The Biden administration’s claim that an Israeli invasion into Rafah would not help the nation defeat Hamas or secure a hostage release deal “makes no logical sense,” several experts told…
Israel announced a wider evacuation order in Rafah, a southern city in Gaza, on Saturday ahead of its expected ground assault to finish off Hamas’ major stronghold. The Israel Defense…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli tanks pushed back into parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday which they had left weeks ago, while warplanes conducted air strikes on…
By Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israeli officials agreed on Monday to take U.S. concerns about a planned offensive in Rafah into account, said a joint statement issued…
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will take control of Rafah even if it causes a rift with the United States, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday, describing…
(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel on Friday in an expansion of his Middle East trip, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Wednesday. The…
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s foreign minister said on Monday the U.S. should make clear to Israel what the consequences of a military push into the south Gaza city of Rafah…
By Bassam Masoud, Ibraheem Abu Mustafa and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel intensified its bombardment of Rafah in Gaza’s south and over a dozen members of one…
By Bassam Masoud, Ibraheem Abu Mustafa and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel stepped up its bombardment of the southern city of Rafah, residents said on Wednesday, as…
By Steve Holland, Michelle Nichols, Humeyra Pamuk and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spent months wanting a “pause” in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in…
GENEVA (Reuters) – Any Israeli military advance into southern Gaza’s Rafah area could cause mass deaths among the more than a million Palestinians trapped there, with humanitarian aid in danger…
By Humeyra Pamuk TEL AVIV (Reuters) – U.S. officials made their most pointed criticism so far of Israel’s civilian casualties in Gaza as it turns the focus of its offensive…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maggie Fick CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have crammed into the Rafah area on Gaza’s border with Egypt to escape Israeli bombardments,…
(Reuters) – The Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is the sole route for aid to enter Gaza directly from outside Israel and the only exit that does…