GAZA -- Gaza's health ministry reported on Monday that the Palestinian death toll due to ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has climbed to 31,112.

GAZA - Amina Al-Ashi, a mother of six in the Gaza Strip, has never been as scared of a holiday as she is ahead of this Ramadan.

GAZA -- At least 13 Palestinians, including children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian medical sources and eyewitnesses said Saturday.

An event calling for a cease-fire in Gaza was held in Washington DC on Feb 26. Josephine Gilbert, a US intelligence officer with 17 years of military service, said: "Our technology allows us to see exactly who is in these locations and buildings. So they [the Israeli military] know exactly who's in there and how many children are in there when they're targeting and bombing homes." She also called the US government "corrupt to the core".

GAZA -- A Hamas official said on Thursday that Israel aimed to secure the release of its hostages without agreeing to the conditions set by the movement, a demand Hamas deemed "impossible."

JERUSALEM -- Israel's military said on Thursday it launched an internal investigation into the failures that led up to Hamas's attack on Oct 7, 2023, which caught Israel off guard and resulted in the deaths and kidnapping of hundreds of Israelis.

Ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, have adopted a joint resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional cease-fire in Gaza and resumption of international aid for refugees, as Saudi Arabia reiterated its support for a two-state solution.

CAIRO - There are difficulties in the negotiations hosted by Egypt to reach a truce between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, Egypt's Al-Qahera News TV reported Tuesday.

ANKARA - Turkiye is ready to assume its responsibilities within the framework of the guarantor mechanism as part of its efforts to end the Israel-Hamas conflict, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS -- A Chinese envoy on Tuesday urged Israel to cease discrediting the "two-state solution."

UNITED NATIONS - UN General Assembly (UNGA) President Dennis Francis on Monday called for action to end violence and suffering in Gaza.

WASHINGTON - US Vice President Kamala Harris met Monday with a member of Israel's cabinet prosecuting the war in Gaza, urging an immediate ceasefire and the increase and safe distribution of humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in need.

Harris' meeting with Benny Gantz, former Israeli defense minister and deputy prime minister, came one day after the vice president gave what appeared to be the most strongly-worded call to date from the Joe Biden administration for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

CAIRO -- Gaza-ruling Hamas continued talks here on Monday with mediators from Egypt, Qatar, and the United States to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.

CAIRO - Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Sunday that depriving the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip of basic life-saving aid is tantamount to a "death sentence and collective punishment".

GAZA - At least 30 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in Israeli overnight airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security and medical sources said on Sunday.