Israeli authorities have barred Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem for the second consecutive Friday of the Muslims' holy month of Ramadan.
More than 50 percent of Palestinians believe Hamas should govern the Gaza Strip when the current Israeli war ends, while just 11 percent want Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to administer the besieged enclave, a poll by a leading Palestinian polling institute shows.
The Yemen-based Houthi fighters have told Moscow and Beijing that their ships can sail freely through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without fear of being attacked, Bloomberg has reported, citing sources.
European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has stated that the situation in the Gaza Strip is "not (just) a humanitarian crisis," but "the failure of humanity".
The head of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) General Michael Kurilla has expressed concerns over the growing alliance between Tehran, Beijing and Moscow.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the European Union leaders to show the same concern for civilians in the Gaza Strip as in Ukraine. While the EU has funnelled tens of billions of euros into repelling Russian forces in Ukraine, it is only now preparing to formally ask Israel not to invade Rafah in Gaza.
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has stated that the world will be judged for the suffering of children in the Gaza Strip.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says that the Zionist regime has gotten stuck in a crisis in the Gaza Strip, adding that the era of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to an end.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a stern message to Qatar earlier this month: Tell Palestinian group Hamas that they must deliver on a hostage and ceasefire deal that would halt the war in the Gaza Strip or risk getting kicked out of Doha where senior members of the group are based, two US officials told CNN.
The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) has compared high-resolution satellite images of Gaza collected on February 29 with images taken before and after the start of the latest conflict.
The Russian Army has captured the village of Tonenkoye in Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Thursday, referring to the self-proclaimed republic in eastern Ukraine. Tonenkoye has seen intense combat over the past few weeks, following the taking of the key Donbass town of Avdeevka in mid-February.
Russia launched its largest missile attack in weeks on Kyiv and the surrounding region on Thursday, injuring more than a dozen and damaging schools, residential buildings and industrial facilities, officials have confirmed.
Since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, 685 healthcare workers have been killed by the Israeli military, and 902 have been injured, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
A group of more than 100 donors for the US Democratic Party sent a letter to President Joe Biden, warning him that his "unconditional support" for Israel's war on the besieged Gaza Strip is increasing his odds of losing the upcoming presidential election.
Berlin will not let Russian President Vladimir Putin forcibly alter Ukraine’s borders or impose the terms of peace, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed.
More than a third of the US Senate's Democrats have called on the administration of President Joe Biden to take "bold" action toward establishing a Palestinian state, in the latest pushback against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Finland remained the world's happiest country for a seventh straight year in an annual UN sponsored World Happiness Report. Afghanistan, plagued by a humanitarian catastrophe since the Taliban regained control in 2020, stayed at the bottom of the 143 countries surveyed.
The World Bank has warned that more than half the population of Gaza is on the brink of famine, including children and the elderly as Israel keeps blocking humanitarian aid to the enclave.
