Washington: The United States and Israel have condemned a French decision to officially recognise Palestine as a state, as US-mediated negotiations to secure a ceasefire in Gaza broke down on Friday (AEST).

The United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy will hold an emergency call on Friday to talk about the deteriorating conditions in Gaza.

US mediators are heading home after Hamas allegedly showed a lackluster effort to reach a cease-fire deal with Israel on Thursday, President Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said.

Four leading news organizations say their journalists in Gaza are facing the threat of starvation as the Israel-Hamas war grinds on.

The images of skeletal children that are now pouring out of Gaza are shocking but they should not be surprising. Humanitarian groups with decades of experience distributing aid in Gaza have been warning about this scenario for months,

Officers were violently attacked at the tourist attraction Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during a protest rally against Israel's policies in the Gaza Strip, the police said on Thursday evening. More than 15 arrests were made,

France’s decision has only added to calls on the UK government to recognise Palestine. A cross-party committee of British MPs said it plainly: “It seems that the Israeli government is not listening to the UK. And while it listens to the US government, it only does so sporadically,” per Yahoo News.

In a statement published on its Telegram channel, the coalition said all communications with the crew of the Handala had been severed.

an 11-month-old Palestinian girl, Seela Barbakh, lies on her back, her fragile body a stark illustration of the devastating impact of malnutrition in the Gaza Strip. Seela's mother, Najah Barbakh, cradles her daughter's head in her hands, supporting it as ...