Former President Barack Obama on Friday criticized Israel’s ongoing military action in Gaza, saying that “there’s not a military rationale for continuing to pummel what is already rubble” and arguing for Palestinian statehood.

The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

Doctors Without Borders pulled its staff from Gaza City as the medical system buckled. The U.N. has warned that more hospitals may have to close.

The Israeli prime minister's speech was defiant, despite his growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war to eradicate Hamas.

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

The city had been spared from widespread demolitions during previous military operations there. This time is different.

Spain and Italy have said they are sending navy ships to where a flotilla of dozens of boats carrying activists seeking to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza is sailing.

A Belfast man on board an aid flotilla which is trying to reach Gaza said volunteers are "risking their life and their liberty" to take part in the mission. Fra Hughes is among about 350 activists who are attempting to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza to deliver food and medical aid to starving Palestinians.

Mughrabi, Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge CAIRO/GENEVA (Reuters) -Since Israel shut a vital corridor into famine-stricken northern Gaza before escalating its ground offensive this month, community kitchens and health clinics have closed and vital flows of food have slowed,