Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of "acts of genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by depriving them of adequate water supplies.
The group, in an extensive report, found that between October 2023 and September 2024, Israeli (...)
Hamas has become the latest party to the Gaza hostage and ceasefire negotiations to voice optimism about the prospects of reaching a deal, amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in the region.
In an official statement on Tuesday, Hamas said reaching (...)
More than 50 people were killed in Israeli air and ground attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local medics and rescuers.
They said children, a cameraman who worked for the Al Jazeera TV network and personnel from the Civil Defense (...)
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced Sunday it is suspending aid deliveries through the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing into Gaza, citing security threats from armed gangs that have looted recent convoys.
The decision (...)
Two girls, aged 13 and 17, and a 50-year-old woman were killed on Friday in the Gaza Strip as a desperate crowd surged to secure bread from a bakery, medical officials reported.
The tragedy occurred at the al-Banna bakery in Deir al-Balah, (...)
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been displaced multiple times from Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip are now facing another threat – the arrival of harsh winter weather.
On Sunday, the first strong storm to hit Gaza this winter (...)
At least six Palestinians, including two children, were killed on Sunday in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the central Gaza Strip, a medical source reported.
Israeli fighter jets targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp, killing four people, the (...)
A convoy of 109 UN aid lorries carrying food was violently looted in Gaza on Saturday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says.
Ninety-seven of the lorries were lost and their drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload their aid after (...)
At least 96 Palestinians were killed and 60 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the northern and central Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local authorities.
Gaza's government media office reported that Israeli warplanes targeted multiple (...)
The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains critical and could deteriorate further, warns the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA).
Speaking to Euronews in Brussels, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza Scott Anderson called on all (...)
The main UN aid agency in Gaza says Israel has failed to meet a US deadline to boost aid to the territory or risk a reduction in American military aid.
Last month, in a strongly worded letter, the US secretary of state gave Israel an ultimatum of 30 (...)
At least 42 Palestinians, including 15 children, were killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to medical sources.
Israeli warplanes bombed an inhabited home in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's refugee camps, (...)
An Israeli airstrike on a multi-story building in northern Gaza killed at least 27 people, relief officials said, as the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in the area, where it is mounting a major offensive.
The home of the Mbahouh (...)
The photo shows a large crowd of more than 200 people, crouching low amid the rubble of Jabalya in northern Gaza. Mostly men, many are almost naked, some are elderly, some visibly wounded. There's at least one child among them.
They were detained (...)
People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis — but now they fear it will get much more difficult because of Israel's ban on the biggest UN agency that operates there.
"UNRWA means everything to us: it is our life, (...)
Israel's parliament has voted to pass legislation banning the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) from operating within Israel and Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, within three months.
Contact between UNRWA employees and Israeli officials will (...)
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says Israel is continuing to prevent humanitarian missions from reaching northern Gaza with critical supplies, including food and medicine.
"Hospitals have been hit and are left without (...)
A 3-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by air-dropped aid in the southern city of Khan Younis on Saturday, according to his relatives, as the humanitarian crisis spawned by the Israeli offensive compounds severe hunger across the Gaza Strip. The (...)
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said at least 87 people were killed and more than 40 injured in Saturday's Israeli air strike on the city of Beit Lahia in the north of the Palestinian enclave.
The ministry said a number of people were still (...)
An Israeli colonel has died during combat in northern Gaza, becoming one of the country's highest-ranking officers to be killed in its war with Hamas.
The Israel Defense Forces announced the death of Col. Ehsan Daxa, commander of the 401st "Iron (...)
Israel has denied obstructing humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza, after the US warned its ally in a letter to urgently boost humanitarian access or risk having some military assistance cut off.
The first aid in two weeks was allowed into northern (...)
Witnesses to an Israeli air strike and resulting fire at a tent camp in a Gaza hospital compound have shared with the BBC their horror and helplessness at seeing people injured and killed in the flames.
One mother called it "one of the worst scenes (...)
The Gaza Media Office accused the Israeli army of intensifying genocide in the northern Gaza Strip, including the Jabalia refugee camp, through "massacres and deliberate killings" since its ground encroachment on October 6.
In a statement issued (...)
The situation facing children in Gaza today resembles Japan's plight after the atomic bombings in World War II, according to Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning group representing survivors of the Hiroshima and (...)
At least 28 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school sheltering displaced families in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Red Crescent says.
More than 50 others were injured in the attack on Rufaida al-Aslamia school, which (...)
