Israeli strikes on Gaza overnight and early Monday have killed at least 70 people, Hamas officials said, as the military said it had struck some 320 targets in the Palestinian enclave in 24 hours.

Israel has amassed tanks and troops near the fenced border around Gaza for a planned ground invasion aiming to annihilate Hamas.

Israel's defence minister yesterday said that the war against Hamas could take "months" but insisted it would be the last

D-8 commissioners yesterday agreed to adopt a joint declaration to express steadfast solidarity and support for the Palestinians

A second convoy of aid trucks entered the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, heading towards the Gaza Strip, according to Egyptian security and humanitarian sources

Israel's military has warned Gaza residents that they risk being identified as accomplices "in a terrorist organisation" if they do not move south, Palestinians there said, amid growing humanitarian fears with little aid being allowed in

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Parliament also condoled and mourned the victims of earthquakes in Morocco and Afghanistan, floods in Libya, and floods in Sikkim

Russia has called another UN Security Council meeting after failing to comply with US sanctions for the first time. Saudi news agency Al Arabiya reported this information

At least 4,651 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said Sunday

Israel has vowed to wipe out the Hamas Islamist group that rules Gaza after its gunmen rampaged through Israeli towns and kibbutzim, killing 1,400 people, mainly civilians

With the Israel-Hamas conflict unleashing furious emotions, American universities have struggled to walk an almost impossibly narrow line: satisfying the demands of rich donors that they more clearly support Israel, while also respecting protesters' rights of free expression

India today sent around 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material for Palestinians in war-torn Gaza, the country's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said

On October 15, Iran issued a stinging public ultimatum to its arch-enemy Israel: Halt your onslaught on Gaza or we'll be forced to take action, its foreign minister warned

The Hamas government said Sunday that at least 55 people were killed in overnight raids on the Gaza Strip, after Israel announced it was stepping up strikes

Escalating attacks by militant group Hezbollah risk "dragging Lebanon into a war", Israel's military said Sunday, after renewed cross-border exchanges of fire that have raised fears of a wider conflict

The Pentagon moved to step up US military readiness in the Middle East in response to what it said were "recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces" across the region.

Israel pounded southern Gaza with air strikes early on Sunday and said it would intensify its attacks in the enclave's north, as the US committed to getting more aid to Palestinians running out of food, water, medicines and fuel

Israel on Saturday described as "propaganda" a claim by Hamas that it had wanted to release two more hostages on humanitarian grounds but that Israel declined to receive them

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for war-torn and besieged Gaza started passing into the Rafah border crossing from Egypt Saturday, a security source and an Egyptian Red Crescent official told AFP