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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron welcomed China's President Xi Jinping during a rare visit at the Elysee Palace on Monday (May 6), shaking hands with his ...

The Israeli military on Monday ordered tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate, a move indicating Israel's offensive on Gaza's ...

About 100,000 people are being directed to head for an "expanded humanitarian area" in Khan Younis and al-Mawasi. After seven months of war, Israel says it must ...

Biden administration officials decline to share details about proposal but say they are committed to reaching deal.

HAMAS on Monday said it accepts a proposal for a truce in the seven-month-old war in Gaza, as Israel renewed an order for Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate ...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Israel's military carried out airstrikes in Rafah on Monday (May 6), residents said, hours after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate ...

Netanyahu, Biden speak by phone as Washington scrambles to get fizzling hostage release deal negotiations back on track and prevent looming ground offensive ...

That evening Hamas announced that it would accept an Egyptian proposal for a temporary ceasefire and would in return release 33 of the Israeli hostages it is ...

Israel says it is studying a ceasefire deal agreed to by Hamas as Israeli military launches heavy attacks on Rafah.

Israel launches strikes on eastern Rafah amid confusion over ceasefire negotiations; tanks reportedly seen on outskirts of city.

RAFAH: Israel carried out strikes on the Gazan city of Rafah overnight as it sought to put "pressure" on Hamas ahead of talks in Egypt on Tuesday (May 7) ...

The Israel-Hamas war went from a potential short-term ceasefire to strikes on Rafah on Monday.

RAFAH: Hamas on Monday (May 6) said it accepts a proposal for a truce in the seven-month-old war in Gaza, as Israel renewed an order for Palestinians in ...

Hamas said earlier it had approved a ceasefire proposal but Israel's Netanyahu says it is "far from meeting" demands.

Netanyahu's office said the truce proposal “is far from Israel's essential demands”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Palestinian civilians told to evacuate eastern Rafah by the Israeli military have described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and ...

Gaza border authority confirms presence of Israel's tanks at crossing, sole gateway between Egypt and Gaza for humanitarian aid.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas said it had agreed to a cease-fire proposal for the Gaza Strip, but Israel's war Cabinet unanimously rejected it as ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas on Monday agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands and ...

RAFAH: The Israeli military took control of the vital Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Tuesday (May 7), pushing into the southern Gazan town ...

Israeli military vehicles operate in the Gazan side of the Rafah Crossing, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, ...

Hamas says it accepts cease-fire proposal, which Israel calls far from satisfying its demands.

An Israeli tank brigade seized control Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities said, as cease-fire negotiations ...

The Israeli military says it is in control of the Rafah border point, hours after Hamas said it accepted a truce deal drawn up by Egypt.

IDF sent tanks into city in southern Gaza on Tuesday as it said terms of ceasefire deal were undecided.

Israeli forces moved on Rafah after Hamas said it had agreed to a Qatari-Egyptian brokered cease-fire proposal.

Israel's military carried out airstrikes in Rafah, residents said, hours after it told Palestinians to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza city where more ...

The Israeli military says its troops have taken "operational control" of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.

The Israeli military has seized control of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, moving forward with an offensive in the southern ...

Israeli forces have taken control of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing into Egypt. A U.S. Border Patrol agent explains how he sees his agency's mission.

RAFAH - Fearful medics and patients are fleeing a hospital in Rafah and transfers of the sick and injured via a border crossing with Egypt are at a ...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO: Israeli forces seized the main border crossing between Egypt and southern Gaza on Tuesday (May 7), shutting down a vital aid route ...

UN and aid agencies urge Israel to halt Rafah incursion, warning Gaza is on brink of famine and needs humanitarian aid.

The will to continue the war will produce another great humanitarian crisis, bigger than it is already.”

Defence minister says operation will continue until militant group is defeated or begins to free hostages.

Biden administration says Israel has 'legitimate goal' in seizing Rafah crossing but calls for reopening the border.

Andrew Mitchell says military action on city will not eradicate Hamas and priority is to secure a permanent ceasefire.

Displacement after displacement. That describes the reality facing thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza who took Rashid Street from Rafah to the centre ...

It's a moment of truth for Biden's policy on Israel and the Palestinians – and at the least will make continued prevarication harder to disguise.

The move comes after hours of whiplash in the Israel-Hamas war, with the militant group saying it accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated cease-fire proposal.

Israeli forces took "operational control" of the Gaza side of the vital Rafah border crossing as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the ...

A bomb shipment was halted last week over concerns Israel was going ahead with a Rafah offensive.

Official says final decision has not been made on shipment of thousands of bombs, which was halted amid review of the transfer of weapons.

The move marks the first known time that the US has held up a potential weapons sale since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and the Jewish state launched its ...

The U.S. has paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to Israel amid mounting tension over its plan to expand military operations in Rafah.

Biden's administration paused shipment of weapons in effort to prevent full-scale assault on Rafah, official says.

White House spokesperson John Kirby says Hamas has offered amendments to an Israeli proposal aimed at ending the impasse.

The Biden administration has paused a shipment of bombs that could be used in Rafah over concerns that Israel is poised to invade the southern Gaza city ...

The U.S. has historically provided enormous amounts of military aid for Israel. That has only accelerated in the aftermath of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that killed ...

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration paused a shipment of weapons to Israel last week in opposition to apparent moves by the Israelis to invade the ...