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At least 70 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn on Friday and casualties continue to mount. An Israeli military helicopter has attacked a tent housing displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area of ​​Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least five people. Medical sources in Gaza have told reporters that at least 64 people have …

A senior Hamas official told AFP on Wednesday that the group is still preparing its response to an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza. “The movement’s response is still in preparation, and we affirm that there is no room for any partial deal,” said Mahmoud Mardawi, insisting that the group’s “weapons will not be subject …

Negotiations for a renewed ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza appear to be at an impasse after Israel issued new demands for Hamas to disarm in its latest proposal that offers only a temporary halt to attacks on the Palestinian territory, where the death toll is quickly approaching at least 51,000. Israel issued its latest proposal to …

It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such gravity that the defendants faced charges of forgery, fiscal fraud and the sham sale of slaves. Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but these particular offenses were considered so serious under Roman law that penalties …

The Hamas delegation in Cairo is engaged in talks on ending Israel’s war on Gaza and opening border crossings for humanitarian aid, according to Egypt’s Ahram Online newspaper. Hamas also said it was discussing rebuilding Gaza and unifying Palestinian institutions in the Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank in coordination with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, Ahram reported. Egypt and …

The United Nations says Palestinian women and children were the only fatalities in at least three dozen Israeli air strikes on Gaza since mid-March, as it warned that Israel’s military offensive threatens Palestinians’ “continued existence as a group”. Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said on Friday that the office had documented 224 Israeli strikes …

The Israeli military has announced that it has begun a large military offensive against Nablus, specifically, the Balata refugee camp. At least 14 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli army gunfire and dozens suffocated from tear gas during a raid since Wednesday morning on the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in a …

Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, killing six Palestinians in one strike on the northern city of Beit Lahiya, a day after killing at least 60 in attacks across the enclave. Ahmed Mansour, a journalist who suffered severe burns in Monday’s Israeli attack on a media tent near the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, has died of his wounds, …

Gaza’s Health Ministry warned of a “health disaster” over Israel’s ban on the entry of polio vaccines into the Palestinian enclave. “The Israeli ban on the entry of polio vaccines into Gaza is a ‘time bomb’ that threatens to spread the epidemic,” the ministry said in a statement. “(This policy) is an insistence on indirectly targeting children in the Gaza …

President Trump will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, several people familiar with the meeting confirmed to CBS News on Saturday. The leaders are expected to focus on the latest Israeli military operations in Gaza and new U.S. tariffs announced by Mr. Trump against Israel and other countries, the Associated Press reported. This would …