Palestine

Gaza: At least 10 Palestinian security personnel of merchant trucks were killed by the Israeli army in Rafah City in the south of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security and medical sources said. Local sources and eyewitnesses told…

Gaza: Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced on Friday that two Israeli hostages were killed in an Israeli bombing in Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip. Al-Qassam Brigades said the two hostages were killed in an…

Ramallah: Six Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army in the village of Kafr Dan, northwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Israeli special forces sneaked into the village and cordoned…

Ramallah: Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army gunfire in the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Tuesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement. The victims were identified as Abdel Fattah Jabara and Ahmed Rajab, the…

The Democratic president in remarks from the White House called the proposal "a road map to an enduring cease-fire and the release of all hostages."

Gaza: At least 70 Palestinians were found dead in northern Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp where Israel has just pulled out its armed forces after a nearly three-week offensive. Local medical sources told Xinhua news agency on Friday that…

Gaza: The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 36,224, according to a statement by health authorities in the Palestinian enclave. During the past 24 hours, the Israeli army killed 53…

Geneva: There is no indication that Israel will open the Rafah crossing soon, Palestine's Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan said here. "This is totally in the hands of the Israelis," Abu Ramadan told a press briefing in Geneva on…

Cairo: Countries in the Middle East and the European Union have condemned Israel's airstrike on tents housing displaced civilians in northwestern Rafah of the Gaza Strip, which reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least 45 Palestinians…

Tel Aviv: An Israeli airstrike near the southern Gaza city of Rafah hit tents housing displaced people, Palestinian medics said on Sunday evening. The Palestinian Red Crescent said on X that there were "numerous" people killed and…

Gaza, May 26 The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, on Sunday announced the capture of an unspecified number of Israeli soldiers during an operation in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. "Our fighters were able…

In 1988, India became one of the first countries to recognise the state of Palestine.

Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep fighting Hamas in Gaza until the Iran-backed Islamist group is defeated and all remaining hostages are released.

Palestinians reported more airstrikes and heavy fighting in northern Gaza, which has been largely isolated by Israeli troops for months and where the World Food Program says a famine is underway.

Intense fighting resumed less than a week ago in Jabalia, the second-most populous town in northern Gaza.

In Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city which sits on the border with Egypt, the Kuwaiti hospital said Sunday it had received the bodies of "18 martyrs" killed in Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours.

More than 1.4 million Palestinians — half of Gaza’s population — have been sheltering in Rafah, most after fleeing Israel’s offensives elsewhere.

In March, Slovenia had joined Spain, Ireland and Malta in a joint statement announcing the EU countries were "ready to recognise Palestine" once the conditions for setting up a state were met.

In a separate statement, Hamas insisted it maintained a "positive and responsible approach" towards the negotiations and said it was determined to reach an agreement.

Reconstruction is made more difficult by the presence of large quantities of unexploded ordnance in the debris that Gaza's Civil Defence agency says triggers "more than 10 explosions every week."