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
The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital, Shifa in Gaza City, is overflowing on the sixth day of heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people
October 12, 2023
The first group of Thai workers evacuated from Israel after the past few days’ bloody events in southern Israel and Gaza have arrived in Bangkok, greeted by anxious relatives and senior officials
October 12, 2023
Eviatar Moshe Kipnis and Lilach Lea Havron are among the estimated 150 people believed held by Hamas in Gaza
October 12, 2023
Israel’s military has directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 million people, within 24 hours
October 12, 2023
The Israeli military is preparing for a possible ground invasion in Gaza as it pounds the tiny coastal strip in retaliation for the unprecedented weekend attack on Israel by the militant group Hamas
October 12, 2023
Over the last five days, Israeli warplanes have pummeled Gaza with an intensity that its war-weary residents had never experienced
October 11, 2023
The Israeli military led a group of journalists, including an Associated Press reporter, on a tour of Kibbutz Be'eri, a village a few miles from Israel’s fortified border with Gaza
October 11, 2023
An Israeli-American teenager survived a siege by Hamas attackers over the weekend after his parents shielded him from the gunfire but were killed themselves
October 11, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “crush and destroy” Hamas after its unprecedented attack on Israel
October 11, 2023
False claims about the latest Israel-Hamas war are flooding social media, making it difficult for onlookers to sort fact from fiction
October 10, 2023
The families of some 130 Israelis kidnapped by Hamas are anxiously waiting to find out if their loved ones are safe
October 10, 2023
Humanitarian groups are scrambling to assist civilians caught in the war between Israel and Hamas and determine what aid operations are still safe to continue, efforts that are being complicated by an intensified blockade of Gaza and the ongoing fighting
October 10, 2023
A senior official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas says only a small number of top commanders in Gaza knew about the surprise attack against Israel in advance
October 09, 2023
The United Nations is expressing growing concerns about humanitarian needs in Palestinian areas as Israel ratchets up a muscular military riposte and lockdown of Gaza after the weekend attack by Hamas militants who killed and kidnapped hundreds of civilians in Israel
October 09, 2023
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October 09, 2023
Israel’s intelligence agencies have gained an aura of invincibility over the decades because of a string of intelligence achievements against its enemies both near and far
October 09, 2023
The open-air Tribe of Nova music festival will go down in Israeli history as the country’s worst civilian massacre
October 09, 2023
More than a million people in northern Gaza have been ordered to evacuate to the south as Israel appeared to be preparing a ground offensive in the latest Israel-Hamas war
October 07, 2023
The Israeli military said it struck militant sites in Gaza for the third day in a row, after Palestinian militants near the border fence launched incendiary balloons into Israel and threw an explosive at soldiers
September 24, 2023
Israel says it has unleashed airstrikes targeting a militant site in Gaza for the second time in as many days
September 23, 2023
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