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Israeli strikes killed at least 47 people in eastern Lebanon on Thursday, a Lebanese official said, pressing the campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group as a U.S. mediator sought to advance ceasefire talks in Israel. U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein, who said a ceasefire was "within our grasp"...

Nearly 100 trucks carrying food for Palestinians were violently looted on November 16 after entering Gaza in one of the worst aid losses during 13 months of war in the enclave, where hunger is deepening, two UN agencies told Reuters on Monday. The convoy transporting food provided by U.N. agencies...

Israel’s warfare in the Gaza Strip is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a United Nations committee has said, accusing the country of “using starvation as a method of war.” In a report published on Thursday, the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices accused the country...

Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The U.S.-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested...

The UN’s Human Rights Office has condemned the high number of civilians killed in the war in Gaza, saying its analysis shows close to 70 percent of verified victims over a six-month period were women and children. The agency said the high number was largely due to Israel's use of weapons with wide...

More than 200 seriously injured and ill Palestinians and their carers have been evacuated from Gaza, in one of the biggest operations of its kind in months, Israel says. The operation, overseen by Cogat, the Israeli military body responsible for humanitarian affairs in Gaza, and the World Health...

A group of NGOs pressed countries on Wednesday to hold an emergency session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up an investigation into abuses committed by both sides of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon. Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah have been fighting for more...

UNICEF says more than 50 children have been killed in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp in the past 48 hours, with the Save the Children charity saying the high number shows “the intensity of this conflict and this war on children.” More than 16,700 children have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza...

A group of academics, intellectuals, human rights advocates, and representatives from the media and civil society organizations gathered in London last week to launch the symbolic “Gaza Tribunal," an independent initiative serving as a "court of humanity and conscience." Led by Richard Falk, a...

People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis—but now they fear it will get much more difficult because of Israel’s ban on the biggest UN agency which operates there. “UNRWA means everything to us: it is our life, our food, our drink and our medical care,” said...