Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports on Wednesday that he allowed the Palestinian Authority to run the Rafah border crossing on the border between Gaza and Egypt. The border crossing is slated to open next week on day seven of a ceasefire agreement that halted Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
Israel has not agreed to hand the crossing over to the P.A., but the Authority has some "practical involvement" in running it, that will be re-evaluated in the future, according
Palestinian health officials say a major Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank has killed at least nine Palestinians and left 40 more people wounded. It comes as a
It was a cold morning in November 2023 when Rawan Abu Safiya found herself sitting alone in her sister’s guest room, displaced in northern Gaza. Suddenly, the shelling of a tank obliterated the space she was in.
An Israeli strike on a built-up refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has killed two people, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday, as a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a third day.
After 15 months of war, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect on Sunday morning.
As Israeli forces withdrew from areas in Gaza's Rafah to the Philadelphi Corridor ... of family members and friends in Beitunia, outside Ramallah, in the early hours of Jan. 20, 2025.
The anticipated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza began at 11:15 local time (09:15 GMT), nearly three hours after initially scheduled. Ahram Online provides live coverage of the events, which could signal the start of the end of 470 days of a genocidal Israeli war that killed and wounded nearly 10 percent of the 2.
Dalal Khaseeb, 53, the sister of former Hamas second-in-command Saleh Arouri, is also on the list, which was provided by Hamas. Arouri was killed in an Israeli strike in a southern Beirut suburb in January 2024.
The first three hostages released from Gaza arrived in Israel on Sunday for tearful reunions with families, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war. Palestinians waited for the first release of prisoners held by Israel.
Palestinians across Gaza began making their way home, and the first trucks with a surge of humanitarian aid began to enter the devastated territory.