On Dec. 3, 2023, an Israeli airstrike reduced his five-story home in Beit Lahia to debris, burying 54 members of his family beneath it, he said. Among those killed were his wife, his sons, his parents, his brothers and their wives, his nieces and nephews and his cousins, Assaf said.

The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.

The head of the United Nations made a fresh appeal for the Gaza ceasefire to be extended, warning against a "catastrophic" return to war as the first phase of the Israel-Hamas truce was to expire on Saturday.

A Palestinian businessman is making a long-shot bid to lead a new governing body of the Gaza Strip, putting up an estimated $300,000 for lobbying services to influence Washington and the Middle

GAZA, March 1, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces bulldozed a house east of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis city, south of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said that an occupation military bulldozer accompanied by three tanks advanced towards the area, amid heavy gunfire, and bulldozed a house.

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authorities will govern the Gaza Strip when the 15-month-old war ends. Netanyahu disclosed that he is “committed” to the United States’ proposal to take over the Gaza Strip and displace its Palestinian residents.

Gaza Strip - Recent A fresh batch of humanitarian aid supplies provided by the Chinese government to the Gaza Strip arrived in the war-torn enclave through Jordan on Saturday. The supplies, consisting of 12,