Israel-Hamas war

Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli army airstrike in Gaza City, on Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Gaza’s Health Ministry reports 51 deaths from Israeli strikes, bringing war’s toll to over 52,000

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have received the remains of 51 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours.
 
A lone demonstrator waves the Palestinian flag outside the Peace Palace, rear, housing the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

What is the International Court of Justice and why is it weighing in on humanitarian aid in Gaza?

 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a new deputy in a major step in naming a successor

 
Palestinians carry the body of Abdul Khaleq Jbour, 16, who was killed in an Israeli military raid, during his funeral at the West Bank village of Salem, near Nablus, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

In reverse of a longtime stance, US says UN Palestinian refugee agency isn’t immune from lawsuits

 
Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN food agency says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s blockade

 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Moti Kimchi/Pool Photo via AP)

International court appeals panel orders judges to reconsider Israel’s jurisdiction challenge

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court have ordered a pretrial panel to reconsider an Israeli appeal against the court’s jurisdiction over Gaza and the West Bank.
 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Palestinians create role for a vice president and possible successor to aging leader Abbas

The Palestine Liberation Organization has announced the creation of a vice presidency under 89-year-old leader Mahmoud Abbas, who has not specified a successor.
 
Freed Israeli hostage Tal Shoham, who was held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, poses for a portrait in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Freed Israeli hostage feared the ‘many ways to die’ in Gaza but kept hope alive

Tal Shoham was freed from captivity in Gaza 505 days after Hamas militants abducted him. He said there were times during his ordeal when he didn’t think he’d be alive the next morning.
 
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Palestinians might appoint a vice president to serve under the aging Abbas. Here’s why it matters

Senior Palestinian officials loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are meeting to vote on the creation of a vice presidency and could choose a possible successor to the unpopular 89-year-old.
 
Damage is seen inside a synagogue where a man armed with a knife and a metal bar is suspected of having set a fire in Rouen, France, on Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Oleg Cetinic, File)

Antisemitic incidents slow worldwide from post-Oct. 7 spike, but remain higher than before Gaza war

Antisemitic attacks around the world have increased dramatically since the war in Gaza began, but have declined slightly from a peak directly after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, according to an annual report from Tel Aviv University.
 
Wasem Attiya pushes his father, Mohamed, 54, in a wheelchair as they head to Shifa hospital in Gaza City for a dialysis session, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Dialysis patients struggle to get treatment in blockaded Gaza. Officials say hundreds have died

Health officials in the Gaza Strip say more than 400 dialysis patients have died during the 18-month Israel-Hamas war because of lack of proper treatment.
 
Palestinians examine the remains of bulldozers hit by an Israeli army airstrike in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

UN to review the impact of its agency helping Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere

The United Nations chief has appointed a British human rights activist to carry out a strategic review of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees.
 
Palestinians examine the remains of bulldozers hit by an Israeli army airstrike in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes kill 17 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble

Israeli strikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble.
 
New York University students and pro-Israeli supporters rally across the street from where pro-Palestinian students and supporters rally outside the NYU Stern School of Business building, April 22, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US

The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year.
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Moti Kimchi/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel’s domestic security chief accuses Netanyahu of making improper demands of him as rift deepens

The head of Israel’s internal security agency has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to exploit the power of the agency for political and personal gain through a litany of improper demands.
 
Worshippers walk to Saint Mary Greek Melkite Church, background, to attend the traditional Palm Sunday procession in Quraye, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

PHOTO ESSAY: An Easter reenactment in a Lebanese village

Wearing a crown that was thorny on the outside, he lugged a wooden cross while getting flogged. At one point, Antoun’s arms were tied with ropes to the cross, which was then hoisted up.
 
FILE.- Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah a week after an Israeli attack, as they are transported for burial from a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, file)

Israeli probe into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza finds ‘professional failures’

An Israeli investigation into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics last month in Gaza by Israeli forces says it has found “professional failures.”
 
Mourners grieve over the body of Palestinian child Mohammad Abu Nada, killed in an Israeli army airstrike, during his funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Netanyahu says Israel has ‘no choice’ but to continue fighting in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “no choice” but to continue fighting in Gaza. He says Israel will not end the war before destroying Hamas, freeing the hostages and ensuring that the territory won’t present a threat.
 
Palestinian Christians attend a Good Friday Mass at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes kill at least 25 in Gaza and Huckabee makes first appearance as US ambassador

Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 25 people including children as the new U.S. ambassador to Israel made his first public appearance in Jerusalem.
 
People gather in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, during the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Protest letters from former Israeli soldiers lay bare profound rifts over the ongoing war

When nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force veterans signed an open letter last week calling for an end to the war in Gaza, the military responded immediately, saying it would dismiss any active reservist who signed the document.
 
U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters stands on their vehicles, as they withdraw from two neighbourhoods in Syria's northern city of Aleppo as part of a deal with the Syrian central government, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

US to withdraw 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to help counter IS militants

The U.S. will withdraw about 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to work with Kurdish allies to counter the Islamic State group.
 
This image provided by World Press Photo and taken by Samar Abu Elouf, for The New York Times, won the World Press Photo Award of the Year and shows Mahmoud Ajjour (9), who was injured during an Israeli attack on Gaza City in March 2024, finds refuge and medical help in Doha, Qatar, 28 June 2024. (Samar Abu Elouf, for The New York Times/World Press Photo via AP)

Portrait of Palestinian boy who lost both arms is World Press Photo of the year for 2025

A portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms as a result of an Israeli attack in Gaza has been named World Press Photo of the year.
 
Mourners pray over the bodies of 10 members of the Abu Al-Rous family, killed when an Israeli airstrike struck their displacement tent overnight, during their funeral in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Thousands of Gaza children are malnourished under Israel’s food blockade, aid groups say

Aid groups are raising new alarm over Israel’s blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. Israel has barred all food and other supplies from entering Gaza for more than six weeks.
 
Egyptian dredging ship, Mashhour, sails at the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt’s revenue from the Suez Canal plunged sharply in 2024

Officials say Egypt’s revenue from the Suez Canal plunged by almost two thirds last year, attributing the sharp drop to regional tensions and wars in the Middle East that have impacted traffic through the key waterway.
 
Israeli soldiers gather next to a military post on the border with Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel says it will keep troops in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely. What does that mean?

Israel’s defense minister says its troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Israel unilaterally expanded its frontiers in the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
 
Nashat Seiam, third from right, joins relatives and friends in prayer over the body of his granddaughter Ahlam, who was just days away from her first birthday, during her funeral after she was killed by an overnight Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025,.(AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

Israeli defense minister says troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely

Israel’s defense minister says troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely.
 
FILE- Foreign tourists arrive in a resort in the Kurumba island in Maldives, Feb. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Maldives bars travelers with Israeli passports over Gaza war

The Maldives has changed its immigration law to bar people from entering the country with Israeli passports in a show of outrage over the war in Gaza.
 
Covered in prayer shawls, Jewish men of the Cohanim Priestly caste participate in a blessing during the holiday of Passover, at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Middle East latest: Israeli strike outside a Gaza hospital kills a medic and wounds several

A spokesman for a hospital in Gaza says an Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital. Tuesday’s killing a medic and wounding nine other people.
 
This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo)

Israeli airstrike hits hospital entrance in Gaza, killing medic and wounding 9 other people

An Israeli airstrike has struck the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people.
 
A dead man is removed from the rubble of the Manoun family's house after it was targeted by an Israeli army strike in Jabalia al-Balad, Gaza City, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas says it’s sending a delegation to Qatar to continue Gaza ceasefire talks

A Hamas official says that the Palestinian militant group is sending a delegation to the Gulf Arab state of Qatar to continue the indirect ceasefire talks with Israel.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Suspected US airstrikes kill at least 7 people in Yemen, Houthi rebels say

Suspected U.S. airstrikes around Yemen’s rebel-held capital have killed at least seven people and wounded 29 overnight. That’s according to Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a statement Monday.
 
Palestinian children injured in an Israeli airstrike are brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel cuts off Gaza’s southern city of Rafah and vows to ‘vigorously’ expand in the territory

Israel says it has completed construction of a new security corridor that cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza. The military said Saturday it would soon expand “vigorously” in most of the small coastal territory.
 
Supporters of the Pakistani religious group "Jamaat-e-Islami" take part in a rally against Israeli airstrikes and to show solidarity with Palestinian people living in Gaza, in Lahore, Pakistan Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Thousands of Islamists rally in Pakistan against Israel’s bombing in Gaza

Thousands of supporters from Pakistan’s main religious political party have rallied in Lahore against the United States and Israel over the war in Gaza. An estimated 15,000 people attended Friday rally called by Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan.
 
Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel’s army says it will fire air force reservists who condemned the war

Israel’s military says it will fire air force reservists who signed a letter condemning the war in Gaza and claiming it only serves political interests instead of bringing the hostages home.
 
Lishay Miran Lavi, whose husband of Omri Miran is held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, poses for a portrait at the family's home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, southern Israel, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israelis mark another Passover hoping for Gaza captives to be freed

Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery.