Israeli troops discovered an entrance to a Hamas tunnel inside a child’s bedroom in Rafah on Thursday. The IDF says it recovered a trove of weapons and explosives from the tunnel. The operation is the latest of what Israel calls its “precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations” inside Rafah. “This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft […]
The Israeli military has said that three suspects were killed near the security fence separating the southern Gaza Strip from Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a Telegram post that “several suspects… approached the border from the Gaza Strip and moved toward Israel in an attempt to cross the security area in the […]
The Israeli military said it has started “operational activity” in two areas of central Gaza in a possible broadening of its ground offensive against Hamas. The military said its forces are operating “both above and below ground” in eastern parts of Deir al-Balah and Bureij, a built-up Palestinian refugee camp dating back to the 1948 […]
The Israeli military said it has started “operational activity” in two areas of central Gaza in a possible broadening of its ground offensive against Hamas. The military said its forces are operating “both above and below ground” in eastern parts of Deir al-Balah and Bureij, a built-up Palestinian refugee camp dating back to the 1948 […]
An independent group of experts has warned famine is possibly under way in northern Gaza but that the war between Israel and Hamas and restrictions on humanitarian access have impeded the data collection to prove it. The group known as the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net) said famine in Gaza “is possible, if […]
An independent group of experts has warned famine is possibly under way in northern Gaza but that the war between Israel and Hamas and restrictions on humanitarian access have impeded the data collection to prove it. The group known as the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fews Net) said famine in Gaza “is possible, if […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Rafah border crossing critical to aid deliveries into Gaza from Egypt cannot operate again unless Israel relinquishes control and hands it back to Palestinians on the Gaza side, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday. Last month, Israel seized Gaza’s entire border with Egypt including the crossing during its offensive […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Forced displacement has pushed over a million people away from the Gazan city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Monday. The small city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip had been sheltering around 1 million Palestinians who fled Israeli assaults on other parts of the […]
The UN’s Palestinian aid agency on Sunday said all 36 of its shelters in the southern Gaza city of Rafah are “empty” due to Israel’s continuing military operation. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) wrote on the social platform X that “thousands of families have been […]
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has suspended its work in Rafah after the Israeli army entered the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. “UNRWA had to stop health and other critical services in Rafah,” the UN agency’s chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on social media platform […]
Egyptian, US and Israeli officials are due to meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss reopening the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip nearly a month after its closure, according to an Egyptian TV station. Citing a high-level source, state-linked al-Qahera News TV reported Saturday that Egypt insists on Israel’s complete withdrawal from the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acknowledging only “an uptick” in Israeli military activity, the United States has gone to lengths to avoid any suggestion that Israeli forces have crossed a red line set by President Joe Biden in the deepening offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. In just the past week, Israeli strikes that hit […]