After months of stalemate, the search for peace in Gaza has reached a critical stage. UN chief Antonio Guterres says it is a "decisive moment for the Palestinian and Israeli people and for the fate of the entire region".
There seems to be common (...)
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 (...)
The US last week paused a bomb shipment for Israel over concerns it was going ahead with a major ground operation in Rafah, southern Gaza, a senior administration official says.
The shipment consisted of 1,800 2,000lb (907kg) bombs and 1,700 500lb (...)
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 (...)
Police have made several arrests at George Washington University (GW) after officers moved to clear a pro-Palestinian encampment from the campus.
A spokesperson for Washington DC Metro Police told the BBC that "a number of arrests" were made for (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia strongly condemned Israeli settlers' attack on a Jordanian humanitarian aid convoy that was on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The attack on the aid convoy, run by the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, was (...)
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 (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia warned of the dangerous repercussions of the Israeli occupation forces' targeting of the city of Rafah as part of its ongoing bloody and brutal campaign on the Gaza Strip.
The Kingdom also renewed its call on the international (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Al Jazeera is to be shut down in Israel.
Netanyahu accused the Qatari-owned network of "incitement" and said the Cabinet decision had been unanimous.
Al Jazeera condemned the move as (...)
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 (...)
An Israeli military operation in Rafah "could lead to a slaughter" and cripple lifesaving humanitarian work throughout Gaza, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said on Friday.
"Any ground operation would mean more suffering and death" for the 1.2 (...)
The next chapter of campus protests may soon begin, with universities across the US preparing for possible disruptions at graduation ceremonies.
Four universities rocked by pro-Palestinian protests will hold graduations this weekend.
Many others, (...)
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 (...)
US President Joe Biden has urged pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses to uphold the rule of law.
"We are a civil society, and order must prevail," Biden said from the White House, in his first direct remarks about a wave of student (...)
Israeli officials are increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is planning to seek arrest warrants for their military and political leaders on suspicion of war crimes.
Reports suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could (...)
Turkey has suspended all trade with Israel over its offensive in Gaza, citing the "worsening humanitarian tragedy" in the strip.
The Turkish trade ministry said the measures would be in place until Israel allowed an "uninterrupted and sufficient (...)
One of Ireland's top universities has "essentially declared a war on the student body" after it fined its students' union €214,000 (£183,000) over campus protests, according to its president.
Trinity College Dublin (TCD) students have demonstrated (...)
A prominent surgeon in Gaza has died in an Israeli prison after being held for more than four months, according to Palestinian prisoners' groups, which decried his death as part of a "systematic targeting" of health care workers.
Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, (...)
The last time Mona Awda Talla saw her daughter Shahed alive, she was leaving the house to go buy her some cake, wearing pink pants. The 10-year-old stopped to play foosball with her friends beside the cake shop in Gaza's Al-Maghazi refugee camp. (...)
"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 (...)
In the early afternoon of 29 November last year, several Palestinian boys descended on to their street in the occupied West Bank, where they often played together.
Minutes later, two of them lay dead from gunshots fired by Israeli soldiers -- Basil, (...)
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the move on Thursday morning following a meeting with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
The financial (...)
An Israeli airstrike on Al-Shaboura refugee camp in southern Gaza's Rafah city late Tuesday killed two young children and injured several other people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza and the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah.
Several (...)