Israel has razed nearly 40 percent of the 2,824 buildings in Gaza located within a kilometre of the border, according to a Hebrew University study cited by  The Wall Street Journal. According to the report much of the land that has now been turned into a military zone, was agricultural...

The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has jumped to 25,700, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement said 63,740 others have also been injured. Israeli forces committed 24 massacres across the Gaza...

Iraq on Wednesday called the US targeting of locations for the pro-government Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) as an "infringement on Iraqi sovereignty." Attacking the Hashd al-Shaabi headquarters in Al-Qaim and Jurf Al-Sakhr "is an assault and a flagrant violation of Iraqi...

Israel and Hamas broadly agree in principle that an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners could take place during a month-long ceasefire. But the framework plan is being held up by the two sides' differences over how to bring a permanent end to the Gaza war, three sources...