People block a road as they protest, calling for a deal for the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel on September 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A rare call for a general strike in Israel to protest the failure to return hostages held in Gaza … Read more
The Israeli military has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians across the northern Gaza Strip, separating families and forcing men to strip to their underwear before trucking some to a detention camp on the beach, where they spent hours, in some cases days, subjected to hunger and cold, according to human rights activists, distraught relatives and … Read more
Palestinians look for survivors after an Israeli strike on Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP A first consignment of fuel has entered Gaza after Israel bowed to U.S. pressure for limited deliveries to allow wastewater treatment and the resumption of communications after a two-day blackout. The first delivery arrived from … Read more
Israel has allowed only a trickle of aid to enter. On Sunday, 33 trucks carrying water, food and medicine entered the only border crossing from Egypt, a spokesperson at the Rafah crossing said. The aid warehouse break-ins were “a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will be held accountable for the bloody October 7 massacre by Hamas militants, but that will only come after Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group. In a nationally televised address Wednesday night, Mr. Netanyahu said he was busy plotting a ground invasion of Gaza, though he refused … Read more
Palestinians flee from northern Gaza after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning to a population of over 1 million people to seek refuge in the south ahead of a possible Israeli ground invasion, on October 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP The World Health Organization said Saturday that forcing thousands of hospital patients to … Read more