Making Gaza safe again from unexploded bombs could take 14 years, UN demining experts said on Friday.
Pehr Lodhammar, a senior officer from the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), said that the war has left an estimated 37 million tons of (...)
‐At dawn on Wednesday 17 April, a small group of students pitched their tents at Columbia University, demonstrating against Israeli military action in Gaza and calling on their university to stop doing business with companies they see as supporting (...)
British troops could be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route, the BBC has learned.
The US has said no American forces would go ashore and an unnamed "third party" would drive trucks along a floating causeway onto (...)
A leading California university has canceled its graduation ceremony as protests over Gaza continue to spread on college campuses across the US.
The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles cited "new safety measures" in disbanding the (...)
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned.
Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday.
Amid chaotic (...)
Some Hamas officials are signaling that the militant group could give up armed struggle against Israel if the Palestinians get an independent state in territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war.
The messaging suggests a softening of Hamas' (...)
Authorities in Gaza have concluded their search of mass graves at a hospital in the south of the strip and said they have uncovered a total of 392 bodies, including some still wearing surgical gowns.
Speaking at a Thursday news conference, an (...)
An Egyptian delegation is in Israel in an effort to advance stalled negotiations aimed at releasing hostages and implementing a ceasefire in Gaza, Egyptian and Israeli officials told CNN on Friday.
The delegation is also set to continue discussions (...)
The leader of the US House of Representatives was heckled in a tense visit to Columbia University as protests against the war in Gaza continue to spread across US campuses.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Columbia officials had lost (...)
The parents of an Israeli-American hostage in Gaza have urged him to "stay strong" and "survive" after Hamas released a proof-of-life video.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, is seen without his lower left arm in the short clip. It was blown off during (...)
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop.
Whether he is alive or dead. It doesn't matter.
For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the (...)
The US Senate has approved a $95bn (£76bn) foreign aid package that includes military support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
President Joe Biden is expected to sign the legislation into law on Wednesday.
The Senate on Tuesday evening backed the (...)
The European Union's foreign policy chief has compared the scale of destruction across Gaza to damage to German cities in World War II.
Josep Borrell said that an assessment by the World Bank and the United Nations put the cost of rebuilding Gaza's (...)
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik announced Tuesday evening that student organizers face a midnight deadline to reach an agreement to dismantle the pro-Palestinian protest encampment that has escalated tensions at the school and led some (...)
The US Senate has approved a controversial landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America.
It gives TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, nine months to sell its stake or the app will be blocked in the United States.
The bill will now be handed (...)
The UN's human rights chief has said he is "horrified" by the destruction of Gaza's Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals and the reports of "mass graves" being found at the sites after Israeli raids.
Volker Türk called for independent investigations into (...)
Some Palestinians have already left Rafah for parts of central Gaza, where others from northern Gaza are also sheltering
Satellite images show two new tent encampments in southern Gaza as reports suggest Israel's military is preparing for an (...)
US President Joe Biden has signed a $95bn (£76bn) package of aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
"It's going to make America safer, it's going to make the world safer," he said after signing the bill into law.
The president said the US would "right (...)
Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, the UN (...)
LUXEMBOUG — Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said that Saudi Arabia is more optimistic about the stability and security of the countries in the region.
He said that the Kingdom's vision pushes towards the development, reconstruction and (...)
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to reject any sanctions on the country's military, after reports that the US plans to cut aid to one unit.
"I will fight it with all my strength," the prime minister said on Sunday.
Earlier, the Axios news site (...)
UN chief António Guterres issued an appeal on Monday to "actively support" the UN agency for Palestinians, UNWRA, adding that he accepted the final findings of an independent probe into the organization, launched in response to unproven allegations (...)
Dozens of protesters have been arrested at Yale University as demonstrations against the war in Gaza rock US campuses.
Protesters occupying a square ignored multiple requests to leave, the Ivy League institution told the BBC.
Meanwhile, Columbia (...)
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency.
But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's (...)
TikTok said a potential ban on its app in the US would "trample the free speech" of 170 million Americans.
The US House of Representatives voted on Saturday to ban TikTok if the app's owner does not cut its ties with China.
The legislation was part (...)