1 day ago · Gaza has long been a powder keg, and it exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and began killing and abducting people, sparking a crushing Israeli military operation there that’s only recently reached an uneasy ceasefire.

1 day ago · WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, proposing a major shift in Middle East policy, called for the U.S. to take over the Gaza Strip and relocate roughly two million Palestinians to neighboring ...

1 day ago · The Mohammed family trudged back northwards from the plastic sheeting of the massive camp where they have lived for months to the bombed-out ruins of their home in north Gaza after Israel began ...

Israel has justified its blockade on the strip with wanting to stop flow of arms, but Palestinians and rights groups say it amounts to collective punishment and exacerbates dire living conditions.

Jan 27, 2025 · Palestinians wait to be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, on January 26, 2025.

Jan 27, 2025 · The long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.

5 days ago · In December 1987 rioting and violent street clashes between Gaza’s Palestinians and occupying Israeli troops marked the birth of an uprising that came to be known as the intifada (Arabic intifāḍah, “shaking off”).

Oct 9, 2023 · What is the Gaza Strip? The Gaza Strip refers to a narrow strip of land wedged between Israel and Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea that is roughly the size of Washington, D.C. Occupied in...

May 30, 2018 · Thousands of Palestinian refugees settled in the Gaza Strip. Many were essentially trapped between two countries—Egypt and Israel—that wouldn’t grant them easy passage.

Oct 10, 2023 · Gaza is one of two Palestinian territories. The other is the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Bordered by walls and fences erected by Israel, the Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated...