The Pakistan-Saudi pact was signed just months after Pakistan and India fought an intense four-day conflict in May that killed...
A US naval strike group led by an aircraft carrier has deployed to Middle Eastern waters, the United States said Monday,...
In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Biden warned he would stop some US weapons supplies to Israel if it...An AFP correspondent and witnesses on Thursday reported Israeli strikes on several parts of Rafah, where the United Nations said 1.4 million people were sheltering
Israel has already defied international objections by sending in tanks and conducting what it called "targeted raids" in the east of Rafah
Israeli authorities destroyed around 50 homes belonging to Bedouins in the Negev desert on Wednesday, an AFP journalist reported, with...Israel considers the homes built in Wadi al-Khalil to be illegal
Only 11,000 bedouins remained within Israel's borders after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- Biden, a self-described Zionist, had long resisted stopping any of the $3 billion in weapons the United States sends each...
In an interview with CNN Biden also deplored the fact that civilians had been killed by the dropping of US bombs on the Palestinian territory
His fresh warning came after the US last week halted a shipment of huge American bombs to Israel as it appeared ready to proceed with a major attack on Rafah
- Rafah, Palestinian Territories - Displaced Gazan Marwan al-Masri, sheltering in Rafah, said on Wednesday "life has completely ceased" since Israeli tanks...
More than 1.4 million people had crammed into Rafah, a city on the Gaza Strip's southern border with Egypt, as Israeli forces pushed their way southward
Caught between Israeli shelling from the east, an Egyptian border to the south and the Mediterranean to the west, many fleeing Rafah went north
- Egypt's state-linked Al-Qahera News reported that mediators from Qatar, the United States and Egypt were meeting with a Hamas delegation.
A senior Hamas official warned this would be Israel's "last chance" to free the estimated 128 captives still held in Gaza, including 36 officials who are dead
Israel's offensive has killed at least 34,789 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the proposal "is far from Israel's essential demands", but the government will send...
The Hamas announcement brought cheering crowds onto the street amid tears of happiness, chants of "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") and celebratory shooting in the air
Israel's military meanwhile reiterated an earlier call for residents of east Rafah to evacuate as it prepares for a "ground operation" in the southern Gaza city
- The hawkish prime minister has insisted he will send ground troops into Rafah, despite strong concerns voiced by UN agencies...
Foreign mediators have been waiting for a Hamas response to a proposal to halt the fighting for 40 days and exchange hostages for Palestinian captives
A major stumbling block has been that, while Hamas has demanded a lasting ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue to fight
The EU Commission's spokesman said in Brussels the aid will be disbursed "in grants", with 736 million euros earmarked to..."I can announce a financial package of $1 billion for Lebanon that would be available from this year until 2027," the European Commission chief said
She said the aid was designed to strengthen basic services such as education and health amid a severe economic crisis
- A Hamas official said the group would respond "within a very short period" to a plan proposed by mediators to...
"Hamas needs to say yes and needs to get this done," said Blinken, who was in Israel on his seventh Middle East crisis tour since the war broke out in October
He later added: "If Hamas actually purports to care about the Palestinian people and wants to see an immediate alleviation of their suffering, it should take this deal."
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed calls for Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal Wednesday as he started talks...
Netanyahu: Israel will launch an invasion of Rafah "with or without" a ceasefire deal.
Aid is coming to Gaza but more is needed
