- Israeli forces took control earlier in May of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in a push...
The operation "will continue as additional forces will enter" the Rafah area, Gallant said
Israel's top ally the United States has warned that it had not seen any credible Israeli plan to protect civilians in Rafah
- Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday said the movement will be involved in deciding post-war rule in Gaza along with other Palestinian...
Haniyeh also said the fate of truce talks was uncertain because of Israel's "insistence on occupying the Rafah crossing and on its expansion of the aggression."
His comments came after Netanyahu said any discussion on who rules Gaza after the war was just "empty talk" as long as Hamas remains in the territory
- The United Nations said Tuesday that nearly 450,000 people had been displaced from Rafah since Israel first began issuing evacuation...
The international community, including Israel's top ally Washington, had urged Israel to refrain from launching a ground offensive in Rafah
But Netanyahu insisted that "the humanitarian catastrophe that was spoken about did not materialise, nor will it"
- Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike on a car in the country's south killed two people Tuesday, with a...
Hezbollah said that one of its fighters, a field commander, Hussein Makki, was "martyred on the road to Jerusalem'
At least 413 people have been killed in Lebanon in seven months of cross-border violence,
- Fighting has flared in north Gaza four months after the army said Hamas's command structure there had been dismantled, and...
Clashes have rocked the densely crowded far southern city of Rafah but also flared again in northern and central Gaza months after troops and tanks first entered those areas
US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel on Tuesday said that while Washington backed military pressure on Hamas, it was not the only way to "fully defeat" the group
- Syrian state news agency SANA reported that an unspecified number of people had arrived from Lebanon as part of the...
Around 330 people had registered to be part of the "voluntary return"
Lebanon, which has been mired in a crushing economic crisis since late 2019, says it hosts around two million Syrians, the world's highest number of refugees per capita
- The city on the Egyptian border had been sheltering 1.4 million Palestinians, according to the United Nations, but Israel's military...
AFP correspondents in Gaza reported helicopter strikes and heavy artillery shelling in the east of Rafah, as well as battles in northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp
Israel last week defied a chorus of warnings - including from top ally Washington - and sent tanks and troops into the east of Rafah to pursue fighters
- Israel said its Kerem Shalom southern crossing with Gaza reopened on Wednesday, three days after being closed because of rocket...
Israeli tanks entered Rafah in southern Gaza on Tuesday, seizing control of the Palestinian side of the crossing from Egypt
The United Nations has said it has not been able to receive aid through Gaza's two main crossings in days
- Popplewell was kidnapped from his home during Hamas's October 7 attack along with his mother, Hanna Peri, who was released...
Earlier on Saturday, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades released an 11-second clip showing captive Nadav Popplewell alive and identifying himself
In the video, the footage was superimposed with text in Arabic and Hebrew that read: "Time is running out. Your government is lying."





















