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…
World Mar 03 A Palestinian woman had twins after trying for 10 years. An Israeli strike killed them both It took 10 years for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. An Israeli strike hit the home of her extended family in the southern Gaza…
World Mar 02 Israel has agreed to framework for a Gaza cease-fire, U.S. says, with Hamas' decision pending Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal, and it is now up to Hamas to agree to it, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday, a day before talks to reach an…
World Mar 01 Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80 percent of the wounds at his hospital from aid convoy bloodshed The head of a Gaza hospital where some of the wounded from bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy were taken says more than 80 percent had been struck by gunfire, suggesting heavy shooting by Israeli troops.
World Feb 29 Palestinian deaths in Gaza pass 30,000 as witnesses say Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid Health officials said that more than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000. Israeli officials acknowledged that troops opened fire, saying they did so after the crowd approached…
World Feb 28 Food aid reaches north Gaza for first time in weeks. Israeli hostages' families push for release Aid convoys carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, Israeli officials said. The U.S., Egypt and Qatar have been working on a ceasefire deal that would release some of the hostages still held by Hamas.
World Feb 27 Biden signals there could be a Gaza cease-fire during Ramadan, but Israel and Hamas indicate no deal is imminent Talks to pause the fighting have gained momentum recently and were underway Tuesday.
Politics Feb 26 Biden hopes Israel-Hamas war cease-fire, hostage deal can take effect by next Monday President Joe Biden said Monday that he hopes a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that would pause hostilities and allow for remaining hostages to be released can take effect by early next week.