Israel-Palestine Relations

British foreign secretary James Cleverly has urged Iran to make efforts to prevent the expansion of the Gaza war.

Several people were killed and dozens of others injured in an Israeli attack on an ambulance convoy near the al-Shifa Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday, according to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stated that the powerful Lebanese group has entered the battle against Israel on October 8, a day after Palestinian group Hamas conducted a multi-pronged surprise military operation against Zionists. He warned that all options are on the table against the Zionist regime.

The Israeli military is surrounding the Gaza City and “deepening” its military operations there, the chief of staff of Israel’s so-called Defense Forces said in a TV interview Thursday. Hamas has vowed to turn the besieged enclave into a graveyard for Israeli soldiers.

A continued Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip will have catastrophic consequences for the Zionist regime, Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, has warned.

Israel will return Gazans working in the occupied territories back to the besieged Palestinian enclave, Israel’s Security Cabinet has announced, adding that it would also sever contact with Gaza.

A US-based international lawyer has criticized the global community for failing to make Israel abide by international law as Tel Aviv presses ahead with its brutal war on Gaza.

Children are being killed or injured at a rate of more than 400 a day in Israel's ongoing bombardment and siege of the Gaza Strip, the United Nations children's agency has confirmed, calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

Sixteen out of 35 hospitals in Gaza are out of service due to the Israeli bombardment and a fuel shortage, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah.

Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh says Israel  has carried out “massacres” in the besieged Gaza Strip to conceal its own “defeats”. He warned that the hundreds of Israeli and foreign hostages being held captive in Gaza faced the same risk of “death and destruction” from the Israeli attacks on the territory as Palestinian residents.

Israel’s attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza is just “the latest atrocity” to befall the Palestinian people living in the besieged enclave, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths has stated.

American soldiers will not be deployed to the Gaza Strip during or after the current conflict with Israel, the White House has announced, dismissing reports suggesting US forces could be sent on a peacekeeping mission.

Paris’ idea to create a coalition against Palestinian movement Hamas is fraught with further escalation in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian called on Muslim countries to take “immediate and effective” action to put an end to Israel's war crimes in the Gaza Strip and its blockade on the coastal territory.

Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,400 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 8,800 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has urged Muslim counties to press for an end to the ongoing Israeli atrocities against the Gaza Strip, impose sanctions on the Tel Aviv regime and stop oil and goods exports to the occupied territories.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahain has demanded the Israeli regime immediately stop the war on Gaza. Otherwise, Amirabdollahian warned, Zionist regime and the US will be responsible if the war expands and the situation spirals out of control.

Millions of people from all over the world are ready to help Palestinians against the Israeli regime’s unabated weeks-long bombardment if Palestine’s neighboring countries allow them to get into the occupied territories, the chairman of Iran’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says.

US and Israeli officials are seeking an international peacekeeping force for Gaza should Israel successfully remove Hamas from power, Bloomberg has reported, suggesting that American forces could take part in the deployment.

Tehran has condemned in the strongest terms Israel's deadly raid on the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip which has killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians.

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has stated the Israel Defense Force is making “significant” achievements during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip, but that it is also “paying a heavy price".

The Israeli military has claimed that it had taken out a top Hamas commander — who was one of the leaders of the October 7 attack on Israel — in a raid on the Jabalya refugee camp. But the group stressed that Israel’s claims that Hamas’ leaders were present in the refugee camp is “baseless and a lie”.

Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder says there have been 27 attacks against US troops in Iraq and Syria in October, blaming the strikes on bases housing US forces in the Middle East on Iran-backed proxies. Tehran Denies directing armed groups in such attacks but has warned Israel's crimes against the people of Gaza and US support for Tel Aviv could “ricochet far-reaching consequences".

The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has announced that it will release some foreign hostages from the Gaza Strip in the coming days, without offering more specifics.

Palestinian group, Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has announced the start of military the operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the blockaded enclave towards the occupied territories as far away as Tel Aviv, killing over 1,400 Israelis, including both military and settlers. More than 8,500 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.