At least 67 children have died of hunger in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 as Israel’s total blockade of the territory enters its 103rd consecutive day, the Government Media Office in the besieged enclave announced in a statement Saturday.
Israel is engineering a “cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill” in the Gaza Strip, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has warned, as the world body reports that since May, some 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.
At least 798 people have been killed while seeking food at distribution points operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and other humanitarian convoys since the end of May, the UN human rights office announced on Friday.
A parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom is demanding that a US consulting giant explain its activities in the Gaza Strip, including its role in establishing a controversial aid group under scrutiny over the killings of hundreds of Palestinians.
Two of Gaza’s largest hospitals have issued desperate pleas for help, warning that fuel shortages caused by the Zionist regime’s siege could soon turn the medical centres into “silent graveyards”.
Hamas announced it has agreed to release 10 Israeli captives as part of continuing efforts to reach a ceasefire in the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip, but warned that ongoing negotiations for a truce were “tough” due to Israel’s “intransigence”.
The main US government agency that distributes foreign aid raised “critical concerns” about a newly formed aid group’s ability to deliver food safely and effectively to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, just days before the Donald Trump administration announced $30m in funding for the organisation, CNN has reported.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, has hit out at states that allowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fly over their airspace en route to the United States, suggesting that they may have flouted their obligations under international law.
An aide to United President Donald Trump has suggested a Gaza ceasefire is close, saying Washington hopes to see a deal finalised by the end of the week.
The lives of one million children in the Gaza Strip “are marked by war and destruction”, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, discussing a range of issues including the war in the Gaza Strip.
Five Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in the northern Gaza Strip, Israel's military announced on Tuesday, as Tel Aviv and Hamas held indirect negotiations in Qatar on an elusive ceasefire.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) chief Catherine Russell has warned of a deepening nutrition crisis among infants in the Gaza Strip as humanitarian access remains severely restricted.
More than 700 Palestinians have been killed trying to get food in the Gaza Strip over the past few weeks, according to new figures from the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave, spurring renewed condemnation of a contentious United States and Israeli-backed aid scheme.
Thousands of Israeli protesters demonstrated Saturday night in Tel Aviv, demanding the return of hostages from the Gaza Strip as part of a "comprehensive deal” with Hamas.
US President Donald Trump has stated a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas may be reached next week, following what he described as a “positive” response from the Palestinian group to a US proposal.
The United Nations human rights office says it has recorded at least 613 killings of Palestinians, both at controversial aid points run by the Israeli and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near humanitarian convoys.
Palestinian group Hamas has announced it has given a “positive” response to a United States-brokered proposal for a Gaza ceasefire, raising hopes for a possible breakthrough in halting Israel’s offensive.
US security contractors working with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) have fired live ammunition and stun grenades at starving Palestinians queuing for food and supplies in the besieged Strip, according to a report by the AP.
The United Nations has announced that 85% of the Gaza Strip is within Israeli militarized zones, under displacement orders or in areas where the two overlap.
At least 12.2 million children have reportedly been killed, maimed, or displaced in conflicts across the Middle East and North Africa in less than two years - a staggering toll that translates to one child displaced every five seconds, and one killed or maimed every fifteen minutes, the United Nations Children's Fund has announced.
The Palestinian group Hamas has announced it is studying new proposals for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but insisted it is seeking an accord that would bring an end to Israel’s war.
