Only Yahya Sinwar -- Hamas' leader in Gaza -- is still thought to be alive, likely in the sprawling network of tunnels beneath the strip and possibly surrounding himself with hostages. But Israel's military planning does not appear to have yet given way to the political. U.S.-sponsored ...
At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip, or one-quarter of the population, are one step away from famine, Ramesh Rajasingham, director of the Coordination Division of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told the Security Council on Tuesday. A Palestinian source, who...
The war sparked by Hamas'deadly Oct. 7 rampageand hostage-taking in Israel has killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians. Some 1.9 million Gaza residents — more than 80% of the population — have been driven from their homes, and many of them are crammed into U.N. shelters. The war ha...
"I am shocked and horrified at the reported killing and injury of hundreds of people during disbursement of aid supplies, west of Gaza City last week," Francis said. This comes with a rising death toll, babies dying of starvation, and 85 percent of Gaza's population -- or 1.9 million pe...
The small strip of land between Egypt and Israel known as the Gaza Strip, has been a battleground in the ongoing Arab-Israeli Conflict since the 1940s. After the 1st Arab-Israeli War ended in 1949, Egypt annexed Gaza. In the 1956 and 1967 wars between Israel and Egypt, Israeli forces co...
A quarter of the population is starving because too few trucks enter with food, medicine, fuel and other supplies, according to U.N. monitors. U.N. monitors said operations at the Israeli-run Kerem Shalom crossing halted for four days this week because of security incidents, such as a dron...
Israel sealed the Gaza Strip off from its own supplies of water, food, fuel and electricity in the early days of the conflict, and the Israeli military has repeatedly accused the Palestinian militant group Hamas of denying stocks of fuel to the population and rerouting them toward its war effo...
Before the war, 99% of Gaza’s population was vaccinated against polio. That figure is now 86%, according to the WHO. The goal is to get polio immunization levels in Gaza back above 95%. U.N. workers face difficulties retrieving medical supplies and other aid bec...
amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. More than 11,000 people have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, since the war erupted after Palestinian militants raided southern Israel on October 7 ...
It was impossible, he added, to destroy Hamas - as Israel has vowed to do - without destroying Gaza along with most of its civilian population. "If Gaza is destroyed and 2 million inhabitants are expelled, as some politicians in Israel and abroad propose, this will create a catastrophe for...