Gaza
Gaza receives largest aid shipment so far as deaths top 8,000 and Israel widens military offensive
World News The toll is without precedent in decades of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Over 1,400 people have died on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during the initial attack. Palestinian supporters shout slogans as they cross the Brooklyn Bridge during a demonstration demanding a cease-fire on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) […]
Israeli defense minister says the Gaza war has entered a new stage with an expanded ground operation
World News The military released grainy images Saturday showing tank columns moving slowly in open areas of Gaza. Friends and relatives of Roi Popplewell mourn during his funeral at Kibbutz Yagur near Haifa, northern Israel, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) AP By ISABEL DEBRE, JULIA FRANKEL and SAM MAGDY, Associated Press October 28, […]
Israel strikes the outskirts of Gaza City during a second ground raid in as many days
World News The airstrikes have flattened entire neighborhoods, causing a level of death and destruction unseen in the last four wars between Israel and Hamas. Palestinians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes on the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman By WAFAA SHURAFA and […]
Israeli troops carry out an hourslong ground raid into Gaza before an expected wider incursion
World News The rising death toll in Gaza, which soared past 7,000 on Thursday, according to Palestinian officials, is unprecedented in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes on town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman By NAJIB JOBAIN, KAREEM CHEHAYEB […]
Israel increases strikes on Gaza and 2 more hostages are freed. UN says aid sent so far is a trickle.
World News With Israel still barring the entry of fuel, the U.N. said aid distribution would soon grind to a halt when it can no longer fuel trucks inside Gaza. Palestinians inspect the damage of destroyed houses after Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. AP Photo/Abed Khaled By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY […]
Israel strikes across Gaza after allowing another small aid convoy into the besieged enclave
World News Fears of a widening war have grown as Israeli warplanes have struck targets in the occupied West Bank, Syria and Lebanon in recent days. Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. AP Photo/Ariel Schalit By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and JOSEPH KRAUSS, […]
Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts
World News Israel repeated its calls for people to leave northern Gaza, including by dropping leaflets from the air. Palestinians rescue a woman after an Israeli airstrike on buildings of the Abu Asad family in Deir el-Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah) AP By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI […]
Israel pounds Gaza, evacuates town near Lebanon ahead of expected ground offensive against Hamas
World News Over a million people have been displaced in Gaza, with many heeding Israel’s orders to evacuate the northern part of the sealed-off coastal enclave. An Israel soldier gestures to passers-by as he drives a military vehicle near the border between Israel and Gaza Strip, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. AP Photo/Francisco Seco By […]
Palestinians trapped in Gaza find nowhere is safe during Israel’s relentless bombing
World News Even after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate the north and head to what it called “safe zones” in the south, strikes continued overnight throughout the densely populated territory. A Palestinian boy sits on the rubble of the building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Bureij refugee camp Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. […]
At least 500 people killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza City hospital, Health Ministry says
World News Photos from al-Ahli Hospital showed fire engulfing the hospital halls, shattered glass, and body parts scattered across the area. Palestinian paramedics cry outside Al-Shifa Hospital, a different hospital, in Gaza City on Monday. DAWOOD NEMER/AFP via Getty Images KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Gaza Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike Tuesday […]