Thousands of desperate Gazans raided U.N. food warehouses while phone and internet connectivity was gradually restored. Another 10 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered through the Rafah crossing
The Israeli Prime Minister confirms that he is preparing an invasion and stresses that only the government will decide when, while Biden denies pressure from the U.S. to postpone the operation. Rather, it seems it is the negotiation over the hostages captured by Hamas and the fear of the outbreak of a conflict in the region slowing down the military advance on the Strip
Israel blocks visas for UN officials after accusing the secretary-general of justifying Hamas for saying the October 7 attacks ‘did not happen in a vacuum’ but after ‘56 years of suffocating occupation’
The army has ordered the evacuation of the 23,000 inhabitants of Kiryat Shmona, located between Lebanon and the Golan Heights, but some residents refuse to go, saying they have been through other wars before
One million civilians have been displaced from the north of the Strip following Israel’s ultimatum. This movement is reminiscent of the ‘catastrophe’ endured by the Palestinian people in the war that ensued the end of the British Mandate in 1948
The air attacks on the enclave have increased while the Israeli army continues to demand the population evacuate to the south
Cairo is preparing to open the Rafah border with the Strip to allow the passage of humanitarian aid after 14 days of war
The Israeli army has never succeeded in destroying the underground network of communications, shelters, command posts and hostage cells used by the Islamist militia within the Strip
Joe Biden accepts Israel’s accusation against Islamic Jihad for launching a failed rocket that hit the al-Ahli hospital while Gazan authorities blame Israel for the tragedy
The intelligence services are pursuing the military and political leaders of the militia, while keeping the movement’s senior political figure, Ismail Haniyeh, in exile in Qatar, in their sights
The former Labor minister and member of the Guardians, former security commanders who champion peace with the Palestinians, anticipates the obliteration of Hamas’ armed wing
The war against Hamas, the deadliest for Israelis in half a century, threatens to become the swansong of a politician who for three decades in power has wielded security as his greatest asset
United Nations and aid groups say such a rapid exodus to the south will cause untold human suffering. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says this is ‘only the beginning’
Activity has plummeted as a result of the attack, with many fearing to go out despite the heavy police presence
The U.N. considers the order from the Israeli military ‘impossible’ to comply with without ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’
Secretary of State Blinken guaranteed U.S. support in Jerusalem, but asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid harming the civilian population in the retaliatory military campaign
Two former Armed Forces chiefs from opposition parties join the war cabinet, while shelling ravages the periphery of the Palestinian strip to pave the way for battle tanks
The escalation of clashes along the border with Lebanon threatens to open a new front for the Israeli Army in the midst of an open war against Hamas
The former Israeli foreign minister considers the attack by the Palestinian militia one of the greatest crimes against peace and accuses Netanyahu of having strengthened Hamas by ignoring the Palestinian National Authority
Islamic movement says it will begin executing Israeli civilian hostages for every new unannounced Israeli airstrike
The Islamic militia launches a surprise attack on Israel during a Jewish holiday 50 years after the Yom Kippur War. The violent offensive ends a decade of relative calm in Gaza, during which the Islamist movement appeared to pivot to realpolitik
The recent earthquake in Morocco highlights the do-nothing policy of a monarch who undertook major reforms in his early years, but who is now criticized for his prolonged absences from the country
The government is showing no clear initiative as it awaits the monarch’s instructions, while civil society and the military continue to lead the aid effort
The oral tradition of storytellers that led to the Jemaa el-Fnaa square being named Intangible Heritage of Humanity is in danger of disappearing as its practitioners are pushed out by mass tourism
The foothills of the Atlas Mountains are full of camps where people struggle to get by while the state continues to decline most offers of international aid
Casualty figures were expected to rise as the search continues and rescuers reach remote areas following 6.8 magnitude tremor
A total of 28 countries have opened consulates in the former Spanish colony and a dozen European states are looking favorably on Morocco’s autonomy proposal