Israel-Hamas War

U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor’s warning of imminent famine in north Gaza.

There is a shortage of blankets and warm clothing, little wood for fires, and the tents and patched-together tarps families are living in have grown increasingly threadbare after months of heavy use.

Palestinian families are suing the State Department over U.S. support for Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which has killed tens of thousands of people and led to a humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave.

Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorate over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian medical officials say new Israeli airstrikes have killed over 30 people including children.

Humanitarian aid to northern Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days.

An Israeli American soldier who was thought to have been taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, was actually killed, Israel says.

A former Israeli defense minister is accusing his country of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says it is halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into Gaza because of the threat of armed gangs who have looted recent convoys.

The mother of Israeli American hostage Edan Alexander told NBC News she was both shaken and relieved to see her son in a Hamas-issued propaganda video.

The attacks Sunday come days after a US-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the war between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

A vehicle carrying World Central Kitchen workers was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, the organization said this morning in a post on X.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a televised address where he discussed a plan for a ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 66 people were wounded in the strikes, which were the fourth in central Beirut in less than a week.

On Thursday, the International Criminal Court issued warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.

In September, he said Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate, and that its military has gone beyond the rules of war.

Five new arrests were made after what authorities say was antisemitic violence surrounding an Israeli soccer team. Israeli fans also attacked a taxi and burned a Palestinian flag.

International aid groups say Israel has failed to meet U.S. demands that it allow greater humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip where conditions are worse than at any point in the 13-month-old war.

Israel said Monday it had terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza.

Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.