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May 22, 2026 11:06 AM

Israeli fire kills boy in Gaza as witnesses report increase in orders to flee

An Israeli drone strike killed a 13-year-old boy in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as residents reported a renewed pattern of Israeli warnings urging people to flee ahead of attacks — a practice that had largely subsided after an October ceasefire. Medics said the boy was killed and others wounded when an Israeli drone dropped a grenade in the town of Beit Lahiya. The Israeli military said it struck a person who it said had crossed its armistice line with Hamas a...

May 18, 2026 3:33 PM

Gaza aid flotilla says Israeli forces intercepted 10 boats, contact lost with 23 vessels

The organisers of a flotilla of aid vessels bound for Gaza said on Monday that Israeli forces had intercepted 10 of their boats and that contact had been lost with a total 23 vessels in the eastern Mediterranean. Earlier on Monday, Israel's foreign ministry had said on X that it "will not allow any breach of the lawful naval blockade on Gaza". Ships from the Global Sumud Flotilla had set sail for a third time on Thursday from southern Turkey, after earlier attempts to deliver aid to Gaza were ...

May 18, 2026 2:53 PM

In war‑scarred Gaza, brides turn to refurbished wedding dresses

In a small sewing workshop in southern Gaza, Nisreen Al‑Rantisi pulls fabric from a pile and reshapes worn wedding dresses, trying to keep a fading tradition alive amid war and soaring costs. Families said they have been struggling to find new wedding dresses and many search instead for places that refurbish gowns and other kinds of clothes for their children. Importers cite delays, high shipping costs, and restrictions on materials, such as the crystals encrusted into the elaborate wedding ...

May 18, 2026 9:25 AM

Israeli strikes kill eight people in Gaza, medics say

Israeli strikes killed at least eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said, as ceasefire efforts meant to end fighting between Israel and the Hamas militant group falter. In the weeks since halting its joint bombing with the U.S. in Iran, Israel has stepped up its attacks in Gaza, where Hamas has been tightening its grip, even as Israeli troops remain in control of more than half the territory. Medics said an Israeli strike killed one Palestinian near a police post a...

May 7, 2026 9:24 AM

Son of Hamas Gaza chief injured in Israeli strike, five others killed

Israel struck and critically wounded the son of the Hamas militant group’s top negotiator on Wednesday in air strikes that also killed at least five people across the Gaza Strip, according to medics and Hamas sources. Azzam Al-Hayya, son of Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas' exiled Gaza chief who had been leading indirect talks with Israel over the Palestinian enclave's future, was wounded in a strike that also killed another person in Gaza City, they said. Hayya had already lost three sons in previous...

May 4, 2026 9:49 AM

Hezbollah pays steep price in battle to reverse its fortunes

Hezbollah has paid a heavy price for going to war with Israel on March 2: Israel has occupied a chunk of southern Lebanon, displaced hundreds of thousands of its Shi'ite Muslim constituents and killed as many as several thousand of its fighters, according to previously unreported casualty estimates from within the group. The move has brought severe political consequences, too. In Beirut, opposition has hardened to its status as an armed group, which domestic rivals see as exposing Lebanon to re...

April 24, 2026 8:45 PM

Israeli strike kills three in Gaza, medics say

An Israeli strike killed at least three in Gaza on Friday, according to Palestinian health officials. The strike hit a crowded area in Gaza City near an area where local police were stationed to guard a bank, said the medics and eyewitnesses. Gaza's interior ministry said the strike killed two policemen and wounded two others, in a statement on Friday. Reuters has previously reported that Israel has heightened its attacks on Gaza's Hamas-run police force that the militant group has used to re...

April 24, 2026 2:16 PM

Israeli fire kills five in Gaza and the West Bank, medics say

Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, and Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 15-year-old during an army raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said. One person was killed in a strike in southern Gaza's Khan Younis in which several others were wounded, local medics said. Israel's military said it had targeted militants transporting munitions, who it said had posed a threat to Israeli soldiers. Three others, including a rescue wor...

April 21, 2026 12:55 PM

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ holds talks with DP World on rebuilding Gaza, FT says

Representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump’s "Board of Peace" have held talks with state-owned Dubai multinational DP World about managing supply chains and infrastructure projects in Gaza, the Financial Times said on Tuesday. Rehabilitation of Gaza, where two years of Israeli bombardment have destroyed four-fifths of buildings, has been projected by global institutions to cost around $70 billion. Citing three people familiar with the matter, the paper said the talks centred on prospects...

April 11, 2026 11:43 AM

Trump’s peace board faces cash crunch, stalling Gaza plan, sources say

Donald Trump's Board of Peace has received only a tiny fraction of the $17 billion pledged for Gaza, preventing the U.S. president from pushing ahead with his plan for the shattered Palestinian enclave's future, sources told Reuters. Ten days before U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran plunged the region into war, Trump hosted a conference in Washington that saw Gulf Arab states pledge billions for the governance and reconstruction of Gaza after a two-year pulverisation by Israel. The plan envisages l...