Israel’s security cabinet to meet on August 26 to discuss Gaza

Israel’s security cabinet to meet on August 26 to discuss Gaza

Medical staff attend a gathering in support of Palestinians following the Israeli strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, in Tehran, Iran on August 25, 2025. Photo: West Asia News Agency via Reuters The Israeli security cabinet will meet on Tuesday (August 26, 2025) evening in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman said, with local media reporting … Read more

Netanyahu pushes forward with Gaza City operation despite opposition

Netanyahu pushes forward with Gaza City operation despite opposition

Widespread opposition from within Israel and international condemnation have not deterred Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his plan to expand the Israeli military’s operation in Gaza City. The Israeli military began calling medical officials and international organisations in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday (August 21, 2025) to encourage them to evacuate the area ahead … Read more

Famine chokes Gaza as death toll from strikes tops 60,000

Famine chokes Gaza as death toll from strikes tops 60,000

People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private U.S.-backed aid group that has bypassed the longstanding U.N.-led system in the territory, as displaced Palestinians return from an aid distribution centre in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP A worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in … Read more

UN experts accuse Israel of ‘extermination’ in attacks on Gaza schools, religious sites

UN experts accuse Israel of ‘extermination’ in attacks on Gaza schools, religious sites

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

India should be an ‘essential and important’ part of Gaza reconstruction: Palestinian envoy

India should be an ‘essential and important’ part of Gaza reconstruction: Palestinian envoy

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

Hamas says ‘new’ Israeli conditions delaying agreement on Gaza ceasefire

Hamas says ‘new’ Israeli conditions delaying agreement on Gaza ceasefire

A man repairs bicycles at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 21, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. | Photo Credit: AFP Hamas said Wednesday (December 25, 2024) that “new conditions” imposed by Israel had delayed the finalisation of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, … Read more

Netanyahu tells Israel parliament ‘some progress’ on Gaza hostage deal

Netanyahu tells Israel parliament ‘some progress’ on Gaza hostage deal

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

54 journalists killed in 2024, a third by Israel: Reporters Without Borders

54 journalists killed in 2024, a third by Israel: Reporters Without Borders

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

Gaza civil defence says 19 killed in Israeli strikes

Gaza civil defence says 19 killed in Israeli strikes

Rubble lies on the ground at the site of an Israeli strike on Al-Farooq mosque, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Gaza’s civil defence agency said that 19 people, including at least six children, were killed by Israeli air strikes … Read more