Cairo has intensified communications with Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas on several “contentious points” as it pushes for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage swap deal, Egyptian media reported Thursday evening. Al-Qahera, a private news channel, quoted an unnamed high-level...

The Palestinian death toll has surged to 34,596 as Israel continued its deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since last October, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Thursday. A ministry statement added that 77,816 other people had been injured in the onslaught. “At least 28...

Nearly 1,000 Palestinian workers remain forcibly disappeared in Israel, a Palestinian nongovernmental organization said on Wednesday.  In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said around 10,300 workers had entered Israel before Oct. 7, 2023. “Some 3,200 workers were...

The UN children’s agency has warned that a planned Israeli ground invasion of southern Gaza’s Rafah would be a catastrophe.  In an article in the British daily, The Guardian, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder said that he saw "new graveyards fill with children" in the blockaded Strip....