Israel on Tuesday announced it will halt automatic visas for United Nations employees amid rising tensions with the intergovernmental organization over Israel’s war with Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. Israel will now consider such visa requests on a “case-by-case basis,” saying the country will no longer work with “those cooperate with Hamas’s terror regime’s … Read more
Israel is apparently preparing to expand its ground offensive in Gaza into a third section of the territory. Palestinian refugee camps were bombarded in central Gaza on Tuesday, residents said. More than 20,600 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Health Ministry in … Read more
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. The 22-year-old had been hospitalized in Gaza for around a week, after her ankle was partially severed in an Israeli airstrike, when doctors told her she was suffering from blood poisoning. Nabahin chose to maximize … Read more
Egypt’s peace proposal for Hamas to give up power in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a permanent end of hostilities in the region has been met with a cool reception from both sides. A senior Egyptian official and a European diplomat familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press that the plan would call … Read more
As Christmas Eve fell, smoke still rose over Gaza from the fighting, while Bethlehem in the West Bank was hushed, its holiday celebrations called off. An Israeli Apache helicopter fires flares over the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza: Fifteen Israeli soldiers have been … Read more
By SAMY MAGDY, NAJIB JOBAIN and JOSEF FEDERMAN CAIRO — Israel and Hamas on Monday gave cool public receptions to an Egyptian proposal to end their bitter war. But the longstanding enemies stopped short of rejecting the plan altogether, raising the possibility of a new round of diplomacy to halt a devastating Israeli offensive in … Read more
Netanyahu’s address came after his Likud party reported that he visited the Gaza Strip on Monday and vowed to step up the army’s assault in the Palestinian territory. Families of hostages taken by Gaza operatives booed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday (local time) as he addressed parliament, vowing to bring the captives home … Read more
An Iranian drone struck a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean on Saturday, according to the Pentagon, marking the latest escalation of tensions and risks to shipping routes in the wake of Israel’s war with militant group Hamas. “The motor vessel CHEM PLUTO, a Liberia-flagged, Japanese-owned, and Netherlands-operated chemical tanker was struck at approximately 10 … Read more
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY (Associated Press) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — At least 68 people were killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza, health officials said Sunday, while the number of Israeli soldiers killed in combat over the weekend rose to 15. Associated Press journalists at a nearby hospital watched frantic Palestinians … Read more
On Friday, airstrikes flattened two homes, one in Gaza City and the other in the urban refugee camp of Nuseirat in the center of the territory. A participant chants slogans for the freedom of Gaza during a demonstration under the slogan “Germany-wide solidarity with Palestine” in Berlin, Germany, Saturday Dec. 23, 2023. (Christoph Soeder/dpa via … Read more
