GAZA: Israeli troops carried out building-by-building searches at Gaza's main hospital, as a new communications blackout in the territory on Friday compounded fears for Palestinian civilians trapped inside the facility. Israel's brutal air bombardment and ground operation has killed more than 11,500 Palestinians, including thousands of
GENEVA: The United Nations human rights chief highlighted allegations of serious rights violations in the Israel-Hamas war that he said needed "full accountability". Volker Turk said "extremely serious allegations of multiple and profound breaches of international humanitarian law, whoever commits them, demand rigorous investigation and full
GENEVA: Only a trickle of humanitarian aid is being allowed to enter besieged Gaza as Israel forces press on with their military campaign in response to Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. UN agencies and the Red Cross have warned of a "humanitarian disaster"
GAZA: Israeli forces reached the gates of Gaza City's main hospital on Monday, the primary target in their battle to seize control of the northern half of the Gaza Strip, where medics said patients including newborn babies were dying for lack of fuel. There was also
GAZA: The Gaza Strip has suffered its deadliest day in 15 years in the wake of an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel, to which Israel responded with air strikes that killed nearly 300 Palestinians in 24 hours, according to Palestinian officials. The dead included three-month-old
JERUSALEM: Hundreds of Palestinian and Israeli women rallied in Jerusalem and the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank, calling for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We want peace,” chanted the demonstrators, many dressed in white and holding placards that read “Stop killing our children”. “Our
JERUSALEM: Five members of an Arab family were shot dead in their home in Israel, police said on Wednesday, in the latest in a wave of crime-related killings in Israel's Arab communities that has reached a new peak this year. The shooting of the five, including
RIYADH: Israel's tourism minister reached Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in the first official trip by an Israeli cabinet member to the kingdom to attend a UN tourism conference, according to his office. Minister Haim Katz has reached Riyadh as part of a two-day trip that comes
JERUSALEM: Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists near the Dead Sea, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Thursday. The cache of exceptionally intact
Beijing: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is invited to visit China for the fourth time with the authorities in Tel Aviv intimating about their leader’s anticipated trip to Beijing, according to Prime Minister's office Tuesday. The projected visit’s announcement was made when there was a strain