Hamas is a designated terrorist group backed by Iran and that has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007. Gaza, the small strip of land that is home to over 2 million Palestinians within roughly 140 square miles, is one of the most densely populated territories on Earth and has been kept under...
Patients and internally displaced people are pictured at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Heavy fighting was raging near Al-Shifa hospital, with Israel saying it had killed dozens of militants and destroyed...
The battle between Israel and Gaza solves nothingJonathan Freedland
In fact, tightening the screws on the Strip has led us from a situation in which Hamas had to share power with Fatah – and signal its willingness, now that it was actually in power, to act more pragmatically – to one in which the Islamist movement became the only show in town in G...
This stage of the ongoing warfare in Gaza consisted of a series of battles between Palestinian militants and the Israel Defense Forces beginning in mid-May of 2007. Palestinian forces fired more than 220 home-made Qassam rockets at the Israel town of Sderot and the western Negev region over th...
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Israel on Tuesday assumed responsibility for the killing of seven workers of international food charity World Central Kitchen during an overnight airstrike in the Gaza Strip and expressed "sincere sorrow." "I send my condolences to ...
What to know about the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]January 19 Middle East latest: Gaza ceasefire set to start 8:30 am Sunday after 15 months of war Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] ...
During the call, Biden also “underscored the need to sustain a continuous flow of urgently needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza,” according to the readout. Biden also spoke with Netanyahu about U.S. support for Israel and what the White House said was “ongoing efforts at regional deterre...
Israel continues its airstrikes all over the enclosed territory of Gaza, and has ordered the complete cutting of water, electricity and food to the already impoverished and blockaded population of roughly 2.3 million people. Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, said it has some 150 Israeli hostag...