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The nonprofit group has become a crucial source of food for desperate Gazans. The Israeli military said it was investigating.

Supporting Israel is seen as a historic duty in Germany, but the worsening crisis has pushed German officials to ask whether that backing has gone too far.

Amit Soussana is the first former hostage to publicly say she was sexually abused in captivity. A U.N. report has said it found “clear and convincing information” that some hostages suffered “conflict-related sexual violence.”

The pier project is the latest in a flurry of efforts to get more aid into the enclave — including by sea — amid warnings from the U.N. that a famine in Gaza is imminent.

Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty senior airman, repeatedly shouted, “Free Palestine!” as he filmed and livestreamed his protest against Israel’s deadly military actions in Gaza. He had been taken to a hospital on Sunday with life-threatening injuries.

The Gazan health ministry said that at least 67 people had been killed in Israeli strikes overnight in Rafah, and that the toll was likely to rise.

An analysis of social media videos found Israeli soldiers filming themselves in Gaza and destroying what appears to be civilian property. The footage provides a rare and unsanctioned window into the war.

A photojournalist followed some Palestinians whose lives were ripped apart in one of the deadliest wars of the 21st century.

America’s approach to Iran, a Palestinian state and Saudi Arabia are at the heart of a possible strategic realignment in the Middle East.

The very weapons that Israeli forces have used to enforce a blockade of Gaza are now being used against them.

President Biden has carefully calibrated his responses to attacks by Iranian-backed militias since Oct. 7. Now he must decide how far he is willing to go after a drone attack killed three American service members.

Some Israeli commanders said the government’s two main goals were mutually incompatible. To eradicate Hamas, the military would have to engage in a lengthy war that would most likely cost the hostages’ lives.

In a war, the killing ends when one side stops fighting. In a genocide, that’s when the killing begins.

Israel has categorically rejected the allegations being brought this week in the International Court of Justice by South Africa.

A U.N.-affiliated panel said the territory could tip into famine very soon. International laws to protect people from human-made famines offer little help.

In the ruins of two Gazan towns, New York Times journalists witnessed the sheer destruction that Israel’s war has wrought and the devastation of Hamas’s operations.

More than 90 percent of Palestinians in the territory say they have regularly gone without food for a whole day, according to the United Nations.