US President Joe Biden, in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, stressed the urgent need to conclude a Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal and pointed to coming …
A senior Biden administration official travelling with Blinken said the US expects the ceasefire talks to continue this week. Blinken travelled to Egypt for talks on Tuesday with President Abdel-Fattah …
Israel has imposed a siege on the long-blockaded territory soon after the unprecedented Hamas attack, effectively leaving Philadelphi corridor – the Israeli name for the route Egyptians and Palestinians call …
Israel, which has repeatedly vowed to destroy Hamas after the Palestinian militant group attacked southern Israel on October 7, said on Wednesday its forces had taken over the 14-kilometre (8.5-mile) …
Israel also deepened its incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands have been seeking shelter from fighting, and where intensifying violence in recent days has …
Israeli tanks advanced to the centre of Rafah for the first time on Tuesday, witnesses said, three weeks into a ground offensive in the southern Gaza city that has stirred …
The border zone between the Gaza and Egypt should be under Israel’s control, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday as he predicted the war in the Palestinian enclave …