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The air attacks on the enclave have increased while the Israeli army continues to demand the population evacuate to the south

Civil society groups are organizing vigils, murals and banners for the more than 200 people kidnapped in the enclave, while Israel decides whether to negotiate their release or try to rescue them

Several hundred worshipers are taking refuge in two churches, which have been stock piled with supplies. One of them, however, was hit by an Israeli attack

The Hamas attack and Israel’s offensive are changing the rules of the game in the region, slowing down normalization efforts and putting many Arab nations in an uncomfortable position

People from all ranks have been called out for speaking too forcefully — or not forcefully enough — making it nearly impossible to come up with a unifying message when passions run deep on all sides

Hamas officials have said that if Israel starts a ground offensive in Gaza, Hezbollah will join the fighting

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who hosted the summit, again rejected any talk of driving Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians into the Sinai Peninsula and warned against the ‘liquidation of the Palestinian cause’

Warning signs abound on several fronts: an invasion of Gaza, violence in the West Bank, a Hezbollah attack, U.S. regional involvement, Islamic terrorism and Islamophobia

Palestinians on the Strip have only three liters of water a day, because Israel is blocking the supplies and energy needed to keep supply and distribution facilities running

Only 20 trucks moved in from Egypt, which the UN said was insufficient. More than 200 trucks carrying roughly 3,000 tons of assistance have been positioned near the Rafah crossing for days

Hundreds of soldiers surrounded by tanks and armored vehicles await the order to advance and occupy the Strip by land as part of a three-phase plan announced by the Israeli Minister of Defense

The proposal faces a tough path to approval: the Republican-led House of Representatives, which must agree to it, remains paralyzed and without a speaker

Demonstrators headed to Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank and gathered in Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Yemen and other countries

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant explains the stages of his country’s political and military plans in the Strip. Bombardments and the imminent ground incursion are the first step

Beijing sent a special envoy to the Middle East to push for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the latest sign of its ambition to play a larger role in the region

The threats came after the Council on American-Islamic Relations updated banquet programming to focus on human rights issues for Palestinians. The group is urging members of Congress to promote a ceasefire in Gaza

Oil markets are already stretched by cutbacks in oil production from Saudi Arabia and Russia and expected stronger demand from China, the head of the International Energy Agency said

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres flew to Egypt to try to unblock the delivery of urgently needed food, water and medicine. Dozens of trucks are waiting at the Rafah crossing on the border

The historian says that an Israeli reoccupation of the Gaza Strip would only incite more resistance

Cairo is preparing to open the Rafah border with the Strip to allow the passage of humanitarian aid after 14 days of war

The humanitarian crisis is deepening in the south of the Strip, where people fled after Israel’s ultimatum. But many are finding that they are not safe there either

The Pentagon has stressed that the arrival of warships in the region is not designed to engage in military action together with Israel: ‘There is no intention to put US boots on the ground in combat’

The U.S. president delivered a prime-time televised speech to defend the need for aid to Kyiv and Israel

The network made this decision ‘out of an abundance of caution for the thousands of employees, crew members, artists, fans, and partners’

The Israeli army has never succeeded in destroying the underground network of communications, shelters, command posts and hostage cells used by the Islamist militia within the Strip