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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the state comptroller election at the plenum of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 5, 2026, 1:41 pm
IDF kills Hezbollah chief engineer; 3 troops hurt in Lebanon clashes
Ministers said to demand cabinet vote on truce deal, but Netanyahu answers he is waiting for terror group to agree to terms
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
A family sits outside their damaged home, surrounded by the the rubble of neighboring residences, all devastated in the war in Gaza City, Nov.14, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)
November 15, 2025, 3:12 pm
US: Failure to back UN resolution based on Trump’s Gaza plan is a vote for Hamas, war
Attempt to ‘re-litigate the past will come with a real human cost,’ says US envoy to UN; vote on Security Council resolution to empower International Stabilization Force set for Monday
By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and AFP
Israeli soldiers and an armored vehicle deploy as Palestinians and first responders try to extinguish a burning car set ablaze during an Israeli settler attack in Beita, south of Nablus, on October 10, 2025, amid the annual olive harvest. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)
November 8, 2025, 6:01 am
Settler attacks on Palestinians in West Bank hit all-time high in October — UN
Humanitarian office reports 264 violent incidents last month, averaging eight a day; also says roughly 15% of the over 9,600 attacks it has recorded since 2006 occurred this year
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Mohammed Barabakh stands with his children at the entrance to his tent, which was set up next to graves in a cemetery in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 31, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
November 4, 2025, 8:25 pm
Not enough tents, food reaching Gaza as winter comes, aid agencies say
Only half the needed amount of food is coming in, according to the World Food Programme; Israel says it’s fulfilling obligations, after US publishes footage of aid theft
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A Palestinian boy, who was injured by gunfire while waiting for aid trucks entering the northern Gaza Strip through Zikim crossing, is taken out of an ambulance after arriving for medical care at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 27, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
September 17, 2025, 2:01 pm
Gaza’s makeshift clinics at risk of collapse as urgent supplies run out, study says
Peer-reviewed research finds improvised medical points overwhelmed, under-equipped, and continuously targeted after nearly two years of war
By Stav Levaton
Palestinians walk through a makeshift tent camp for displaced people near the Gaza City port, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
September 4, 2025, 5:59 am
Despite looming Israeli offensive, many in Gaza City insist they won’t flee again
Residents — some displaced from elsewhere and many who only returned home in January — say evacuating to overcrowded south will make life harder while leaving them in harm’s way
By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff
A malnourished Palestinian child gets a check up at a medical point run by a local NGO affiliated with the primary health care of the Palestinian health ministry in al-Mawasi, in the southern Gaza Strip district, on August 13, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
August 14, 2025, 11:35 pm
UN says 13,000 children treated for malnutrition in Gaza in July as aid trickles in
Humanitarian agency says vast majority of aid trucks raided en route, but notes that despite challenges, food prices have dropped and kitchens are producing more hot meals
By Nurit Yohanan, Shira Silkoff, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Palestinians, mostly children, push to receive a hot meal at a charity kitchen in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2025. (AFP)
July 24, 2025, 4:00 pm
UN report warns child malnutrition rising in Gaza as EU demands Israel do more on aid
Report says nearly 9% of Gazan kids who were screened are suffering from acute malnutrition; European Commission: All options on the table if Israel doesn’t honor aid agreement
By Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and Reuters
Palestinians make their way along al-Rashid street in western Jabalia on July 23, 2025, after receiving humanitarian aid from an aid distribution point in the northern Gaza Strip. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
July 24, 2025, 1:42 am
UN and Israel trade blame on Gaza aid issues as criticism grows over hunger crisis
After Israel blames UN for aid bottleneck, spokesperson says approvals haven’t been granted to pick up or distribute aid from sites in Strip; also rules out UN cooperation with GHF
By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinians queue for a hot meal at a charity kitchen run by the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 26, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)
July 23, 2025, 6:40 pm
‘It’s better to die from a bomb’: Gazans’ testimony, data depict desperate hunger in Strip
As the UN reports claim a sharp rise in malnutrition cases among children, Gazans describe soaring market prices, saying, ‘hunger kills you several times a day’
By Nurit Yohanan
Jonathan Whittall, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the West Bank and Gaza (OCHA) speaks to UN panel over Zoom on April 2, 2025. (Screenshot/AFP)
July 21, 2025, 1:13 am
Israel refuses to renew visa for senior UN official over alleged anti-Israel slant
Citing ‘biased and hostile conduct,’ FM Sa’ar says permit for OCHA official Jonathan Whittall will not be renewed; Israeli official says he will leave country ‘in the near future’
By Nava Freiberg
Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), visits North Kivu's town of Buhumba, Democratic republic of the Congo, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP/Moses Sawasawa)
July 18, 2025, 9:06 am
UN says Israel has refused to renew visas for heads of at least 3 agencies in Gaza
UN’s head of humanitarian affairs claims move, affecting UNRWA and others, aims to thwart efforts to protect Palestinian civilians; Israel says looking into issue, slams UN bias
By AP and ToI Staff
Fatima Arfa, a pregnant and displaced Palestinian woman, undergoes a medical check-up at Al-Helou hospital, in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, July 10, 2025. (Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters)
July 11, 2025, 9:46 pm
Struck by malnutrition, pregnant Gaza woman can only pray for a healthy baby
‘We hope that God will stop this war,’ says Fatima Arfa, 34; UN estimates 55,000 women in Strip face grave risks in childbirth amid shortage of medicine and food
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A young Palestinian waits to collect donated food at a food distribution kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
May 30, 2025, 6:59 pm
Israel claims Hamas losing control over Gaza civilians as GHF ramps up aid operations
But assertion has been made by Israel since beginning of war, and while new aid group says it has fed over 2 million meals this week, that has only amounted to 40 trucks-worth of aid
By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies
Palestinians queue for a hot meal at a charity kitchen run by the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 26, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)
May 5, 2025, 2:54 pm
As aid embargo on Strip enters third month, hunger is stalking Gazans again
After a ceasefire shrank malnutrition figures, stores of assistance are now dwindling and food for sale — which may come from Hamas’s stolen hoards — is priced exorbitantly
By Nurit Yohanan
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