Israeli fire killed at least two people in Rafah and wounded three others in Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, raising fears among Palestinians that the ceasefire could collapse altogether after Israel imposed a total blockade on the shattered enclave.
On Monday afternoon, two friends, Khaled al-Shaer, 60, and Musa Qishta, 59, were walking toward their destroyed homes in the city of Rafah near the Egyptian border with Gaza. They had gone out for a stroll to pass the time until that day’s Ramadan fast ended at sunset.
Trucks lined up in front of Egypt’s Rafah border crossing on Sunday (March 2) after Israel blocked the entry of aid into Gaza. It comes as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators to intervene.
Israel has introduced what it said was a new U.S. ceasefire plan and is trying to force Hamas to accept it by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf countries are increasingly important in some of this focus on what happens next.
Israeli tanks opened fire on ambulances carrying Palestinian patients set to be evacuated from Gaza for medical attention abroad.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli drone fire in the central area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, medics and Hamas media said on Monday.
Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli drone fire in the central area of Rafah in southern Gaza, medics and Hamas media said today.
Lauded by critics, Channel 4 News has won at least six awards for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Both the Royal Television Society (RTS) and the Press Gazette named it news programme of the year in 2024. It won the same honour at the Broadcast Awards this year.
Violence has erupted in Gaza as an Israeli blockade threatens the fragile ceasefire with Hamas. Israeli airstrikes in Rafah and Khan Younis raised fears of conflict resurgence. With food supplies dwindling,
Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza in an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of its war with Hamas.