At least three Palestinians were killed as Israeli tanks fired intensively and a drone strike targeted a group of people in Rafah.
Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza in an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of its war with Hamas.
Trucks lined up in front of Egypt’s Rafah border crossing on Sunday (March 2) after Israel blocked the entry of aid into Gaza. It comes as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators to intervene.
Israel looks to approve an evacuation plan for Palestinians in Rafah as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued to spar with the Biden administration in advance of US Secretary of State Antony ...
Hamas has dismissed Israel’s suggestion that its leadership go into exile. Ramadan in Gaza In Gaza's southern city of Rafah, AP video showed a long table set for the breaking of the day's Ramadan fast, snaking through the ruins and lit by strings of ...
Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive as they try to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has warned Egypt against breaching its peace treaty with Israel, highlighting concerns over a military buildup near its borders in the Sinai Peninsula, which also neighbors the Gaza Strip. Egypt did not respond to the accusations but has previously stated its commitment to the existing peace accords.
Israeli air drones killed two in Rafah and injured three in Khan Younis, escalating tensions after the ceasefire's first phase ended without an agreement.