#Israel-Gaza crisis

The Islamist group Hamas released two U.S. hostages, mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan, who were kidnapped in its attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, Israeli Prime Minister ...

U.S. and European Union trade negotiators failed to reach deals to settle longstanding trade disputes in the run-up to a summit at the White House on Friday, but Washington ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a visit to Egypt’s crossing with the Gaza Strip on Friday to make an emotional appeal for aid trucks to move into the ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered for an anti-war rally at Eleftheria Square on Friday evening, calling for an end to the war in Gaza. An impressive turnout for Cyprus, nearly a ...

London police said on Friday they had recorded a 1,353% increase in antisemitic offences this month compared to the same period last year, while Islamophobic offences were up 140% in the wake ...

As many as 80% of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must take responsibility for the security failures exposed by the devastating Oct. 7 assault on Israeli by Hamas, a poll in ...

The Kremlin said on Friday that remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden comparing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Palestinian militant group Hamas were “unacceptable”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ...

Israel said on Friday it would evacuate more than 20,000 residents from Kiryat Shmona, one of the biggest towns on its northern border with Lebanon following a heavy cross-border exchange of ...

Repatriation is underway of over one hundred Turkish Cypriots from Gaza, authorities in the north announced on Friday. Information provided by Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister, Ahmet Yildiz, put the number ...

Aviation war insurers have given notice to cancel cover for some airlines domiciled in Israel and Lebanon because of the conflict in the region, with some cancellations already taking effect, ...

A Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip, the Saint Porphyrius Church which was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians was hit overnight by an Israeli air strike, the Orthodox Patriarchate ...

Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday to demand the release of hostages taken by Hamas, as President Joe Biden faces mounting pressure to ...

U.S. President Joe Biden asked Americans to spend billions more dollars to help Israel fight Hamas while Israel’s defence chief told his troops to be ready to go ...

A peaceful protest for solidarity with the Palestinian people was held near the Israeli embassy in Nicosia on Thursday evening, monitored by a heavy police presence. The event was organised ...

The date October 7 will be forever etched in Israeli history, marking the day Hamas gunmen rampaged through southern communities, killing 1,400 people, in the country’s deadliest attack since its founding ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday the Hamas attack on Israel was aimed at preventing the expansion of peace in the Middle East, and called on British Prime ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned its adversaries it was “thousands of times stronger” than before, as its fighters exchanged fire at the border with Israeli forces in violence fuelled by the ...

Machinery to repair roads has been sent through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip in preparation for the delivery of some of the aid stockpiled in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke over the phone on Wednesday discussing the crisis in the Middle East and Cyprus’ support in the evacuation of British ...

Egypt agreed to reopen its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow aid to reach Palestinians, the U.S. said, as the humanitarian crisis worsened for the 2.3 million people ...

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians in their millions would reject the forced displacement of Palestinians into Sinai, adding that any such move would turn the Egyptian ...

Protesters on Wednesday staged anti-Israeli demonstrations around the Middle East, some of them turning violent, to voice rage at an explosion that killed hundreds of Palestinians in the deadliest incident ...

Jordanian police on Wednesday said several anti-riot police were injured during clashes that broke out with rioting protesters near the Israeli embassy, who were torching property. The authorities had earlier ...

The Palestinian Embassy in Nicosia declared three days of national mourning on Wednesday, following a deadly bombing of the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza. The Embassy said they will ...