Updated on May 11, 2025, at 7:05 pm EST Hamas said on Sunday that it would release Edan Alexander, a dual US-Israeli citizen and IDF soldier who was captured during the October 7 attack, and confirmed that it had been in direct talks with the US on a potential Gaza...
Pope Leo XIV called for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli blockade of aid on Sunday in his first Sunday blessing since being elected pontiff last week. "I am deeply pained by what is happening [in Gaza," Leo said from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica....
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 68 Palestinians and wounded 290 over the past three days, according to daily death toll updates released by Gaza's Health Ministry. In that same time period, at least two bodies of Palestinians killed by previous attacks...
Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza shut down on Thursday after running out of supplies due to the total Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory, which is starving millions of civilians. Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations...
The Israeli military has listed the return of the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza as its least important goal in its plans for an escalated assault on the Strip, Haaretz reported on Wednesday. According to the report, retrieving the hostages was placed last in a...
The World Central Kitchen (WCK), a US-based charity, said on Wednesday that it was forced to shut down aid operations in Gaza due to the total Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory. "After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of...
Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 61 Palestinians since dawn on Thursday, medical sources told Al Jazeera, amid Israel's starvation blockade on the territory that has blocked food and aid shipments for more than two months. According to Reuters, Israeli...
On Tuesday, an Israeli strike hit a UN school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in central Gaza's Bureij refugee camp, killing 22 people and wounding 52. Footage of the aftermath of the attack shows many children among the casualties. According to the...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday that within a few months, the Gaza Strip will be "totally destroyed" and the entire Palestinian population will be "concentrated" into a tiny area in the southern part of the Palestinian territory before being...
An Israeli airstrike that launched a seven-year-old boy onto the roof of a neighboring building in Gaza City and killed 15 members of his family, including his five sisters, targeted a Gaza Finance Ministry official who was released in a prisoner swap just two months...
