RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement of France's intention to formally recognize the State of Palestine, describing the move as a "historic decision" that reinforces international support for the (...)
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry and Hamas welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron's pledge on Thursday to formally recognize the State of Palestine during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in September, hailing the move as a diplomatic (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia, alongside key Arab and Islamic countries, has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset's recent declaration calling for the imposition of so-called "Israeli sovereignty" over the occupied West Bank, denouncing it as a blatant (...)
The UK and 27 other countries have called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, where they say the suffering of civilians has "reached new depths".
A joint statement says Israel's aid delivery model is dangerous and condemns what it calls the (...)
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Israel's ground offensive in central Gaza has compromised its efforts to continue working, after its facilities came under attack.
The UN agency accused Israeli forces of attacking a building housing its (...)
Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs — once home to tens of thousands of people — levelled in the past few weeks.
Satellite images show massive (...)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said an agreement has been reached to end the violence in Syria following Israeli attacks on the country's capital.
Israel's military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus and government forces in (...)
Several people have been injured at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, with some unconfirmed reports that it was hit by Israeli artillery shells. Catholic Church leaders referred only to it being "struck by a raid" in a statement, but Italy's (...)
Israel says it has bombed Syrian government forces around Suweida, as they entered the predominantly Druze city following two days of deadly sectarian clashes.
At least 200 people have been killed since the fighting between Druze militias and (...)
At least 20 people have been killed in a crush at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the organisation and a local hospital say.
The GHF said 19 were trampled to death and (...)
A planned "humanitarian city" inside Gaza intended to hold hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be a "concentration camp," former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said last week he had told the (...)
Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people in Gaza on Sunday as the Palestinian death toll surpassed 58,000 after 21 months of war, according to local health officials.
Officials at the Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza said it received ten bodies (...)
Israel is expected to present a revised withdrawal map during ceasefire negotiations in Doha, following a stall in talks over its previous proposal to retain control over a significant portion of the Gaza Strip, media outlets reported on (...)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced on Saturday that Tehran will not halt its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) but will instead adopt a new approach to ensure the protection and security of its nuclear (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hailed the disarmament of the PKK as a historic milestone, declaring the move a "new chapter" for Türkiye and marking the dawn of a new era of national unity and regional strength.
"Today marks a (...)
A 300-member-strong Palestinian militia has emerged in Gaza, aiming to liberate the Strip from Hamas — and now it says it has the backing of Israel.
The group, calling itself the Popular Forces, operates in eastern Rafah under the leadership of (...)
At least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, have been killed in an Israeli strike near a medical point in central Gaza, a hospital there says.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said the strike hit people queueing for nutritional (...)
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Qatar on a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal have stalled after three days of indirect talks, a Palestinian official has told the BBC.
The official said key sticking points included how aid would be (...)
Doctors in Gaza say they were forced to cram multiple babies into one incubator as hospitals warned that fuel shortages are forcing them to shut off vital services, putting patients' lives at risk.
The UN has warned that the fuel crisis is at a (...)
Israel's defense minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
Israel Katz told journalists on Monday he wanted to establish a (...)
After 21 months of war, there are growing hopes of a new Gaza ceasefire announcement as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets US President Donald Trump in Washington.
Trump previously told reporters he had been "very firm" with Netanyahu (...)
Israel has received a formal response from Hamas regarding a new ceasefire proposal in Gaza, with local media reporting late Friday that discussions on the proposal's details are now underway.
According to Israel's Channel 12, an anonymous source (...)
Hamas says it is consulting other Palestinian groups before giving a formal response to the latest proposal for a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal put forward by the US.
President Donald Trump said on Friday morning that he expected to (...)
A former security contractor for Gaza's controversial new Israel- and US-backed aid distribution sites has told the BBC that he witnessed colleagues opening fire several times on hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat, including with machine (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed Saudi Arabia's condemnation and denunciation of the statements made by an official from the Israeli occupation authorities calling for the imposition of sovereignty over the West Bank in Palestine, (...)
