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The February 2024 USAID cable was one of five sent in the first part of that year documenting the rapidly deteriorating health, food and sanitary conditions and breakdown of social order for Palestinians living in Gaza resulting from Israel's military campaign, six former U.S. officials told Reuters

• Palestinian territory’s civil defence agency says victims include children • Bloodshed comes after Tel Aviv announced it would reopen Rafah crossing today for ‘limited movement of people’ GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes killed 32 people including children in Gaza on Saturday, according to the Palestinian territory’s civil defence agency. Despite a US-brokered truce entering its second phase earlier this month, violence in the Palestinian territory has continued, with both Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the agreement. The latest bloodshed comes after Israel announced it would reopen the crucial Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Sunday (today) for the “limited movement of people”. “The death toll since dawn today has risen to 32, most of them children and women,” said the civil defence agency, a rescue force operating under the Hamas authority, updating an earlier toll of 28. “Residential apartments, tents, shelters and a police station were targeted, resulting in this humanitarian ca...

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Speaking at an Act x Palestine event, Guardiola spoke about children who lost their parents in the war in Gaza, and asked listeners to 'refuse to look away and instead become involved.' The soccer manager previously expressed fear of the situation due to Israel's war in the enclave

Protesters in Barcelona unveil a giant portrait of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl killed in the Israel-Hamas War, as her mother calls for global attention to Gaza's children.

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The dispute over the number of fatalities may be approaching an end, but the debate on their identities is still expected to trudge on. The Israeli public must ask itself what this belated recognition indicates about the army and the government's credibility regarding Israel's conduct in Gaza

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that it “looks like” Hamas would give up its weapons, a step the group has not confirmed, in what would be a major step forward in the fragile Gaza ceasefire with Israel. “A lot of people said they’ll never disarm. It looks like they’re going to disarm,” Trump told a cabinet meeting. Trump hailed cooperation with Hamas after Israeli forces brought back the remains of the last captive held in Gaza, Ran Gvili. “They did help us with those bodies, getting them back, and that family is so grateful,” Trump said. Trump had asked for an update on the Middle East from his roving special envoy Steve Witkoff, sitting in the side of the room as cabinet members and media listened. An upbeat Witkoff voiced high confidence in Hamas following through. “We’ve got the terrorists out of there and they’re going to demilitarise. They will because they have no choice,” Witkoff said. “They’re going to give it up. They’re going to give up the AK-47s,” he told Trump. Hamas has said that the...

The Shin bet chief's family ties to the suspect were published following a Haaretz request to lift a gag order. The suspect is charged with transferring goods from Israel to Gaza for pay

Netanyahu pledged that Gaza will be demilitarized and that its ruins will not be rebuilt until Hamas lays down its arms. In practice, the Strip is entering a phase of civilian reconstruction at an accelerated pace, and Hamas is managing to preserve its grip on civilian and economic life

Jonathan Dekel-Chen’s son Sagui spent 498 days in captivity in Gaza after he was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, on October 7, 2023.

Israel says it will open the Rafah border crossing to pedestrians in the coming days, potentially allowing some of the Gazans who fled the Strip to return. Three Palestinians from Gaza now living in exile explain why they aren't getting their hopes up

Hundreds of Israelis accompanied Gvili's funeral procession, after his body was returned from Gaza after 843 days. Gvili, 24, from Meitar, served as an officer in Israel Police's special patrol unit, and was killed in combat in Kibbutz Alumim

According to sources who spoke with Reuters, Hamas called on its civil servants and security personnel to cooperate with the U.S.-backed Palestinian technocratic committee set to oversee Gaza; This, as Hamas promises to disarm and relinquish power of the Strip to Trump-backed authorities

Now that the hostages and the fallen have been returned, following an unprecedented effort, Netanyahu must now grapple with the fine print of the cease-fire deal: from Hamas' remaining grip on Gaza to the blatant involvement of Qatar and Turkey. It is all coming to a head much sooner than he anticipated

The Gaza side of the Rafah crossing has been under Israeli military control since 2024 and is expected to open to traffic between Gaza and Egypt in the coming days. The lawyer representing the state said letting journalists into Gaza isn't an Israeli obligation

President Trump's Board of Peace claims to be limiting Israel's role in Gaza. In reality, the second phase of the cease-fire is designed to transfer the burden of controlling Gaza from Israel to regional powers – all while keeping the instruments of dominance firmly in Israeli hands

Israel said on Monday it would only allow pedestrians to travel through the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt as part of its “limited reopening” once it has recovered the remains of the last captive in the Palestinian territory. Reopening Rafah, a vital entry point for aid into Gaza, forms part of a truce framework announced by US President Donald Trump in October, but the crossing has remained closed since Israeli forces took control of it during the conflict in the besieged Palestinian territory. Visiting US envoys had reportedly pressed Israeli officials to reopen the crossing during talks in Jerusalem over the weekend. World leaders and aid agencies have repeatedly pushed for more humanitarian convoys to be able to access Gaza, which has been left devastated by more than two years of bombardment and depends on the inflow of essential medical equipment, food and other supplies. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Monday that Israel had agreed to a reopening “for pedestrian passage only, ...

It's clear that members of the IDF elite units, mainly intelligence, operations and air crews, demonstrated a high degree of conformity throughout the war. They are responsible for most of the civilian deaths in Gaza

Rümeysa Öztürk was detained after co-authoring an op-ed urging her university to 'acknowledge the Palestinian genocide' and divest from Israel-linked companies. Newly unsealed documents show Marco Rubio recommended deporting five foreign students over Gaza war activism despite free speech concerns