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September 17, 2025 9:01 PM

Israel opens new route out of Gaza City, death toll passes 65,000

The Israeli military said it was opening an additional route for 48 hours that Palestinians could use to leave Gaza City as it stepped up efforts on Wednesday to empty the city of civilians and confront thousands of Hamas combatants. Hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering in the city and many are reluctant to follow Israel's orders to move south because of the dangers along the way, dire conditions, a lack of food in the southern area and fear of permanent displacement. "Even if we wan...

September 4, 2025 2:08 PM

UAE warns Israel that West Bank annexation would cross ‘red line’

The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday issued a sharp warning that any Israeli annexation of the West Bank would constitute a "red line" for Abu Dhabi and severely undermine the Abraham Accords that normalised relations between the two countries. The warning came after Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Israel to annexe 82% of the West Bank and announced that maps were being drawn up for annexing territory in the region. Smotrich had urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to support t...

October 6, 2025 2:41 PM

Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists

Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others. Cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, was killed near a live broadcasting position operated by Reuters on an upper floor just below the roof of the hospital in Khan Younis in an initial strike, Palestinian health officials said. Officials at the hospital and witnesses said Israel then struc...

August 22, 2025 3:55 PM

Famine has struck Gaza, says global hunger monitor

Famine has struck an area of Gaza and will likely spread over the next month, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system said 514,000 people - nearly a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza - are experiencing famine, and that was expected to rise to 641,000 by the end of September. Some 280,000 of those people are in a n...

August 21, 2025 3:58 PM

Israel maintains military pressure on Gaza City ahead of planned offensive

The Israeli military maintained its pressure on Gaza City with heavy bombardments overnight, residents said, ahead of a Thursday meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers on plans to seize the enclave's largest city. The military, a day earlier, called up 60,000 reservists in a sign that the government was pressing ahead with the plan, despite international condemnation. Although one military official said that most reservists would not serve in combat and that the str...

August 18, 2025 11:13 AM

Nationwide strike and protests sweep Israel over Gaza War and hostage crisis

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis staged nationwide protests and a general strike on Sunday, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages held by Hamas. The demonstrations, among the largest since the war began nearly two years ago, brought cities to a standstill, blocking highways, shuttering businesses, and sparking clashes with police. Families of the 50 remaining hostages, opposition leaders, and civil groups rallied at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, outside Prime Minister Benja...

July 3, 2025 6:17 PM

Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as scores more are killed in Gaza

Hamas is seeking guarantees that a new U.S. ceasefire proposal for Gaza would lead to the war's end, a source close to the militant group said on Thursday, as medics said Israeli strikes across the territory had killed scores more people. Israeli officials said prospects for reaching a ceasefire deal and hostage deal appeared high, nearly 21 months since the war between Israel and Hamas began. Efforts for a Gaza truce have gathered steam after the U.S. secured a ceasefire to end a 12-day aeria...