Board of Peace will ask the UN Security Council to press Hamas to disarm

GENEVA (AP) – The body overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza will ask the United Nations Security Council to press the Hamas militant group to disarm, according to a report seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Israeli minister orders West Bank hamlet evicted after hearing he may face arrest warrant

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s finance minister has ordered the eviction of a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that has long been a target of Israeli authorities, saying the measure is a response to reports that he may be a target of international war crimes prosecutors.

Israeli strike kills Hamas' military wing leader, an architect of Oct 7 attacks

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing who was one of the last surviving architects of the attacks that triggered the war in late 2023, the Israeli military said Saturday. Hamas confirmed the death.

Gaza airstrike targeted Hamas military wing leader

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Friday targeted the leader of Hamas ‘ military wing, Israeli officials said, but it wasn’t immediately clear if Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed or injured.

Palestinians in Gaza mark anniversary of 1948 mass expulsion

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) – Blink and you might miss the few stone walls that are all that’s left of the village that Yusuf Abu Hamam’s family was forced to flee when he was an infant in 1948.

Jerusalem braces for annual ultranationalist Jewish march through Old City

JERUSALEM (AP) – Jerusalem was bracing for tens of thousands of ultranationalist Jews to parade through Palestinian areas of the Old City on Thursday during an annual march that is often characterized by racist chants and violence.

Activist flotilla leaves Turkey for Gaza after Israel intercepted previous convoy

MARMARIS, Turkey (AP) – Dozens of boats carrying activists and aid for Palestinians set sail from Turkey’s Mediterranean coast on Thursday in the latest attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza – just weeks after Israel intercepted a previous flotilla and detained two activists.

After bombs, blackouts and bank restrictions, Gaza's digital workers are still coding

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – As Israeli drones buzz overhead and ambulance sirens wail in the distance, Tarik Zaeem stays hunched over his laptop, working through lines of code for a Saudi valet parking app, debugging its barcode reader.

Palestinian man shot dead while climbing into Israel in search of work

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – Palestinian authorities said that Israeli police have shot and killed a Palestinian man as he attempted to climb the concrete barrier separating the occupied West Bank from Jerusalem.