JERUSALEM, Oct 28 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an initiative proposed by Egypt on Sunday for a short-term ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

CAIRO, Oct 27 — Israeli forces withdrew from a hospital complex in northern Gaza on Saturday, one day after storming it, and the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said the troops had detained dozens of male medical staffers and some of the patients.

KAZAN, Russia, Oct 25 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told BRICS leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that the world needed peace in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan.

GAZA CITY, Oct 25 — More than 150 Palestinians were killed or injured Thursday evening in Israeli airstrikes targeting about 10 homes in Jabalia, northern Gaza, where a siege began 20 days ago, Anadolu Agency reported.

GENEVA, Oct 23 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza has been postponed due to heavy Israeli bombing and displacement, the German news agency (dpa) reported.

GAZA CITY, Oct 23 — The Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza has completely run out of medical supplies and food due to the ongoing Israeli siege, with fuel supplies also nearing depletion, the hospital’s director said on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV, Oct 22 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel today, the first stop of a wider Middle East tour aimed at reviving Gaza ceasefire talks and discussing the enclave’s future following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, but any breakthrough ahead of the looming United States election looks elusive.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Oct 18 — Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said on Friday it was moving to a new and escalating phase in its war against Israel, while Iran said “the spirit of resistance will be strengthened” after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — The United States has told Israel it must take steps in the next month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on military aid, US officials said, in the strongest such warning since Israel’s war with Hamas began a year ago.

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — World Bank president Ajay Banga yesterday warned a significant widening of the Israel-Gaza war could lead to major impacts on the global economy, calling the steep loss of civilian lives in the region “unconscionable”.

CAIRO, Oct 12 — Israeli military strikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 19 Palestinians, medics said on Saturday, while forces continued to push deeper into the Jabalia area, where international relief agencies say thousands of people are trapped.

PAPHOS, Cyprus, Oct 12 — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reiterated his call for an end to arms exports to the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, adding it was the sole means at hand to end the two conflicts pitting Israel against Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah.

GENEVA, Sept 13 — The first round of the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip is nearing completion, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, with more than 552,000 children having received their first dose of the oral vaccine.

BEIT LAHIA, Sept 12 — With Israel blocking the entry of almost all fuel into Gaza to prevent its use by Hamas, some Palestinians in the north of the shattered territory have turned to using plastic waste to make their own.

GAZA CITY, Sept 11 — An ongoing polio vaccination campaign has reached 82.5 per cent of targeted children in the war-torn Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said today.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10 — The United Nations General Assembly is likely to vote next week on a Palestinian draft resolution demanding Israel end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 — The global community should make a collective voice to stop the Gaza war, which has destroyed educational institutions in Palestine, said Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

VLADIVOSTOK, Sept 5 — Malaysia and Russia have agreed to demand that Israel stop violent and cruel attacks on Gaza immediately.

LONDON, Sept 3 — Britain will immediately suspend 30 of its 350 arms export licences with Israel because there is a risk such equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law, Foreign Minister David Lammy said on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon on Monday said they were united in calling for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza and finding a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.