Gaza Strip

20 hours ago - The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east and north.

9 hours ago - Heavy rain swept across the Gaza Strip on Thursday and Friday, washing away family tents and swamping low-lying shelters.

3 days ago - Gaza City (in arabic مَدِينَةُ ﻏَﺰَّة‎, Madīnat Ghazzah), often simply called Gaza, is a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and the capital of the Gaza Governorate. Located on the Mediterranean coast, 76.6 kilometres (47.6 mi) southwest of Jerusalem, it was home to Palestine's ...

5 days ago - The Occupied Palestinian Territory faces a protracted protection and political crisis characterized by more than 56 years of Israeli military occupation, 16 years of the Gaza blockade, internal Palestinian divisions, lack of adherence to international humanitarian and human rights law, and recurrent escalations of hostilities between Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups.

2 days ago - The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas led a surprise attack ...

1 week ago - UNRWA Situation Report #201 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem

2 weeks ago - Over two years of war, top Hamas commanders and thousands of fighters have been killed, and the group’s arsenal has been severely depleted. It now controls less than half of the territory in Gaza, with the rest occupied by Israel.

5 days ago - The Gaza Strip is in the throes of a manmade humanitarian disaster. This is a direct result of Israel’s official policy, which continues to determine daily life in Gaza. Israel could change this policy and significantly improve quality of life in Gaza. It could also persist in its callous, ...

- #Gaza: Severe storm conditions have affected nearly 55,000 households; 370 families were evacuated from shoreline site

1 day ago - Dr Daqran said that hospitals in Gaza - many of which were badly damaged by Israeli bombing and fighting nearby with Hamas before a ceasefire took effect in October - were seeing an increase in child admissions.

18 hours ago - Israel’s ensuing offensive has killed nearly 71,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants but says around half the deaths were women and children.

2 days ago - An unprecedented humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Gaza, with attacks on civilians, attacks on health care, and a brutal siege.

6 days ago - President Trump's peace plan for Gaza hinges on international troops in Gaza, but Israel is skeptical and no country has yet agreed to send their soldiers.

2 weeks ago - Like many of those killed under the ceasefire, the young brothers were targeted for approaching the “yellow line” to which the army has withdrawn under the truce. It now bifurcates Gaza, giving Israel the lion’s share.

November 19, 2025 - The ceasefire in Gaza remains fragile, while humanitarians continue to face obstructions in delivering aid to the people, a senior UN official working to promote greater peace in the region told the Security Council on Tuesday.

In establishing the genocidal acts, the Commission examined the Israeli military operations in Gaza, including killing and seriously harming unprecedented numbers of Palestinians; imposing a total siege, including blocking humanitarian aid leading to starvation; systematically destroying the healthcare and education systems in Gaza; committing systematic acts of sexual and gender based violence; directly targeting children; carrying out systematic and widespread attacks on religious and cultural sites; and disregarding the orders of the International Court of Justice.

4 days ago - There is no longer famine in Gaza, a global hunger monitor said on Friday, after access for humanitarian and commercial food deliveries improved following a fragile October 10 ceasefire in the war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants.

Smoke rises from Gaza as right-wing activists take part in a rally organized by settlers groups to promote Israel's resettling in Gaza, near the border, July 30, 2025