Talks resume in Cairo, and the issue of hostages is the main stumbling block. According to Hamas, 15 children have now died of starvation or dehydration in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli government calls what happened a ‘tragedy’ and points to a stampede and hit-and-runs by Gazan drivers, while the Palestinian Authority speaks of an ‘atrocious massacre’
Relatives and friends of the more than 130 people being held in the Strip are demanding that Israeli authorities prioritize an agreement to bring them home
Israel holds anomalous municipal elections with low voter turnaround in which tens of thousands of evacuees will not cast their ballot until November
The Netanyahu government continues to support violent Jews occupying Palestine despite international sanctions against them, according to the United Nations and human rights organizations
The residents of this West Bank city, who live in the shadow of 800 Jewish settlers and under watch by 2,500 soldiers, say that they are suffering more degrading treatment since Israel’s offensive on Gaza
The goal of the negotiations with Qatar and Egypt, which have been in talks with Hamas envoys for days, is the six-week cessation of hostilities sought by U.S. President Joe Biden
Over one million Palestinians forcibly displaced to Gaza’s border with Egypt are surviving in increasingly inhumane conditions. Now, they face an Israeli military incursion with nowhere else to turn to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ignoring calls from the international community, including the United States, to avoid the humanitarian disaster that a military incursion in the southern Gaza area would entail
The Israeli army is intensifying attacks on Rafah in the south of the Strip, while Egypt and Qatar are attempting to bring the parties in the conflict closer to a ceasefire agreement
After being released without charges and returned to the Gaza Strip, Diaa Al-Kahlout denounces Israeli torture and abusive interrogation
Israel’s prime minister insists he will not accept a deal with Hamas ‘at any price’ as the Palestinian militia seeks prisoner releases and withdrawal of troops from the Strip
Fear spreads among the hundreds of thousands of displaced people crowded into southern Gaza, trapped along the border with Egypt, an area turned into a ‘pressure cooker of despair,’ according to the U.N.
Demonstrators managed to stop trucks bound for the Strip in the port of Ashdod to press for the release of the hostages still being held after the Hamas attacks of October 7
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 68 reporters have been killed during the Israeli offensive. ‘We are not machines. We have feelings,’ says one of the Palestinian journalists who spoke to EL PAÍS
The Israeli army, stationed behind the neighboring concrete wall, has stepped up raids and arrests in a community of 5,500 inhabitants, where half of the population are minors
‘Did they have to shoot? Don’t know. But I can’t blame the soldiers,’ says Lidor Kalai, the friend of the deceased drummer, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7
In the West Bank city, the scene of weekly raids, 12 people have died and hundreds have been arrested. Soldiers left insulting graffiti and recorded a video mocking Islam inside a mosque
Israelis are incensed after IDF troops killed three hostages in the Strip on Friday, shouting ‘terrorists!’ as the captives waved a white flag
Netanyahu tries to iron out differences with the United States, thanking it for delivering weapons for the war and vetoing the UN call for a ceasefire
Hamas has continued to resist and killed nine Israeli soldiers in an ambush in the same northern neighborhood where it put troops at risk in 2014
Father Munther and other Christian clergy made an appeal to the White House for a ceasefire. ‘There they celebrate Christmas with presents and lights, and here they send us weapons and the machinery of war’
Washington’s decision to veto a ceasefire, despite desperate appeals from organizations on the ground, has worsened the situation in the Palestinian enclave
Refaat Alareer, the teacher and writer who had shared the hardships of war with EL PAÍS, was killed along with six family members in an Israeli attack
Just under 100 protesters, who were stripped of their banners, demanded that Israel take control of holy Muslim sites
Aisha, 16, and Bilal, 18, returned to their village in southern Israel after being included in the hostage-prisoner exchange but left their father and another sibling behind in the hands of Hamas
The members of the kibbutz, which was attacked by Hamas on October 7, are living temporarily in a hotel. Next summer, they will be welcomed in another location, but it will be several years before they can return home