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The death toll has exceeded 40,000 since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on Oct 7, 2023.

19:33 2025-02-09
Israeli forces begin withdrawing from key Gaza corridor under ceasefire deal
Palestinians view the destruction after Israeli forces withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, near Gaza City, Feb 9, 2025. [Photo/Agencies]
09:45 2025-01-23
Israel's military push in West Bank decried
By JAN YUMUL and MIKE GU in Hong Kong
Vendors sell vegetables at a street market in Gaza City on Tuesday as a cease-fire takes hold in the enclave. OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP

The Palestinian government has condemned Israel's aggression in the occupied West Bank and urged US President Donald Trump to intervene as casualties continue to rise.

16:24 2025-01-21
Truce holding in Gaza amid rebuilding bid
By CUI HAIPEI in Dubai, UAE and MIKE GU in Hong Kong
Released hostage Romi Gonen embraces loved ones at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, in this handout image obtained by Reuters on Sunday. MAAYAN TOAF/REUTERS

Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Monday after Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages, completing the first exchange of a truce aimed at pausing 15 months of conflict in Gaza.

10:09 2025-01-14
Israel, Hamas edge closer to ceasefire in Gaza, but hurdles remain
Buildings lie in ruin in North Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as seen from Israel, Jan 13, 2025. [Photo/Agencies]

JERUSALEM - While obstacles persist, Israel and Hamas appeared to move closer on Monday to a potential ceasefire in Gaza, which would involve the release of hostages held for over 15 months.

09:22 2024-12-31
Israel claims 20 militants killed in Gaza hospital raid
By JAN YUMUL in Hong Kong
Women warm by the fire at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday. BASHAR TALEB/AFP

Israel's military said on Sunday that forces had killed about 20 Palestinian militants in a raid on a northern Gaza hospital, calling it one of its "largest operations" conducted in the territory.

21:09 2024-10-24
17 Palestinians killed by Israeli bombing on central Gaza school
Buildings stand damaged in a school turned into shelter for displaced Palestinians, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, Oct 24, 2024. [Photo/Agencies]
06:59 2024-10-09
Students march across New York on anniversary of Gaza conflict
By BELINDA ROBINSON in New York
Columbia University students organize dueling memorials and rallies both for Israel and Palestine in New York on Monday. ALEX KENT/AFP

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters, including students from Columbia University, City University of New York and more than a dozen other New York universities, walked out of class to march through the streets on Monday, the first anniversary of the Palestine-Israel conflict, triggered by the Oct 7, 2023, Hamas attacks.

06:51 2024-10-09
Iran warns Israel against attacks
By JAN YUMUL and MIKE GU in Hong Kong
Palestinians walk beneath the tilted minaret of a destroyed mosque in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City on Monday. OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP

Editor's note: As the world marked the anniversary of the Palestine-Israel conflict, triggered by Hamas' Oct 7 attacks on southern Israel, this page captures the heightened tensions and multifaceted conflicts gripping the Middle East and beyond. These reports reflect on the effect of recent developments and the broader pursuit of peace and justice.

14:11 2024-10-08
UN urges release of hostages, cease-fire
By MINLU ZHANG at the United Nations
UN Secretary General Antnio Guterres looks on at a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Oct 2, 2024. [Photo/Agencies]
07:00 2024-10-08
Peace still elusive as fears grow of another catastrophe
By PAN JIE
Syrian children sit in a makeshift camp in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday, after being displaced by Israeli airstrikes. CARL COURT/GETTY IMAGES

Negotiations have so far failed to produce peace one year after the conflict in the Gaza Strip broke out. Meanwhile, concerns have also been raised about Lebanon's future and whether the country could become another Gaza.

06:58 2024-10-08
Israel, US blamed for prolonging Gaza conflict
By JAN YUMUL in Hong Kong
Demonstrators hold candles during a pro-Palestinian vigil ahead of the anniversary of the Palestine-Israel conflict, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sunday. TOMAS CUESTA/AFP

Editor's note: Monday marked one year since the outbreak of the devastating Palestine-Israel conflict, triggered by Hamas' Oct 7, 2023, attacks. Beyond the statistics, this page delves into the global implications of unchecked violence, Washington's controversial role, and the growing demand for justice.

18:37 2024-10-03
Senior Hamas officials killed in airstrike on Gaza: Israeli military
(FILES) Hamas leaders Rawhi Mushtaha (C) and Khalil Al-Hayya (R) walk outside the VIP hall at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on March 15, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
13:28 2024-09-10
40 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza

GAZA -- At least 40 Palestinians were killed and more than 60 others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Palestinian and Israeli sources said Tuesday.

21:34 2024-07-07
Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas official in northern Gaza

GAZA -- Hamas's Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor Ehab al-Ghussein was killed in an Israeli airstrike west of Gaza City on Sunday, said Palestinian sources.

03:42 2024-07-07
Death toll from Israeli bombing in central Gaza rises to 16

GAZA -- At least 16 Palestinians were killed, most of them children and women, in an Israeli bombing of a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.

08:37 2024-07-06
Gaza cease-fire hopes rise as talks to resume
A Palestinian family gathers around a makeshift wood stove in a damaged building in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. BASHAR TALEB/AFP

CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden on Thursday he has decided to send a delegation to resume stalled negotiations on a hostage release deal with Hamas, their administrations said.

09:45 2024-07-03
China urges Israel to fulfill humanitarian obligations in Gaza

UNITED NATIONS -- China on Tuesday called on Israel to fulfill its obligations under international humanitarian law and heed the international community's call to ensure the rapid and safe entry of humanitarian supplies into Gaza.

In remarks at the UN Security Council briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, China's permanent representative to the United Nations Fu Cong highlighted the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, exacerbated by extreme shortages of essential supplies and dire health conditions.

09:28 2024-07-02
Netanyahu says Israel in 'final stage' of eliminating Hamas in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [Photo/Agencies]

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his country is in "the final stage" of eliminating Hamas' armed force in the Gaza Strip.

10:13 2024-07-01
Palestinian presidency rejects handover of Gaza to foreign forces
Palestinians walk in a market of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on June 20, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

RAMALLAH - The Palestinian presidency on Sunday rejected any foreign presence on Palestinian lands, in response to Israeli statements calling for the handover of the Gaza Strip to international forces.

09:12 2024-07-01
Conflict rages in north Gaza as thousands displaced
An injured Palestinian is brought to a hospital after an Israeli airstrike hit Bureij refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Saturday. Ashraf Amra via Getty Images

GAZA/JERUSALEM — Airstrikes and gunfire rattled northern Gaza over the weekend, where Israeli military operations have uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians and compounded what the UN called "unbearable" living conditions in the territory.

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