Five Palestinians were killed and 52 were wounded on Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd trying to return to northern Gaza, The Associated Press reported, citing officials at the Awda Hospital in central Gaza. Thousands of displaced Palestinians...
Samantha Power, the head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said on Wednesday that some parts of northern Gaza are already experiencing famine, which has been created by Israel's US-backed bombardment and siege of the Strip. Power made the...
Limor Son Har-Melech, a member of the Israeli Knesset and the hardline Jewish Power party, has said there are secret Israeli plans to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip, The New Arab reported on Wednesday. Har-Melech told the Israeli Knesset's TV channel that...
Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz said on Wednesday that Israeli children in middle school -- who range from 12 to 15 years old -- will one day be fighting in the Gaza Strip. "The war with Hamas will take time. Youth in middle school will one day fight in the...
President Biden on Wednesday walked back a call for Israel to declare a six-to-eight-week ceasefire in Gaza, saying the truce must be tied to a hostage deal and that it was "up to Hamas." The comments came a day after an interview aired in which Biden appeared to say...
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas's political bureau, said Israeli airstrikes killed three of his sons and four of his grandchildren in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Israel confirmed targeting Haniyeh's sons but said it did not have "information" about the killing of...
President Biden said in an interview with Univision that aired on Tuesday that Israel should call a six-to-eight-week ceasefire in Gaza and appeared not to condition a truce on a hostage deal with Hamas. "So what I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a...
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has contradicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by saying Israel has not set a date to launch its invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Axios reported on Tuesday. Netanyahu made the claim on Monday that "there is...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Tuesday claimed there was "no evidence" of genocide in Gaza despite the massive civilian casualties. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) asked Austin if he believed genocide was being committed in Gaza in response to protesters who disrupted a...
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that it was withdrawing troops from parts of southern Gaza, a step Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said was being taken to prepare for an assault on Rafah, the southern city on the Egyptian border that's packed with 1.5...
