Some 1,390 illegal Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, according to a Palestinian agency. The Jordan-run Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said the settlers entered the...

Israeli strikes on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya killed at least 73 people on Saturday, medics and Hamas-affiliated media said. Dozens were also wounded in the strikes that hit several houses in Beit Lahiya, the medics added. The death toll from Israel's ongoing onslaught on...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was due to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday to discuss the escalating Middle East crisis and migration. Scholz arrived in Istanbul on Friday night after a meeting with US President Joe Biden and the leaders of France and Britain in Berlin....

Hamas vowed on Friday it would not release the hostages it seized during its October 7 attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends, as it mourned the death of its leader, Yahya Sinwar. “We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,” Qatar-based Hamas official...