The Latest Breaking News from Gaza

Israel’s security cabinet has announced a plan to “capture” the whole of the Gaza Strip. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on May 5 the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would remain in the territory indefinitely and take over the administration of humanitarian aid. What his government is referring to as…

Israeli military repurposes the drones to bomb hospitals and shelters in Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Sanad investigation finds.

Ireland's Taoiseach Micheál Martin called the situation in Gaza ‘hell on earth’. He told The Europe Conversation that Israel is committing war crimes, and criticised the EU’s lack of response. Food and medicine have been blocked from entering the besieged area for almost 60 days.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said his government is "drawing a line in the sand" over the Gaza humanitarian aid blockade, which he says goes against international humanitarian law.

The Red Cross on Thursday denounced the human cost of the war raging in Gaza, slamming Israel's "unacceptable" full blockade on aid into the besieged and conflict-ravaged Palestinian territory.

ISRAEL'S ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza has forced a leading aid group to shut its community soup kitchens ...

At least nine Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.

RTÉ asks European Broadcasting Union for talks after 72 former contestants call for ban on Israeli broadcaster

Mahmoud Abbas’s lining up of the next president is part of a long pattern of denying Palestinians political agency, says researcher of Palestinian and Arab politics Dana El Kurd

Irish national broadcaster RTÉ director general said he was "appalled by the ongoing events in the Middle East and by the horrific impact on civilians in Gaza, and the fate of Israeli hostages."

First responders in Gaza said Thursday that their operations were at a near standstill, more than two months into a full Israeli blockade that has left food and fuel in severe shortage.