Israel’s attack on the besieged Gaza Strip has displaced 600,000 Palestinians in the besieged enclave, the United Nations said on Sunday. That number marks a dramatic escalation in the number displaced from Saturday, which the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...

As these lines are being written, Israel has informed the UN that more than one million people in the northern Gaza Strip, including residents of Gaza City, must evacuate their homes. There is nowhere to go in Gaza - not for 10,000 people, not for 100,000 and certainly not for a million. To...

Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned Israel on Friday against laying siege to Gaza in the same way that Nazi Germany besieged Leningrad, saying a ground offensive there would lead to an "absolutely unacceptable" number of civilian casualties. Putin said Israel had been subjected to "an...

  The White House is rebuking progressives in Congress for calling for a ceasefire and showing sympathy and concern for the loss of innocent Palestinian life. "It's pretty obvious at this point that the White House doesn't care how many Palestinians die, civilians or otherwise," one...