Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today denounced the Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza that killed innocent people including children, reiterating her call to global leaders to stop the war and arms race for the wellbeing of mankind

The United States authorised non-essential personnel and their families to leave their embassy near Beirut on Tuesday, citing the unpredictable security situation in Lebanon due to the Israel-Hamas war.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to offer condolences over a deadly blast at a Gaza hospital and voice support for Palestinians' "legitimate aspirations," the State Department said Wednesday.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "horrified" by hundreds of people killed in Tuesday's strike on a Gaza hospital

500 killed in Gaza hospital massacre

Palestinian's Islamic Jihad on Wednesday described as "lies" the Israel army's accusations that it was responsible for a strike on a Gaza hospital that left hundreds dead.

US President Joe Biden flies to Israel on Wednesday to signal support for its war against Hamas after a deadly blast at a Gaza City hospital inflamed tensions and led to the cancellation of his planned summit with Arab leaders

One Israeli cabinet minister was barred from a hospital visitors' entrance. Another's bodyguards were drenched with coffee thrown by a bereaved man. A third had "traitor" and "imbecile" shouted at her as she came to comfort families evacuated during the horror

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has cancelled a planned meeting with US President Joe Biden, following an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital on Tuesday that killed hundreds, a senior Palestinian official said

Israeli air strike wounds scores more; condemnation pours in; 6 killed as strike hits UN-run school

Israeli Indiscriminate and relentless air strikes on Gaza continued yesterday defying ceasefire calls, as the death toll in the Palestinian enclave rose past 3,000, about one-third of them children

Urges global leaders to stop conflicts

The UN's World Food Programme said the situation in the Gaza Strip was worsening by the minute with only four or five days of food stocks left in the shops

The world is going through some cruel times. Not that such inhumanity had not occurred before -- the first and second world wars, and Hitler's holocaust of the Jewish people are among mankind's darkest chapters

Iran warned on Monday of a possible "pre-emptive action" against Israel "in the coming hours", as Israel readies for a ground offensive on the Gaza Strip

Malaysia's education ministry has withdrawn from participating in this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, accusing the organisers of taking a pro-Israel stance, amid growing global divisions over the ongoing conflict between Israeli and Palestinian forces

Israeli troops killed four militants attempting to infiltrate from Lebanon, the army said Tuesday, as tensions run high along the border between the two countries

Diplomats renewed calls for aid to the besieged Gaza Strip while Iran's foreign minister said Israel would not be allowed to act there, warning of "preemptive action" in the coming hours.

Relief convoys which had been waiting in the Egyptian city of El Arish Tuesday headed towards the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, aid officials said

The UN Security Council on Monday rejected a Russian resolution condemning spiraling violence in the Middle East, with delegates refusing to back a motion that did not single out Hamas for its surprise attack on Israel that left at least 1,400 people dead