Even before the first phase is completed, the fragile cease-fire agreement that has paused 15 months of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas faces increasingly long odds of lasting or even reaching phase two.
Hundreds of truckloads of food, fuel and other supplies have arrived in Gaza each day since the cease-fire took effect. But the need is vast after 15 months of war.
Private contractors will screen Palestinians travelling from south to north through the first phase of Gaza ceasefire
Life expectancy in the Gaza Strip was nearly cut in half in the first year of the war between Israel and Hamas, a new study has estimated.
From the first minutes after the ceasefire was implemented on Jan. 19, 2025, dozens of UNICEF trucks entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing point, loaded with water, hygiene kits, nutrition, warm winter clothes and other critical humanitarian aid for children. Hundreds more stood at the ready, filled with lifesaving supplies.
The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.
The IDF identified numerous terror threats and fired warning shots toward them in several areas of Gaza, the m
Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 653 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the fifth day of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas.
Russia on Thursday reprimanded the head of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF for not providing a "weighty argument for her refusal" to brief the Security Council on children in Gaza - a meeting requested by Russia.