Month: January 1970

Hamas has indicated it is currently unable to identify and track down 40 Israeli hostages needed for the first phase of a ceasefire deal, according to an Israeli official and … Read More

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Gazan city of Rafah after Israel’s military ordered evacuations ahead of a ground offensive. Follow for live updates.

US President Joe Biden offered one of his sharpest rebukes of Israel’s handling of the war, describing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach as a “mistake” and calling for a … Read More

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled Rafah after the Israel Defense Forces ordered evacuations ahead of a ground offensive. Follow live updates.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a time for an invasion into Rafah, where an estimated 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering, has been set, but he didn’t give … Read More

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution calling on the Security Council to reconsider Palestinian membership to the UN, a significant but ultimately symbolic move that the US … Read More

Israel says it has withdrawn its forces from Khan Younis in southern Gaza, but that a “significant” force remains elsewhere in the strip.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would fight with its “fingernails” if necessary after President Joe Biden’s ultimatum that a major Israeli offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah would … Read More

World Central Kitchen and some Western leaders are calling for an independent investigation into an Israeli strike that killed seven of the group’s aid workers in Gaza. Follow for live … Read More

President Joe Biden told CNN on Wednesday he would halt some shipments of US weapons to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a major invasion of the city of … Read More