#Gaza Strip

An Israeli airstrike killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials said, as mediators met leaders from Hamas in an effort to shore up a ...

Two Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring several others, officials from Gaza’s health ministry said. An airstrike hit a police checkpoint in ...

Israel’s parliament passed a law on Monday making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly attacks, fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister ...

Israel reopened the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Thursday after nearly three weeks to allow some wounded Palestinians to leave for treatment, after Gaza medics said Israeli strikes had killed ...

Israel’s military on Thursday dropped charges against five soldiers accused of torturing a Palestinian detained during the Gaza war, in a case that exposed divisions within Israel over whether ...

The U.N. expert on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, denounced on Thursday what she described as “toxic” attacks impacting her personal life and work, after a number of European ...

Cyprus attends Board of Peace as observer, weighs next steps Not really in the club, but not really out either – that looks like Cyprus’ posture regarding its engagement with the ...

Israel fired airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least 11 Palestinians, Palestinian officials said, in what the military called a response to ceasefire violations by Palestinian militant group ...

President Donald Trump will announce a multi-billion dollar reconstruction plan for Gaza and detail plans for a U.N.-authorized stabilization force for the Palestinian enclave at the first formal ...

Activists behind a flotilla intercepted at sea last year by Israel while trying to bring aid to Gaza will try again this year, expecting more than twice as many boats ...

A statement calling for peace in the Middle East was signed on Monday by over 400 former EU and member state ministers, ambassadors and senior officials, including Cyprus’ former Foreign Minister ...

The European Union “cannot remain mere observers” on the matter of Gaza, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Wednesday. “We must move in full coordination and on the basis of ...

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in Israel on Saturday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mainly to discuss Gaza, two people briefed on the ...

As Israel moved the blocks marking its armistice line with Hamas deeper into one Gaza neighbourhood in December, it destroyed dozens of buildings and displaced Palestinians in violation of a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides made the right decision in staying away from the World Economic Forum in Davos and, most importantly, Thursday’s launch event for President Donald Trump’s ‘board ...

By Dawoud Abu Alkas, Catherine Cartier, Edward Carron and Rami Ayyub As Israel moved the blocks marking its armistice line with Hamas deeper into one Gaza neighbourhood in December, it ...

Cyprus’ potential participation in the US-led Peace Council for Gaza does not entail any financial commitments or payments by the Republic, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. In a statement to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has been invited to join the Gaza Board of Peace, according to reports on Saturday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that Christodoulides has taken receipt of a ...

The White House on Friday announced some members of a so-called “Board of Peace” that is to supervise the temporary governance of Gaza, which has been under a fragile ceasefire ...

Two Israeli airstrikes killed five people, including a 16-year-old, in Deir al-Balah on Thursday, said local health authorities. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for ...

The United States said on Wednesday it is launching the second phase of its plan to end the Gaza war, even as key elements of the first phase – including a ...

More than 30,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid have been delivered to Gaza via Cyprus’ Amalthea aid corridor since the corridor was created, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Sunday. “Since the ...

A new shipment of humanitarian aid for Gaza arrived late on Saturday at the port of Ashdod via the “Amalthea” maritime corridor, according to information from the Cyprus News Agency (...

President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on two more judges from the International Criminal Court over their involvement in the court’s case against Israel, ratcheting up ...