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Palestinians began fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 11 with cease-fire talks at a standstill, hunger worsening across the Gaza Strip and no end in sight to the five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. The United States, Qatar, and Egypt had hoped to broker a cease-fire ahead...

South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order additional emergency measures against Israel, which it says is breaching the measures already in place, the UN's top court said on March 6. In its application, South Africa warned that Palestinians in Gaza were facing...

The United States says Israel has endorsed a framework for a proposed Gaza ceasefire and a captive release deal, and it was now up to the Palestinian group Hamas to agree to it. The comments on March 2 came hours before mediators were expected to reconvene in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to find a...

Europe risked any credibility to speak on Russia’s actions in Ukraine if it remained silent on Gaza, according to a Belgian member of parliament, who is among the more than 200 lawmakers who have signed a letter calling for an arms embargo on Israel. More than 200 legislators from countries, which...

The US military on March 2 carried out its first airdrop of aid into Gaza, after the deaths of Palestinians queuing for food underlined the growing humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal enclave after months of Israeli military operations. Other countries including Jordan and France have...

The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South Africa’s genocide case, Human Rights Watch said on February 26. Citing warnings about “catastrophic conditions” in Gaza, the court ordered Israel...

U.S. President Joe Biden said on February 26 that he hopes to have a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza start by March 4 as the warring parties appeared to close in on a deal during negotiations in Qatar that also aim to broker the release of hostages. The presence of both sides for so...

A Tunisian court sentenced former President Moncef Marzouki to eight years in prison in absentia on February 23 on charges of assaulting the state security and inciting Tunisians against each other, a judicial official said. This is the second prison sentence against Marzouki, who resides in Paris...

Armed groups in Tripoli have agreed to leave the Libyan capital and to be replaced with regular forces, the country’s interior minister said, after a spate of deadly clashes. “After a month of consultations, we came to an agreement with the security groups that they will leave the capital soon,”...

The top United Nations court said that it notes the “perilous” situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but has declined South Africa’s request for urgent measures to safeguard Palestinians being threatened by an Israeli ground assault there. “The Court notes that the most recent developments...