According to Arab media reports, Hamas has handed over the Israeli hostages to the Red Crescent. The Red Crescent vehicles have departed towards Rafah with the hostages. The released female …
Hamas Releases 4 Israeli Female Soldiers as Hostages Read More
As pressure mounts for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the city of Rafah is caught in a precarious balance, with conflicting signals from both sides leaving …
Israeli airstrikes persist in Rafah despite ceasefire uncertainty Read More
Washington: US President Joe Biden’s administration faced renewed pressure from fellow Democrats on Wednesday to effect a full-scale invasion of Rafah, home to half of the 2.3 million people in …
US Democrats press Biden to prevent Israeli assault on Rafah Read More
CAIRO/JERUSALEM/RAFAH: Palestinians prepared for Ramazan in a somber mood with heightened security by Israeli police and the specter of war and hunger in Gaza overshadowing the normally festive Muslim holy …
Palestinians prepare for Ramazan in the shadow of Gaza war Read More
RAFAH: United States (US) President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that a Gaza ceasefire deal in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages was in the hands of Hamas, as …
Gaza ceasefire deal is in Hamas’ hands: Biden Read More
CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Israel boycotted cease-fire talks in Cairo on Sunday after Hamas rejected its demand for a full list of the names of hostages who are still alive, an …
Israel boycotts ceasefire talks after Hamas refuses to share hostages’ list Read More
GAUZE: Israel has stepped up its bombardment of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing more than a dozen members of one family in an airstrike, residents said, as the death toll …
Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza’s Rafah, killing large family in home Read More
SINAI/RAFAH: Satellite images on Thursday showed an area that sources said Egypt is preparing near the Gaza border to accommodate Palestinians if Israel’s Rafah offensive triggers an exodus across the …
Satellite images show wall construction near Egypt-Gaza border Read More
RAFAH: Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege by Israel’s war with Hamas on Friday, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos as warplanes pounded Rafah, the last refuge …
Israel bombards Gaza’s biggest functioning hospital Read More
WASHINGTON: The top US diplomat involved in humanitarian aid to Gaza said on Friday that Israeli forces earlier this month killed Palestinian police protecting a UN convoy in the enclave’s …
Israel struck Palestinian police escorting Gaza aid, says US envoy Read More
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to fulfill its responsibility under the UN Charter and act urgently to establish a ceasefire and end the …
Pakistan calls for UNSC’s urgent intervention to impose ceasefire in Gaza Read More
United Nations: A large-scale Israeli assault on Rafah would cause an “unimaginable human catastrophe,” World Health Organization (WHO) doctors in Gaza have warned. Dr Rik Peeperkorn, a WHO representative based …
Israel’s Rafah invasion would create ‘a human disaster beyond imagination’, WHO doctors warn Read More
GAUZE: Israel freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages in Rafah on Monday under cover of airstrikes that local health officials said killed 67 Palestinians and wounded dozens in the southern Gaza city, …
Israel frees two captives as airstrikes kill 67 Palestinians Read More
DOHA/TEL AVIV: Israeli forces bombed areas in the southern border town of Rafah, home to more than half of Gaza’s population, on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …
Israeli forces intensify strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza Read More
RAFAH: Displaced again and again by Israel’s military offensive on Gaza, Mahmoud Amer and his family have now pitched their tent near gravestones in a Rafah cemetery, the last place …
Living among the dead: Gaza families seek shelter in graveyard Read More
