<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comSun, 07 Jun 2026 01:08:49 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[Israel’s offensive in southern Lebanon: 2,900 dead, 36,000 homes destroyed and 1.4 million displaced]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-05/israels-offensive-in-southern-lebanon-2900-dead-36000-homes-destroyed-and-14-million-displaced.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-05/israels-offensive-in-southern-lebanon-2900-dead-36000-homes-destroyed-and-14-million-displaced.htmlFri, 05 Jun 2026 07:45:51 +0000Southern Lebanon — which was turned into a battleground between Israel and the pro‑Iranian militia Hezbollah in 2023 — has suffered a new wave of devastation since February 28, when the Israeli and U.S. governments declared war on Iran and Hezbollah once again took up arms in solidarity with its ally. Israel then shifted its focus from Iran to striking Lebanon, intensifying both its military offensive and its occupation of the neighboring country.

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]]>ATEF SAFADI<![CDATA[Itamar Ben-Gvir, the ultranationalist Israeli minister who was rejected by the army for his extremism ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-22/itamar-ben-gvir-the-ultranationalist-israeli-minister-who-was-rejected-by-the-army-for-his-extremism.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-22/itamar-ben-gvir-the-ultranationalist-israeli-minister-who-was-rejected-by-the-army-for-his-extremism.htmlFri, 22 May 2026 13:31:41 +0000Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir remained defiant on May 20, undaunted by international protests triggered by images of him mocking Gaza Flotilla activists, who appeared in videos kneeling and handcuffed with their faces to the floor in the port of Ashdod. “Whoever comes to our territory to support terrorism and identify with Hamas, will receive harsh punishment,” he warned on social networks, after several Western countries, including Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany, condemned Israel’s treatment of the activists, criticism that has even come from a handful of Israeli leaders. “We will not turn the other cheek,” Ben-Gvir railed.

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]]>Ammar Awad<![CDATA[Fiber-optic drones, the weapon Hezbollah has adopted to attack Israel: ‘Using them is easier than playing a video game’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-12/fiber-optic-drones-the-weapon-hezbollah-has-adopted-to-attack-israel-using-them-is-easier-than-playing-a-video-game.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-05-12/fiber-optic-drones-the-weapon-hezbollah-has-adopted-to-attack-israel-using-them-is-easier-than-playing-a-video-game.htmlTue, 12 May 2026 10:50:43 +0000The Lebanese militia Hezbollah has found a crack in Israel’s defensive wall for which the Jewish state still lacks a definitive solution. After more than two years of conflict, during which the Iron Dome, Israel’s air defense system, has stopped most of the pro-Iranian group’s rockets, Hezbollah has deployed a type of drone that circumvents this traditional system during the latest escalation. These unmanned aerial vehicles, already deployed by the Russian and Ukrainian armies, are manufactured for a few hundred dollars using readily available civilian components and have already caused at least four deaths — the latest announced on Monday — and several serious injuries among Israeli soldiers and contractors. “Using them is even easier than playing a video game,” says Yehoshua Kalisky, a senior researcher at the Israel Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

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]]>HEZBOLLAH MILITARY MEDIA<![CDATA[Israel applies Gaza‑style tactics in Lebanon and accelerates ethnic cleansing ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-27/israel-applies-gazastyle-tactics-in-lebanon-and-accelerates-ethnic-cleansing.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-27/israel-applies-gazastyle-tactics-in-lebanon-and-accelerates-ethnic-cleansing.htmlMon, 27 Apr 2026 14:55:18 +0000The Israeli army has tried out several names to refer to the territories it occupies in southern Lebanon: “advanced defense line,” “security zone.” It has finally settled on the one that most clearly reveals its intentions there: “Yellow Line.” In Gaza, the Yellow Line designates a supposedly temporary dividing border that separates the 52% of the Gaza Strip — now a depopulated, ruined territory — under Israeli control from the remaining 48%, held by Hamas.

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]]>ATEF SAFADI<![CDATA[The city of Tyre is suspicious of the truce: ‘Israel’s sole objective is to fill our hearts with terror’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-22/the-city-of-tyre-is-suspicious-of-the-truce-israels-sole-objective-is-to-fill-our-hearts-with-terror.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-22/the-city-of-tyre-is-suspicious-of-the-truce-israels-sole-objective-is-to-fill-our-hearts-with-terror.htmlWed, 22 Apr 2026 09:29:55 +0000There is nothing normal about the lives of Tyre’s residents. The largest city in southern Lebanon — beloved by local and international visitors as a Mediterranean paradise amid banana plantations and the ruins of ancient civilizations — is currently grappling with the fear of becoming a prime target for the Israeli army. Although Lebanon is under a supposed temporary truce, Israel left its message written on four residential buildings it demolished in the city center at the last minute before the ceasefire. Now, the rubble from those attacks — one of which, described by locals as an earthquake, was a massacre, leaving some 20 dead while two more people are still missing — has instilled in residents the fear that Israel will resume the war with the same ferocity with which it paused it.

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]]>Associated Press/LaPresse<![CDATA[The aftermath of the destruction in southern Beirut: ‘I fear Israel will go to war again’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-21/the-aftermath-of-the-destruction-in-southern-beirut-i-fear-israel-will-go-to-war-again.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-21/the-aftermath-of-the-destruction-in-southern-beirut-i-fear-israel-will-go-to-war-again.htmlTue, 21 Apr 2026 15:10:09 +0000The avenues of Dahieh resemble a scene straight out of an apocalyptic movie. The suburbs surrounding Beirut to the south of the Lebanese capital — Dahiye means suburb in Arabic — show such destruction after 46 days of the latest Israeli offensive that, in some areas, a return to civilian life seems impossible. Last Saturday, thousands of residents returned to the area to assess the damage, unsure whether the 10-day ceasefire announced by the United States on April 16 — which went into effect last Friday — will provide the necessary diplomatic leeway, as the Lebanese government hopes, to make the ceasefire permanent and prevent a resumption of war between Israel and the armed Islamist militia Hezbollah.

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]]>Ryan Murphy<![CDATA[Trump announces 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-16/trump-announces-10-day-ceasefire-between-israel-and-lebanon.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-16/trump-announces-10-day-ceasefire-between-israel-and-lebanon.htmlThu, 16 Apr 2026 16:24:00 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a 10‑day ceasefire in Lebanon that will take effect this Thursday at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (midnight in Israel and Lebanon). According to Trump, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed to halt hostilities, though he offered no further details. Neither country has yet confirmed the announcement.

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]]>Adri Salido<![CDATA[Beirut shrugs off its fear in the wake of Israel’s deadliest offensive: ‘Let them kill us all as soon as possible’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-10/beirut-shrugs-off-its-fear-in-the-wake-of-israels-deadliest-offensive-let-them-kill-us-all-as-soon-as-possible.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-10/beirut-shrugs-off-its-fear-in-the-wake-of-israels-deadliest-offensive-let-them-kill-us-all-as-soon-as-possible.htmlFri, 10 Apr 2026 10:17:45 +0000The more observant residents of the Corniche el-Mazraa neighborhood in downtown Beirut know where to look. Where a residential tower once stood, now only a gaping hole remains, as if a button had caused the ground beneath the structure to vanish. The walls of the neighboring buildings are charred or have collapsed. Against this backdrop, dozens of soldiers, paramedics, firefighters, and construction workers continue their rescue efforts. Others, like Ziad, are resuming their daily lives despite the escalation of violence recently unleashed by the Israeli army, which has left dozens dead right outside his shop. “That’s it, let them kill us all as soon as possible,” he said Thursday from behind the counter. “But I’d rather be killed in my own neighborhood.”

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]]>WAEL HAMZEH<![CDATA[After a month of war with Israel, Hezbollah emerges strengthened amid the pain of Lebanese civilians]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-05/after-a-month-of-war-with-israel-hezbollah-emerges-strengthened-amid-the-pain-of-lebanese-civilians.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-05/after-a-month-of-war-with-israel-hezbollah-emerges-strengthened-amid-the-pain-of-lebanese-civilians.htmlSun, 05 Apr 2026 03:30:00 +0000Until a month ago, the Lebanese Hezbollah militia was in a seemingly inescapable predicament. The previous war with Israel, which a ceasefire effectively ended in 2024, had left its armed wing decimated and its leadership severely weakened. Furthermore, the Israeli army maintained pressure during the ceasefire with almost daily attacks against its members and their families, while the Lebanese government decreed and initiated its disarmament process, signaling a historic turning point and the potential decline of the powerful armed group. Although with devastating consequences for the Lebanese people, the unexpected firing of missiles at Israel finally ended the deadlock.

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]]>Yara Nardi<![CDATA[Paramedics under bombs in southern Lebanon: ‘I’m not leaving here’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-26/paramedics-under-bombs-in-southern-lebanon-im-not-leaving-here.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-26/paramedics-under-bombs-in-southern-lebanon-im-not-leaving-here.htmlThu, 26 Mar 2026 14:37:31 +0000“They say we transport missiles, but in reality, we transport the wounded and basic supplies,” Ali says in front of his ambulance. This volunteer paramedic, who asks to be identified by a pseudonym for fear of reprisals, is a farmer in his sixties, wears glasses, and has a white beard. The calm tone he uses as he hands out cigarettes to those who approach him in a town in southern Lebanon contrasts sharply with the state of his ambulance. It has hardly any windows left, after an Israeli airstrike at the beginning of the recent escalation in the war against Hezbollah killed three people inside. “Why would I be afraid? What am I supposed to do, leave my country? I’m not leaving here,” he declares without hesitation.

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]]>Joan Cabasés Vega<![CDATA[Israel prepares major invasion of southern Lebanon, to the despair of its inhabitants: ‘Entire families are arriving dead’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-24/israel-prepares-major-invasion-of-southern-lebanon-to-the-despair-of-its-inhabitants-entire-families-are-arriving-dead.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-24/israel-prepares-major-invasion-of-southern-lebanon-to-the-despair-of-its-inhabitants-entire-families-are-arriving-dead.htmlTue, 24 Mar 2026 12:02:21 +0000After a two-year offensive in Gaza with no legal or diplomatic repercussions, and amid the ongoing war against Iran, which dominates the regional spotlight, the Israeli army has intensified its air offensive on southern Lebanon and is signaling that it is preparing a ground invasion. Lebanese authorities put the death toll at 1,039 in three weeks of conflict. Israeli troops claim that more than half of those killed are members of the pro-Iranian militia Hezbollah, but the Lebanese Ministry of Health maintains that 158 ​​were children or healthcare workers.

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]]>Yara Nardi<![CDATA[Lebanon plunged into chaos after Israel’s response to Hezbollah: ‘War was inevitable, but this was not the time’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-06/lebanon-plunged-into-chaos-after-israels-response-to-hezbollah-war-was-inevitable-but-this-was-not-the-time.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-06/lebanon-plunged-into-chaos-after-israels-response-to-hezbollah-war-was-inevitable-but-this-was-not-the-time.htmlFri, 06 Mar 2026 15:21:11 +0000Hussein speaks cautiously. He is surrounded by a crowd moving in and out of the building, an educational center on the outskirts of Beirut that is currently serving as a shelter. Like him, many of the 1,000 families spending their days on mats in the inhospitable hallways are Hezbollah sympathizers. Questioning the rocket fire the pro‑Iranian group launched on Monday — triggering the brutal Israeli offensive that forced them to flee their homes — could offend sensibilities. Suddenly, after referring to the abuses Israel has committed against Lebanon “during the past 15 months of the ceasefire and for decades before,” Hussein opens up: “A war with Israel was inevitable, but this was not the time.”

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]]>Daniel Carde<![CDATA[Iran bombs infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, opening a direct front with the Gulf countries]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-03/iran-bombs-infrastructure-in-saudi-arabia-and-qatar-opening-a-direct-front-with-the-gulf-countries.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-03/iran-bombs-infrastructure-in-saudi-arabia-and-qatar-opening-a-direct-front-with-the-gulf-countries.htmlTue, 03 Mar 2026 14:36:35 +0000The Islamic Republic, which in the days leading up to the offensive that now threatens its survival asserted it would limit any response to attacks against Israeli and U.S. military bases in the region, has escalated its retaliation by bombing energy facilities and civilian targets. Far from being isolated incidents, Iranian forces attacked an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia and a liquefied gas plant in Qatar on Monday. In the two days prior, Tehran had already targeted numerous airports, ports, and hotels in the Gulf countries, undermining the image of these locations perceived as safe havens for recreation and investment by the world’s wealthy elite.

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]]>VANTOR<![CDATA[Iran attacks US military bases in the Middle East]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-28/iran-attacks-us-military-bases-in-the-middle-east.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-28/iran-attacks-us-military-bases-in-the-middle-east.htmlSat, 28 Feb 2026 11:55:47 +0000Iran launched attacks on Saturday against U.S. military bases in at least four countries in the region in response to the offensive that the U.S. and Israel initiated early in the morning with the stated aim of overthrowing the Islamic Republic. Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait were the targets of Iranian hostilities, with the outcome still uncertain. Several of these governments have announced the successful interception of missiles, although there are also images showing the impact of projectiles on areas hosting U.S. facilities in different states.

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]]>Mehrnews<![CDATA[Palestinians who fled horror encounter Israeli obstacles in attempt to return to Gaza ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-04/palestinians-who-fled-horror-encounter-israeli-obstacles-in-attempt-to-return-to-gaza.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-04/palestinians-who-fled-horror-encounter-israeli-obstacles-in-attempt-to-return-to-gaza.htmlWed, 04 Feb 2026 10:55:24 +0000The reopening of Rafah, the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, has rekindled the hope (or at least raised a previously unthinkable question) of returning to the Strip for the approximately 100,000 Palestinians who managed to escape almost two years ago from the constant air strikes, forced displacement, and hardships of the Israeli offensive. Almost all of them did so within the first seven months of the war, until Israeli troops seized Rafah in May 2024 and Gazans lost their only exit route. They were able to escape because they held a foreign passport, had thousands of dollars to buy a place on the list at the crossing, were seriously ill or wounded, or were accompanied by others.

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]]>Mahmoud Issa<![CDATA[Netanyahu rewrites the terms of the ceasefire in Gaza]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-29/netanyahu-rewrites-the-terms-of-the-ceasefire-in-gaza.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-29/netanyahu-rewrites-the-terms-of-the-ceasefire-in-gaza.htmlThu, 29 Jan 2026 15:14:43 +0000He said it twice, to leave no room for doubt. on Tuesday, in the Israeli parliament, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear that, following the recovery of the body of the last hostage in Gaza, the next phase of the ceasefire “is not the reconstruction” of the devastated Strip, but “the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza.”

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]]>CHAIM GOLDBERG<![CDATA[The Gaza Board of Peace: 60 countries invited for a fee of $1 billion each ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-19/the-gaza-board-of-peace-60-countries-invited-for-a-fee-of-1-billion-each.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-19/the-gaza-board-of-peace-60-countries-invited-for-a-fee-of-1-billion-each.htmlMon, 19 Jan 2026 14:20:20 +0000U.S. President Donald Trump has put the price that countries must pay for a permanent seat on the Gaza Board of Peace at $1 billion. The White House has invited at least 60 world leaders to join a body that Washington initially linked to the resolution of the war in the Palestinian enclave, but which takes the form of a global assembly that would have Trump as its leader, according to a draft of the founding charter to which Reuters and Bloomberg have had access.

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]]>DPA vía Europa Press<![CDATA[Repression in Iran stifles protests while the government claims to have the situation ‘under control’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-12/repression-in-iran-stifles-protests-while-the-government-claims-to-have-the-situation-under-control.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-12/repression-in-iran-stifles-protests-while-the-government-claims-to-have-the-situation-under-control.htmlMon, 12 Jan 2026 17:38:12 +0000The severity of the crackdown in Iran has reduced the intensity of the protests of recent days, and on Monday the government sought to turn the page. After four days of communication blackouts, accompanied by reports of hundreds of deaths, the leaders of the Islamic Republic claim to have regained “control” of the situation.

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]]>Chris J Ratcliffe<![CDATA[‘We wanted to get out of that hell’: The shadowy organization facilitating escape from Gaza through Israel]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-30/we-wanted-to-get-out-of-that-hell-the-shadowy-organization-facilitating-escape-from-gaza-through-israel.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-30/we-wanted-to-get-out-of-that-hell-the-shadowy-organization-facilitating-escape-from-gaza-through-israel.htmlSun, 30 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000Last week, 153 Gazans landed in South Africa under opaque circumstances. COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry agency that controls border crossings into the Gaza Strip, claimed it had allowed them to depart from an Israeli airport because “a third country” — without specifying which one — had agreed to receive them. But when the plane touched down in Johannesburg, South African authorities and the Palestinian Embassy expressed their bewilderment. They spent 10 hours on board, eventually receiving 90-day visas, due to the confusion surrounding the arrival of passengers without Israeli stamps in their passports.

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]]>Jehad Alshrafi<![CDATA[Wounded Hezbollah has no response to Israel’s escalation in Lebanon ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-25/wounded-hezbollah-has-no-response-to-israels-escalation-in-lebanon.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-25/wounded-hezbollah-has-no-response-to-israels-escalation-in-lebanon.htmlTue, 25 Nov 2025 11:06:05 +0000With a curious air, a man and a woman on a motorcycle with two small children stop the vehicle when they see the wall that has dominated the country’s news broadcasts since the previous day. When the children finish counting the six holes that Israeli missiles left in an apartment building on the fourth and fifth floors, the adults smile at them in approval and continue on their way. In the suburbs of Beirut, where one can travel for miles without finding any streets untouched after last year’s Israeli offensive during the war with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the scar left on Sunday by the assassination of the group’s military chief, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, is indistinguishable from the others.

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]]>Hussein Malla<![CDATA[Gazans view Trump’s plan, and the future, with pessimism: ‘Things will go back to the way they were or even worse’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-15/gazans-view-trumps-plan-and-the-future-with-pessimism-things-will-go-back-to-the-way-they-were-or-even-worse.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-15/gazans-view-trumps-plan-and-the-future-with-pessimism-things-will-go-back-to-the-way-they-were-or-even-worse.htmlWed, 15 Oct 2025 11:09:08 +0000Fidaa al-Araj has not yet been able to return to her home in the Al Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City, but she already knows the house has been damaged by Israeli bombs. The structure is still standing, and this Palestinian woman is planning to “use plastic sheeting or pieces of broken furniture to improvise windows, doors, and cover the walls” and move in with her husband and six children, aged 16 to four. In Gaza, there is no construction material to repair the 92% of buildings completely destroyed or severely damaged by bombing, according to UN estimates, as winter sets in. Many Gazans have no home to return to at all.

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]]>Omar Ashtawy<![CDATA[Gaza, two years of indescribable horror and a narrow horizon of hope]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-06/gaza-two-years-of-indescribable-horror-and-a-narrow-horizon-of-hope.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-06/gaza-two-years-of-indescribable-horror-and-a-narrow-horizon-of-hope.htmlMon, 06 Oct 2025 10:49:30 +0000On Saturday, while U.S. President Donald Trump stated an agreement to end nearly two years of horror in Gaza was “very close,” Ali Musa al-Dibs was caring for his teenage son Musab in the besieged capital of the Strip. Musab has been in a coma since May, when an Israeli attack left him with a serious head wound. Musab has necrotic lesions and is severely malnourished, his father says. In the photos, he looks skeletal and has lost a lot of hair, one of the symptoms of starvation.

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]]>Jehad Alshrafi<![CDATA[Voices from Gaza City in the face of Israel’s offensive: ‘We will stay until the end, we have no plan B’]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-17/voices-from-gaza-city-in-the-face-of-israels-offensive-we-will-stay-until-the-end-we-have-no-plan-b.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-17/voices-from-gaza-city-in-the-face-of-israels-offensive-we-will-stay-until-the-end-we-have-no-plan-b.htmlWed, 17 Sep 2025 09:30:29 +0000As is customary in remote conversations with Gazans (Israel has barred free entry to the foreign press since the start of its invasion), the exchange of messages with Rami Abu Jamous, a journalist in the Strip’s capital, begins with a question and an answer:

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]]>Amir Cohen<![CDATA[The Israeli assault on Gaza City: A ‘hell’ foretold without any legal basis]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-28/the-israeli-assault-on-gaza-city-a-hell-foretold-without-any-legal-basis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-28/the-israeli-assault-on-gaza-city-a-hell-foretold-without-any-legal-basis.htmlThu, 28 Aug 2025 08:42:48 +0000The Israeli authorities are ramping up the machinery to carry out the assault on Gaza City. On August 8, the security cabinet led by Benjamin Netanyahu launched its plan to occupy the Strip’s main population center, and the countdown has been on ever since. The operation aims to expel, within a few weeks, the one million people that United Nations agencies estimate “exist” in Gaza City. “And I say ‘exist’ because there’s no way you can call this life,” laments a UN spokesperson from inside the enclave. Once the civilian population has been removed, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intend to raze the surface and pull up the subsoil of the Palestinian city.

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]]>Mahmoud Illean<![CDATA[Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare paralyzing disease erupting in Gaza due to contaminated food and water]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-27/guillain-barre-syndrome-a-rare-paralyzing-disease-that-is-erupting-in-gaza-due-to-contaminated-food-and-water.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-27/guillain-barre-syndrome-a-rare-paralyzing-disease-that-is-erupting-in-gaza-due-to-contaminated-food-and-water.htmlWed, 27 Aug 2025 10:55:54 +0000The outbreak of a rare disease that paralyzes the body and can be fatal is worrying the exhausted medical teams in the Gaza Strip. Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), which is caused by a viral or bacterial infection, causes the immune system to attack the body, weakening muscles and progressively paralyzing different parts of the body. The World Health Organization (WHO) has detected 85 cases in the enclave since June. Three of these patients have died, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.

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]]>Abed Rahim Khatib<![CDATA[Gaza City officially enters famine on the eve of the Israeli army invasion]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-22/gaza-city-officially-enters-famine-on-the-eve-of-the-israeli-army-invasion.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-22/gaza-city-officially-enters-famine-on-the-eve-of-the-israeli-army-invasion.htmlFri, 22 Aug 2025 13:55:18 +0000Famine is now official in the Gaza Strip. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an international system supported by United Nations agencies that assesses food situations worldwide, declared on Friday that famine has reached Gaza City and the other municipalities and refugee camps that make up Gaza Governorate. The IPC report comes on the eve of an offensive in which the Israeli army intends to expel the one million Gazans concentrated in Gaza City — maneuvers that humanitarian organizations have warned would have catastrophic consequences.

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]]>DAWOUD ABU ALKAS<![CDATA[Israel orders hospitals and NGOs to prepare to evacuate Gaza City]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-21/israel-orders-hospitals-and-ngos-to-prepare-to-evacuate-gaza-city.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-21/israel-orders-hospitals-and-ngos-to-prepare-to-evacuate-gaza-city.htmlThu, 21 Aug 2025 19:42:02 +0000The Israeli army announced Thursday that it has informed Gazan medical authorities and humanitarian organizations that they should prepare to leave Gaza City and move south. The notice anticipates that an evacuation order will be issued later “for the entire municipality,” where the Strip’s health authorities and NGOs estimate there are currently one million people.

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]]>MOHAMMED SABER<![CDATA[Israel prepares to launch its offensive at the gates of Gaza City]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-20/israel-prepares-to-launch-its-offensive-at-the-gates-of-gaza-city.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-20/israel-prepares-to-launch-its-offensive-at-the-gates-of-gaza-city.htmlWed, 20 Aug 2025 19:44:06 +0000The plan for the Israeli occupation of Gaza City has begun. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed Wednesday morning the approval of the military project to occupy the largest municipality in the occupied Palestinian territories, where nearly one million people live in poverty. Hours later, military spokesman Effie Defrin confirmed that the first steps are already being taken. “We have begun preliminary operations and the first phases of the attack on Gaza City. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) already control the outskirts of the city,” Defrin said.

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]]>Amir Cohen<![CDATA[Israeli security cabinet approves Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza City]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-08/israeli-security-cabinet-approves-netanyahus-plan-to-occupy-gaza-city.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-08/israeli-security-cabinet-approves-netanyahus-plan-to-occupy-gaza-city.htmlFri, 08 Aug 2025 08:11:17 +0000Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has secured the approval of the security cabinet to launch the occupation of Gaza City. The decision was confirmed in a statement from the president’s office early Friday morning, more than 10 hours after the meeting began. The prime minister has thus overcome the pushback from the military leadership and from the streets, where protests have surged in response to an offensive perceived as potentially lethal for the remaining hostages.

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]]>Ohad Zwigenberg<![CDATA[Netanyahu confirms Israel intends to militarily occupy all of Gaza]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-07/netanyahu-confirms-israel-intends-to-militarily-occupy-all-of-gaza.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-07/netanyahu-confirms-israel-intends-to-militarily-occupy-all-of-gaza.htmlThu, 07 Aug 2025 19:19:13 +0000The Israeli army intends to invade the entire Gaza Strip. This was confirmed Thursday afternoon by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a few hours ahead of the Security Cabinet meeting where the country’s top officials are expected to officially approve the full occupation of the enclave. Israel’s military leadership, the families of the hostages held in Gaza, and the humanitarian sector have rejected the expansion of troops in the Strip for various reasons, but the veteran Israeli leader has assured that it is necessary for Israel to “liberate ourselves and liberate the people of Gaza from the awful terror of Hamas.”

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]]>Amir Levy<![CDATA[Hunger in Gaza sparks global outcry to stop the war ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-24/hunger-in-gaza-sparks-global-outcry-to-stop-the-war.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-24/hunger-in-gaza-sparks-global-outcry-to-stop-the-war.htmlThu, 24 Jul 2025 08:49:08 +0000Alerts about extreme hunger in Gaza are increasing, generating a wave of global outrage over the situation in the Strip. Over 100 international humanitarian and human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Save the Children, and Caritas, published a statement Wednesday warning that the population in the Strip — and also their workers on the ground — “are wasting away” in the face of the “spread of mass hunger” in the enclave, which has led to a further 10 deaths from starvation in the past 24 hours. It is the latest call for international attention in a week in which 28 diverse countries have demanded an immediate end to the war from Israel amid a growing mobilization of civil society organizations taking their states to court for their inaction regarding Gaza.

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]]>Anadolu<![CDATA[Gaza needs more than just food: Israel maintains blockade on fuel and hygiene products]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-04/gaza-needs-more-than-just-food-israel-maintains-blockade-on-fuel-and-hygiene-products.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-04/gaza-needs-more-than-just-food-israel-maintains-blockade-on-fuel-and-hygiene-products.htmlWed, 04 Jun 2025 09:36:57 +0000The new food distribution initiative in Gaza does not imply the end of the Israeli blockade. Since May 27, a project sponsored by the United States and Israel claims to have delivered more than five million meals to the Strip. But this system, promoted by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), does not address many of the emergencies that have plagued the enclave for months. This organization, at whose distribution points more than 100 people have been shot dead in the last eight days, does not include the provision of fuel to ensure the operation of hospitals or medical supplies to stem the spread of infections. “Frankly, without fuel it is impossible to operate,” lament hospital directors consulted by this newspaper.

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]]>Hatem Khaled<![CDATA[Israel believes Hamas has 40,000 fighters in Gaza, the same number as before the October 7, 2023 attacks ]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-27/israel-believes-hamas-has-40000-fighters-in-gaza-the-same-number-as-before-the-october-7-2023-attacks.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-27/israel-believes-hamas-has-40000-fighters-in-gaza-the-same-number-as-before-the-october-7-2023-attacks.htmlTue, 27 May 2025 09:46:53 +0000The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) estimates that Hamas still has around 40,000 fighters, similar to the number it mustered before the start of the Gaza war in October 2023. The information was reported Sunday by multiple Israeli media outlets, citing unidentified military sources.

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]]>DPA vía Europa Press<![CDATA[Israel prepares ‘unprecedented’ attack after killing over 30 Palestinians at Gaza school]]>https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-26/israel-prepares-another-unprecedented-attack-after-killing-30-palestinians-at-gaza-school.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/international/2025-05-26/israel-prepares-another-unprecedented-attack-after-killing-30-palestinians-at-gaza-school.htmlMon, 26 May 2025 19:00:33 +0000Israel killed at least 36 people — 18 of them young children — in the early hours of Monday morning while they were sleeping, bombing a school in Gaza City that had become a shelter for families displaced by the war, according to emergency services in the Strip. As on previous occasions, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government confirmed the attack with separate statements in which, briefly and without mentioning the victims, it boasted of having bombed 200 such sites in 48 hours to eliminate alleged “terrorist” cells.

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]]>ZUMA vía Europa Press<![CDATA[US contractors, an opaque entity and unknown funding: This is how Israel plans the future of aid to Gaza]]>https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-23/us-contractors-an-opaque-entity-and-unknown-funding-this-is-how-israel-plans-the-future-of-aid-to-gaza.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-23/us-contractors-an-opaque-entity-and-unknown-funding-this-is-how-israel-plans-the-future-of-aid-to-gaza.htmlFri, 23 May 2025 11:16:53 +0000The lifeline on which more than two million Gazans depend is up in the air. The United States and Israel are determined to push forward with an initiative that would control aid distribution in the Strip. Experts warn that its implementation would displace the United Nations, the main humanitarian actor in the territory, and leave one of the largest humanitarian crises on the planet in private hands.

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