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The absence of foreign visitors has hit vendors of religious objects and tour guides in the holy city, where unemployment is on the rise

Khaled Abú Hamra, a health worker at the Shifa medical center, describes to EL PAÍS the chaos prevailing in the midst of the Israeli army’s attacks on facilities without food, water or electricity.

The agreement does not constitute a ceasefire, nor does it open the door to the release of hostages held by Hamas

The move comes as the G7 steps up pressure on Israel, which has sparked further alarm after passing an amendment that criminalizes the ‘consumption of terrorist materials’

The city of Tulkarem bids farewell to the four ‘martyrs’ of the Palestinian cause executed in the middle of the street by Israeli special forces for being considered Hamas ’terrorists’

Residents in the enclave are outraged that the international community is not doing more to help, as they describe their daily struggle to survive amid the Israeli offensive against Hamas

After meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the Palestinian Authority president called for a ceasefire and for a possible subsequent pact to include the West Bank and East Jerusalem

The Israeli army, which raises its number of fallen soldiers to 18 and has again bombed another Gazan refugee camp, acknowledges that it is facing militia ambushes day and night at the gates of the Strip’s capital

The Israeli army has demolished the West Bank house of Hamas’ exiled No. 2, Saleh al-Aruri, but locals and relatives say that this has only made the militant group more popular

A police officer was seriously injured in Jerusalem after being stabbed by a man who was later shot dead

The streets of the furthest municipality that the Gaza-based Islamist militia attacked on October 7 is gradually recovering activity amid tributes to the victims

The death of a farmer at the hands of an Israeli settler is a sign of the growing violence taking place in the shadow of the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas

Israel faces a highly motivated militia equipped with comprehensive knowledge of the battlefield terrain

UN denounces war crimes in conflict for first time and Palestinian refugee agency warns many will soon starve to death

Journalist Mohamed Farra learned that an attack in the Strip had killed five relatives whom he had not seen for 25 years due to the blockade, during a live broadcast from the West Bank

French president Emmanuel Macron visits Jerusalem and suggests international coalition against ISIS should also fight Hamas

Hundreds of soldiers surrounded by tanks and armored vehicles await the order to advance and occupy the Strip by land as part of a three-phase plan announced by the Israeli Minister of Defense

Hundreds of civilians were sheltering at the al-Ahli Hospital when it was hit by an explosion that both sides are blaming on one another. A witness to the massacre explains what he saw

The families of the 199 people being held in Gaza are awaiting their release through military or diplomatic channels while placing their faith in the Israeli army

Thousands of people staged street protests in Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey and Tunisia. There were some violent outbreaks outside U.S. and Israeli embassies

Netanyahu’s government responds to the growing violence with the evacuation of 10,000 residents in an increasingly militarized region. The town of Kafar Yasif bids farewell to the last Arab-Israeli victim

The death of a builder caused by a Hezbollah missile adds fuel to the fire on Israel’s northern border as the war with Hamas in Gaza rages on

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’

Russian bombs reduced the House of Culture — located in the east of the country — to rubble. Shortly before the attack, a literary festival filled with hope had begun. Its organizer was killed a few weeks later

EL PAÍS visits the network of medical stations that mark out the Zaporizhzhia front, where hundreds of wounded soldiers are operated on every day

EL PAÍS accompanied the 35th Ukrainian Marine Artillery Brigade, shortly before its soldiers retook the town on the southern front of the Donetsk province

With no gas or water and bombs falling from overhead, the great Russian invasion has aggravated the situation in many towns in eastern Ukraine, where the war has been going on for a decade