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
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
Almost half of countries have suffered setbacks in the democratic process in the last five years, according to the IDEA organization, which however highlights growing citizen participation
The Kremlin, which is facing accusations of war crimes for its invasion of Ukraine, has denounced the US and the EU for having double standards when it comes to the Middle East. Beijing, meanwhile, is trying to promote its image as a mediator
The largest refugee camp in northern Gaza was hit by two Israeli strikes in 24 hours, causing dozens of deaths. The U.N. and EU have condemned attacks against the civilian population
Instead of providing protection, the international community is paralyzed by diplomatic calculation, a failure to uphold humanitarian law and double-standards on Palestinian human rights
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
