed 3D model of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital
November 20, 2023
President Joe Biden and Congress are facing some unusually public challenges over their support for Israel’s offensive against Hamas
November 19, 2023
A United Nations team was briefly allowed into Gaza’s largest hospital after it was evacuated by Israeli troops
November 18, 2023
Limited phone and internet services began working again Friday across Gaza after fuel was delivered to restart generators that power the networks
November 17, 2023
As the Israel-Hamas war rages in Gaza, there’s a bitter battle for public opinion flaring in the U.S., with angry rallies on many college campuses and disruptive protests at prominent venues in several major cities
November 16, 2023
A day after Palestinian authorities called for an evacuation of Gaza’s biggest hospital, Israeli soldiers have raided it and say they were accompanied by medical teams bringing baby food, incubators and other equipment
November 15, 2023
Hundreds of Jewish peace activists and allies from across the Midwest have called for a cease-fire in Gaza at a major Chicago train station
November 13, 2023
The 27 European Union nations have jointly condemned Hamas for what they described as the use of hospitals and civilians as “human shields” in the war against Israel
November 13, 2023
President Joe Biden has said the Israel-Palestinian conflict can’t go back to the “status quo” before Hamas’ brutal surprise attack on Oct. 7 and Israel’s devastating response in Gaza
November 13, 2023
Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital are rejecting Israel's claims that it is helping babies and others evacuate, saying fighting continues just outside the facility where incubators lay idle without electricity and critical supplies are running out
November 12, 2023
Hospitals have been caught in the crossfire during the Israel-Hamas war — both literally and in the clashing narratives of the conflict
November 11, 2023
Fistfights break out in bread lines
November 09, 2023
An expert on the laws of war argues that the burden is now on Israel to show that the heavy death toll in Gaza is proportionate to the military advantage gained.
November 09, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not elaborate when he said that Israel would maintain indefinite “overall security responsibility” in Gaza once it removes Hamas from power in response to the Islamic militant group's cross-border raid
November 08, 2023
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood
November 08, 2023
Arabs see the United States as complicit in Israel's war on Gaza for refusing to enforce a ceasefire until Hamas is crushed, an outcome that is far off and may not be
November 08, 2023
Hundreds of protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza are blocking traffic at the Port of Tacoma, where a military supply ship had recently arrived
November 06, 2023
Families of hostages seized during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack fear the world’s focus on them is fading, as is the impetus to free some 240 people held
November 05, 2023
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators calling for a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza have marched in Washington, Paris, Berlin and other European cities
November 04, 2023
Arab leaders who met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jordan are pushing for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
November 04, 2023
The U.S. is trying to persuade Israel to take a humanitarian pause from airstrikes on Gaza, where Palestinians reported multiple fatalities across the besieged enclave
November 04, 2023
The Gaza director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says the average Palestinian in Gaza is living on two pieces of Arabic bread made from flour that the U.N. had stockpiled in the region
November 03, 2023
The on-air outburst of grief by Salman al-Bashir seemed to channel the mood of all Gaza
November 03, 2023
Misinformation about the latest Israel-Hamas war is thriving on social media platforms, where misrepresented video footage, mistranslations and outright falsehoods often crowd out real reporting from the conflict
November 02, 2023
Israel ground troops are advancing toward Gaza City as diplomatic efforts intensify for at least a brief pause in the fighting in Gaza’s deadliest war
November 02, 2023
Hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports and dozens of seriously wounded patients desperate to escape the war in Gaza have crowded at the black metal gate on the Egyptian border, hoping to pass through the enclave’s only portal to the outside world for the first time since the war began
November 01, 2023
Cyprus has offered more detail about its initiative to create a sea corridor for the steady flow of humanitarian assistance from Cyprus to Gaza, saying that aid-laden ships would sail directly to the enclave, where United Nations personnel would receive it for eventual distribution
November 01, 2023
The hospital blast site has largely been cleared, Hamas says. But a forensic scientist explains what other evidence independent experts could look to while conducting an investigation.
November 01, 2023
Hundreds of foreign nationals and several seriously injured Palestinians are being allowed to leave Gaza for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began more than three weeks ago
November 01, 2023
Over the past five days, Israeli ground troops have pushed deeper and deeper into Gaza in their war against Hamas, launched in response to a bloody Oct. 7 cross-border raid by the Islamic militant group
October 31, 2023
The Israel-Hamas war has plunged Israel’s agricultural heartlands into crisis
October 31, 2023
Cyprus is working out with partners in the European Union and the Middle East the logistics to establish a sea corridor to deliver a stream of vital humanitarian aid to Gaza from the island’s main port of Limassol once the situation on the ground permits it
October 31, 2023
A deluge of Israeli airstrikes Tuesday on a refugee camp near Gaza City has demolished apartment buildings, leaving craters where they once stood, while ground troops battle Hamas militants across northern Gaza
October 31, 2023
The head of the U_N_ agency for Palestinian refugees is telling a U_N_ emergency meeting “an immediate humanitarian cease-fire has become a matter of life and death for millions.”
October 30, 2023
Israel has expanded its military assault deeper into northern Gaza as the U.N. and medical staff expressed fears over airstrikes hitting closer to hospitals
October 30, 2023
Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants
October 30, 2023
Thousands of supporters from Pakistan’s main religious political party have rallied in the capital, Islamabad, against Israel’s bombing of Palestinians in Gaza
October 29, 2023
Nearly three dozen trucks entered Gaza in the largest aid convoy since the war between Israel and Hamas began, but humanitarian workers say the assistance still falls desperately short of needs after thousands of people broke into warehouses seeking food
October 29, 2023
The Israeli military has intensified airstrikes in Gaza including near its largest hospital
October 29, 2023
Israel says it has two main objectives in Gaza: destroy Hamas and rescue some 230 hostages being held by the militant group
October 28, 2023
Israel has entered a new phase of its war on Hamas, expanding its ground attacks with tanks rolling into the Palestinian enclave and stepped-up bombardment from the air, land and sea
October 28, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the nation that the military has opened a “second stage” in the war against Hamas by sending ground forces into Gaza and expanding attacks from the ground, air and sea
October 28, 2023
The U.N. General Assembly has approved a nonbinding resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza leading to a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers
October 27, 2023
Just three weeks into the deadliest war between Israel and Hamas, it is already clear that the bloodshed has shaken the region for years to come and flipped long-standing Israeli assumptions upside down
October 27, 2023
“Stop the bombs and save lives!”
October 26, 2023
As the Israel-Hamas war rages, international and local monitoring groups in Gaza have been unable to keep up
October 26, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's office says the state has arranged to send drones, weapons and ammunition to Israel as it prepares for an incursion of Gaza in response to Hamas’ attack
October 26, 2023
European Union leaders are grappling with ways to use their combined leverage to ensure that more aid reaches Palestinians in need in Gaza
October 26, 2023
Israeli troops and tanks launched an hourslong ground raid into northern Gaza overnight
October 26, 2023
Al Jazeera says its chief correspondent in Gaza has lost four members of his family in an Israeli airstrike
October 25, 2023
Israeli officials are outraged over U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ comment that the deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel “did not happen in a vacuum.”
October 25, 2023
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials
October 25, 2023
U.S. intelligence officials have "high confidence" that an explosion at a Gaza hospital last week was caused by a Palestinian rocket that broke up mid-flight, and not by Israel,
October 25, 2023
The prospect of Israeli forces launching an assault into Gaza’s dense urban neighborhoods is bringing back searing memories of the deadly battles the U.S.-led coalition fought against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria
October 24, 2023
The Health Ministry in Gaza says hundreds of people were killed in the past day as a result of Israeli airstrikes
October 24, 2023
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October 23, 2023
The Pentagon has sent advisers, including a Marine Corps general versed in urban warfare, to Israel to assist in its plans to conduct a ground assault in Gaza
October 23, 2023
Israeli warplanes are striking targets across Gaza as the U.S. says a delay in Israel's expected ground offensive in the besieged Hamas-ruled territory would allow more time to negotiate the release of hostages
October 23, 2023
Doctors in the Gaza Strip say dwindling fuel supplies are putting dozens of premature babies hooked up to incubators at risk of imminent death
October 22, 2023
Thousands of people have gathered in Berlin and London to oppose antisemitism and support Israel, while in Paris and other European cities, thousands demanded relief for Palestinians in besieged Gaza
October 22, 2023
President Joe Biden is facing anew the balancing act of demonstrating full-throated support for America’s closest ally in the Middle East while trying to press the Israelis to act with enough restraint to keep their war with Hamas from metastasizing
October 22, 2023
The second aid convoy destined for desperate Palestinian civilians reached Gaza as Israel widened its attacks to include targets in Syria and the occupied West Bank
October 22, 2023
A top official with Hezbollah has vowed that Israel will pay a high price whenever it starts a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip
October 21, 2023
Egypt and Jordan have harshly criticized Israel over its actions in Gaza at a summit in Cairo
October 21, 2023
Jehad Adwan scribbles the names and ages of his wife’s relatives in blue ink on a scrap of white paper
October 21, 2023
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators are marching in London and other cities to demand Israel stop its bombardment of Gaza
October 21, 2023
The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into the besieged Palestinian territory
October 21, 2023
An assessment by French military intelligence indicates the most likely cause of the explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli hospital was a Palestinian rocket, according to a senior French military official
October 20, 2023
Gaza has long been a powder keg, and it exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7 and began killing and abducting people
October 20, 2023
The father of freed American teenage hostage Natalie Raanan says she's doing well after her release Friday by Hamas
October 20, 2023
Thousands of people in Muslim countries and beyond have held demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to Israel’s blockade and Israeli airstrikes
October 20, 2023
The Israeli government said Hamas militants on Friday freed two Americans
October 20, 2023
U.N. officials and their partners are ramping up efforts to take advantage of a possible window for Israel and Egypt to allow humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza, whose people have been stripped of deliveries of fuel, food, water and medical supplies from the outside as Israeli forces strike at Hamas militants who led a deadly incursion in Israel on Oct. 7
October 19, 2023
More than 300 people were arrested for illegally demonstrating and three people were charged with assaulting police after protesters descended on Capitol Hill to call for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas
October 19, 2023
Journalists reporting in Gaza need to worry about basic survival for themselves and their families in addition to getting out the story of a besieged population
October 19, 2023
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue and Israel’s defense minister has told troops to be ready for a ground assault on the Palestinian territory, although he has not said when that will begin
October 19, 2023
An Israeli family of five whose bodies were discovered in each other’s arms after being killed by Hamas militants were buried side by side in a funeral attended by hundreds of mourners
October 18, 2023
Hundreds of protesters have clashed with Lebanese security forces in the Beirut suburb of Aukar near the United States Embassy
October 18, 2023
Within hours of a blast said to have killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital, protesters hurled stones at Palestinian security forces in the occupied West Bank and at riot police in neighboring Jordan
October 18, 2023
President Joe Biden visited Israel on an urgent mission to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a broader regional conflict
October 18, 2023
The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have condemned all violence against civilians in the Israel-Hamas war and urged humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza
October 18, 2023
President Joe Biden swept into wartime Israel for a 7 1/2-hour visit Wednesday that offered support for the Israeli people and produced a deal to get limited humanitarian aid into Gaza from Egypt, potentially by the end of the week
October 18, 2023
A massive blast Tuesday rocked a Gaza City hospital that was packed with wounded and displaced Palestinians amid an Israeli offensive on Gaza
October 18, 2023
President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced major setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday
October 17, 2023
The families of Israel's missing after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre say they're stuck in a limbo of pain and numbness, and without much information
October 17, 2023
The United Nations says it is collecting evidence of war crimes by both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, which began with the militant group’s brutal Oct. 7 cross-border attack and was followed by Israel’s relentless bombardment and a siege of Gaza
October 17, 2023
The mother of a young Israeli woman held by Hamas has appealed for her release
October 17, 2023
Gaza's health ministry says that an estimated 1,200 people are still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings awaiting rescue, or recovery
October 17, 2023
Trucks carrying aid for the Gaza Strip arrived on Tuesday at the only border crossing into the territory not controlled by Israel, a witness and Egyptian security sources said, after
October 17, 2023
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says a massive blast hit a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter, killing hundreds of people
October 17, 2023
Hamas says hundreds have been killed in an airstrike on Gaza City hospital, after intensifying bombardments near towns in southern Gaza rattled civilians where Israel ordered them to take refuge
October 17, 2023
Hospitals have been destroyed, and doctors and health care staff killed. Gaza’s health services may take years to recover, warns a Palestinian health specialist.
October 17, 2023
The U.N. Security Council has rejected a Russian resolution on Gaza that condemned violence and terrorism against civilians but made no mention of Hamas, whose surprise attack killed 1,300 Israelis
October 16, 2023
Limited water supplies are posing a growing threat to human health in the Gaza Strip
October 16, 2023
The Israeli public is in a state of shock and grief a week after Hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing scores of people in border communities and kidnapping roughly 150 civilians
October 16, 2023
Hospitals in Gaza faced collapse Monday as water, power and medicine neared depletion, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians searched for dwindling food supplies while Israel maintained punishing airstrikes in retaliation for last week’s deadly rampage by Hamas
October 16, 2023
Najla Shawa and her family are safe for now after fleeing their home in Gaza City
October 15, 2023
President Joe Biden is considering a trip to Israel in the coming days, but nothing has been finalized
October 15, 2023
Water has run out at U.N. shelters across Gaza
October 15, 2023
Hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents are seeking to heed Israel’s order to evacuate roughly the northern half of the territory, while others are huddled at hospitals in the north
October 15, 2023
Medics in Gaza are warning that thousands could die as hospitals packed with wounded people run desperately low on fuel and basic supplies
October 15, 2023
For many Israelis and Jews around the world, the horrors committed by Hamas militants during their stunning onslaught on southern Israeli communities is triggering painful memories of a calamity of a far greater scale: the Holocaust
October 15, 2023
President Joe Biden has spoken with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging the leaders to allow humanitarian aid to the region and affirmed his support for efforts to protect civilians
October 14, 2023
Israel’s military ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive
October 14, 2023
Palestinians are struggling to figure out what to do in the face of Israel's demand that they leave northern Gaza ahead of an expected Israeli invasion
October 13, 2023
The deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians and the devastating Israeli airstrikes and blockade of Gaza have raised accusations among international legal experts that both sides were violating international law
October 13, 2023
Adina Moshe's Israeli family is hoping to get her heart medication to her in Gaza, despite her captivity by Hamas
October 13, 2023
In Muslim communities across the world, worshippers gathered at mosques for their first Friday prayers since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
October 13, 2023
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is assuring Israel that “we have your back” as he and America’s top diplomat met with Israeli and Arab leaders
October 13, 2023
Palestinians began a mass exodus Friday from northern Gaza after Israel’s military told some 1 million people to evacuate toward the southern part of the besieged territory
October 13, 2023
Israel’s military has ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive
October 13, 2023
As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians
October 12, 2023
An Israeli ground offensive in Gaza would further escalate the war raging since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack days ago
October 12, 2023
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