Gaza

There is a shortage of blankets and warm clothing, little wood for fires, and the tents and patched-together tarps families are living in have grown increasingly threadbare after months of heavy use.

A former Israeli defense minister is accusing his country of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip are often eating just once a day, even in areas where aid groups have relatively more access than the isolated and heavily destroyed north.

On Thursday, the International Criminal Court issued warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight killed 12 people, Palestinian medical officials said Sunday. Israeli police meanwhile arrested three suspects after flares were fired at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in the coastal city of Caesarea.

Arab and Muslim voters moved away from the Democratic Party this year in ways that led some community leaders to warn of a lasting shift from a voting bloc that has been reliably Democratic for two decades since it abandoned the GOP, NBC News reports.

Some 93 people were killed, another 40 people were missing and dozens injured, according to the Gaza government media office.

The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies say Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of the grinding war. Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said Kyiv’s surprise move in August to seize territory in Russia’s Kursk region was “typically audacious and bold on the part of the Ukrainians.” He...

Gaza’s Health Ministry says it has begun a three-day campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus.

As students return to the University of Connecticut, Muslims and Jewish students want to know what the school is doing to protect them.   Both groups of students say they faced discrimination and hate speech on campus, as detailed in 76 bias complaints filed during the war in Gaza.   “I think there is an anti-Muslim problem on campus,” said…

Tensions have soared following nearly 10 months of war in Gaza and the killing of two senior militants in separate strikes in Lebanon and Iran last week.

This is far from the first time the rival groups have signed reconciliation pacts, only to return to hostilities due to persistent disagreements.

Planned as a temporary fix to get aid to starving Palestinians, the project was panned from the start by aid groups that condemned it as a waste of time and money.

Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians outside Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50, according to the territory’s health officials and emergency workers.

Hundreds of students at the University of Chicago graduated with their diplomas in hand on Saturday, but that wasn’t the case for four students who are involved in ongoing disciplinary proceedings stemming from a pro-Palestinian protest on campus.

The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.

The CEO of the Fairfield-based nonprofit Save the Children visited Gaza for three days. She explains the living conditions, the immense need and why the safety of aid workers is in jeopardy.

U.S. military C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over Gaza on Saturday in the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance authorized by President Joe Biden after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops.

Amid calls for communities to back a ceasefire in Gaza, the Hartford City Council rejected a resolution to do that on Monday.