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President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has arrived at an aid distribution site in Rafah in southern Gaza, the director of a company working with the aid distributor Gaza Humanitarian Foundation told CNN. Yesterday, the White House announced the trip to Gaza by Witkoff and US Ambassador to Israel Mike […]
Over 60 people were killed in northern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire near an aid site Wednesday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. About 600 others were injured, Yousef Abu al-Rish, undersecretary of the Gaza Ministry of Health, told CNN. “Al-Shifa Medical Complex has received 50 martyrs and 300 injured,” Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director […]
Over 60 people were killed in northern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire near an aid site Wednesday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. About 600 others were injured, Yousef Abu al-Rish, undersecretary of the Gaza Ministry of Health, told CNN. “Al-Shifa Medical Complex has received 50 martyrs and 300 injured,” Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director […]
France said it would recognize a Palestinian state in September, in a decision Israel claimed would “reward terror.” Meanwhile, the US and Israel recalled their negotiating teams early from Gaza talks, raising doubts over the possibility of a ceasefire that could help stem the starvation spreading across the enclave. Here’s what you need to know. […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Gaza civil defence official Mohammad al-Mughayyir told AFP that seven people, including a child, were killed in an Israeli air strike overnight on displaced people’s tents near the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis. Mughayyir said eight more people were killed […]
Israel has agreed to a US ceasefire proposal for Gaza, the White House has said, and Hamas said it was reviewing the plan although its terms did not meet the group’s demands. As a US-backed system for distributing food in the shattered territory expanded, Israeli media reported that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told the […]
The Trump administration has accused Hamas of making “entirely impractical” demands and stalling on a deal to release a US-Israeli hostage in exchange for an extension of the Gaza ceasefire. “Hamas is making a very bad bet that time is on its side. It is not,” the office of Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature “Make Gaza beautiful again,” says US secretary of state Marco Rubio “Gaza MUST BE FREE from Hamas,” Rubio wrote in a post on X, “As @POTUS shared today, the United States stands ready to lead and Make Gaza Beautiful Again. Our […]
The amount of aid reaching Gaza has dropped to the lowest level since December, official Israeli figures show, despite the US having issued a 30-day ultimatum last month threatening sanctions if there was no increase in humanitarian supplies reaching the territory. The ultimatum was delivered on 13 October, so will expire on Tuesday or Wednesday. […]
The Biden administration has warned Israel that it faces possible punishment, including the potential stopping of US weapons transfers, if it does not take immediate action to let more humanitarian aid into Gaza. A letter written jointly by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, exhorts Benjamin Netanyahu’s government […]