The foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K. released a joint statement on Wednesday pushing back on Israel's announcement that it will suspend the operations of 37 humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank on Jan. 1.

Israel is continuing airstrikes against alleged Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

Israeli air strikes killed 22 people in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including women and children, according to the territory's civil defence agency, updating an earlier toll.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least 27 people, the Palestinian health ministry said, with children reported to be among the fatalities in the latest violence rattling a tenuous ceasefire.

The Israeli prime minister made the comments in Jerusalem on Sunday. The ceasefire in Gaza is broadly holding, with Israeli forces inside the strip having pulled back to the so-called "yellow line." Nonetheless, sporadic clashes between the Israel Defense ...

Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr Warsen Aghabekian Shaheen, who is on a visit to India, said she hopes Palestine will soon be freed from Israeli occupation and that peace will return along with the reconstruction of Gaza.

GAZA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - As Israel moved the blocks marking its armistice line with Hamas deeper into one Gaza neighbourhood in December, it destroyed dozens of buildings and displaced Palestinians in violation of a U.

Two Palestinian boys have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting firewood, according to their families.

The first step for this to change is the disarming of Hamas and the decommissioning of its weapons. Hamas is well aware that no reconstruction and no money for reconstruction will enter Gaza if they remain in control and continue to be a threat to Israel and to the people of Gaza itself.