Israel-Hamas war

Members of a humanitarian convoy of at least 1,500 people, including activists and supporters from Algeria and Tunisia, wave Palestinian flags from a bus as the group travels toward Gaza via Egypt's Rafah Crossing, in Zawiya, Libya, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Egypt blocks activists aiming to march to Gaza to draw attention to humanitarian crisis

Egypt has blocked activists taking part in a planned march to Gaza, halting their attempt to reach the border and challenge Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory before it could begin.
 
The Gaza-bound aid boat, Madleen, left, under escort of Israeli naval forces making its way toward Ashdod Port in southern Israel after being seized by Israeli forces, Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel says it deported 6 more activists detained on a Gaza aid boat

 
In this image made from video, a decoration celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha is set up in the front yard of a home, June 9, 2025, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

Trump’s travel ban fuels despair and disgust with politics among Arab Americans in Michigan

 
Palestinians, who were injured last night while trying to get access to humanitarian aid, arrive at the al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

More than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza health officials say

 
Members of a humanitarian convoy of at least 1,500 people, including activists and supporters from Algeria and Tunisia, wave Palestinian flags from a bus as the group travels toward Gaza via Egypt's Rafah Crossing, in Zawiya, Libya, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Convoy arrives in Libya en route to Gaza to challenge Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid

 
Activist Greta Thunberg answers reporters as she arrives from Israel at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Israel deports Greta Thunberg after Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized

Israel has deported activist Greta Thunberg a day after Israel’s military seized the Gaza-bound ship she was on. Thunberg spoke in Paris on Tuesday and described a “quite chaotic and uncertain” situation during the detention.
 
The Gaza-bound aid boat, Madleen, left, under escort of Israeli naval forces making its way toward Ashdod Port in southern Israel after being seized by Israeli forces, Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel seized a Gaza-bound boat with Greta Thunberg on board. Can it do that?

Israeli naval forces, far from the country’s shores, intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound ship carrying international activists, including Greta Thunberg, in an early morning raid.
 
People cheer as a convoy of buses made up of activists, lawyers and medical professionals from North Africa depart from Tunisia to Gaza to break Israel's blockade on the territory, in Gabes, Tunisia, Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo)

A convoy sets off for Gaza from North Africa to protest Israel’s blockade

Pro-Palestinian activists in North Africa are rallying around a convoy heading overland toward Gaza. It’s meant to spotlight Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid to the territory.
 
Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians say Israel and its allies fired on a crowd near Gaza aid site. Hospital says 14 killed

Palestinians say Israeli forces and allied local gunmen fired toward a crowd heading to an Israeli- and U.S.-supported food distribution center in the Gaza Strip.
 
The Gaza-bound aid boat, Madleen, under escort of Israeli naval forces enters to Ashdod Port in southern Israel after being seized by Israeli forces, Monday, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Gaza-bound aid boat with Greta Thunberg on board arrives in Israel after its seizure

A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has arrived at an Israeli port after Israeli forces stopped and detained them.
 
Climate activist Greta Thunberg stands near a Palestinian flag after boarding the Madleen boat and before setting sail for Gaza along with activists of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, departing from the Sicilian port of Catania, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Israel vows to prevent an aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching Gaza

Israel’s government has vowed to prevent an aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching the Gaza Strip.
 
This wanted poster from the U.S. State Departments' Rewards for Justice program shows al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula leader Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki. (Rewards For Justice, U.S. Department of State, via AP)

Yemen’s al-Qaida branch leader threatens Trump, Musk and others

The leader of al-Qaida’s Yemen branch has threatened both U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in his first video message since taking over the group last year.
 
This undated photo provided by the Hostage's Family Forum shows Nattapong Pinta, with his wife and son. (Hostage's Family Forum via AP)

Israel retrieves the body of a Thai hostage as 95 people are reported killed in Gaza

Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage abducted into Gaza during the 2023 Hamas-led attack that sparked the war. Nattapong Pinta had come to Israel to work in agriculture.
 
Tahreer Abu Jazar, 36, right, prepares an Eid al-Adha meal for her family inside their tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Mawasi Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Friday, June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gaza marks the start of Eid with outdoor prayers in the rubble and food growing ever scarcer

People across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip have marked the start of one of Islam’s most important holidays with prayers outside destroyed mosques and homes, with little hope the war with Israel will end soon.
 
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

UN conference to push for two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The United Nations chief is urging world leaders and officials attending an upcoming U.N. conference on ending the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict “to keep the two-state solution alive.”
 
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the American Compass's The New World Gala in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

US hits International Criminal Court judges with sanctions over investigation into Israel

The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court over the tribunal’s investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
 
The sun sets as smoke from Israeli bombardment billows over buildings in the northern Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Netanyahu says Israel has ‘activated’ some Palestinian clans opposed to Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “activated” some clans of Palestinians in Gaza that are opposed to Hamas, though it was not immediately clear what role they would play.
 
A Palestinian woman mourns as she embraces the body of her daughter Mayar Abu Odeh, 8, who was killed in an Israeli army strike on Gaza. at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire

The United States has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it’s not linked to the release of hostages.
 
The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept an attack from Lebanon over the Galilee region as seen from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Aug. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, file)

Israel signed a record $14 billion in defense deals last year despite Gaza war criticism

Israel says it signed defense contracts worth nearly $15 billion last year, surpassing its all-time record. That’s as Israel faces growing international condemnation and isolation over the war in Gaza.
 
Palestinians carry bags filled with food and humanitarian aid provided by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

US- and Israeli-backed group pauses food delivery in Gaza after deadly shootings

An Israeli- and U.S.-backed group has temporarily paused food delivery at its three distribution sites in Gaza. That came after health officials said dozens of Palestinians were killed in a series of shootings near the sites this week.
 
Holding their pots, Palestinians wait to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN Security Council to vote on Gaza ceasefire resolution amid humanitarian crisis

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution which demands “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties.” U.N. diplomats said the United States is likely to veto it.
 
This combo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 25, 2025 and Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, on March 19, 2025. (AP Photos Stringer, Mark Schiefelbein)

Analysis: An outline is emerging of the US offer to Iran in their high-stakes nuclear negotiations

The outline of the U.S. offer to Iran in their high-stakes negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program is starting to become clearer. But whether any deal is on the horizon remains as cloudy as ever.
 
Law enforcement officials dress up in protective gear to investigative an attack on the Pearl Street Mall, Sunday, June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

FBI says 8 injured in Colorado attack by man with makeshift flamethrower who yelled ‘Free Palestine’

The FBI says a man with a makeshift flamethrower yelled “Free Palestine” and hurled an incendiary device into a crowd that had assembled to raise attention for Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
 
Climate activist Greta Thunberg with other activists from a human rights organization meets with journalists in Catania, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2025, ahead of their departure for the Mideast. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Climate activist Greta Thunberg joins aid ship sailing to Gaza aimed at breaking Israel’s blockade

Organizers say climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and other 11 activists set sail on Sunday afternoon for Gaza on a ship aimed at “breaking Israel’s siege” of the devastated territory.
 
A demonstrator takes part in a performance during a protest demanding the end of the war and immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas seeks amendments to Gaza ceasefire proposal but US envoy calls it ‘unacceptable’

Hamas is seeking amendments to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal for Gaza. But U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff calls the Hamas response “totally unacceptable.”
 
A Palestinian, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike, is brought for treatment at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Hamas says it is still reviewing a US proposal for a Gaza ceasefire

Hamas says it is continuing to review a U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza. The ceasefire plan, which has been approved by Israeli officials, won a cool initial reaction Thursday from the militant group.
 
A young Palestinian waits to collect donated food at a food distribution kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What is a famine and who declares one?

For months, experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine. Earlier this month, Israel eased a blockade on the territory, but the U.N. humanitarian aid office said Friday that deliveries into Gaza remain severely restricted.
 
Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in southern Gaza, as seen from a humanitarian aid distribution center operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel accepts a US proposal for a temporary Gaza ceasefire and Hamas gives a cool response

The White House says Israel has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump submitted a ceasefire proposal that Israel has “backed and supported.”
 
A Palestinian man carries food in his T-shirt after receiving aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Witnesses in Gaza describe more chaos at food distribution sites

Chaos erupted again as tens of thousands of desperate Palestinians tried to collect food from distribution sites in the Gaza Strip run by a new U.S.- and Israeli-backed foundation.
 
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)

Mohammed Sinwar, head of Hamas’ armed wing, has been killed, Netanyahu says

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the man believed to be the head of Hamas’ armed wing, Mohammed Sinwar, has been killed, apparently confirming his death in a recent strike in the Gaza Strip. There was no confirmation from Hamas.
 
In a sign of growing desperation, Islam Abu Taeima, a 40-year-old mother of five, grabs a piece of bread from a pile of garbage in Gaza City, Sunday, May 25, 2025.(AP Photo/(AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza’s growing desperation

Before the war, it was rare in Gaza to see anyone searching through garbage for anything, despite widespread poverty. Since Israel’s war against Hamas began, kids often pick through trash for wood or plastic to burn or for anything worth selling.
 
Mourners gather around the body of Palestinian child Ghazwane Hamdan,10, killed in an Israeli army airstrike, and brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A new aid system in Gaza has started operations, a US-backed group says

A new aid system in Gaza has opened its first distribution hubs in the territory. That’s according to a U.S.-backed group that is taking over handling of supplies.
 
Workers unload cargo from a truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip at the offload area of the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, southern Israel, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel may change tack to allow aid groups in Gaza to stay in charge of non-food aid

Israel appears to be changing tack as pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave take charge of non-food assistance.
 
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

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were fatally shot while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested. That’s according to Washington police and federal authorities.