INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
spokesman said.This could signal an impending ground offensive, though the Israeli military has not yet confirmed such an appeal
On Thursday it said that while it was preparing, a decision has not yet been made.The order, delivered to the U.N., comes as Israel presses
an offensive against Hamas militants
grisly weekend incursion.A visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, along with shipments of U.S
soldiers, even as international aid groups warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis
leaders order one.A ground offensive in Gaza, which is ruled by Hamas and where the population is densely packed into a sliver of land only
Israel says roughly 1,500 Hamas militants were killed inside Israel, and that hundreds of the dead in Gaza are Hamas members
Thousands have been wounded on both sides.As Israel pounds Gaza from the air, Hamas militants have fired thousands of rockets into Israel
Amid concerns that the fighting could spread in the region, Syrian state media reported that Israeli airstrikes on Thursday put two Syrian
Palestinians running through streets, carrying their belongings and looking for safetyA strike Thursday afternoon in the Jabaliya refugee
At least 23 of the dead were under the age of 18, including a month-old child, according to a list of the casualties.The home belonging to
the al-Shihab family was packed with relatives who had fled bombing in other areas
Neighbors said a second house was hit at the same time, but the toll was not immediately known
neighbor, Khalil Abu Yahia, said
out of a population of 2.3 million, the U.N
Most crowded into U.N.-run schools.Families were cutting down to one meal a day, said Rami Swailem, a 34-year-old lecturer at al-Azhar
University, who had 32 relatives sheltering in his home
generators.Hospitals, overwhelmed by a constant stream of wounded and running out of supplies, have only a few days worth of fuel before
of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Newborn incubators, kidney dialysis machines, X-ray equipment and more, are all dependent on power, he said.Ambulance crews carrying bodies
Dozens of full body bags were lined up in the hospital parking lot
Fourteen health facilities have been damaged in strikes, health officials said Thursday.With Israel sealing off the territory, the only way
Egypt has been trying to convince Israel and the United States to allow aid and fuel through the crossing.Israel is employing a new tactic
of leveling whole neighborhoods, rather than just individual buildings
Hecht, the military spokesman, said targeting decisions were based on intelligence on locations being used by Hamas and that civilians were
young people at a music festival
confirmed.Amid grief and demands for vengeance among the Israeli public, the government is under intense pressure to topple Hamas rather
the civilian deaths in Gaza from six days of Israeli airstrikes
videos and survivor accounts of Hamas militants deliberately targeting and killing civilians in Israel.Naim added that there would be no
At a funeral for a 25-year-old woman killed with at least 260 other people at a desert rave, and at another service for a slain Israeli
soldier, mourners sat cross-legged on the ground next to caskets, wailing or quietly weeping.In Gaza, too, mourners buried families together
At one funeral, they placed the battered body of a little girl in the arms of her slain father.Brewing anger over Israeli military and
legal overhaul that divided the country and affected the military.In what appeared to be a first admission of fault from a government
I, as a member of the government, am responsible
previous conflicts ended with Hamas still firmly in control of the territory it has ruled since 2007
Israel has mobilized 360,000 reservists, massed forces near Gaza and evacuated tens of thousands of residents from nearby communities
A new war Cabinet, which includes a longtime opposition politician, was sworn in Thursday to direct the fight.A high-ranking Hamas official,
