Israel-Palestine category, Page 5
22 Palestinians killed in Gaza as Israeli forces fire on crowds at food aid sites, medics say
CAIRO — Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and wounded 20 others, many while attempting to get desperately needed food aid in southern Gaza on Monday, according to witnesses, hospitals, and Gaza’s Health Ministry. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it received the bodies of 11 people who were...
Israeli strikes kill at least 72 people in Gaza as ceasefire prospects move closer
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes killed at least 72 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, as ceasefire prospects were said to be improving after 21 months of war. Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in...
Israeli strike kills 18 Palestinians in central Gaza as turmoil mounts over food distribution
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike hit a street in central Gaza on Thursday where witnesses said a crowd of people was getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from gangs looting aid convoys. Hospital officials said 18 people were killed....
Trump says U.S. and Iranian officials will talk next week as ceasefire holds
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran appeared to be holding on Wednesday while U.S. President Donald Trump asserted that U.S. and Iranian officials will talk next week, giving rise to cautious hope for longer-term peace even as Tehran insisted it will not give up...
Palestinian health authorities say Israel kills 25 waiting on aid as war death toll exceeds 56,000
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, Palestinian witnesses and hospitals said, as health authorities said the number of Palestinians killed in the war has risen above 56,000....
Pa. Sens. Fetterman, McCormick support attack on Iran, but Reps. Lee, Deluzio question Trump’s authority
The Pittsburgh region’s congressional delegation shared mixed views after President Donald Trump announced U.S. airstrikes against three Iranian targets thought to be part of Iran’s nuclear program. Both of Pennsylvania’s senators, John Fetterman, D-Braddock, and Dave McCormick, R-Squirrel Hill, and one of its Republican congressmen, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Peters, voiced...
Iranian missiles hit a hospital and wound over 200. Israel threatens Iran’s top leader
BEERSHEBA, Israel — Israel’s defense minister threatened Iran’s supreme leader on Thursday after Iranian missiles crashed into a major hospital in southern Israel and hit residential buildings near Tel Aviv, wounding at least 240 people. As rescuers wheeled patients out of the smoldering hospital, Israeli warplanes launched their latest attack...
What to know about the conflict between Israel and Iran
ATHENS, Greece — Israel’s blistering attack with warplanes and drones against Iran’s nuclear and military structure has sparked an open conflict between the two long-time foes that threatens to spiral into a wider, more dangerous regional war. Since Friday, Israeli strikes have killed more than 200 people in Iran, including...
34 Palestinians killed in new shootings near food distribution centers, medics say
DEIR AL-B, Gaza Strip — At least 34 Palestinians were killed Monday in new shootings in areas of Israeli- and U.S.-supported food distribution centers in the south of the Gaza Strip, the local Health Ministry said. The toll was the deadliest yet in the near-daily shootings that have taken place...
Hamas says it killed 12 Israeli-backed fighters that Israeli-supported group says were aid workers
CAIRO — A unit of Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed Palestinian militia after detaining them early Thursday. An Israel-supported aid group, however, said the dead were its aid workers, eight of whom were killed when Hamas attacked their bus. It was not immediately...
Israel deports Greta Thunberg after Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized
JERUSALEM — Israel deported activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, the country’s Foreign Ministry said, a day after the Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized by the Israeli military. Thunberg left on a flight to France and was then headed to her home country of Sweden, the Foreign Ministry said...
A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel
TEL AVIV, Israel — A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, the Foreign Ministry said. In a post on X, it said the boat “is safely making its way to the shores of Israel.” The passengers “are expected to return to their...
Gaza marks the start of Eid with outdoor prayers in the rubble and food growing ever scarcer
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinians across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip marked the start of one of Islam’s most important holidays with prayers outside destroyed mosques and homes early Friday, with little hope the war with Israel will end soon. With much of Gaza in rubble, men and children were...
U.S.- and Israeli-backed group pauses food delivery in Gaza after deadly shootings
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli- and U.S.-backed group paused food delivery at its three distribution sites in the Gaza Strip after health officials said dozens of Palestinians were killed in a series of shootings near the sites this week. Israeli strikes across the territory, meanwhile, killed 26 people...
Gaza officials say Israeli forces killed 27 heading to aid site; Israel says it fired near suspects
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinian health officials and witnesses say Israeli forces fired on people as they headed toward an aid distribution site on Tuesday, killing at least 27, in the third such incident in three days. The army said it fired “near a few individual suspects” who left the...
Hungry Palestinians in Gaza block and offload dozens of UN food trucks
TEL AVIV, Israel — Palestinians in the Gaza Strip blocked and offloaded dozens of food trucks, the U.N. World Food Program said Saturday, as desperation mounts following Israel’s monthslong blockade while talks of a ceasefire inch forward. The WFP said 77 trucks carrying aid, mostly flour, were stopped by hungry...
A Palestinian describes 15 minutes of terror trying to get food in the new Gaza distribution system
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Shehada Hijazi woke at dawn. It was his best chance, he thought, to get his hands on a package of food at a new distribution site run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed foundation in the Gaza Strip. Thousands of others, equally desperate to feed their...
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 14, medics say
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 14 people in the Gaza Strip, hospital officials said Friday, while Hamas was reviewing a new Israeli-approved ceasefire proposal after giving it an initial cool response. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy had expressed optimism this week about brokering an agreement that could halt the Israel-Hamas...
Israel authorizes more settlements in the occupied West Bank. Strikes on Gaza kill 13, officials say
JERUSALEM — Israel said Thursday it would establish 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalization of outposts already built without government authorization. Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip meanwhile killed at least 13 people overnight, local health officials said. Israel captured the West Bank, along with...
Israel’s Netanyahu says senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar killed
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, apparently confirming his death in a recent airstrike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip. Speaking before parliament on Wednesday, Netanyahu included Sinwar in a list of Hamas leaders killed by Israel in the war-battered enclave. Mohammed is...
1 killed, 48 wounded when crowd was fired upon at chaotic Gaza aid site, health officials say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — At least one Palestinian was killed and 48 others wounded when a crowd was fired upon while overrunning a new aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip set up by an Israeli and U.S.-backed foundation, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday. Crowds of Palestinians on Tuesday...
Israel’s latest strikes in Gaza kill 38 people including childrenVideo
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours killed at least 38 people in Gaza, including children, local health officials said Sunday, with no data available for a second straight day from now-inaccessible hospitals in the north. Further details emerged of the Palestinian doctor who lost...
At least 60 people killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza as Israel lets minimal aid in
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — At least 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza in a 24-hour period, Gaza’s health ministry said Friday, as Israel pressed ahead with its military offensive and let in minimal aid to the strip. The dead included 10 people in the southern city...
Who were the Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead days before getting engaged?
They were colleagues, and they were a couple, days away from a marriage proposal. But the interwoven lives of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were brutally cut short Wednesday evening, when the two Israeli Embassy staffers were shot while leaving a young diplomats’ reception at the Capital Jewish Museum. The...
Mothers and their babies face starvation in Gaza, where hospitals are overwhelmed
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Grabbing her daughter’s feeble arm, Asmaa al-Arja pulls a shirt over the 2-year-old’s protruding ribs and swollen belly. The child lies on a hospital bed, heaving, then wails uncontrollably, throwing her arms around her own shoulders as if to console herself. This isn’t the first...
