Israel-Hamas war

Palestinians bake bread after the World Food Program was able to bring in flour for the first time in over a month as Israel allowed some aid to enter the Gaza Strip, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Live updates: Israel lets food into Gaza even as its forces attack a hospital, Palestinians say

Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli tanks and drones have attacked a hospital in northern Gaza overnight, igniting fires and causing extensive damage.
 
Law enforcement work the scene after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington.. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

What we know about the DC shooting where 2 staff members of the Israeli Embassy were killed

 
Israeli Deputy Minister of Economy and Industry Yair Golan, a legislator with the dovish Meretz party, poses during an interview with The Associated Press at his office at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Israeli politician critiques the Gaza war’s toll on Palestinians and sparks an outcry

 
France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speak during the Ukraine security meeting at the 6th European Political Community summit Friday May 16, 2025 in Tirana, Albania. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

Israeli allies unleash strong rhetoric over Gaza, but actions so far are limited

 
Pope Leo XIV waves as he arrives for his first weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo XIV calls for aid to reach Gaza and an end to hostilities in his first general audience

 
Smoke rises following an Israeli army bombardment in Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Two of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli forces, staff say

Two of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals have been encircled by Israeli troops, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the facilities.
 
Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of State on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio defends Trump’s foreign policy as Democrats press him on Gaza aid and white South Africans

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic senators have sparred over a wide range of the Trump administration’s foreign policies: Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East, Latin America, the slashing of the U.S. foreign assistance budget, refugee admissions and more.
 
Displaced Palestinians flee from Khan Younis, Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli military offensive in the area, on Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

First few aid trucks enter Gaza but allies threaten Israel with sanctions and urge more

The first few aid trucks have entered Gaza following nearly three months of Israel’s complete blockade of food, medicine and other supplies. That’s as Israel acknowledges growing pressure from allies including the United States.
 
FILE.- Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip after Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat,File)

Live updates: After nearly 3 months of Israel’s blockade, aid trucks enter Gaza

Israel and the United Nations say the first aid trucks have entered Gaza following nearly three months of Israel’s complete blockade.
 
Israeli soldiers move tanks around staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel says it will allow ‘basic’ aid into Gaza after nearly 3 months of blockade

Israel says it will allow a limited amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade. Sunday’s announcement comes days after global experts warned of famine.
 
A photo of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Naya Kareem, who was killed during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, is displayed during a protest calling for an end to the war, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel launches a new military operation in Gaza. Netanyahu tells negotiating team to stay at talks

Israel says it has launched a major military operation in Gaza to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages.
 

Israel says its military has launched a new operation in Gaza to pressure Hamas to release hostages

 
President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sissi attends the 34th Arab League summit, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Arab leaders promise to work on reconstruction of Gaza and press for a ceasefire

Arab leaders meeting at an annual summit in Baghdad say called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. They promise to contribute to the reconstruction of the territory once the war stops.
 
An Israeli tank moves in a staging area in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza

Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that it sold advanced artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the war in Gaza and aided in efforts to locate and rescue Israeli hostages.
 
Palestinians inspect the house of the Jabr family after it was hit earlier by an Israeli army strike killing at least 10 people, in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel has launched a new offensive in blockaded Gaza. Here’s what to know

The war in Gaza has reached one of its darkest periods. Israel has launched another major offensive against Hamas that includes ground operations. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent days.
 
President Donald Trump shakes hands with with Yousif Al Obaidli, director of Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, during a tour of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Watching Trump from afar, Israel fears being left out of a new Middle East it helped create

For decades, Israel has leveraged its special relationship with the United States to serve as a gatekeeper to Washington. Arab states seeking U.S. favor usually had to first make nice with Israel.
 
U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press at United Nations headquarters, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

UN aid chief defends using ‘genocide’ in Gaza remarks to the Security Council that Israel rejects

The United Nations’ humanitarian chief has defended using the term “genocide” to describe what aid workers are trying to prevent in Gaza.
 
Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a medical center in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

54 people killed in overnight airstrikes on southern Gaza city, hospital says

A hospital in southern Gaza says 54 people have been killed in overnight airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis. Another airstrike in the north of the Palestinian territory left more than a dozen people dead.
 
Palestinians mourn children from their families who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. According to local hospitals, the strikes killed 48 people, including 22 children. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 70 people, including 22 children, health officials say

Hospitals and health officials say Israeli airstrikes have pounded northern and southern Gaza and killed at least 70 people. The dead include almost two dozen children.
 
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli army airstrike on the European hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. The Israeli military said it had carried out a strike targeting what it said was a Hamas "command and control center" located beneath the hospital. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

UN humanitarian chief blasts Israel for ‘deliberately’ blocking aid to Gaza

The United Nations’ top humanitarian official blasted Israel for “deliberately and unashamedly” imposing inhumane conditions on Palestinians that include the risk of famine.
 
President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during an arrival ceremony at the Royal Terminal of King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates: Trump receives lavish royal welcome to Saudi Arabia

President Donald Trump is in Saudi Arabia for the first leg of his three-nation visit to the Middle East this week.
 

Israeli military says Israeli-American hostage released in Gaza is back with its forces

Israeli military says Israeli-American hostage released in Gaza is back with its forces.
 
This undated photo released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum shows Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander, who was abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum via AP)

Who is Edan Alexander, the Israeli-American hostage released by Hamas?

Edan Alexander was 19 when Hamas militants stormed the Israeli military base where the American-Israeli from New Jersey was a soldier and dragged him into the Gaza Strip. Hamas released him on Monday.
 

Israeli military says American-Israeli hostage released in the Gaza Strip is with the Red Cross

Israeli military says American-Israeli hostage released in the Gaza Strip is with the Red Cross.
 
People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli airstrikes kill 23 in Gaza as outcry over aid blockade grows

Health officials say Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Saturday have killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza. They include three children and their parents whose tent was bombed in Gaza City.
 
Palestinians struggle to obtain donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN agencies warn that Israel’s plans for aid distribution will endanger lives in Gaza

International aid agencies warn that plans presented by Israel to control aid distribution in Gaza will only increase suffering and death in the devastated Palestinian territory.
 
Mohsen Mahdawi speaks during an interview at the ACLU of Vermont on Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Montpelier, Vt. (AP Photo/Alex Driehaus)

Freed Palestinian student accuses Columbia University of inciting violence

A Palestinian student arrested as he was about to finalize his U.S. citizenship is accusing Columbia University of eroding democracy with its handling of protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
 
A makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across Gaza City on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A US-backed group seeks to take over Gaza aid distribution in a plan similar to Israel’s

A group of American security contractors, ex-military officers and humanitarian aid officials is proposing to take over the distribution of food and other supplies in Gaza based on plans similar to ones designed by Israel.
 
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas , centre left, and Poland's Foreign Affairs Minister Radek Sikorski , center right, pose for a family photo with EU Foreign Ministers during their informal meeting in Gymnich format, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

The EU will hold talks later this month on reviewing ties with Israel as concern mounts over Gaza

The European Union’s top diplomat says that foreign ministers will hold formal talks on May 20 on a demand to review an EU pact governing trade ties with Israel over its conduct of the war in Gaza.
 
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Aid group closes soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies

A U.S.-based aid group says that Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza has forced the closure of its community soup kitchens. World Central Kitchen said Thursday that it can’t get supplies to refill its empty warehouses.
 
Iman Abu Shabab, 30, stands next to her 7-year-old son, Hamza, who lies in bed with third-degree burns caused when, frightened by an Israeli airstrike, he spilled a hot plate of rice and lentils on himself in the family's tent in southern Gaza last month, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Burn patients face excruciating recovery as medicines dwindle under Israeli blockade of Gaza

For burn patients, shortages of medicines in Gaza are particularly excruciating under Israel’s blockade of the territory, now in its third month.
 
Ruhama Bohbot, mother of hostage Elkana Bohbot, poses for a portrait with his poster at her home in Mevaseret Zion, Israel, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Mother of Gaza hostage is furious over mixed signals on how many captives are dead

Families of hostages held in Gaza were surprised and angered to hear U.S. President Donald Trump say that three of the hostages who Israel had said were alive had died. Trump said Wednesday there are just 21 hostages still believed to be alive.
 
A Palestinian man embraces the body of his 5-year-old son, Adam Namrouti, who was killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on a UN school used as a shelter, ahead of his burial at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Netherlands wants to force a review of EU ties with Israel as concerns grow over Gaza

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp is insisting on a review of the European Union’s ties with Israel over its war in Gaza.
 
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Why is an end to the war in Gaza so elusive?

The war in Gaza may be on the cusp of a new phase after Israel approved plans over the weekend to intensify its operations . Which raises the question: After 19 months of bloodshed and destruction, why is there still no end in sight?
 

Gaza aid dries up as Israeli blockade enters a third month

Israel has blockaded all entrances to the Gaza Strip since March. While pummeling the strip with airstrikes, it has banned any food, water, shelter or medication from entering the Palestinian territory, where the United Nations says the vast majority of the population is reliant on humanitarian aid