In order not to break the government coalition, the Israeli prime minister limits himself to cautioning a minister from a radical Jewish party who floated the idea of using an atomic bomb in the Gaza conflict
The U.N. secretary-general, who came to Portuguese politics as a Catholic activist, has become a powerful voice in the face of international aggression and the climate emergency
The 86-year-old pontiff wasn’t feeling well and prefered to handed over the speech instead of reading it. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the pope ‘has a bit of a cold and a long day of audiences’
Polarization and war are multiplying hate crimes around the world
An Israeli of Argentine origin remains at the head of a cooperative dairy farm, caring for more than 600 cows. The rest of the residents fled following the Hamas attack
The Israeli U.N. ambassador’s decision to wear the symbol is an affront to the memory of Hitler’s and Stalin’s Jewish victims, as well as to the Palestinian population of Gaza and the occupied West Bank
Cairo is increasingly concerned that Israel will forcibly displace Gazans to the Sinai Peninsula and that the groundswell of support for the Palestinian cause will turn against the government
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 Israelis are struggling to resume their activities in schools and workplaces, with air-raid shelters standing by, after four weeks of conflict. The conflict is also battering the Middle East’s most developed economy
The U.S. official reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance and resumption of essential services in Gaza and made clear that Palestinians must not be forcibly displaced
Every 10 minutes a child is violently killed in the territory, according to an estimate by the NGO Save the Children, in an area where four out of five kids already had symptoms of depression, fear and grief
As the United States urges Israel to think about the future of the territory, experts share their thoughts about whether Israel, the Palestinian Authority or Arab states will govern the enclave
The soaring death toll in Gaza has sparked growing international anger, with tens of thousands from Washington to Berlin taking to the streets Saturday to demand an immediate cease-fire
Protests in many US cities, as well as in Europe and Asia, call for a ceasefire to bring relief to the Palestinian people
A small group of Democrats are viewed by critics as insufficiently supportive of Israel or insufficiently critical of Hamas, making them internally vulnerable
The Spanish expert warns, together with an independent panel, that a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is essential to ‘avoid a serious risk of genocide’
There is a risk that anti-Israeli rhetoric could spark a regional conflict. The Iranian leaders, masters of ambiguity, are playing on the fears of their neighbors and the rest of the region
There are deceased children who got to be someone in life and others who never were. And, who is going to care about a dead child who never really lived?
Enforcing the law amid the fog of war is difficult. Holding perpetrators to account once conflicts are over has often proved elusive
The US Secretary of State asked Netanyahu in Tel Aviv for humanitarian pauses, and the Hezbollah leader warned that its involvement in the war will depend on how Israel acts in Gaza and on the Lebanese border itself
Netanyahu announced the expulsion hours earlier. The UN is ‘deeply concerned’ given the ‘alarming’ situation in the Strip
The presence of journalists in the territory is essential to keeping us informed of the pain and terror of a population
Israel’s war on the occupied territory is violating international law, but the international community is failing to enforce the rules it has agreed to
The thousands of deaths in the Strip have seen the normalization agreement between Riyadh and Israel shelved following the October 7 militia attacks
Since the Hamas attack on October 7, more than 800 people, mainly Bedouins, have been forced to move their precarious villages to safer places
Some 50,000 pregnant women live in the enclave, of whom around 5,500 will give birth during the month, which is more than 180 births per day, according to the U.N. Neither mothers nor newborns are receiving the assistance they need
Blinken will call on Netanyahu on Friday for ‘temporary, localized’ ceasefires to get American citizens out of the sieged Strip and get aid in
