The US has been talking with Hamas through an American intermediary in Doha this week in hopes of brokering an Israel-Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to a source familiar with the matter, as US officials say President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Israel’s handling of the conflict.

Britain suspended trade negotiations and the E.U. pledged to review ties as Israel’s siege of Gaza tested the limits of some of its closest European partners.

Israel's military operation in Gaza is focused on dismantling Hamas’ military capabilities, said Kobbi Shoshani, Consul General of Israel to Midwest India, in an interview with CNBC-TV18. He reiterated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position that disarmament is essential to ending the ongoing conflict.

Britain, France and Canada called the Israeli plans for escalation “disproportionate” and “egregious” at a time when the U.N. is warning the population is at risk of famine.

UN Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher claimed this week that some 14,000 Gazan babies could die within the next 48 hours unless aid reaches them, in a later-retracted statement. Also this week, US President Donald Trump announced the US's Golden Dome missile defense system,

International pressure is mounting on Israel amid its renewed military operation in the Gaza strip, as both the United Kingdom and the European Union announced measures to distance themselves from the country on Tuesday.

Three days after Israel said it would relax its blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, little, if any, of the urgently needed food, fuel and medicine appeared to have reached Palestinians.

Exposure to accurate reporting over the dire plight of people in Gaza resulted in 5% bump in those in Israel who supported aid convoys.

Alon Rom in Tel Aviv contributed to this report. Middle East conflict Israel’s military launched a large-scale bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip on March 18, breaking the fragile ceasefire with ...

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., who were fatally shot Wednesday evening after leaving an event at a Jewish museum, have been identified, officials said.

Austrian singer JJ, who won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, called in an interview published on Thursday for Israel to be excluded from the 2026 edition in Vienna due to the war in Gaza.

Seven weeks into the new siege, as the UN World Food Program announced that border closings had caused all of its food stocks in Gaza to run out, Moshe Saada, a Knesset member from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party,