Eight more Palestinians, including two children, died from malnutrition caused by the Israeli blockade in Gaza over the past 24 hours, raising the total death toll to 281 since the onset of the humanitarian crisis, local sources reported on Saturday. Munir al-Bursh, the director general of...

Eight more Palestinians, including two children, died from malnutrition caused by the Israeli blockade in Gaza over the past 24 hours, raising the total death toll to 281 since the onset of the humanitarian crisis, local sources reported on Saturday. Munir al-Bursh, the director general of...

The UN's top humanitarian official on Friday described the famine declared in the Gaza Governorate of Gaza Strip as a "predictable and preventable" catastrophe deliberately fueled by the obstruction of aid by Israel. "It is a famine that we could have prevented if we had been allowed. Yet, food...

At least 62,192 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. A ministry statement said that 70 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 356 people were injured, taking the number of...

At least 76 people, including several children, were killed in western Afghanistan when a passenger bus carrying repatriated migrants from Iran collided with a truck and a motorcycle, official media reported on Wednesday. After the collision, the bus also caught fire. The incident took place...

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has approved the military’s plan to seize Gaza City and authorized the call-up of about 60,000 reservists to carry it out, his ministry confirmed on Wednesday.

One of Lebanon’s largest factories making the highly addictive amphetamine Captagon has been discovered and destroyed as part of rare security cooperation between intelligence agencies in Iraq and Lebanon, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said. The announcement late Monday came a month after the...

Mediator Qatar said on Tuesday that a Gaza truce proposal given the green light by militant group Hamas was “almost identical” to an earlier version that Israel had agreed to. Hamas gave a “very positive response, and it truly was almost identical to what the Israeli side had previously...

Hamas has accepted the latest  proposal for a 60-day ceasefire with Israel  that includes the return of half the hostages the group holds in Gaza and Israel’s release of some Palestinian prisoners, an Egyptian official source said on Monday. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim wrote...

A senior Iranian official warned Monday that  war with Israel  could erupt at any moment, describing the current lull after June’s 12-day conflict as only a temporary halt. “We must be prepared at every moment for confrontation; right now, we are not even in a ceasefire...

Fires continue to devour green spaces in the coastal area and the western Hama countryside, causing civilian casualties and a massive wave of displacement to neighboring villages amid difficult field and humanitarian conditions. Fire outbreaks are still raging, concentrated in the mountains...

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem warned the Lebanese government on Friday against confronting the Iran-backed militant group, saying there would be “no life” in Lebanon in that event. Qassem said Hezbollah and the Amal movement had decided to delay any street protests against a US-backed...

Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered Tuesday outside the UN headquarters in New York City to raise their voices about Israel's war in the Gaza Strip. Waving Palestinian flags, demonstrators banged pots and pans to protest Israel's starvation campaign in Gaza. They also drew attention to...

Australia will formally recognize an independent State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday. Albanese, along with Foreign Minister Penny Wong, told reporters that the Palestinian Authority has given commitments to disarm, recognize...

The German Journalists' Association (DJV) on Monday strongly condemned the killing of Palestinian journalists by Israeli military forces in Gaza and called for an investigation into the circumstances of their deaths. DJV Chairman Mika Beuster denounced the killing of an "unbearably high...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, has blasted Israel for the killing of journalists working for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network in besieged Gaza. “The deliberate targeting of journalists by Israel in the Gaza Strip...

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in European countries held rallies and marches Saturday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, demanding an end to Israeli attacks on the enclave. Brits took to the streets in London to protest the attacks and demand an immediate ceasefire as...

Three people were shot and wounded in New York’s Times Square, the New York Police Department said on Saturday. The people - an 18 year-old female, 19-year old male, and a 65-year old male - are in a stable condition in hospital, an NYPD spokesperson said. A 17 year-old male is in custody,...

US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Qatar’s prime minister on Saturday in Spain to discuss a plan to end the war in Gaza and release hostages, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said on X.

Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said fully occupying the Gaza Strip would require mobilizing about 200,000 reservists, according to public broadcaster KAN. His remarks came during a 10-hour Cabinet meeting on Thursday, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a "gradual plan" to...