The United Nations and partners have warned that famine could occur in northern Gaza as early as this month. Humanitarian officials say deliveries by sea and air are not enough and that Israel must allow far more aid by road
The majority of members of the Security Council and numerous experts reject this reading and believe that the text is binding, even if the organization does not have the coercive power to make sure Israel and Hamas adhere to it
The International Court of Justice issued two new so-called provisional measures in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of acts of genocide in its military campaign launched in the Palestinian territory
The United States has called for a revitalized PA to administer postwar Gaza ahead of eventual statehood
The former Israeli minister says that the passage of the Gaza ceasefire resolution shows that Biden is ‘fed up’ with Netanyahu, and believes the Israeli prime minister is convinced that Washington wants him out
The Gaza war has brought relations between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu to their lowest point yet
The meeting in Washington came a day after Netanyahu canceled the visit of two of his advisors to the U.S. capital to discuss alternatives to the announced offensive on Rafah
After the vote, in which the U.S. abstained, Israel canceled a planned visit to Washington by a high-level delegation
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest Catholic authority in the Holy Land, says the competing narratives of Israelis and Palestinians must be understood to avoid ‘falling into the temptation of dehumanizing others’
Twenty-four newborns were evacuated to Egypt during the Israeli army’s assault. Three have died and nine of them have nowhere to go
Washington’s proposal, which came in parallel to its mediation on the ground with Egypt and Qatar, received 11 votes in favor, 3 against and 1 abstention
Thirteen years of war has left 90% of Syria’s population below the poverty line. The U.N. World Food Program ended its main assistance program in January
The Justin Trudeau government has resumed funding to the UNRWA and said it wants ‘lasting peace in the Middle East, including towards the establishment of the State of Palestine’
Washington has vetoed all the truce proposals submitted to the Security Council so far. If the cessation of hostilities were to go ahead, it would not automatically mean an end to the war
Some analysts pointed out that splitting from Ben & Jerry’s, which is known for social activism that has put it at odds at times with its corporate owner, could have an added upside for Unilever
President Biden on Monday warned Israeli PM Netanyahu that an attack on Rafah would ‘deepen the anarchy’ in the Palestinian enclave, where aid agencies warn that a famine is imminent
The World Food Program says virtually everyone in Gaza is struggling to get enough food, and that around 677,000 people — nearly a third of the population of 2.3 million — are experiencing the highest level of catastrophic hunger
Israel’s army arrested more than 80 people in what it called a ‘precise operation’ based on information that Hamas was using the medical compound
The Israeli prime minister said Democrat Chuck Schumer’s address, which called for new elections in Israel, was ‘wholly inappropriate’
Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11 attacks, and denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate
The U.S. president has praised Senator Chuck Schumer’s address, which described the Israeli prime minister as an ‘obstacle to peace’
‘He made a good speech,’ the president said in the Oval Office during a meeting with Ireland’s prime minister. ‘I think he expressed serious concerns shared not only by him but by many Americans’
The war, which has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of of 23 million, began as peaceful protests against Bashar Assad’s government in March 2011
Mohammad Mustafa, a U.S.-educated economist and political independent, will head a technocratic government in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that could potentially administer Gaza ahead of eventual statehood
Schumer, the first Jewish majority leader in the Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S., strongly criticized Netanyahu in a 40-minute speech on the Senate floor
Adding a hypersonic missile to their arsenal could pose a more-formidable challenge to the air defense systems employed by America and its allies, including Israel
A pacifist organization is attacked for its failed attempt to transport food into the Palestinian enclave. Most of the population believes that humanitarian assistance ends up in the hands of Hamas
