The United States is preparing to send more bombs and other arms to Israel even as it pushes for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and has announced it opposes Tel Aviv’s plans for a ground invasion in southern Rafah where more than half of the besieged enclave’s displaced population is trapped.
The top United Nations court has announced that it notes the “perilous” situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but has declined South Africa’s request for urgent measures to safeguard Palestinians being threatened by an Israeli ground assault there.
The relatives of two Palestinian-American teens, both fatally shot in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank by Israel, say investigators from the American embassy have made visits to their homes to probe the incidents.
The Egyptian government has reportedly started work on a wall near the country’s border with the Gaza Strip amid fears that a planned ground offensive by the Israeli military in Rafah will push war refugees out of the Palestinian enclave.
Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stressed that Israel will pay a price “in blood” for killing Lebanese civilians, signalling the conflict across the Lebanon-Israel border could intensify.
The Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank reached a record high during the first year under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, a report by an Israeli leftist non-governmental organization said.
Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed worldwide in 2023 were Palestinians reporting Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, making those 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
The Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers have called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's council of ministers aimed at stopping Israel's war on Gaza.
Israel will continue to oppose international recognition of a Palestinian state, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, adding that it could prevent the settlement of the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
A number of Arab countries are reportedly “increasingly restricting” the United States and its allies from conducting attacks from their soil against Iran and resistant groups in the West Asia region amid the Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, in a phone call with Hissein Brahim Taha, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), has called for an emergency meeting of OIC foreign ministers to discuss Gaza.
Despite international calls on Israel's prime minister to not to go ahead with the raid on the densely-populated city of Rafah in southern Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated his intention to order Israel's military to go into Rafah, according to his new statement posted on X Wednesday.
The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza have slammed a decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay away, for now, from indirect talks with Hamas in Cairo, Egypt, calling it “a death sentence".
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the ongoing situation in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war, is a symbolic of the unjustness of the governing world structure.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi have urged Israel to halt the looming offensive on Rafah in southern Gaza as the two leaders held bilateral talks in Cairo.
The prime ministers of Ireland and Spain have implored EU leaders to take action over the “deteriorating” situation in the Gaza Strip, demanding an immediate assessment of whether Israel is complying with human rights obligations that are stipulated in a trade deal with the bloc.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first visit to Egypt since 2012 on Wednesday to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, taking a big step toward rebuilding relations between Ankara and Cairo.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called on Hamas to strike a hostage swap agreement with Israel to avoid the displacement of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
US President Joe Biden has called on the House of Representatives to pass a $95bn national security funding bill that includes billions in military aid to Israel. More than 28,000 Palestinians have been so far killed in Israel's onslaught against Gaza.
The number of Palestinians arrested by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, has passed 7,000, Al Jazeera has reported, citing a report by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
France has announced sanctions against 28 Israeli settlers accused of committing human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Paris decision comes on the back of similar actions by the US and the UK.
The leader of Yemen's Houthis has stated that the armed group had been able to prevent Israeli-linked ships from passing through the Gulf of Aden over the last week.
Hezbollah chief Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has stated that his armed group’s cross-border shelling into Israel would only end when Tel Avivl’s aggression on the Gaza Strip stops, adding diplomatic efforts so far to bring a halt to hostilities along Lebanon’s border seemed to only benefit the Zionist regime.
