The Popular Forces, a new Palestinian militia in Gaza, aims to challenge Hamas and its rule. However, scepticism surrounds the group over its ability to assert itself, as well as its leader Yasser Abu Shabab and his criminal past.

Even if this was not a formal BCG project, our association with it is real, deeply troubling, and reputationally very damaging,” BCG’s CEO said.

President Donald Trump has been working to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but questions still remain as to

Shifa Hospital was once the cornerstone of the health system in the Gaza Strip. Now, after 21 months of war and two major Israeli raids, it barely functions.

Key concerns were raised by USAID in vetting process days before $30 million grant was awarded to US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund, documents show.

A British surgeon described what she saw in the territory, treating people who’d been shot trying to get food and children with life-changing injuries from Israeli bombs.

Displaced families, including dozens of children, lined up at a charity kitchen in Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, holding empty plastic pots, tins and containers to receive their share of food.

The war started after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage. Most of the hostages have been released in earlier ceasefires. Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

When the onetime director of a Gaza Strip hospital was killed by an Israeli airstrike, he joined a growing list of prominent Palestinian doctors who have died during 21 months of war that has devastated the territory’s health system.

The IDF announced on Wednesday the death of reservist Abraham Azulay, who fell during combat in the Gaza Strip. Azulay, 20, a resident of Yitzhar in the West Bank, served in the 77th Armored Corps Battalion. He is the third casualty from the community since the Israel-Hamas War began.