Wyre Davies Reporting fromDamascus Gate, Jerusalem Getty Images Israeli police remove a right-wing activist in Jerusalem’s Old City Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on Monday. Chants of “death to Arabs” and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority…
Israel has issued one of the most sweeping evacuation orders for civilians in Gaza yet seen in this war. Large swathes of Gaza City, an area already partially destroyed by bombing, have been declared unsafe, the residents taking shelter there told to leave for their own safety ahead of “intense strikes” by the Israel Defense…
Getty Images Witnesses told the BBC that flames spread rapidly between tents, causing dozens of deaths, including those of children At least 37 people have been killed in a series of Israeli strikes, most in areas where displaced civilians have set up tents, Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence agency says. Witnesses in al-Mawasi told the BBC…
At least 55 Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza, the Hamas-run civil defence agency has said. It comes after Israel resumed its bombing campaign and ground operations in the territory this week, with air strikes killing more than 430 people over two days, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Hamas…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip,” and “we’ll own it.” Trump said that all Palestinians currently living in Gaza — around 2 million people — should leave and be placed in other countries in the Middle East, among them Jordan and Egypt, while the U.S….
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Gaza’s Rafah border crossing, a main entry and exit point for the territory, has reopened after eight months to allow sick and wounded Palestinians to cross over into Egypt to receive medical treatment. Fifty patients, including children with cancer, had entered Egypt to access medical care, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The crossing…
Reuters Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have gone back to what remains of their homes in northern Gaza Adham Bartawi had hoped for the best when he set off back to his family home in the north of Gaza after more than a year – but he was shocked at what he found. “Half…
Alice Cuddy and Rushdi Abualouf in Jerusalem and Cairo Reuters A child waits to return to north Gaza Moments after returning to her home in an affluent neighbourhood in northern Gaza, 44-year-old Sabrine Zanoun said she was overwhelmed with the mix of emotions. “We are happy to see our family again… [but] it is also…
Alice Cuddy & Jon Donnison BBC News, Jerusalem Reuters US President Donald Trump has said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza, which he described as a “demolition site”. In a phone call this weekend, Mr Trump said he had told Jordan’s King Abdullah: “I’d love you to take on more,…
Thousands of displaced Palestinians have been prevented from returning to their homes in the north of the Gaza Strip, after Israel blocked a main road, accusing Hamas of breaching the terms of the ceasefire deal. The dispute came after Hamas released four Israeli female soldiers – and Israel freed 200 Palestinian prisoners. But the Israeli…
