Dr. Ahlia Kattan should already be back home in California with her three young children.
Instead, she's spending her days and nights at Gaza's European Hospital on the outskirts of Rafah.
Kattan, an anesthesiologist and specialist in critical care, (...)
Scientists think they may have finally cracked the age-old mystery of how 31 pyramids, including the famous Great Pyramid of Giza, were constructed in Egypt more than 4,000 years ago.
And no, it wasn't with the help of extraterrestrials.
A (...)
Raneem Hijazi remembers how tightly she held her one-year-old son Azzouz before the Israeli airstrike hit. The drone flying over their building in Gaza was getting louder and she had a feeling that something bad was about to happen. "Whatever (...)
Almost 450,000 Palestinians have fled from Rafah over the past week, the UN says, as Israeli tanks reportedly push deeper into the southern Gaza city.
"People face constant exhaustion, hunger and fear," warned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, (...)
Egypt announced on Sunday its decision to join a genocide lawsuit initiated by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), relating to the ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry, in a (...)
Health authorities in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday the death of 28 Palestinians and the injury of 69 others during the past 24 hours in the latest ongoing Israeli occupation massacres in Gaza.
The health authorities said in a statement that (...)
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed Israel can "stand alone", after the US warned arms shipments could be stopped if he orders a full-scale invasion of Rafah in Gaza.
Thousands of people have already fled the southern city after the Israeli military began (...)
Even without a full-scale Israeli ground invasion, Rafah's medical facilities have been overwhelmed.
Medics say more than a million people sheltering in the southern Gaza city are at risk of being deprived of healthcare after the Israeli military (...)
Israel's attack in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has expanded from airstrikes to ground operations, new satellite images obtained by CNN from Planet Labs show.
The images, which bear a striking resemblance to the early stages of Israel's ground (...)
President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the (...)
Palestinian civilians told to evacuate eastern Rafah by the Israeli military have described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and shelters, as Israel airstrikes hit Gaza's southernmost city.
There were hopes that the Rafah (...)
Israel says it is reopening the Kerem Shalom crossing with southern Gaza for aid deliveries, four days after it was closed because of Hamas rocket fire.
Lorries from Egypt with food, water and medicine have arrived at the crossing, according to the (...)
As Israel appears to begin its long-feared assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has warned that the consequences for the hundreds of thousands sheltering there could be dire.
Speaking to the press, Borrell (...)
Three Israeli soldiers have been killed in a Hamas rocket attack near one of the main crossings used to deliver aid into Gaza, Israel has said.
The Kerem Shalom crossing was closed overnight by Israel following the strike.
Subsequent Israeli strikes (...)
JEDDAH — The mixed naval exercise "Red Wave-7" has commenced at King Faisal Naval Base in the Western Fleet, with the participation of countries on the Red Sea, including Jordan, Egypt, Djibouti, and Yemen, alongside the Royal Saudi Naval Forces, (...)
Gazans began leaving eastern Rafah on Monday after Israel's military issued a call for residents there to "evacuate immediately," raising questions over whether Israel will soon carry out its long-threatened assault on the city.
During nearly seven (...)
Israel has closed the Kerem Shalom crossing with Gaza after Hamas fired rockets from within the strip, the military has said.
At least 10 people were injured, some seriously, Israeli media report. The crossing is one of the few routes to get (...)
RIYADH — Prince Badr Bin Abdulmohsin, the renowned Saudi Arabian poet, passed away on Saturday at the age of 75.
His death was mourned by officials and celebrities across Saudi Arabia and the Arab world.
Prince Badr, who was born on April 2, 1949, (...)
Efforts have intensified to secure a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages, with talks resuming in Cairo on Saturday.
Hamas said its delegation was travelling in a "positive spirit" after studying the latest truce proposal.
"We (...)
"Whoever stays until the end, will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us."
Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila scrawled these farewell words in blue ink on a whiteboard in Al-Awda Hospital, in Jabalya, on October 20, according to Médecins Sans (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is poised for another round of high-stakes talks in Israel on Wednesday as the US seeks to ratchet up the pressure on Hamas to accept a ceasefire and hostage release deal, while also seeking to forestall an (...)
RIYADH — The coordination meeting of the Arab and European countries to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip, which concluded in Riyadh on Monday, called for the establishment of a single Palestinian government in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia this week to meet with regional partners as talks between Israel and Hamas remain deadlocked, the State Department announced over the weekend.
"The Secretary will (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan underscored the need to evolve comprehensive solutions to the Palestinian issue. Addressing a dialogue session at the World Economic Forum Special Meeting in Riyadh on Monday, he described the (...)
RIYADH — Foreign ministers of the Six-Party Arab Committee discussed with their American counterpart Antony Blinken the importance of reaching an immediate and complete ceasefire and ending the war in the Gaza Strip. The consultative meeting, (...)