Middle East
Gaza’s catastrophic food shortage means mass death is imminent, monitor says
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Dan Williams and Aidan Lewis Reuters Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine ...Cease-fire talks with Israel and Hamas expected to restart
BY SAMY MAGDY AP Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to restart in earnest ...Israeli strikes kill at least 29 Gazans awaiting aid, say Palestinian officials
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi Reuters At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip ...Despair deepens for families of hostages in Gaza as Ramadan cease-fire deadline passes
By JULIA FRANKEL,Associated Press A brother contemplated suicide. A sister stopped going to school. A father barely speaks. With each passing day, the ...Gazans break fast without ‘joy of Ramadan’ as Israel-Hamas war grinds on
By Adel Zaanoun with Cecile Feuillatre in Jerusalem AFP The first day of Ramadan came and went in Gaza, with residents marking ...Israel-Hamas war rages in besieged Gaza as Ramadan begins
ByWAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians began fasting for Ramadan on Monday as the Muslim ...US, UK, French military shoot down Houthi drones after attack on bulk carrier, destroyers
U.S., French and British forces downed dozens of drones in the Red Sea area overnight and on Saturday after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk ...Gaza girl emerges from rubble days after Israeli raid killed family
Tears in his eyes, Mohammed al-Sabbagh shouts into a mobile phone, imploring his niece on the other end to “be strong” as ...Israel strikes landmark residential tower in southern Rafah as truce talks stall
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Bassam Masoud Thomson Reuters Israel struck one of the largest residential towers in Rafah in the southern Gaza ...After months of warnings that Israel’s siege is causing famine, children begin to die in ...
By MOHAMED JAHJOUH, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH,Associated Press After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, ...