Politics May 28 ‘We have nothing.’ As Israel attacks Rafah, Palestinians live in tents and search for food and water The amount of humanitarian aid arrivals are plummeting, and Palestinians have largely been on their own to resettle their families and find the basics of life.
World May 21 UN suspends food distribution in Rafah after supplies are depleted The warning came as Israel seeks to contain the international fallout from a request at the world’s top war crimes court for arrest warrants targeting both Israeli and Hamas leaders.
World May 08 Tens of thousands of Palestinians flee chaos in Rafah after Israel’s seizure of border crossing The past three days, streams of people fleeing the city with belongings have jammed roads leading out, on foot and in cars, trucks and donkey carts in a confused evacuation while continued Israeli bombardment boomed and raised palls of smoke.
World May 07 Israeli forces take control of Rafah crossing in Gaza, compromising cease-fire talks U.S. President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again on Monday against launching an invasion of the city after Israel ordered 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate from parts of Rafah.
World May 02 Hamas sending delegation to Egypt for more cease-fire talks, latest sign of progress The group's supreme leader Ismail Haniyeh said Thursday he had spoken to Egypt's intelligence chief and Hamas negotiators would travel to Cairo "to complete the ongoing discussions with the aim of working forward for an agreement."…
World Apr 06 Israel calls its strike that killed aid workers a mistake. Rights groups say it’s part of a pattern The Israeli military has described the deadly strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy as a tragic error. Rights groups and aid workers say it was hardly an anomaly, and that the wider problem is not violations of the military’s rules of…
World Mar 08 It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too Officials have for months warned over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, offensives and siege. Hunger is most acute in the north, where at least 20 people — almost all children — have died from malnutrition and…
World Feb 09 ‘I’ll die in my tent:’ Israel’s next target in Gaza war is likely Rafah as despair spreads through population The estimated 1.5 million people sheltering there account for more than half of Gaza's entire population, and they have nowhere to flee in the face of an offensive that has leveled large swaths of Gaza.
World Dec 27 Thousands flee widening Israeli assault in central Gaza as military launches new strikes Thousands of Palestinian families are fleeing from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges.
World Dec 08 Israeli troops round up Palestinian men in northern Gaza as U.N. warns aid operation ‘in tatters’ The United Nations warned that its aid operation is “in tatters” because no place in the besieged enclave is safe.