World Mar 26 No end to war in Gaza in sight despite growing calls for a cease-fire Israel says it can achieve its aims of dismantling Hamas and returning scores of hostages if it expands its ground offensive to the crowded city of Rafah. Hamas has said it will hold on to the hostages until Israel agrees…
World Mar 24 Palestinians describe bodies, crushed ambulances as Israeli troops raid Gaza’s main hospital Palestinians who fled an ongoing Israeli raid of Gaza's main hospital described mass arrests and forced marches past bodies in interviews on Sunday, while the United Nations said Israel is now blocking its main agency helping Palestinians from sending food…
World Mar 18 ‘Famine is imminent’ in northern Gaza with 70 percent of people experiencing catastrophic hunger, UN says The European Union’s top diplomat said the impending famine was “entirely man-made” as “starvation is used as a weapon of war.”…
Politics Mar 15 The 1st ship using a new sea route delivers aid to Gaza, Israeli military says The sea route is intended to bring more assistance to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the enclave five months into the war between Israel and Hamas.
World Mar 15 Ship carrying 200 tons of aid approaches coast of Gaza to help alleviate humanitarian crisis Gaza's Health Ministry said on Friday that 149 people were killed over the past 24 hours, bringing to at least 31,490 the number of Palestinians killed in the war.
World Mar 12 First aid ship leaves Cyprus to Gaza, where hundreds of thousands face starvation The war threatens to spill over across the Middle East as Iran-backed groups allied with Hamas trade fire with U.S. and Israeli forces.
World Mar 11 Palestinians in Gaza begin Ramadan with hundreds of thousands on the brink of famine Families would ordinarily break the daily fast with holiday feasts, but even in those parts of Gaza where food is available, there is little beyond canned goods and the prices are too high for many.
World Mar 06 Pressure grows on Israel to open more aid routes into Gaza by land and sea as hunger spreads Efforts to get desperately needed humanitarian aid to war-wracked northern Gaza are gaining momentum. Many there have been reduced to eating animal fodder and acute malnutrition is rampant among young children.
World Mar 05 With Ramadan days away, talks in Gaza have ended with no breakthrough The United States, Qatar and Egypt have spent weeks trying to broker an agreement in which Hamas would release up to 40 hostages in return for a six-week cease-fire, the release of some Palestinian prisoners and an influx of aid…
World Mar 03 U.S. visit by Netanyahu’s rival Gantz signals wider cracks in Israel’s wartime leadership The trip by Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival who joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wartime Cabinet following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, comes as friction between the U.S. and Netanyahu is rising over how what the postwar plan for Gaza…