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Freelance photojournalist Bashar Taleb at work in Gaza

International media urge Israel to allow access to Gaza

A number of international news agencies have called on Israel to allow journalists in and out of Gaza which is subject to a strict blockade.

Middle East • 24 Jul

Palestinians wait for food to be distributed by a charity organisation (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel, US bring delegations home from Gaza truce talks

US envoy Steve Witkoff has said that the US was joining Israel in pulling negotiators back from Gaza peace talks in the Qatari capital, accusing Hamas of not "acting in good faith".

Middle East • 24 Jul

A child holds a pan to receive food distributed by a charity in Gaza city

Children 'starving before our eyes' in Gaza - Tánaiste

Tánaiste Simon Harris has said that "children are starving before our eyes" in Gaza as more than 100 aid organisations warned that "mass starvation" was spreading in the Palestinian territory.

Middle East • 23 Jul

A mother holds her starving baby in Gaza city, Gaza

Family of seven killed in Gaza as Israel deny aid delays

A family of seven were among more than 100 people killed in 24 hours of Israeli strikes or gunfire, according to health officials.

Middle East • 23 Jul

Starvation at every door in Gaza 'horror show'

Palestinian officials have said more people are now dying of hunger in Gaza than at any time since the war began - almost two years ago.

Middle East • 23 Jul

Ministers condemn 'inhumane killing of civilians' in Gaza

A joint statement from the foreign ministers of 26 countries, including Ireland, has condemned what it called the "drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians" in Gaza.

Middle East • 21 Jul

As it happened: Israel rejects ministers' statement

Follow live developments as Israeli tanks pushed into southern and eastern areas of the Gazan city of Deir Al-Balah today while Israel said its forces struck Yemen's Hodeida port.

Middle East • 21 Jul

The World Health Organization evacuates Palestinians for treatment from the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on 15 July

WHO says its staff residence in central Gaza 'attacked'

The World Health Organization has decried attacks on its staff residence and its main warehouse in the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah, facing escalating Israeli military operations.

Middle East • 21 Jul

The Holy Family church in Gaza City is pictured after it was hit by an Israeli strike

Israel 'deeply regrets' church strike in Gaza - Netanyahu

Israel has said that it "deeply regrets" that the only Catholic Church in Gaza was hit during a strike, where three people were killed and several others injured.

Middle East • 17 Jul

Palestinians walk on the rubble of buildings destroyed a day earlier by Israeli strikes in Gaza City

Trump to meet Qatar's PM as Gaza ceasefire talks continue

US President Donald Trump is due to meet with Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the White House has said, as Mr Trump presses for progress on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal.

Middle East • 16 Jul

The UTJ party quit Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition in protest against a failure to guarantee exemption from military conscription for ultra-Orthodox religious students

Netanyahu under growing pressure as party quits coalition

A religious party has quit Israel's ruling coalition in a dispute over military service, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a razor-thin majority in parliament but still enough political support to secure a potential Gaza ceasefire.

World • 15 Jul

a group of people in a destroyed building

Divided EU leaves action against Israel on Gaza on table

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said the bloc was leaving the door open to action against Israel over the war in Gaza if the humanitarian situation does not improve.

Middle East • 15 Jul

Smoke billowing east of Gaza City, in central Gaza Strip following Israeli strikes

Netanyahu 'unwilling' to reach Gaza truce deal - Hamas

Hamas has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not wanting to reach a deal to end the war in Gaza as talks in Qatar entered their second week.

Middle East • 14 Jul

Medics treat an injured Palestinian baby at the Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat in central Gaza, following Israeli attacks

Children killed collecting water as Israel claims error

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli attacks killed 43 Palestinians, including at a market and a water distribution point, as talks for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas stalled

Middle East • 13 Jul

A Palestinian woman pushes a man and child on a wheelchair as people gather to receive bags of flour at a UN World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse on Al-Jalaa street in Gaza City

Israel, Hamas trade blame as truce talks hang in balance

Hamas and Israel accused the other of blocking attempts to strike a Gaza ceasefire agreement, nearly a week into indirect talks between the two sides to halt 21 months of war in the Palestinian territory.

Middle East • 12 Jul

Palestinians gather near an aid site run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Nuseirat in Gaza last month

At least 798 killed in 6 weeks near Gaza aid points - UN

The UN human rights office has said it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and near convoys run by other relief groups.

Middle East • 11 Jul

Palestinian newborns share an incubator at Al-Helou hospital due to fuel crisis

Gaza doctors forced to cram babies into single incubator

At Gaza's largest hospital, doctors say crippling fuel shortages have led them to put several premature babies in a single incubator as they struggle to keep the newborns alive while Israel continues its attacks on the territory.

Middle East • 10 Jul

Smoke rises during an Israeli strike in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City in northern Gaza

Israeli attack kills 9 children waiting for aid in Gaza

Nine children were killed in an Israeli attack as they queued for nutritional supplements outside a health clinic in central Gaza, UNICEF has said.

Middle East • 10 Jul

Palestinian children inspect a destroyed vehicle after an Israeli attack in Gaza City, Gaza

Gaza civil defence says 29 killed in Israeli strikes

Gaza's civil defence agency said that 29 people were killed in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory devastated by 21 months of war.

Middle East • 08 Jul

GAZA CITY, GAZA - JULY 07: Palestinians inspect the damaged building of the Al-Rimal Clinic in Gaza City, Gaza after an Israeli airstrike targeted the facility, which was sheltering displaced civilians and is affiliated with the Palestinian Ministry of He

Gaza civil defence says 12 killed by Israeli forces

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces have killed at least 12 people, including six in a clinic housing Palestinians displaced after 21 months of war.

Middle East • 07 Jul

Latest Gaza truce talks end with 'no breakthrough'

Israel and Hamas did not achieve a breakthrough in their latest round of indirect talks earlier in Doha for a Gaza ceasefire, a Palestinian official has said.

Middle East • 07 Jul

Palestinians gather at an aid distribution point set up by the privately-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Gaza aid group vows to keep operating despite killings

More than 600 Palestinians have been killed and more than 4,000 wounded attempting to access aid from the Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to international NGOs, writes Yvonne Murray.

Analysis and Comment • 06 Jul

Ghada Ashour currently lives in a sprawling tented camp where she shares with nine more family members

People in Gaza living in 'cycle of trauma', says student

Student Ghada Ashour has lived her whole life in Gaza, but she dreams of living and studying somewhere else, somewhere safer.

Middle East • 06 Jul

Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike in the Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza yesterday

Netanyahu says Israel sending team for Gaza truce talks

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is sending a negotiating team to Qatar for talks on a truce in Gaza, but rejected Hamas's earlier truce proposals.

Middle East • 05 Jul

Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike in the Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza

Hamas responds in 'positive spirit' to ceasefire proposal

Hamas said it had responded in "a positive spirit" to a US-brokered Gaza ceasefire proposal and was prepared to enter into talks on implementing the deal which envisages a release of hostages and negotiations on ending the conflict.

Middle East • 04 Jul