Gaza

Latest Stories

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | Israel says it’s prepared to fight for months to defeat Hamas

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers take part in a ground operation in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Moti Milrod, Haaretz)

Israel fights militants in Gaza’s main cities, with civilians still trapped in the crossfire

By Najib Jobain and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani listens to a question with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Qatar is the go-to mediator in the Israel-Hamas war. On Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, a Qatari jet landed at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport with an urgent task: save the cease-fire deal between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

Prospects for new cease-fire dim as Israel presses campaign in southern Gaza

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A Palestinian woman holds her child after an Israeli strike on her neighborhood in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel presses on with Gaza offensive after U.S. veto derails Security Council efforts to halt war

By Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Palestinians look at houses destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Human Rights Watch hits U.S. with war-crime alert after cease-fire veto

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Reporters raise their hands to ask questions as Foreign Ministers, from left, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki, Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi, and Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry, attend a news conference about the Israel-Hamas war, and pressure to reduce civilian casualties, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes statements with Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, on Dec. 7, 2023. Erdogan used a speech on human rights Saturday Dec. 9, 2023 to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

Turkey’s Erdogan accuses the West of ‘barbarism’ and Islamophobia in the war in Gaza

Associated Press

This handout photo provided by the Israel Prime Minister Office shows Shoshan Haran speaking on the phone upon her arrival in Israel after being freed. Shoshan was one of the 13 Israeli hostages that Hamas released late Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in the second round of swaps under a cease-fire deal. Step by step, the newly freed and their families are testing the ground for a path to recovery. No one, including the physicians and psychologists who have been treating them, is sure how to get there or how long it might take. (Israel Prime Minister Office/Handout via AP, File)

‘Shadows of children:’ For the youngest hostages, life moves forward in whispers

Associated Press

A Palestinian woman holds her child after an Israeli strike on her neighborhood in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel presses ahead with bombarding Gaza, including areas it told Palestinians to evacuate to

Associated Press

Smoke rises from the Gaza Strip after Israeli strikes on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | Israel strikes north and south Gaza after US vetoes a UN cease-fire resolution

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip arrive at a hospital in Khan Younis on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

White House aims to alleviate suffering in Gaza as U.N. warns of collapse

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Live updates | Palestinians live in dire conditions in Gaza despite Israel’s safe zone

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The United Nations headquarters building is seen from inside the General Assembly hall, on Sept. 21, 2021. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The UN secretary-general invoked ‘Article 99’ to push for a Gaza ceasefire. What exactly is it?

Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive on the Gaza Strip arrive in the Muwasi area Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Palestinians live in dire conditions in Gaza despite Israel’s safe zone

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip arrive at a hospital in Khan Younis on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Palestinians crowd into ever-shrinking areas in Gaza as Israel’s war against Hamas enters 3rd month

By Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, to discuss the the war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 18, 2023. The United States has offered strong support to Israel in its war against Hamas. But the allies ar increasingly at odds over what will happen to the Gaza Strip once the war winds down. (Miriam Alster/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel and U.S. are at odds over conflicting visions for postwar Gaza

By Josef Federman and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive on the Gaza Strip arrive in the Muwasi area Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel urges Gaza civilians to flee to ‘safe zone,’ arrivals find little but muddy roads

By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery and Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Destroyed buildings from Israeli airstrike are seen in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | Widening Israeli offensive in southern Gaza worsens dire humanitarian conditions

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Live updates | Widening Israeli offensive in southern Gaza worsens dire humanitarian conditions

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - President Joe Biden walks to the podium to deliver remarks on the war between Israel and Hamas after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. Democratic views on how President Joe Biden is handling the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians have rebounded slightly, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Democratic support for Biden ticks up on handling of Israel-Hamas war, AP-NORC poll says

By Chris Megerian and Linley Sanders - Associated Press