The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has soared to 16,248 people, the government media office in the besieged Palestinian enclave said Tuesday. “The victims include 7,112 children and 4,885 women, while more than 43,616 others were injured,” the office said in a...

In a statement on Tuesday, The World Food Programme (WFP) said the "catastrophic hunger crisis" is intensifying and called for a ceasefire." The resumption of hostilities in Gaza will only intensify the catastrophic hunger crisis that already threatens to overwhelm the civilian population,"...

At least 7,800 Palestinians are held in Israeli jails, according to a local nongovernmental organization on Tuesday. The detainees include 33 women, 166 children, and 2,873 people held without trial or charge under Israel’s notorious policy of administrative detention, the Palestinian...

Israeli military killed 43 Palestinians using US-made munitions in two documented air strikes in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday. “A new investigation by Amnesty International has found US-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) were used by the...

More than 30 Palestinians were killed on Monday by Israeli air strikes in the east of Gaza, the Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported. Israeli warplanes targeted homes in the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Shujaiya neighbourhoods of Gaza with several families believed to have been targeted.  MEE

Two Turkish-backed fighters were killed and 17 more wounded, including civilians in violent clashes between the Third Legion groups in the northern countryside of Raqqa province, northeastern Syria, informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The clashes erupted between al-Shamiya Front and Abu...

The Israeli army on Monday announced that it attacked 200 targets in the Gaza Strip last night and that a soldier was “seriously wounded” in battles in the northern enclave. Last night, the army attacked about 200 Hamas targets and continues to operate on the territory of the Gaza Strip, the...

Israel is escalating its genocidal war against the Gaza Strip and Palestinians are facing a “real humanitarian catastrophe on all levels,” the Gaza media office said Sunday. “The Israeli occupation army deliberately inflicts the largest possible number of casualties through intense shelling...

Israel's bombardment of southern Gaza is the “worst bombardment of the war right now”, Unicef spokesperson James Elder said on Sunday. “I am seeing massive child casualties," Elder posted on X (Twitter). "We have a final warning to save children; and our collective conscience." MEE

The Turkish Red Crescent has dispatched 100 million Turkish liras (over $3.4 million) worth of aid to the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, the head of the relief group said on Sunday. Addressing an event in Istanbul, Fatma Meric Yilmaz said the Red...

Britain's maritime agency said on Sunday that it has received a report of drone activity and a potential explosion in the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandab strait. The drone activity originated from the direction of Yemen, UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said in a statement. "Vessels in the...

Israeli bombing has killed at least 700 people in the last 24 hours, the Gaza government media office has said. Israeli fighter jets bombed heavily across Gaza's north and south on Saturday night and Sunday morning, levelling dozens of homes. The escalation comes after US officials said...

An estimated 300 people were killed in a single Israeli attack on a residential block in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to the Palestinian civil defence. Hundreds more are feared wounded, the spokesperson for the civil defence in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, told Al Ghad TV, after 50...

 Israel carried out air strikes near Damascus on Saturday, the Syrian defense ministry said, with an AFP journalist in the Syrian capital reporting the loud sound of bombings. “At approximately 1:35 am (1035 GMT) today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air assault from the direction of...

Hezbollah announced on Friday that it had targeted several Israeli military gatherings near the Lebanon-Israel border.  The Lebanese resistance group said in a statement that it targeted a group of Israeli soldiers near the Israeli Ramya site "with appropriate weapons" and inflicted...

Freed Palestinian activist Hanady Halawani said Friday her arrest by Israeli authorities was "the harshest" among previous arrests she had experienced in the past years.  Halawani is a well-known activist in occupied East Jerusalem who has been arrested several times and was subjected...

A suspected  Syrian pro-government militia member  on trial in the Netherlands on Thursday refused to answer any questions from judges about allegations that he was involved in the arrest and torture of at least two people in  Syria  in 2012. The 35-year-old man, identified...

At least 109 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza so far since a week-long truce expired in the early hours of Friday and the war resumed, Palestine’s health ministry said in a statement on Friday. MEE

A latest public opinion poll showed that 54% of Israelis support the continuation of the humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip and the hostages swap deal between Israel and Hamas.  The poll was conducted before the end of the humanitarian pause on Friday morning and the resumption of...

Medical teams are struggling with a large number of wounded following the end of the humanitarian pause and renewed Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced on Friday. "The wounded are lying on the floor in emergency departments and in front of...