The intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza in response to Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel has included "direct hits" on 212 schools in the enclave, UN-partnered analysis indicated on Wednesday.
Satellite imagery pointed to at least 53 schools (...)
Haiti is a state out of action.
More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a surge of violence in Port-au-Prince, details of a presidential transitional council have still not been revealed.
One of the challenges this (...)
At least 12 Palestinians drowned off the northern Gaza coast near Beit Lahia on Monday while trying to reach airdropped parcels that had landed in the sea, according to local paramedics.
Footage obtained by CNN shows hundreds of Palestinians rushing (...)
For weeks, President Joe Biden and his senior officials have been losing patience with the way that Israel is fighting the war in Gaza.
They have used increasingly stiff language to convey their displeasure to Israel and the wider world.
The (...)
Intense hostilities in Gaza continued on Tuesday between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces with a "double-digit number of children killed overnight" and ongoing aid delivery obstacles that are responsible for near-famine conditions, UN humanitarians (...)
A UN human rights expert says she believes Israel has committed "acts of genocide" in Gaza.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented her report to UN member states in Geneva on (...)
The UN Security Council has called for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, after the US did not veto the measure in a shift from its previous position.
It also demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.
It is the first time the (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision Monday to scrap a planned delegation to Washington — a trip President Joe Biden personally requested a week ago, hoping to offer a constructive approach — amounts to a low point in the (...)
Israel has agreed to a US proposal on a prisoner-hostage exchange that would release around 700 Palestinian prisoners, among them 100 serving life sentences for killing Israeli nationals, in exchange for the release of 40 Israeli hostages held by (...)
WEST BANK — Who wouldn't want a house on the beach? For some on Israel's far-right, desirable beachfront now includes the sands of Gaza.
Just ask Daniella Weiss, 78, the grandmother of Israel's settler movement, who says she already has a list of (...)
Israeli forces have surrounded two more hospitals in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said, describing intense shelling and heavy gunfire.
Months into the conflict, fighting is still raging across Gaza, despite (...)
Israeli authorities informed the United Nations on Sunday that it will no longer approve the passage of any UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, food convoys into northern Gaza.
"As of today, UNRWA, the main lifeline for Palestine refugees, is (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists at the Rafah border crossing into Gaza that it is time for a ceasefire and for an "ironclad commitment by Israel" to allow unhindered aid deliveries into the besieged enclave as he began his (...)
Russia and China have vetoed a US-proposed resolution in the UN Security Council that called for a ceasefire in Gaza tied to a hostage agreement.
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 11 members in favor and three against, including (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that a looming Israeli ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah would risk "further isolating Israel around the world and jeopardizing its long-term security and standing."
The top US (...)
Four months after Israeli troops first stormed Gaza's biggest hospital, al-Shifa, claiming it was a cover for a Hamas command and control center, they have returned.
The Israeli military said it had "concrete intelligence" that Hamas operatives had (...)
In a video recorded by a Palestinian rescuer, a shout comes from under mounds of smashed concrete.
"I'm Alma."
"Don't help me first. Help my mum and dad. And please help my brother Tarazan. He's a baby, 18 months old."
It's morning on 2 December (...)
Israel's Supreme Court has temporarily halted a government plan to send a group of Palestinian patients being treated in East Jerusalem and Tel Aviv hospitals back to Gaza.
The decision follows a petition by the Israeli non-profit organization (...)
Less than half of the UN aid convoys planned for Gaza's hunger-ravaged north have made it so far this month, despite repeated appeals from the international community to ramp up relief to more than one million people on the brink of starvation, UN (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, represented by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), pledged to provide $40 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to support the UN agency to continue (...)
Donald Trump's son-in-law and former White House adviser, Jared Kushner, has said Gaza's "waterfront property" has a "very valuable" potential, suggesting Israel should remove civilians while it "cleans up" the area.
"Gaza's waterfront property, it (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said all of Gaza's two million people are experiencing "severe levels of acute food insecurity".
This was first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by the BBC about (...)
Hamas leader Marwan Issa died in an Israeli air strike, White House official Jake Sullivan has said.
As deputy military commander, Issa would be Hamas's most senior leader to die since the war began on 7 October.
The Palestinian group, which (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has assured the Philippines, a key Washington ally, of US support amid heightened tensions with China.
He reiterated America's "ironclad" security commitments to the Philippines during a visit to Manila on (...)
Israeli forces have launched an overnight raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, with reports of tanks and heavy gunfire at the facility.
An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said the IDF was carrying out a "high precision operation in limited areas" (...)