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

09:13 2024-03-14
Israel's parliament passes amended budget as Gaza war continues
People inspect damages of their home following an Israeli raid in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, March 12, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]
20:09 2024-03-11
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 31,112: ministry
People walk on a street with destroyed buildings in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on March 8, 2024.[Photo/Xinhua]

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.

09:07 2024-03-11
Palestinians in Gaza observe joyless Ramadan under shadow of bloodshed
People shop at a market ahead of Ramadan in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on March 10, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

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.

04:20 2024-03-10
13 killed in Israeli airstrike on house in central Gaza

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.

03:47 2024-03-09
At least 5 Palestinians killed in aid airdrop malfunction in NW Gaza
Aid parcels are airdropped over the northern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. [Photo/Agencies]
06:07 2024-03-08
Senior US intelligence official reveals details of Israeli bombing of Gaza

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".

04:33 2024-03-08
Hamas says no hostage release without meeting its conditions
Smoke rises as the Israel-Palestine conflict continues, as seen from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov 22, 2023. [Photo/Agencies]

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."

01:02 2024-03-08
Israeli army launches probe into failures leading up to Oct 7 Hamas attack
Smoke rises after an explosion in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as seen from Israel's border with Gaza in southern Israel on March 7. [Photo/Agencies]

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.

19:59 2024-03-07
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 30,800: ministry
Smoke rises from Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Israel's border with Gaza in southern Israel on March 6. [Photo/Agencies]
09:20 2024-03-07
Call for unconditional truce intensifies before Ramadan
By JAN YUMUL in Hong Kong
A girl touches decorative lights and lanterns at a shop in Deir al-Balah in Gaza on Sunday as Muslims prepare for the holy fasting month of Ramadan. AFP

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.

09:29 2024-03-06
Cairo talks for Gaza truce 'difficult': Egyptian official
A man is seen inside a house demolished by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus, on March 4, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

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.

09:21 2024-03-06
Turkiye ready to act as guarantor in resolving Gaza conflict: Erdogan
Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ankara, Turkiye, March 5, 2024. [Photo/Agencies]

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.

05:25 2024-03-06
Chinese envoy urges Israel to cease discrediting two-state solution'
Smoke rises from Gaza near the Israel-Gaza border as seen from Israel on March 4. [Photo/Agencies]

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

01:27 2024-03-06
Jordan conducts 8 joint airdrops of aid to Gaza
A picture released on March 5, 2024, by the Jordanian Armed Forces website shows parcels being air-dropped over Gaza. [Photo/Agencies]
18:40 2024-03-05
UN agency warns of threat to its presence in Gaza amid conflict
This file photo taken on Feb 22 shows the exterior of the UNRWA building in Beirut, Lebanon. [Photo/Agencies]
09:25 2024-03-05
UNGA president calls for great efforts to resolve Gaza crisis
A Palestinian checks a room of a damaged building after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on March 2, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

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

09:13 2024-03-05
Harris urges ceasefire, more aid at meeting with Israeli war cabinet member

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.

23:04 2024-03-04
Efforts for Gaza ceasefire continue on 2nd day of Cairo talks
Smoke rises from Gaza near the Israel-Gaza border as seen from Israel on March 4. [Photo/Agencies]

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

09:28 2024-03-04
AL chief denounces deprivation of life-saving aid for Palestinians
A girl with a pot is seen on a street in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on March 1, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

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".

09:16 2024-03-04
30 Palestinians killed in Israeli overnight airstrikes in Gaza: sources
People gather around a destroyed building after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, March 3, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

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.

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