Israel-Palestine Relations

Hospitals in Gaza are "on the brink of collapse", the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned. The office stressed that the number of patients treated or waiting to be treated is at 150% of the hospitals' capacity, and people are lying on the floors and corridors.

The number of internally displaced persons in the Gaza Strip increased to 1.4 mln people, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has announced.

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 4,300 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has refused to hold a telephone conversation with US President Joe Biden during the latter’s visit to Israel on Wednesday, Israeli state media reported.

Hamas has released two American captives, a spokesman for the Palestinian group said on Friday. The group added that it freed the hostages to prove US President Joe Biden’s “fascist” administration is wrong.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has strongly condemned Israel’s attack on an ancient church in the Gaza City.

The White House has released a sweeping set of proposals to bolster Israel and Ukraine in the midst of two wars in the Middle East and Europe as well as invest more in domestic defense manufacturing, humanitarian assistance and managing the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

As many as 56% of US citizens are critical of the way President Joe Biden is handling the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas, while 44% are of the opposite view, according to a new poll.

Nearly 80% of Israelis blame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the failure to prevent the  attack by the Palestinian group Hamas in early October, according to a recent survey conducted in Israel.

The chairman of Iran's Joint Chiefs of Staff has warned the US against continued support for the Israeli regime’s crimes in Gaza. 

The spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry condemned an Israeli deadly attack on a church in Gaza, saying this strike proves Israel does not feel obliged to any international law.

US President Joe Biden used his address to the American people Thursday night to claim Tehran would be held accountable for supporting both Moscow and Palestinian group Hamas. Iran has vehemently denied any involvement in recent Hamas' military attack on Israel, while rejecting claims of transferring drones to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.

Large gatherings were held by mothers and children earlier on Friday in many Iranian cities, including the capital Tehran to denounce the ongoing mass killing of children in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli regime.

The head of the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas' Politburo Ismail Haniyeh has sounded a stern warning concerning continuation of the Israeli regime's atrocities against the Gaza Strip. Haniyeh says continued Israeli strikes could lead to a regional conflict.

The Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip will be opened from the Egyptian side to deliver humanitarian aid to the coastal enclave on Friday morning, Egyptian security officials at the border crossing told CNN.

The Iranian president has called on Muslim nations to take action to make it possible for humanitarian assistance to reach residents of Gaza, urging for the immediate reopening of the Rafah crossing on Gaza-Egypt border.

The German government has decided to deploy some of the nation’s top Special Forces units to Cyprus as it prepares for potential crisis situations in Israel, Gaza and the whole Middle East, the tabloid Bild has reported, citing security sources.

Israeli troops have killed seven Palestinians in the occupied West Bank overnight and Thursday morning, including four children.

Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters staged a sit-in protest in the US Capitol, demanding that the US back a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Police have arrested multiple demonstrators who refused to leave the building.

Palestinian group Hamas announced in a statement that Tel Aviv is “trying to evade its responsibility for the crime of bombing the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, while hundreds of people were sheltering there after being displaced due to Israeli aggression”.

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 3,700 Palestinians have been so far killed in an exchange of fire between the two sides.

The Palestinian ambassador to the UN has stated that Israel will deny again and again that it is behind the attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, which authorities in Gaza say killed at least 500 people and injured hundreds more.

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution proposing a humanitarian pause in the Gaza conflict for the delivery of aid to the enclave. The American ambassador to the UN said more time was needed for on-the-ground diplomacy to take place.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi has stated the Israeli regime is only accelerating its demise by killing innocent Palestinian women and children in the Gaza Strip.

US President Joe Biden has backed the Israeli claim that Palestinians were responsible for the attack on al-Ahli al-Arab hospital in Gaza. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad has rejected as baseless the claim.