KHAN YOUNIS: Israel pounded targets in the crowded southern half of the Gaza Strip on Saturday and ordered more neighborhoods designated for attack to evacuate, driving up the death toll even as the United States and others urged it to do more to protect Gaza civilians a day after a truce ...

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM: Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants exchanged heavy fire across the Israel-Lebanon border throughout Saturday as hostilities intensified following the collapse of a truce in Gaza between Palestinian group Hamas and Israel.The Israeli military and Iranian-backed Hezbollah ...

GAZA/TEL AVIV: Israel's military said it intercepted a rocket fired from Gaza early on Friday while Hamas-affiliated media reported sounds of gunfire and explosions in the north of the coastal strip shortly before a deadline to extend a seven-day truce was set to expire. Air raid sirens sounded ...

GAZA STRIP: A new group of Israeli hostages were due to be freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners under an extended truce on Tuesday as mediators worked for a lasting halt to the devastating seven-week war.International figures hailed the pause in hostilities and releases of captives as a ...

GAZA/JERUSALEM: A senior Egyptian official said on Monday that Egypt and Qatar were close to reaching a deal to extend a truce between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza by two days, continuing a pause in seven weeks of warfare that has killed thousands and laid waste to the Palestinian ...

Hamas' military wing on Sunday confirmed the commander of its northern brigade, Ahmed Al-Ghandour, and three other senior leaders had been killed during Israel's offensive against the Islamist movement.In a statement, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades said Ghandour was a member of its military ...

JERUSALEM: Three weeks ago, the Israeli military unveiled a detailed 3D model of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital – showing a series of underground installations that it said was part of an elaborate Hamas command and control center under the territory’s largest health-care center.Days after taking control ...

The head of a prominent media institution in Gaza and two other journalists were killed during the weekend in Israel's offensive in the territory, their relatives said on Sunday, adding to the dozens of reporters who have died in the six-week conflict.The New York-based Committee to Protect ...

With Israel’s war on Hamas advancing to the heart of Gaza’s main city in a little under six weeks, the army is looking to minimize the risk of confronting another challenge: infiltrating the group’s vast, secret network of tunnels. Anxious to limit losses among its soldiers, Israel’s military ...

KHAN YOUNIS: The night a blast struck his family's home in the GazaStrip, Ahmed al-Naouq was more than 2,000 miles away but he still jolted awake, consumed with inexplicable panic. He reached for his cellphone to find that a friend had written - and then deleted - a message. Al-Naouq called him ...