Israel launched an airstrike against arch foe Hamas leaders in Qatar yesterday, expanding military actions that have ranged across the Middle East to include the Gulf Arab state where the Palestinian Islamist group has long had its political base.

Israel intensified its bombardment in preparation for an operation to seize Gaza City

The United Nations rights chief yesterday voiced alarm at the overt “genocidal rhetoric” by Israeli officials about Gaza and called for decisive international action to “end the carnage”.

The European Union said Monday it doesn't "encourage" aid flotillas heading to Gaza

Israel has stopped all aid for 11 weeks from March until mid-May

Israeli forces yesterday continued to bombard Gaza, killing at least 21 people in strikes on a school, tents and a home, as five more Palestinians, including three children, starved to death in 24 hours.

Several countries, including France and Britain, have pledged to recognise a Palestinian state during the UN General Assembly later this month

Israel has been warning for weeks of a new assault on the territory's largest city, without issuing a timeline.

Protesters packed a public square outside the military headquarters, waving Israeli flags and holding placards with images of the hostages

Israeli military yesterday said “gates of hell” have been opened in Gaza, as its intensifying offensive killed dozens across the territory and destroyed high-rises in Gaza City.

Gaza health authorities said Israeli fire across the enclave had killed at least 53 people on Thursday, mostly in Gaza City

Palestinian officials said entire families are being “wiped out” as Israel intensified its bombardment of residential areas in Gaza City and makeshift encampments across the Strip.

Around 40,500 children have suffered "new war-related injuries" in nearly two years since the war erupted

Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring Israel’s "policies and actions in Gaza" had met the legal definition set out in Article II of the 1948 UN convention on genocide

Any step toward annexation in the West Bank would likely draw widespread condemnation from the Palestinians

European Union foreign ministers were deeply split yesterday over the war in Gaza, with some calling for the EU to apply strong economic pressure on Israel while others made clear they were unwilling to go that far.

The Red Cross yesterday warned that any Israeli efforts to evacuate Gaza City would put residents at risk, as Israel’s military tightened its siege on the area ahead of a major planned offensive.

The Red Cross warned on Saturday that any Israeli efforts to evacuate Gaza City would put residents at risk

The Israeli army launched a series of early morning attacks across Gaza yesterday, killing at least 48 Palestinians, including five in the southern al-Mawasi area — a zone it had previously designated as “humanitarian.”.Six aid seekers were among the Palestinians killed in the attacks, sou

All United Nations Security Council members, except the United States, on Wednesday said the famine in Gaza was a “manmade crisis” and warned that the use of starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international humanitarian law.