CAIRO, May 18 — Israel’s airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight, local health authorities said today, as mediators hosted a new round of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 29 — Malaysia has called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to provide a clear and authoritative statement on Israel’s obligations as an occupying power and United Nations (UN) member state in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

RAMALLAH, April 23 — Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas today called on Hamas to lay down arms and hand the management of Gaza to his Palestinian Authority (PA), part of efforts to answer international doubts over the authority’s role at a key moment for the region.

JERUSALEM, April 7 — Israeli troops flattened farmland and cleared entire residential districts in Gaza, Palestine, to open a “kill zone” around the enclave, according to a report today that quoted soldiers testifying about the harsh methods used in the operation.

BUDAPEST, April 3 — Hungary’s government has decided to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), it said today, shortly after Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, sought under an ICC arrest warrant, arrived in the country for a state visit.

JERUSALEM, April 2 — Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Palestine today, saying large areas of Gaza would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population.

THE HAGUE, March 28 — The World Court has said it will hear a case brought by Sudan demanding emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and accusing the Gulf state of violating obligations under the Genocide Convention by arming paramilitary forces.

NIBONG TEBAL, March 18 — Malaysia strongly condemns Israel’s latest attack on the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said.

ANKARA, March 18 — Gaza’s local authorities said today that over 322 Palestinians were killed or missing within five hours across the Gaza Strip as Israel resumed its genocide, breaking a ceasefire of nearly two months.

GENEVA, March 14 — Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during the conflict in Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts said in a report yesterday.

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, Feb 6 — United States President Donald Trump said today that Israel would hand over Gaza to the US after fighting is over, and the enclave’s population was already resettled elsewhere, which he said meant no US troops would be needed on the ground.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Jan 19 — Palestinians headed for the rubble of their former homes in the Gaza Strip today and Israelis prepared to receive the first hostages held by Hamas after a ceasefire deal took effect that could pave the way for an end to the 15-month-old war.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Jan 19 — A ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestine in the Gaza Strip took effect today after a nearly three-hour delay, pausing a 15-month-old war that has brought devastation and seismic political change to the Middle East.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Jan 19 — Israeli warplanes and artillery attacked the northern Gaza Strip today and Palestinian medics said eight people were killed shortly after Israel and Hamas missed a deadline for a ceasefire that could pave the way for halting the Middle East’s most devastating conflict in years.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Jan 19 — A ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas is set to come into effect this morning with a hostage release to follow hours later, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East.

ZURICH, Dec 31 — A United Nations Human Rights Office report today condemned Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza, saying they had devastated the Palestinian enclave’s health system and raised serious concerns about Israel’s compliance with international law.

TEL AVIV, Dec 30 — The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today called on Israel to release a prominent clinician detained in the Gaza Strip, reported dpa.

CAIRO, Dec 24 — Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz admitted yesterday for the first time publicly to Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran in July, further risking tensions between Tehran and its arch-enemy Israel in a region shaken by Israel’s war in Gaza and the conflict in Lebanon.

VATICAN CITY, Dec 21 — Pope Francis today again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the military offensive there constitutes a genocide of Palestinians.

ANKARA, Dec 16 — At least 52 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 45,028, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported, citing the Palestinian Health Ministry on Monday.