Palestinians offer Eid al-Adha prayers beside the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli bombardment, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on June 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP An independent United Nations commission said on Tuesday Israeli attacks on schools, religious and cultural sites in Gaza amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of … Read more
Israeli strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip Wednesday (May 21, 2025), despite a surge in international anger at Israel’s widening offensive. The attacks killed at least 82 people, including several women and a week-old infant, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and area hospitals. Israel began allowing dozens of humanitarian trucks into Gaza on … Read more
Abdel Rahman Sinwar carries the body of his infant son Yahia sinwar, who was killed in an Israeli army strike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on May 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Saturday that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 … Read more
A freed Palestinian prisoner (centre), is greeted by a crowd as he arrives in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, Saturday, January 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP There is an “expectation” that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip will begin soon, Palestine’s … Read more
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers on Monday that “some progress” had been made in negotiations to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza, more than 14 months into the war. His comments in parliament come two days after Palestinian militant groups said in a rare joint statement that a deal for a … Read more
Palestinian journalists carry mock coffins of colleagues who were killed during the war in Gaza during a symbolic funeral toward a United Nations office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah | Photo Credit: AP Fifty-four journalists were killed worldwide while carrying out their work or because of their profession in 2024, a third of … Read more
“Dozens of people were killed or unaccounted for after Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip,” a hospital director and the Civil Defence Agency said Thursday (November 21, 2024). One strike near the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the territory left “dozens of people” dead or missing, the facility’s director Hossam Abu Safiya told … Read more
Israeli lawmakers passed two laws on Monday that could threaten the work of the main U.N. agency providing aid to people in Gaza by barring it from operating on Israeli soil, severing ties with it and deeming it a terror organization. The laws, which do not immediately go into effect, signal a new low for … Read more
new video loaded: Why Israel Targeted Yahya Sinwar By Ronen Bergman, Nikolay Nikolov, James Surdam, Laura Salaberry, Farah Otero-Amad and Dave Horn•October 18, 2024 What does the killing of Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, mean for Israel and Gaza? Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine who is … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. File | Photo Credit: AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed sorrow over the deaths of six hostages, saying the killings prove that Hamas does not want a cease-fire deal. Mr. Netanyahu said Sunday (September 1, 2024) that he was heartbroken to hear the news of the hostages’ deaths. … Read more