Israel denying food to Gaza is 'weapon of war', UN Palestinian refugee agency head tells BBC
How do you measure misery? For journalists the usual way is to see it, to feel it, to smell it.
Beleaguered Palestinian colleagues in Gaza are doing that, still doing invaluable reporting at great risk to themselves. More than 200 have been killed doing their jobs.
Israel does not allow international journalists into Gaza.
Denied the chance of eyewitness reporting – one of the best tools of the job – we can study, from a distance, the assessments of aid organisations operating in Gaza.
Tufts Student Returns to Massachusetts After 6 Weeks in Immigration Detention
Rumeysa Ozturk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday evening, eyes welling with joy and gratitude at the end of her six-week odyssey in federal custody, a case that stirred outrage over President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
A flight carrying Ms. Ozturk, a Turkish citizen studying at Tufts University on a student visa, touched down at Boston Logan International Airport one day after a federal judge in Vermont ordered that she be immediately released from a detention facility in Louisiana.
Trump DOJ must defend legal basis for deporting Mahmoud Khalil: Judge
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to provide a full account of the legal basis for its attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student whose case has become a political flashpoint over free speech and immigration enforcement.
Israel to Expand Operations in Gaza, Move Civilians South to Expose Hamas
Israel plans to seize control of the entirety of Gaza and to remain in the territory for an indefinite period, ushering in a new phase in the Jewish state’s long-running war against Hamas.
IDF to clear northern Gaza, send civilians south for aid pilot program, says security source
As part of the impending widening of the invasion of Gaza, the IDF plans to completely clear the northern part of the enclave, sending its citizens to southern Gaza, where a new humanitarian aid pilot program will begin, a senior security source said on Monday.
Netanyahu says Gaza population to be moved in intensive Israeli operation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that a new offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip will be an intensive military operation aimed at defeating Hamas, but stopped short of detailing just how much of the enclave’s territory would be seized.
Hunger and malnutrition are rising across Gaza as Israel's blockade leaves mothers with few options
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The little boy is in tears and, understandably, irritable. Diarrhea has plagued him for half of his brief life. He is dehydrated and so weak. Attached to his tiny left hand is a yellow tube that carries liquid food to his frail little system. At 9 months old, Khaled is barely 11 pounds (5 kilos) — half of what a healthy baby his age should be. And in Gaza’s main pediatric hospital ward, as doctors try to save her son, Wedad Abdelaal can only...
Trump: I told Netanyahu ‘get your victory quickly’ because ‘the killing has to stop’
Former US president Donald Trump said Thursday that he counseled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they met last month to swiftly “get your victory” because the “killing has to stop” in Gaza.
The Republican presidential nominee was asked at a New Jersey press conference whether he encouraged Netanyahu not to agree to a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
Trump denied doing that, asserting that Netanyahu “knows what he’s doing...
Trump gives mixed messages on how he’d handle Israel-Hamas war
Former President Trump often made support for Israel a cornerstone of his foreign policy during his first term in office, but in recent weeks he has offered mixed messages about how he would handle Israel’s battle with Hamas if he were chief executive.
Illinois man, who killed Palestinian child, sentenced to 53 years for hate crime
An Illinois man was sentenced on Friday to 53 years in prison after a jury convicted him in the killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and the severe wounding of his mother in an October 2023 hate crime stabbing, prosecutors said.
Joseph Czuba, 73, stabbed and killed Wadee Alfayoumi and knifed Hanan Shaheen days after U.S. ally Israel began its war on Gaza following an October 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian Hamas militants.