Israel-Hamas War

More than 90 people, including 20 children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Gaza early Tuesday, local officials said.

Some 93 people were killed, another 40 people were missing and dozens injured, according to the Gaza government media office.

Hundreds of men, women and children shout and plead outside Qala Bakery, the only functioning bread shop in Khan Younis in Gaza. Some said they had come away empty-handed after waiting for a few hours. Others said they were reduced to using flour infested with worms.

Israeli forces withdrew from one of northern Gaza’s last functioning medical facilities, leaving a trail of destruction in what the United Nation’s human rights chief has labelled one of the conflict’s “darkest moments.”

The Israel Defense Forces said Friday it is conducting “precise strikes on military targets in Iran.”

The attack came as U.S. and Israeli negotiators prepared to travel to Qatar in the coming days to resume talks for a cease-fire with Hamas.

Hashem Safieddine was expected to succeed his cousin Hassan Nasrallah, one of the founding members of the Iran-backed Lebanese group, who was killed last month.

Speaking alongside German Chancellor Scholz in Berlin, President Joe Biden said he told the prime minister of Israel that he wants the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to be “an opportunity to seek a path to peace.”

Biden plans to send Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Israel early next week to discuss securing Gaza, recovering hostages and the future of the Palestinian people

Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader.

Islam Al-Qanou addressed her newborn son as she made her way back to the camp for displaced people in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNFIL) will stay in “all its positions,” said the head of U.N. peacekeeping operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix.

In a wide-ranging and emotional interview in Jerusalem last week, they revealed the squalid conditions in which their son was kept, their exasperation at the failed diplomatic process and their fears of the war’s escalating further. 

An Israeli airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three others on Friday, Lebanon’s military said, just hours after Israeli troops fired on the headquarters of United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two peacekeepers for the second time in as many days.

Tufts University suspended its chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine last week, but the group nevertheless held a demonstration on campus Monday, the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel. The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter was ordered to halt all activity on Wednesday. The university pointed to multiple policy violations in their decision, including an Instagram post…

They were Israel’s eyes on the border with Gaza, but former soldiers from a military observation unit say their warnings about suspicious Hamas activity ahead of the Oct. 7 terror attacks were repeatedly ignored. A year later, they are still seeking answers.

One year ago, a Massachusetts man’s family was changed forever. Two relatives of Needham resident Jason Greenberg were killed when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. “Carmela and Noya, who were killed that day only because they weren’t able to keep up with their captors, that brings real sadness to my heart,” said Greenberg. His cousin, Ofer Calderon, was…

Thousands of people came together in Boston to reflect, grieve and call for an end to the war in the Middle East.

Ofer Calderon was kidnapped during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

People are remembering those killed, injured and taken hostage in Israel on Oct. 7, as well as the tens of thousands who died in the violence that followed.