WASHINGTON, May 11 — The Biden administration yesterday said Israel’s use of United States-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law (IHL) during its military operation in Gaza, in its strongest criticism to date of Israel.

WASHINGTON/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip, May 9 — US President Joe Biden vowed publicly for the first time to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces make a major invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza while negotiations in Cairo on a ceasefire plan for the enclave were set to continue on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 — Malaysia vehemently condemns the latest attacks by Israel on Rafah in Gaza on Monday, in which, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 19 people were killed.

RAFAH, May 8 —  Fearful medics and patients are fleeing a hospital in Rafah and transfers of the sick and injured via a border crossing with Egypt are at a standstill due to Israel's military operation, doctors and residents said on Tuesday.

RAFAH/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, May 7 — Palestinian militant group Hamas on Monday agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands and pressed ahead with strikes in Rafah while planning to continue negotiations on a deal.

HAMILTON (Canada), May 1 — In a strong warning against a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, United Nations (UN) secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on "those with influence over Israel" to prevent further civilian casualties and displacement.

CAIRO, April 30 — Israeli airstrikes killed dozens of Palestinians on Monday as Hamas leaders visited Cairo for a new round of truce talks, with more than half the dead in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which foreign leaders have urged Israel not to invade.

CAIRO, April 29 — Israeli air strikes on three houses in the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed 13 people and wounded many others, medics said on Monday.

GAZA, April 22 — The death toll from the Israeli warplanes and artillery targeting of two Palestinian civilian homes in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning rose to 19, including 14 children.

WASHINGTON, March 19 — The secretary general of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Monday against Israeli plans to carry out a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Anadolu Agency reported.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, March 18 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would keep on with the military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, where aid agencies say famine is looming, while ceasefire talks were set to resume.

WASHINGTON, March 3 — The United States (US) announced on Saturday that it had conducted the first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, with more than 30,000 meals parachuted from military planes.

JERUSALEM/DOHA, Feb 16 — Israeli forces said on Thursday they had raided the biggest functioning hospital in Gaza as footage showed chaos, shouting and gunfire in dark corridors filled with dust and smoke.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 — More than half of Gaza’s population — well over a million people — are crammed into Rafah, staring death in the face, according to United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths.

DOHA/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, Feb 13 — US President Joe Biden and Jordan’s King Abdullah kept up the pressure for a Gaza Strip ceasefire as senior mediators were to resume work on Tuesday on an Israel-Hamas truce agreement, with the threat of an Israeli ground offensive looming in Rafah.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 12 — Malaysia condemns in the strongest terms the large-scale offensive in Rafah where millions of displaced civilians are seeking refuge.

DOHA/JERUSALEM, Feb 12 — Israeli strikes on Gaza’s southern city of Rafah killed 37 people and wounded dozens, local health officials said on Monday, after US President Joe Biden told Israel not to attack Rafah without a credible plan to protect civilians.

DOHA, Feb 10 — Trapped in and around Rafah, more than 1 million Palestinians braced for Israel to complete a plan to evacuate them and launch a ground assault against Hamas fighters in the southern Gaza city.

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