Israel admits nearly 100 people were killed in Saturday’s operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp, while the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health puts the number at 274, including dozens of children and women
The facility, run by UNRWA, housed people displaced by the war. The Hamas government in the Strip places the toll at 40, including 14 children. The Israeli army says the ‘precision’ airstrike targeted between 20 and 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militiamen
The Palestinian prime minister is seeking backing from the EU and Arab countries for a new reform plan to end corruption in the PNA and for his government to manage the post-war Strip
The attack caused a fire that spread through the precarious metal and plastic constructions. Most of the victims are women and children. It is one of the areas Israel designated a ‘humanitarian’ zone, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent
Israel itself has resurrected support for Palestinian self-determination through its actions in the Strip, in one of its biggest diplomatic setbacks at a time when its reputation is increasingly in decline
The flight of 450,000 people from Rafah after seven months of forced displacement in the Strip provides the backdrop to a particularly symbolic anniversary of the expulsion seven decades ago
The government has declared as ‘state land’ an area of unparalleled size in the three last decades, while the far-right finance minister has issued a decree to connect 60 settlements that NGOs describe as ‘back-door legalization’
The IDF has launched another assault on Jabalia, the refugee camp where it claimed victory over the militias last December. Washington has warned its ally of the risk of getting bogged down in an ‘enduring insurgency’
The restrained Israeli response allows both countries to save face and claim achievements in deterring the enemy, in a sort of return to the covert war they had been waging until the bombing of Damascus that triggered the escalation
The target of the operation, a response to the Iranian attack last weekend, was Isfahan, where the heart of the country’s nuclear program is located. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that no nuclear facilities were damaged. Tehran says it has shot down three drones and is downplaying the situation
The Israeli armed forces have called up thousands of reservists and are preparing ‘operational activities’ in the last refuge in Gaza. Netanyahu can now frame the ground offensive as punishment for Tehran’s actions
Anti-aircraft batteries and jets from the U.S., the U.K. and Jordan shot down 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles. Only a few of the over 120 ballistic missiles fired in the attack reached Israeli territory
The nation’s dependence on the United States and its distrust of Tehran outweighed the protests, sparked by the invasion of Gaza, over its peace agreement with the Jewish state
The country is reopening its airspace after the unprecedented early morning attack. All eyes are now on Netanyahu’s expected retaliation and the role the United States will play
Israeli authorities urge the EU to immediately declare the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Experts feel Tehran may be buying time with a move that it feels is not serious enough to legitimize retaliation by Israel
Lufthansa has stopped flying to Iran for security reasons after an Israeli attack in Damascus last week triggered an announcement by the Ayatollah Khamenei that punishment is imminent
Netanyahu’s objectives continue to fail, the risk of conflict with Iran is growing, there are 130,000 evacuees with no prospects of returning, and the country’s prestige is in tatters. Tens of thousands of protesters are now calling for the prime minister to resign
Netanyahu is keeping a low profile as the White House demands ‘concrete, verifiable and sustainable’ changes to prevent a repeat of the attack on World Central Kitchen, in which seven aid workers were killed
An internal IDF investigation found that its forces targeted the convoy ‘based on the misclassification of the event and misidentification of the vehicles as having Hamas operatives inside them’
The suspension of activities by the NGOs World Central Kitchen and Anera raises fears of a domino effect on other organizations operating in the Strip
The army has canceled leave for all combat troops, called up Air Force reservists and beefed up missile defenses amid fears Tehran will launch an attack on Friday
The former director of the center for German history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem believes that the ‘pogrom’ of October 7 forces us to ‘question the whole idea of Zionism’
The strike that killed seven members of World Central Kitchen ‘is not an isolated incident,’ says the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz’ cites Defense sources who said the attack was triggered by the belief that an armed man was traveling with the group. All three cars were hit as the wounded survivors moved from one to the other
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu called it a ‘tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people.’ The disaster relief group founded by the celebrity chef has paused its operations in an area where it was providing critical aid to a population on the brink of famine
Crops are rotting near Gaza and Lebanon. Authorities are rushing in workers from India, Malawi and Sri Lanka to make up for the departure of Thais, the ban on Palestinians and the draft of Israelis
Friday’s assassination and bombing in Syria threaten to further inflame the Middle East. The end of the siege on Gaza’s largest hospital leaves charred buildings, bodies on the ground and piles of rubble