People flee from their homes after Israel's resumption of attacks on the Gaza Strip, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on Dec. 1, 2023. Israel's army published a map Friday, splitting the Gaza Strip into "evacuation zones" in full-force strikes on the Palestinian enclave f...
Middle East latest: Israel says it will keep control of Gaza-Egypt crossing•Jan. 22, 2025, 1:14 PM ET (AP) Israel-Hamas War, war betweenIsraeland Palestinian militants, especiallyHamasand thePalestinian Islamic Jihad(PIJ), that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a land, sea...
Reached by WhatsApp, freelance photojournalist Ashraf Abu Amra in northern Gaza said the international community must intervene to save the people of Gaza from immediate death. Palestinian journalist Hind al-Khoudary reported that some 50,000 people have converged on Gaza's largest hospital, where d...
A map shows Israel, with Jerusalem and other major cities labeled, along with the Palestinian territories of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Getty/iStockphoto The first part of that effort has been the relentless airstrikes. As of Tuesday morning, the Healt...
Image:Map of buildings in the Gaza Strip, with major cities highlighted. SOURCE: Open Street Map By 13 October, six days after Hamas launched its attacks in southern Israel, much of Gaza City had been hit by airstrikes. The satellite data suggests 15% of buildings in northern Gaza...
Map shows some of the locations of Hamas' attacks in IsraelYasin Demirci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Rockets also struck Tel Aviv and other Israeli communities, slamming into homes and businesses. Militants fired more rockets from Gaza in the days that followed, damaging a hospital in the Is...
Palestinians inspect the destruction in a neighbourhood heavily damaged by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City's Shati refugee camp early on October 9, 2023. Mahmud Hams | Afp | Getty Images Israel says the blockade is necessary to protect its citizens from Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Str...
Earlier this week, the U.S. and Egypt agreed on a deal to get humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing — the only border not controlled by Israel. However, Egypt says it has been unable to open the crossing due to repeated Israeli bombardment at the site. ...
Gaza is controlled by a belligerent Hamas that has been declared a terrorist organization by the USA, Canada and the EU. The official, openly declared policy of Hamas is to destroy Israel completely and to replace it with an Islamic state. Hamas refuses all efforts at negotiating a peaceful ...
Infrastructure damage in Gaza According to damage assessments from researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center and Oregon State University, more than half of all buildings across the Gaza Strip have suffered damage, rising to nearly 80 per cent inGaza City. The damage inKhan Younisand Rafah has also...