One in four Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip -- over 570,000 people -- are starving due to the Israeli siege, according to a report using data from the UN and other aid agencies that was released Thursday. The report, published by the Integrated Food Security...
Houthis Say They Won’t Back Down Even If US ‘Mobilizes the Entire World’
Yemen's Houthis responded to the US launching a new military operation in the Red Sea by vowing attacks on commercial shipping in the region will continue even if the US "mobilizes the entire world." The US launched a 10-nation naval task force, dubbed Operation...
Lloyd Austin Visits Israel, Vows Continued Support for Gaza Slaughter
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Israeli officials in Tel Aviv on Monday and vowed continued US military support for the Israeli onslaught on Gaza despite the massive civilian casualty rate. In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Austin...
Human Rights Watch Says Israel Is Using Starvation as Weapon of War
Human Rights Watch released a report on Monday that said Israel is committing a war crime in Gaza by using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians. HRW said Israeli forces are "deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully...
Pressure Mounts on Netanyahu to Reach New Deal With Hamas After IDF Killed 3 Israeli Hostages
The Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming under increasing domestic pressure to reach a new hostage deal with Hamas after the Israeli military mistakenly killed three Israelis who escaped from captivity in Gaza. Israeli troops in Gaza shot...
Israeli Town Council Head Says Israel Should Make Gaza Look Like Auschwitz
David Azoulai, the council head of the northern Israeli town of Metula, has called for Israel to make the Gaza Strip look like the infamous Nazi-operated Auschwitz concentration camp. According to The Jerusalem Post, Azoulai said Gaza should be emptied of Palestinians...
Pope Francis Condemns Israeli ‘Terrorism’ After IDF Kills 2 Women at Catholic Church in Gaza
Pope Francis on Sunday condemned an Israeli attack on the only Catholic church in Gaza as "terrorism." The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the Catholic authority in the region, said Saturday that the Holy Family Church's compound in Gaza City was under Israeli...
Hamas Official Signals Interest in Negotiating a Lasting Ceasefire With Israel
Ismail Haniyeh, chief of Hamas's political bureau who is based in Qatar, signaled on Wednesday that he was interested in negotiating a sustainable ceasefire with Israel. "We are open to discuss any arrangement or initiative that could end the (Israeli) aggression,"...
Nearly Half of All Israeli Munitions Dropped on Gaza are Imprecise ‘Dumb’ Bombs
Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions Israel has dropped on the Gaza Strip are unguided or "dumb" bombs, CNN reported Thursday, citing a US intelligence assessment. The report said Israel had used 29,000 air-to-ground munitions in its bombardment of Gaza, a total...
Israeli Defense Minister Tells Jake Sullivan Gaza Onslaught Will Last ‘More Than Several Months’
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday told US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in televised remarks that Israel's brutal assault on Gaza will continue for "more than several months." Sullivan traveled to Israel to discuss the "timetable" of the war,...