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Recent targeted killings of Gaza police commanders safeguarding truck convoys have made it ‘virtually impossible’ to distribute the goods safely

The International Court of Justice said that because of the ‘perilous situation’ in Rafah, Israel must respect earlier measures imposed last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case

U.S. Vice President Harris offered a broad defense of the Biden administration’s approach to global challenges at the Munich Security Conference

The results will worsen fears among Conservatives that, after 14 years in power, the party is heading for a drubbing when a national election is held in less than a year

Israel and Hezbollah are on the verge of an open conflict, with an intensifying exchange of bombings and rockets, the selective assassination of a senior Shia militia commander and a lethal projectile against a Jewish city that had not been evacuated

U.S. also faces renewed pressure to close loopholes that allow illicit funds to flow from the U.S. into Russia, Iran and the hands of militant Hamas figureheads

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 raid came a day after the army sought to evacuate thousands of displaced people who had taken shelter at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis

Hundreds of forcibly displaced people have left the besieged Nasser medical center in Khan Younis. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes returning to the negotiating table conditional on Hamas delivering a new proposal for a ceasefire

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin conducted the virtual session from his home. ‘I’m in good condition, and my cancer prognosis remains excellent,’ he said

Several experts believe that Israel has linked the agency to the Hamas attacks in a bid to put an end to this principle, which was recognized by the U.N. in 1948

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, noted ‘an accumulation of complexities’ in the wider Middle East amid Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip

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

In its new filing, South Africa said it asked the court to weigh whether Israel’s strikes on Rafah, and its intention to launch a ground offensive, breaches both the U.N. Genocide Convention and preliminary orders handed down by the court last month

Cairo, fearful of a mass expulsion of Palestinians to its territory, has deployed the military near the Strip and reinforced the barriers on the frontier

The president met with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House, where the two leaders discussed the future of the Palestinian enclave after the war

The meeting with King Abdullah II comes as Biden and his aides are working to broker another pause in Israel’s war against Hamas in order to send humanitarian aid

The decision came as Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte traveled to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the conflict

The strategic significance of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the friction between the U.S. and China and the possible return of Trump make for a high-risk horizon

Moody’s has lowered the country’s credit rating for the first time in its history. Added to the enormous cost of mobilizing 300,000 reservists and accommodating 200,000 displaced people is the ‘significant’ risk of a large-scale conflict with Hezbollah

The raid was celebrated in Israel as a victory in the sluggish battle to free the hostages, with more than 100 captives still held by Hamas and other Gaza militants

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

More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are packed into Rafah, many after following Israeli evacuation orders that now cover two-thirds of the territory

Vice President Kamala Harris noted that Joe Biden’s two-day sit-down with special counsel Robert Hur occurred just after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel

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