The situation described indicates an escalation in the ongoing conflict involving Israel and the Gaza Strip, specifically targeting Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. The mention of tanks pushing west suggests a ground offensive accompanying the aerial...

Hamas “remains confident” that it can survive the current war being waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip, US-based defence think tanks report, adding that the Palestinian group’s confidence in surviving has “solidified” since Israel scaled back military units deployed to...

Israel’s war cabinet member Benny Gantz is expected to resign from the emergency government on Saturday following the expiration of a deadline he set last month for developing a clear plan “to achieve victory” in Gaza. According to Israel’s public broadcaster KAN,...

The Associated Press (AP) news agency reports that Israel is privately objecting to a US attempt to pass a resolution at the UN Security Council that would lead to a ceasefire in Gaza. According to the AP, the US has circulated a revised draft of a UNSC resolution...

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP – one of the largest Black civil rights organisations in the US – said that his organisation had a “responsibility to speak out in the face of injustice” as it called on the US president to suspend arms sales to Israel....

UN Secretary-General António Guterres paid tribute to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) employees who were killed in Gaza. This recognition underscores the significant and often perilous work undertaken by UNRWA...