Casey said a cease-fire is needed. But he also said the ability to move people and aid supplies safely and quickly within Gaza would help ease suffering. Reports say Gaza had a strong health care system with 36 hospitals and 25,000 doctors, nurses and specialists before Hamas militants attac...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Israel and Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip for the polio vaccination campaign, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Thursday. The polio vaccination campaign in Gaza will start on Sep...
Ramallah, West Bank —Israel has vowed to "destroy Hamas," the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip. Israel's neighbors have warned that an invasion and ground war would bring many more civilian casualties and displace even more of Gaza's roughly 2.3 million people from t...
Earlier on Wednesday, with the direction of IDF and ISA intelligence, the IAF conducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists who were operating inside a command and control center in the area of Gaza City. The command and control center, which was embedded inside a compound that previously serv...
Israel's subsequent assault on Hamas-governed Gaza has since killed more than 40,800 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, displaced almost the entire population and laid the besieged enclave to waste. "Every house holds a tragedy," Saad said. "Some hav...
Hamas founder says Palestinian factions should reach agreement on who will control Gaza after Israeli pullout
This is the time to do what’s right: I call on the heads of the university to comply with the order of the hour – to remove Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian immediately and to condemn all inappropriate, violent conduct and support for terrorism.” gaza stri...
The president is facing growing criticism for his administration's strong support of Israel as casualties mount in the conflict, which began when Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza, attacked Israel on Oct. 7. His order is a rare step against America's closest ally in the Mideast who...
He used his State of the Union address to cater to their concerns about the Israel-Hamas conflict, challenging Israel’s leadership to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza. “Humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. Protecting and saving innocent lives h...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel on Saturday said it tried to assassinate Mohammed Deif, the shadowy leader of the Hamas group ‘s military wing who has long topped the country’s most-wanted list. The strike took pla...