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Gaza Officials Report Death Toll Milestone

More than 50K Palestinians have been killed since Israel-Hamas war began, health ministry says

(Newser) - More than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the territory's Health Ministry said Sunday, as new Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight—including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. Israel's military also sent...

Beneath Rubble in Gaza, a Tiny 25-Day-Old Orphan

Infant survives Israeli strike that killed her parents, brother

(Newser) - As rescuers dug through the remains of a collapsed apartment building in Gaza's Khan Younis on Thursday, they could hear the cries of a baby from underneath the rubble. Suddenly, calls of "God is great!" rang out. A man sprinted out of the wreckage carrying a living...

Israel Launches 'Limited' Ground Operation in Gaza
Israeli Troops
Are Back in Gaza
Mar 19, 2025 12:53 PM CDT

Israeli Troops Are Back in Gaza

IDF launches 'limited ground operation' after airstrikes resume

(Newser) - Israel said Wednesday it launched a "limited ground operation" in northern Gaza to retake part of a corridor that bisects the territory, and the country's defense minister warned that the army plans to step up the attacks that shattered a two-month ceasefire "with an intensity that you...

Israel Launches Big Strike on Gaza, Shattering Ceasefire

More than 400 reported killed amid stalled peace talks with Hamas

(Newser) - Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, the first major strikes since a ceasefire with Hamas took effect in January. The strikes killed more than 400 people and wounded over 500, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the...

Israel Has Cut Off Power to Gaza, Officials Say
Israel Cuts Off Power to Gaza
Mar 10, 2025 7:55 AM CDT

Israel Cuts Off Power to Gaza

Hamas slams the latest 'starvation policy' move

(Newser) - Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Israel last week suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million Palestinians, an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest...

Muslim Leaders Reject Trump's Plan for Palestinians

Trump said he wants to empty Gaza of its Palestinian population

(Newser) - Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by President Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and instead backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead. The AP reports that the foreign ministers gathered...

US Doubles Down: Palestinians Need to Leave

US, Israel reject new Gaza reconstruction plan endorsed by Arab League

(Newser) - The White House has swiftly rejected a plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip without the forced displacement of 2.1 million Palestinians. President Trump's plan for a US takeover of Gaza that would permanently remove residents sparked outrage and claims of ethnic cleansing last month, prompting Egypt to suggest...

Israel Halts Aid to Gaza
Israel Cuts Off Aid to Gaza
Mar 2, 2025 7:55 AM CST

Israel Cuts Off Aid to Gaza

It's pressuring Hamas to accept new ceasefire proposal

(Newser) - Israel stopped the entry of all goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip on Sunday and warned of "additional consequences" if Hamas doesn't accept a new proposal to extend a fragile ceasefire, per the AP . Hamas accused Israel of trying to derail the existing ceasefire agreement and said...

Talks on Phase 2 of Gaza Ceasefire Begin

Israel refuses to withdraw from strategic corridor

(Newser) - Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire began Thursday, Egypt said, averting a collapse ahead of Saturday's expiration of the agreement's first phase. Officials from Israel, Qatar, and the United States started "intensive discussions" on the ceasefire's second phase in...

Trump Shares AI Video of His Gaza of the Future
Trump Shares AI Video
on Gaza That's an Eyeful
VIDEO
Feb 26, 2025 10:00 AM CST

Trump Shares AI Video on Gaza That's an Eyeful

Clip shows ruins of the region reinvigorated, complete with Trump statues and dancers

(Newser) - Earlier this month, President Trump first floated the controversial idea of permanently relocating Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and having the United States take over the region to turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East." He doubled down on that "spectacular" concept days later, and...

'Brutally Murdered': Shiri Bibas' Body Returned

The body of the young mother was supposed to be returned the day before

(Newser) - The family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says Hamas finally released her body overnight on Friday after the mother of two was murdered while held captive in Gaza, reports the Times of Israel . This comes after Hamas promised to hand over her remains on Thursday, then supplied the body of...

It May Be a Defining Image of the Gaza War

Hamas holds propaganda ceremony before returning bodies of youngest hostages

(Newser) - Hamas returned the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday after a grim propaganda ceremony. In what NBC News reports is likely to be one of the defining images of the war, the caskets were displayed on a stage in front of a banner with photos of the hostages and...

Israeli-American Among Next Hostages to Be Freed

All 3 men are dual nationals seized from same kibbutz

(Newser) - The families of Israeli hostages still held by the Hamas militant group have released the names of three hostages expected to be freed on Saturday. The three men are all Israeli civilians with dual nationalities, the AP reports. All were from the same communal farm, Kibbutz Nir Oz, where some...

Trump Praises 'Beautiful Gesture' From Jordan's King

Country will take in 2K sick kids from Gaza

(Newser) - President Trump praised what he called a "beautiful gesture" from Jordan's King Abdullah II after their meeting at the White House Tuesday. The king said Jordan would take in around 2,000 sick Palestinian children from Gaza, including many with cancer, though he declined to say whether his...

Jordan's King Faces Impossible Task in Trump Meeting
King Abdullah Faces Herculean
Task at Trump Meeting
THE RUNDOWN
Feb 11, 2025 8:39 AM CST

King Abdullah Faces Herculean Task at Trump Meeting

Jordan's king risks $1.5B in US aid by rebuffing Trump's Gaza plan, wrath of his nation if he agrees

(Newser) - President Trump's controversial plans for a "Riviera of the Middle East"—ie, the Gaza Strip, after it's been stripped of its Palestinian residents—is sure to be a topic of conversation on Tuesday when Jordan leader King Abdullah II visits the White House. Both Egypt and...

Trump: No, Palestinians Wouldn't Return to Gaza
Trump on Palestinians:
No Right to Return to Gaza
the rundown
Feb 10, 2025 12:55 PM CST

Trump on Palestinians: No Right to Return to Gaza

'They're going to have much better housing,' he says of plan to develop the region

(Newser) - President Trump clarified a key point of his plan for a US takeover of Gaza , and it's one that won't sit well with Palestinians. Asked by Bret Baier of Fox News whether those dislocated by the reconstruction of the area would have the right to return, the president...

Emergency Arab Summit to Address Trump's Gaza Idea

Announcement refers to 'new and dangerous developments'

(Newser) - Egypt announced Sunday that it will host an emergency summit of Arab leaders to address "new and dangerous developments" after President Trump proposed resettling Palestinians from Gaza, a plan that sparked alarm and anger in the Middle East. Egypt's foreign ministry said the Arab League meeting will be...

New Aid Averted Famine in Gaza, UN Official Says

Ceasefire collapse could put that progress at risk

(Newser) - Famine has been mostly averted in Gaza as a surge of aid enters the territory during a fragile ceasefire, the United Nations humanitarian chief said Sunday. But he warned the threat could return quickly if the truce collapses. Tom Fletcher made the assessment after a two-day visit to Gaza, where...

Trump Reiterates 'Spectacular' Plan to Take Over Gaza

He says US would work with developers to build the region into a glam destination

(Newser) - On Wednesday, some in the Trump administration seemed to walk back the president's audacious proposal of a US takeover of Gaza . But on Thursday, Trump himself doubled down on aspects of the plan, reports the BBC . "The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by...

Arab Americans for Trump Has a New Name

Group becomes 'Arab Americans for Peace' after president's Gaza remarks

(Newser) - A group that played a key role in Donald Trump's voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the US would "take over" the Gaza Strip. Bishara Bahbah, chairman of the group formerly known as Arab Americans for...

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