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The Hamas attack has awakened the ghost of the Holocaust and united the people, leaders and media against Gaza. Meanwhile, there is a growing discourse that criminalizes civilians in the Palestinian territory

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

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’

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

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’

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 thousands of deaths in the Strip have seen the normalization agreement between Riyadh and Israel shelved following the October 7 militia attacks