'Where do we go?': Desperation grows in Rafah as Israeli ground assault looms
Gaza’s southernmost city is crammed with displaced, desperate and starving people, just as Israel threatens a fresh assault.
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Israeli forces rescue 2 hostages in Rafah and hammer the crowded city
TEL AVIV — Israel’s military hailed the rescue of two hostages overnight in Rafah, while local officials said the raid killed dozens of people in the crowded, southern Gaza Stripcity sheltering more than 1 million displaced people.
Biden says Israel shouldn’t press into Rafah without ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel should not conduct a military operation against the Hamas militant group in the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah without a “credible and executable” plan to protect civilians, U.S. President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, the White House said.
Live updates | Israel conducts deadly Gaza strikes after Biden calls approach to war ‘over the top’
Israeli airstrikes struck the central Gaza Strip and the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt overnight into Friday, causing nearly two dozen fatalities including women and children, witnesses and hospital officials said.
House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security's Mayorkas
The House Committee on Homeland Security on Sunday released draft articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
AOC says no one should be ‘tossed out of public discourse’ for accusing Israel of genocide
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday declined to join critics who accuse Israel of genocide in its actions in Gaza, but said American society should not “toss someone out of our public discourse” for doing so.
Guterres: UN to punish staffers involved in 'terror,' urges UNRWA funding
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres vowed on Sunday to hold to account "any U.N. employee involved in acts of terror" after allegations that some refugee agency staffers were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
Israel-Hamas war negotiations reportedly working toward a weeks-long cease-fire
Negotiations over the Israel-Hamas war are zeroing in on a cease-fire deal of one to two months in exchange for all remaining Israeli hostages being held captive in Gaza, according to sources who spoke to NBC News and Reuters. Israel has proposed a two-month pause in fighting in exchange for the more than 130 hostages still held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, one Israeli government official, who remained anonymous in order to speak freely, told NBC News. A second Israeli official said that more than 25 of the hostages are dead, but