Despite acknowledging the "very heavy price" on soldiers' lives during the ongoing 78-day offensive, in a video statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, "We are intensifying the war in the Gaza Strip." He cautioned that the war would not end soon, stating, "It will ta...
In Gaza City, Ahmed Ghoul, a commander of Hamas' Shati Battalion who participated in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, was killed by Israeli forces, the IDF said. During the fighting in Gaza on Thursday, an Israeli soldier was killed and 12 others were injured, it added. The war has so ...
Hospitals in Gaza faced collapse as water, power and medicine neared depletion, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians searched for dwindling food supplies.
A fighter from Izz al-Din al-Qassam stands in front of a tunnel during an exhibition of weapons, missiles and heavy equipment for the military wing of Hamas in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, during the commemoration of the 2014 war that lasted 51 days between Gaza and Israe...
Israel-Hamas war escalates: Oil sees biggest one-day jump in six months The Gaza Strip faces a staggering humanitarian crisis after Israel cut off supplies of food, fuel water and electricity. The densely populated area has been hammered in retaliation for Hamas' brutal attack on Israel last ...
By the end of the first day of the ground offensive, Israel announced that its forces had bisected the Gaza Strip and surrounded the city of Gaza. Heavy combat war also reported near the northern Gaza towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanun and Jabaliya. ...
, a total of 198 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the country waged a war against Hamas, following the Hamas-led assault on southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed and more than 200 were taken as hostages to Gaza....
A large Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip still appears likely, but humanitarian groups have warned against such a move, citing the worsening conditions for those trapped in the resource-deprived and blockaded enclave. On Thursday, violence in the Middle East escalated as U.S. Presiden...
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 ...
Biden and Netanyahu discussed “objectives and phasing” of the Israel-Hamas war during their call, according to a White House readout. “The leaders discussed Israel’s military campaign in Gaza to include its objectives and phasing. The President emphasized the critical need to protect the civ...