The Biden administration is stepping up criticism of Israel for not doing enough to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza as a 30-day deadline looms for Israeli officials to meet certain requirements or risk potential restrictions on military assistance.

Israel says it's terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza.

More than a year into a war that has ricocheted across the Middle East, Israeli troops are still battling Hamas in the most heavily destroyed and isolated part of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli medics say a series of rocket barrages from Lebanon have killed a total of seven people, including four Thai workers.

The head of the U.N. agency caring for Palestinian refugees says that newly passed Israeli laws effectively banning its activities in Israel will leave a vacuum that will cost more lives and create further in Gaza and the West Bank.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has chosen Sheikh Naim Kassem to succeed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month.

Gaza's Health Ministry says two Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 88 people.

Israel's parliament has passed bills banning the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Israel’s parliament has passed two laws that severely restrict the U.N. agency responsible for distributing aid in Gaza.

The top U_N_ humanitarian official is accusing Israel of blocking the delivery of desperately needed aid to Gaza, and the U_S_ ambassador is demanding that its government step up efforts to tackle the Palestinian territory’s ”intolerable and catastrophic humanitarian crisis.”.

A U.N. commission has accused Israel of destroying Gaza’s health care system through “relentless and deliberate attacks” in its yearlong war with Hamas.

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Ali Al-Taweel was born on Oct. 7, 2023, as Israeli warplanes started to pound the Gaza Strip after Hamas’ surprise cross-border attack on southern Israel.

Powerful new explosions have rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs around midnight as Israel expands its bombardment of the Hezbollah and Hamas militant groups in Lebanon.

Relatives say an Israeli airstrike on a West Bank cafe that the military said targeted Palestinian militants also killed a family of four, including two young children.

Israel is pressing forward on two fronts.

A year of war in the Gaza Strip has reverberated across the West Bank, where the World Bank warns the economy is at risk of collapse because of Israeli restrictions barring Palestinian laborers from entering the country to work and the biggest wave of violence in decades.

The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Hilltop Youth — a group of extremist settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank who attack Palestinians and their property, as well as two Israeli men connected to violence against Palestinians.

Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike hit a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza.

As fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalates, Palestinians in Gaza are fearful their plight is being overlooked by the international community.

Israeli troops have raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Videos obtained by The Associated Press show Israeli soldiers pushing four apparently lifeless bodies from rooftops during a raid in the occupied West Bank.

The U.N. General Assembly strongly supported a nonbinding Palestinian resolution Wednesday demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year.

Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, who dedicated much of his writings to the Palestinian cause and taught at universities around the world, making him one of Lebanon’s most prominent intellectuals has died.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has thanked Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for his support in the ongoing war with Israel.

The Palestinian economy is “in free fall,” with production in Gaza plunging to one-sixth of its level before Israeli forces began a blistering military response to the Oct. 7 attacks in the territory, the United Nations says.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States will continue to press Israel to do more to spare humanitarian sites in the Gaza Strip, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a U.N. school complex sheltering displaced Palestinians killed 14 people there, including six U.N. staffers.

Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed more than three dozen Palestinians.

The Israeli military says an American activist killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by its soldiers, drawing a strong rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the activist’s family.

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike hit a crowded tent camp in Gaza, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60.

The U.N. chief says the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and is demanding an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure.

The Palestinians have circulated a draft U.N. resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the West Bank within six months.

The Palestinian Authority holds a funeral procession for an American activist who a witness says was shot and killed by Israeli forces.

Israeli officials say three Israelis were fatally shot at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan.

An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence.

The U.N. independent investigator on the right to food accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza.

Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank killed six people, including the son of a prominent jailed militant.

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An Israeli military strike has hit the first vehicle in a convoy carrying medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians associated with a local transportation company.

The Israeli military says it struck the West Bank city of Jenin on the third day of heavy fighting in the Palestinian territory and killed a senior Hamas commander in the city.

Israel is carrying out large-scale military raids in parts of the occupied West Bank, where the decadeslong conflict with the Palestinians had worsened even before the outbreak of the war in Gaza.

Ireland and the European Union's top diplomat have urged the bloc to review its relations with Israel as the death toll mounts in Gaza and the West Bank.

The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants in a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank, including a well-known local commander.

The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants, including a local commander, in the occupied West Bank.

Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and has sealed off the volatile city of Jenin.

Hamas said that 10 of its fighters have been killed during a large-scale Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.

Israel's military says a “complex operation” has been conducted to free a hostage in Gaza.

After a short-lived calm following a heavy exchange of strikes between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, fighting resumed Monday.

Israel’s military says polio vaccines for more than 1 million people have been delivered to Gaza, after the first confirmed case of the disease in the territory in a quarter-century.

The Israeli military is issuing evacuation orders for southern Gaza at an unprecedented pace.

The top United Nations humanitarian official for Gaza says that successive Israeli evacuation orders have displaced 90% of the Palestinian territory's 2.1 million residents since the Israel-Hamas war began in October.

Israel wants lasting control over two strategic corridors in Gaza, which Hamas has long rejected.

The United Nations says that a record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier.

The latest Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed 29 people, including young quintuplets.

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed at least 18 people, all from the same family.

The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak.

Palestinian health officials say the first case of polio has been recorded in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah.

Israeli leaders have roundly condemned a settler attack that killed one Palestinian and torched homes and cars in the occupied West Bank.

Mediators to the Gaza War cease-fire talks say the two-day talks wrapped up and they aim to reconvene in Cairo next week to seal a deal to stop the fighting.

A U.S. official says mediators are preparing for a possible cease-fire and hostage-release deal in Gaza, in a sign that mediators believe an agreement to end the 10-month Israel-Hamas war might be imminent.

The Health Ministry in Gaza says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has pledged to travel to Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war rages.

Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday killed at least 17 people, including five children and their parents.

International mediators are hoping to kickstart stalled cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas with a new round of talks meant to finally clinch a deal between the sides.

A senior U.N. official says Yemen’s Houthi rebels have stormed the headquarters of the U.N. Human Rights Office in the capital, Sanaa.

Iran has rejected a call by three European countries urging it to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions.

Dozens of countries, academics and rights groups have filed legal arguments either rejecting or supporting the International Criminal Court’s power to issue arrest warrants in its investigation into the war in Gaze and Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel.

Leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar are jointly demanding that Israel and Hamas return to stalled talks on the war in Gaza.

Israel’s Western allies have condemned remarks by the country's far-right finance minister who suggested that causing the starvation of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million Palestinians “might be just and moral” until Hamas-held hostages are released.

The Israeli military has ordered another mass evacuation in large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza, saying its forces will soon operate there in response to Palestinian rocket fire.

Israel’s Supreme Court has convened again to consider a petition to shut down a military prison where soldiers have been accused of abusing Palestinian detainees.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the newly chosen Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has the power to ensure that a cease-fire deal is reached for the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Israel's Olympic team said athletes have received threats as they compete in Paris.

Israel's army says two airstrikes in the West Bank have killed nine Palestinian militants as violence flares again in the Israeli-occupied territory.

The Israeli military says it has confirmed that the head of Hamas’ military wing was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July.

A pair of assassinations of anti-Israel militant leaders hours apart is threatening to set off a regional clash and upend already fragile talks toward ending the war in Gaza.

The U.N. human rights office has issued a report saying Palestinians detained by Israeli authorities since the Oct. 7 attacks have faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks and other forms of torture and mistreatment.

The Israeli military says it is holding nine soldiers for questioning following allegations of “substantial abuse” of a detainee at a shadowy facility where Israel has held Palestinian prisoners throughout the war in Gaza.

Israeli airstrikes have hit a school being used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza and killed at least 30 people including seven children.

Palestinian factions and bitter foes Hamas and Fatah have signed a declaration in China vowing to form a unity government that would rule over the occupied West Bank and Gaza when the Israel-Hamas war ends.

Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have agreed to form a government together.

The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of part of a crowded area in the southern Gaza Strip it had designated a humanitarian zone.

Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 15 people including women and children overnight in Gaza.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a drone strike that hit part of central Tel Aviv near the U.S. Embassy, killing one person and injuring 10.

An Israeli delegation has arrived in Egypt to continue cease-fire talks as Israel and Hamas consider the latest proposal.

Israel’s far-right national security minister has visited Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site in a move that threatens negotiations over a cease-fire in Gaza.

The U.S. military-built pier to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza will be dismantled and brought home, ending a mission fraught with weather and security problems.

A global human rights group says Hamas-led armed groups committed numerous war crimes during the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that precipitated the war in Gaza.

A father in Gaza is mourning a baby boy killed in bed by an Israeli airstrike.

Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza, including a blast that hit an Israeli-declared “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people.

Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into Tuesday.

An Israeli drone strike on a car near the Lebanon-Syria border has killed a prominent Syrian businessman who was sanctioned by the United States and had close to Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.

The United Nations chief is appealing for funding for the beleaguered U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Civil defense workers in Gaza have been digging bodies out of collapsed buildings and pulling them off rubble-covered streets.

Palestinians have returned to breathtaking scenes of destruction in Gaza City after Israeli troops withdrew, ending a two-week offensive there.

Israel will send a delegation to Cairo for further talks with mediators on a proposed deal with Hamas for a cease-fire and hostage release.

The Israeli military has urged all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south.

An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza has killed at least 25 Palestinians.

Israeli forces are advancing deeper into the Gaza Strip’s largest city in pursuit of militants who have regrouped there.

Thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza have sought refuge in one of the territory’s largest soccer arenas.