Explosions could be seen going off in the distance in the Gaza Strip on Friday. There has been little visible progress in months of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas aimed at a new ceasefire and hostage release agreement,

While the international community criticizes the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a middle east expert says the U.S.- and Israel-backed organization is taking the power away from Hamas.

It is time to stop this slaughter.” With these words, Pope Leo XIV expressed his firm condemnation of the Israeli army’s attack on the Church of the Holy Family in Gaza.

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Mourners attend the burial of Palestinian Christians Saad Salama and Foumia Ayyad at Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza July 17, 2025. The two parishioners were killed, according to medics, in an Israeli strike on the Holy Family Parish’s compound. (OSV News photo/Dawoud Abu Alkas, Reuters)

At least 20 Palestinians died in a stampede at a Gaza aid site amid Israel’s blockade and a deepening humanitarian crisis.

A network of consulting firms, security companies, contractors, and businessmen from the United States and Israel designed both the controversial aid distribution model and the plans for the reconstru

Mohammed Saad sits with others inside a homemade cart pulled by a car carrying several passengers, waiting to travel to Gaza City in one of the “uncomfortable and extremely expensive” means of transportation used to get around the Strip.