Battles rage聽in Rafah
Israeli helicopters struck Gaza鈥檚 Rafah on Thursday, residents said, with Hamas militants reporting street battles in the southern city after top US diplomat...
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Gaza war rages as mediators study Hamas reply to truce plan
Deadly fighting rocked Gaza on Wednesday as US top diplomat Antony Blinken on a Middle East tour pushed for an elusive truce and hostage release deal to end the war raging since October 7...
Can the Gaza ceasefire work?
NINE months into Israel鈥檚 genocidal war in Gaza, the UN Security Council has finally endorsed a ceasefire plan that promises to end hostilities in the occupied territory...
Child victims of war spiked in 2023 amid Gaza, Sudan crises: UN
Violence against children in armed conflicts reached 鈥榚xtreme levels鈥� in 2023, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to a forthcoming UN report obtained by AFP on Tuesday...
Hamas accepts聽UN-backed Gaza truce plan
Hamas accepts a UN resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian group said on...
UN Security Council votes for US-drafted Gaza ceasefire resolution
The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a US-drafted resolution supporting a ceasefire plan in Gaza, as Washington leads an intense diplomatic campaign to push Hamas to accept the proposal....
Blinken in Israel to push Gaza ceasefire plan
US secretary of state Antony Blinken landed in Israel on Monday to promote a Gaza truce and hostage release plan as Israeli bombardment again rocked the Palestinian territory...
Understanding Iran鈥檚 鈥榦ffensive-defensive鈥� strategy
THIS spring, Iran鈥檚 unprecedented direct military tit-for-tat escalation against its regional arch-foe Israel amid the ongoing Gaza war was accompanied by a deteriorating domestic landscape marked by higher repression and a deepening economic crisis...
Gaza war death toll reaches聽37,084
Hamas-run Gaza鈥檚 health ministry said on Sunday that at least 37,084 people have been killed in the territory during more than eight months of war between Israel and...
Hamas says over 200 killed as Israel rescues four Gaza hostages
Israel announced its forces rescued four hostages on Saturday from a Gaza refugee camp in an operation which the Hamas-run government media office said left 210 Palestinians dead and hundreds wounded....
D-8 urges world to up pressure聽on Israel
An alliance of mostly Muslim-majority countries including Turkey, Egypt and Iran on Saturday demanded full Palestinian membership of the United Nations and greater...
210 killed in Gaza camp,聽聽 Israel rescues four hostages
Israel said its forces rescued four hostages alive from a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday, after an operation that militant group Hamas said left 210 of Palestinians dead and...
Israel pounds Gaza refugee camp
Israeli forces bombarded a Gaza refugee camp on Friday after a deadly strike on a UN-run school there, as the war sparked by Hamas鈥檚 unprecedented attack on...
Lake Vista Park and children in Gaza
ON A Saturday, I decided to visit Lake Vista Park, located in Wisconsin鈥檚 Oak Creek city, for a quick escape from monotony at home. We drove for 20 minutes to reach the Michigan lakeshore...
Bangladesh supports US initiative for lasting peace in Gaza
Bangladesh has expressed support for the initiative put forward by the United States of America to achieve a ceasefire, release of hostages and restoration of peace in the Gaza strip.....
Israel鈥檚 strike on UN school in Gaza kills 27
The Israeli military said Thursday it had carried out a deadly strike on a UN school in Gaza that it said housed a Hamas compound, with the militant group saying the attack killed at least 27 people.
Israel bombs Gaza as mediators to discuss truce, hostage plan
Israel鈥檚 military pounded central Gaza with heavy air strikes on Wednesday as US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators planned to resume talks on a truce and hostage release deal...
Some Gazans drinking sewage water: WHO
Some Gazans are now reduced to drinking sewage water and eating animal feed, the WHO鈥檚 regional chief said on Tuesday, pleading for increased aid access immediately to the besieged territory...
Major powers urge Gaza truce
Western and Middle East powers threw their support behind a truce deal outlined by US president Joe Biden as Israel on Tuesday mourned four hostages...
Netanyahu prolonging Gaza war: Biden
US president Joe Biden swiped at Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday, saying there was 鈥榚very reason鈥� to conclude the Israeli prime minister...
Children unfed all day, thousands for one toilet in Gaza: Oxfam
Palestinians displaced by the Gaza war are living in 鈥榓ppalling鈥� conditions, with children sometimes going for a whole day without food and thousands sharing...
Doubts grow over Gaza聽truce plan
Doubts were growing on Monday about a plan for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal outlined by US president Joe Biden, as heavy fighting raged for a...
Gaza: fate of western civilisation
BLACKENED smoke in the background, the raging inferno ripped through tents long after Israel had bombed another designated 鈥榮afe鈥� zone for evacuated civilians from north of Gaza. A charred body, of a boy or a girl, pulled from the wreckage, still burning...
More than half of Gaza structures destroyed or damaged: UN
Some 55 per cent of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, damaged or possibly damaged since war erupted in the Palestinian territory...
Israel carries on killings as mediators press for truce
Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip on Sunday as mediators called on both sides to agree to a truce and聽hostage release deal聽outlined by...
Maldives to ban tourists from Israel to protest Gaza war
The Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives will ban Israelis from the luxury tourist hot spot, the office of the president said Sunday, announcing a national rally in 鈥榮olidarity with Palestine鈥�.
Burning of Rafah鈥檚 tent people
PEOPLE were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the Israelis this was a safe zone, a secure place to shelter their children and grandparents...
Political parties protest at Israeli aggression thru countrywide events
Leaders and activists of different political parties and organisations called on the international community to be vocal against Israeli aggression on Gaza on...
Gaza pounded after Biden pushes Israeli ceasefire plan
Israeli forces hammered Rafah in southern Gaza with tanks and artillery Saturday, hours after US President Joe Biden said Israel was offering a new roadmap toward...
Indonesia ready to send peacekeepers, medical staff to Gaza
Muslim-majority Indonesia is ready to send 鈥榮ignificant peacekeeping forces鈥� as well as medical personnel to Gaza if Hamas accepts a new ceasefire proposal, president-elect Prabowo Subianto said on Saturday....
