The Israeli military began a ground offensive targeting Gaza City on Tuesday, slowly squeezing in on the Palestinian territory's largest city that has seen block after block already destroyed in the Israel-Hamas war.

Calls for Jewish settlements in Gaza are shifting toward the mainstream in Israel, with some groups advocating the wholesale ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

The humanitarian infrastructure sustaining life in Gaza remains in peril over six months after the ceasefire agreement in October 2025.

Israeli leaders said they began striking targets in Gaza city of Rafah, hours after Hamas announced it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal.

The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt partially reopened Monday, a significant step in the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

When the University of Queensland Press cancelled the publication of Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money’s book Bila: A River Cycle because of a blog post by its illustrator, 60 UQP contributors signed a letter of protest.

On Friday, Abu Hamam and millions of Palestinians mark the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” referring to the mass expulsion and flight of some 750,000 Palestinians from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. It’s the third commemoration of the Nakba since the war in Gaza began.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Blink and you might miss the few stone walls that are all that’s left of the village that Yusuf Abu Hamam’s family was forced to flee when he was an infant in 1948. The village, al-Joura, was demolished by the Israeli ...