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Deadly attacks on medical workers and the destruction of urban districts has made it even harder to provide assistance, according to aid officials.

Neither Israel or Hamas have said definitively whether they would accept or reject a proposal outlined by President Biden, but sizable gaps between the two sides appear to remain.

Benny Gantz has said he would quit by Saturday unless his concerns about what would follow the war were addressed, though there was no public indication of whether he would follow through.

Six candidates, including the speaker of parliament, have been approved to run in the Iranian election this month to succeed President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month.

Israel’s Military Says Hostages Were Held in Home of a Hamas Member

A report provided the first detailed U.N. examination of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent conflict in Gaza.

Some aid groups expressed skepticism that the Israeli military's action would be transformative, noting that it had made similar assurances in the past about increasing the flow of aid. In fact, humanitarian officials said, the amount of aid entering Gaza has declined sharply in recent weeks even as the United Nations has said much more is needed.

Israel is putting key responsibilities in the occupied West Bank under an administrator who answers to a hard-line government minister who favors ...

By The Gaza Strip is at high risk of famine and almost half a million people there face starvation because of a catastrophic lack of food, a

Military service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis, both men and women, and the exemption for the ultra-Orthodox has long been a source of resentment