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US pauses funding to UN agency for Palestinians after claims staffers were involved in Hamas attack
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees fired a number of its staffers in Gaza suspected of taking part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and other militants on southern Israel, its director said Friday, prompting the U...
Israel designates safe zone in Gaza. Palestinians and aid groups say it offers little relief
MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has designated a small slice of mostly undeveloped land along Gaza's Mediterranean coast as a safe zone — a place where waves of people fleeing the war can find protection from airstrikes and receive humanitarian sup...
Israel moves into Gaza's second-largest city and intensifies strikes in bloody new phase of the war
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Tuesday that its troops had entered Gaza's second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians, including children, i...
More Israeli hostages freed by Hamas as truce in Gaza lasts another day
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas began freeing Israeli hostages Thursday in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners under a last-minute deal to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day. But any further renewal of the t...
Fragile truce in Gaza holds as talks go on to extend Israel-Hamas cease-fire
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A fragile truce between Israel and Hamas held for a fifth day on Tuesday, and the militant group has promised to release more hostages to delay the expected resumption of the war as Israel came under pressure from the...
Israel releases more Palestinian prisoners on sixth day of Gaza truce after Hamas frees 16 hostages
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel released another group of Palestinian prisoners early Thursday in exchange for 16 hostages freed hours earlier by the Islamic militant group Hamas in Gaza. The releases came on the sixth day of a temporary truce in the I...
Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisis
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term blackout of communications as Israel signaled its offens...
UN stops delivery of food and supplies to Gaza as communications blackout hinders aid coordination
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The United Nations was forced Friday to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza and warned of the growing risk of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged e...
