Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared Tuesday to unveil an updated Gaza war plan designed to destroy Hamas and secure the release of dozens of hostages, with Israeli media reporting he would order the total occupation of the Palestinian territory. Netanyahu was expected to...

At least 40 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire and airstrikes on Gaza on Monday, including 10 seeking aid, health authorities said, adding another five had died of starvation in what humanitarian agencies warn may be an unfolding famine. The 10 died in two separate...

Israeli forces killed at least 23 Palestinians seeking food on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, according to hospital officials and witnesses, who described facing gunfire as hungry crowds surged around aid sites as the malnutrition-related death toll surged. Desperation has gripped the...

Hamas said on Saturday that it would not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established - a fresh rebuke to a key Israeli demand to end the war in Gaza. Indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel aimed at securing a 60-day ceasefire in the Gaza war and deal for...

Tribal leaders in Gaza on Friday rejected controversial aid distribution centers overseen by Israel and the United States, calling them humiliating and complicit in Palestinians' suffering across the besieged enclave. Husni Salman al-Mughni, head of the Supreme Authority for Tribal Affairs,...

Spain said Friday it had air-dropped 12 tonnes of food into Gaza, where UN-backed experts say famine is unfolding. The mission deployed 24 parachutes, each carrying 500 kilos (1,100 pounds) of food—enough to feed 11,000 people—Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said in a video...

Hamas released a video Friday showing an Israeli hostage held in Gaza, appearing weak and malnourished inside a narrow concrete tunnel. “They eat what we eat. It is the occupation government that has decided to starve them,” the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in the caption accompanying...

Israel’s blockade in Gaza is causing starvation, US outlet Axios reported on Wednesday. “Children are starving in Gaza today as a direct result of the Israeli government's decision four months ago to suspend all aid into the enclave,” said Axios, analyzing the humanitarian situation in Gaza in...

The Israeli army withdrew its 98th Division from northern Gaza on Thursday, with local media suggesting the move could mark the approaching end of its ground offensive. “Today, in accordance with operational planning and the combat timeline, the 98th Division has completed its mission in the...

The UN said Wednesday that Israel's unilateral "tactical pauses" in the Gaza Strip are not sufficient to address the scale of humanitarian needs. Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Farhan Haq stressed during a news conference that "a...

 Fifteen countries, including Finland, Canada, Australia, and several European states, have signed a joint declaration led by France, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and a renewed international push for a two-state solution to the...

Gaza’s civil defense agency said Tuesday that Israeli air strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians, including women and children, in the central Nuseirat district. Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the strikes were carried out overnight and into the morning and “targeted a number of...

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he told Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu the fight in Gaza against the Hamas militant group would have to be different after talks on a ceasefire and hostage release fell apart last week. Trump, speaking to reporters at his golf resort in...

Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying. An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report. The Gaza health ministry says more than...

Five Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Friday in separate Israeli strikes targeting displaced persons and civilians across the Gaza Strip, according to eyewitnesses and medical sources. Medical sources told Anadolu that a Palestinian waiting for humanitarian aid north of...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine warned that families in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic hunger, denouncing Israel's use of starvation as a "weapon of war" against the Palestinian enclave. The office said in a post on the X...

Hamas’ armed wing spokesperson said on Friday that while the group favors reaching an interim truce in the Gaza war, if such an agreement is not reached in current negotiations it could revert to insisting on a full package deal to end the conflict. Hamas has repeatedly offered to release...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has reached a deadlock after two ultra-Orthodox parties withdrew from the ruling coalition, leaving it on the verge of collapse. The Agudat Yisrael faction, which holds three seats in the 120-seat Knesset, quit the government in protest of...

More than 700 Palestinians, mostly children, have been killed by Israeli army fire while collecting water since October 2023, local authorities said on Monday. “The Israeli occupation continues to wage a systematic and deliberate war of thirst against the Palestinian people in Gaza, in a...

Intermittent clashes erupted on the front lines between Syrian army forces and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in eastern Deir ez-Zor province on Saturday night amid heightened security tensions and a state of alert, private sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The clashes with the YPG-led...