The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has stated Israel informed the UN that it will no longer approve any aid convoys run by the agency.
Israel has agreed to release between 700 and 800 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 40 hostages still held by Hamas, officials familiar with the matter have claimed. If successful, the swap would be part of a potential US-brokered ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip that has so far killed more than 32,000 Palestinians.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has reported that the Israeli Army stormed the Nasser Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip amid heavy gunfire.
The Israeli delegation in Qatar refused to withdraw army forces from the Gaza Strip and repatriate displaced Palestinians to their homes in northern Gaza “without conditions”, an Israeli media outlet has reported.
The latest analysis from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization shows famine is imminent in northern Gaza between now and May, Rein Paulsen, the director of its Office of Emergencies and Resilience, has warned.
The Israeli Army has killed at least 560 and injured 1,523 other Palestinians in incidents involving aid trucks in the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.
The line of blocked aid trucks stuck on Egypt’s side of the border with the Gaza Strip while Palestinians face starvation on the other side is a “moral outrage”, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stated on a visit to the Rafah crossing.
Amnesty International has sharply criticized the European Council's call for a sustainable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, saying it falls short given the dire situation faced by Palestinian civilians.
Nearly 600 relatives of the 81 Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip have signed a letter to US President Joe Biden expressing their frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of ongoing captive negotiations, urging him to press the Israeli premier and all other parties to reach an agreement to secure the hostages' release.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stated that a looming Tel Aviv's ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah would risk “further isolating Israel around the world and jeopardizing its long-term security and standing".
Moscow and Beijing have vetoed a Washington-drafted resolution calling for, but not directly demanding, a ceasefire in the Israeli war in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
More than 200 civil society organizations called on the European Union to suspend the EU-Israel trade agreement without delay due to Israel’s bloody war on the Gaza Strip and the violation of basic human rights.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised the anti-Israel military operations by resistance factions in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq. He stressed that the Axis of Resistance has demonstrated its potential and effectively disrupted the US strategic calculations in West Asia
Tel Aviv is seeking to sabotage ceasefire talks underway in Qatar by targeting police officers and government agencies in the Gaza Strip, the chief of Hamas's political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh has stated.
The World Health Organization has issued another stark warning about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip as a WHO spokesperson warned a growing number of infants there are on the “brink of death” from acute hunger.
