Israel, Hamas accused of violating international humanitarian law that protects hospitals during war
The battles around Shifa on Saturday raised an urgent question: When do medical facilities lose special protection under international humanitarian law?
Arab and Muslim nations want ICC to probe war crimes, crimes against humanity by Israel
Dozens of leaders including Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was welcomed back into the Arab League this year, attended.
Israel faces pressure over Gaza deaths as fighting rages near hospitals, number of dead tops 11,000
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said world leaders should be condemning Hamas, and not Israel. “These crimes that Hamas (is) committing today in Gaza will be committed tomorrow in Paris, New York and anywhere in the world,” Netanyahu said.
‘From the river to the sea’: How six words fuel fatal antisemitism and passion over Israel-Hamas war
In the months before and during the 1948 war, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from what is now Israel. Many expected to return. Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 war. In 2005, Israel withdrew from Gaza, and in 2007, Hamas claimed the tiny strip from the Palestinian Authority after a violent coup.
US forces under fire in Middle East as fear rises Islamic militants are provoking America to respond
It’s unclear how President Joe Biden would respond to a major attack that kills a large number of Americans. Struggling in opinion polls ahead of next year’s presidential election, Biden has so far sought to limit the US role in the conflict mostly to ensuring military aid to Israel.
Nearly 10,600 Palestinians killed as Israeli troops fight Hamas in north Gaza, shell-blast buildings
Palestinian officials said 10,569 Gaza residents had been killed as of Wednesday, about 40 per cent of them children, while a humanitarian crisis has gripped the enclave, with basic supplies running out and buildings demolished by unrelenting Israeli bombardments.
UN repeats calls for humanitarian pause as Israel trains its guns on Gaza’s tunnel network
With the war now entering its second month, UN officials and G7 nations stepped up appeals for a humanitarian pause in the hostilities to help alleviate the suffering in Gaza, where buildings have been flattened and basic supplies are running out. Palestinian officials say more than 10,000 people have been killed, 40 per cent of them children.
Israel attacks target Hamas militants’ tunnel network in Gaza as death toll crosses 10,200
Since October 7, Israeli bombardment has killed more than 10,200 Palestinians, around 40 per cent of them children, according to counts by health officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Israel appears to be bowing to pressure to pause Gaza attacks to allow aid, hostages movement
The Israeli military on Monday released video of tanks moving through bombed-out streets and groups of troops moving on foot. It says it has surrounded Gaza City, cutting off northern parts of the narrow coastal strip from the south.
Israeli troops surround Gaza City, cut off northern part of besieged Hamas-ruled territory
The situation remains dire in the north. Some 800,000 people have heeded Israeli military orders to flee to southern Gaza, even though Israel had continued airstrikes in the area. Strikes in central and southern Gaza – the purported safe zone – killed at least 53 people on Sunday.
