Israel-Hamas War

Israeli warplanes are striking parts of Gaza it had described as safe zones when telling Palestinians in the south to evacuate.

Desperate Palestinians fleeing Israel’s expanding ground offensive crowded into an ever-shrinking area of the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war entered its third month.

The United Nations secretary-general and several Security Council members advocated for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas ahead of a vote Friday, warning that ongoing warfare would have devastating global consequences.

United Nations officials say there are no safe places in Gaza nearly a week after Israel widened its offensive into the southern half of the territory.

More than 500 employees of dozens of synagogues and Jewish groups signed a letter calling for a cease-fire. Most signed anonymously for fear of their jobs.

Israeli troops battled Hamas militants Wednesday in the center of the Gaza Strip’s second-largest city, the military said.

The recent release of dozens of Israeli hostages is bringing new focus on the Hamas rampage through the kibbutz of Nir Oz.

Israel said Tuesday that its troops had entered Gaza’s second-largest city as intensified bombardment sent streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians, including children, in a bloody new phase of the war.

Gaza health officials say injuries have increased after the weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas came to an end.

Israel’s military forces resumed airstrikes in the Gaza Strip over the weekend after truce talks with Hamas stalled.

Israeli warplanes heavily bombarded an area around Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Monday as the military ordered mass evacuations from the town in the face of a widening ground offensive that is pushing Palestinians into a progressively shrinking portion of the besieged territory.

Dozens of LGBTQ and Jewish community members came together in Hillcrest to stand up against hate amid the Israel-Hamas war. NBC 7’s Jeanette Quezada reports on Dec. 3, 2023.

U.N. monitors said in a report issued before the latest evacuation orders that the areas residents were told to leave make up about one-quarter of the territory of Gaza.

For hours Saturday in San Francisco, hundreds of people took to the streets for hours, once again urging for a ceasefire in Gaza. Organizers say that at the peak of this demonstration, there were 1,500 people present.

At least 200 Palestinians have been killed since the fighting resumed Friday morning following the weeklong truce with Hamas

Three months before the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, analysts in the Israeli military alerted their superiors to a serious threat from Hamas militants — a “plan designed to start a war.” But their concerns were dismissed by their superiors, according to an Israeli official familiar with the matter.

Health authorities in the besieged territory reported dozens of Palestinians killed and Israel dropped leaflets over Gaza City and southern parts of the enclave, urging civilians to flee to avoid the fighting.

Hamas freed eight Israeli hostages Thursday in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners under a last-minute deal to extend their cease-fire in Gaza by another day. But any further renewal of the truce, now in its seventh day, could prove more daunting since Hamas is expected to set a higher price for many of the remaining hostages.

The Israeli military said 10 Israelis and four Thai nationals were released late Wednesday from captivity in the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas has said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and captives became hungry.