AFP Heavy combat and bombardment hit Gaza City and other parts of the Palestinian territory on Friday as mediators pushed on with efforts to halt the war raging into its tenth month. US President Joe
AFP Two Hamas leaders rejected on Thursday Israeli allegations that the Palestinian militant group was backtracking on elements of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal announced the day before.
Palestinians who had taken refuge in Rafah, leave the city to return to Khan Yunis after Israel pulled its ground forces out of the southern Gaza Strip, on April 7, 2024. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
AFP Israel said Monday it would “take control” of the whole of Gaza as it intensified attacks across the territory, where aid trickled in for the first time in over two months after the easing of a to
People leave floral tributes at the promenade of Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 17, 2025, to honour victims of the shooting that took place there on December 14. Australia held the first funeral on
Protesters holds banners as they march to call for the release of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian militants in Gaza since the October attacks, in Jerusalem on July 7, 2024, amid the ongoing confl
Protesters hold placards and wave flags during a demonstration calling for the release of hostages held captive in Gaza by Palestinian militants since the October 7 attacks, outside the Defence Minist
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 22, 2024 shows former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accepting his party’s nomination on the last day of the
Children gathered around the vehicle used by aid group, World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli bomb/Photo: AFP AFP UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called the deaths of seve
AFP Oil prices tumbled Tuesday on reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden he would not strike Iran’s crude or nuclear facilities. Crude prices were also pull
AFP The UN stressed on Monday the urgent need for ceasefires in both Lebanon and Gaza to avert a broader regional conflict with ramifications for the whole world. “A ceasefire that is sustained by a m
AFP Poland’s president has urged the government not to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he attend the Auschwitz liberation anniversary event later this month, his office said Th
Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians are pictured at the Yarmuk Sports Stadium, once a football arena, in Gaza City on November 19, 2024, as the war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and
Children walk as displaced Palestinians leave an area in east Khan Yunis after the Israeli army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 1, 202
People protest against the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, ICE immigration raids, and in support of Palestinians during a demonstration outside the Westwood Federal Building in the Westwood neighborho
Israeli security forces patrol the scene where fragments of a Huthi ballistic missile launched from Yemen at Israel crashed in the central Israeli town of Bet Shemesh, near Jerusalem, on December 31,
AFP Hamas on Friday said it “considers positively” an Israeli roadmap towards a full Gaza ceasefire announced by US President Joe Biden, who urged an end to the almost eight-month war. But swiftly aft
AFP Israel has agreed pauses in its offensive in northern Gaza that will allow some civilians to flee heavy fighting, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any broader ceasefire as a “surren
AFP Hamas said Wednesday it would not bow down to threats from Israel and the United States, which demanded the militant group release hostages this weekend or face a return to war in Gaza. Mediators
AFP US President Joe Biden called the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for top Israeli leaders “outrageous” in a statement Thursday. “Whatever the ICC might imply, there is no equivalenc