A UN rights expert on Monday said there were “reasonable grounds” to determine that Israel has committed several acts of “genocide” in its offensive in Gaza, also warning of “ethnic cleansing”.

Twelve people have drowned and six been killed in stampedes trying to recover aid airdropped into Gaza, Hamas said today

The UN Security Council on Monday called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza five months into the grinding war, despite Israel's ally the United States abstaining

Relations between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sank to a wartime low on Monday with the US allowing passage of a Gaza ceasefire resolution at the United Nations and drawing a sharp rebuke from the Israeli leader

The United Nations Security Council demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas yesterday as Israeli forces carried out new airstrikes in Gaza and laid siege to two hospitals.

US abstained from voting; resolution calls for an immediate truce marking Ramadan to lead to a 'lasting, sustainable ceasefire'

The UN Security Council today was set to attempt adopting a text calling for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, as the veto-wielding United States shows signs of tempering its rigid Israel backing

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza today said that at least 32,333 people have been killed in the territory during more than five months of invasion by Israel in Palestine

UN chief Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of war-ravaged Gaza, today said the world has seen enough of its horrors and appealed for a ceasefire to allow in more aid

A vote at the UN Security Council on a new text calling for an "immediate" ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was postponed to Monday, diplomatic sources told AFP, after a separate, US-lead draft resolution was vetoed

The United States will ask the UN Security Council today to back a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an Israel-Hamas hostage deal

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said today that at least 31,988 people have been killed in the territory during more than five months of Israel's invasion in Palestine

The United States submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for an "immediate ceasefire linked to the release of hostages" in the Gaza Strip, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said

Canada will halt all arms shipments to Israel, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly's office confirmed Wednesday, a decision that has drawn the ire of Israeli leaders facing growing international scrutiny over the war in the Gaza Strip

Canada is halting its arms shipments to Israel, a Canadian government source told AFP Tuesday

Israel's restrictions on humanitarian aid for Gaza may amount to a starvation tactic that could be a war crime, the United Nations human rights chief said today

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Tuesday that at least 31,819 people have been killed in the territory during more than five months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants

Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said on Monday

US President Joe Biden said Monday he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a team to Washington to discuss how to avoid an all-out assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell yesterday said that Israel's military campaign in Gaza had turned the territory into the world's biggest "open-air graveyard"