'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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Gaza’s southernmost city is crammed with displaced, desperate and starving people, just as Israel threatens a fresh assault.
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.
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.
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.
The House Committee on Homeland Security on Sunday released draft articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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.
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.
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