Tens of thousands of Muslims have gathered at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa compound for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan under heavy security.

The Palestinian Health Ministry and a witness say that Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American in an attack on a village.

Israeli producer Dana Eden, best known for co-creating the Emmy-winning drama “Tehran,” has died suddenly in Greece.

Nasser Hospital in Gaza has condemned the decision by Doctors Without Borders to suspend most work at the facility due to concerns over armed men in the compound.

Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended some operations at one of Gaza's largest functioning hospitals after patients and staff said they witnessed armed, masked men in parts of the compound.

Fears are rising of the outbreak of another war that could spread into a regional conflict in the Middle East as U.S. President Donald Trump raises the pressure on on Iran to give up its nuclear program.

Britain’s High Court has ruled that the government’s decision to outlawed the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was unlawful.

Two Palestinian men riding bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike Tuesday, hospital officials said, as deadly violence continued in Gaza despite an October ceasefire.

Israeli military strikes on Monday killed three people west of Gaza City, according to the hospital where the casualties arrived.

Israelis forces have seized a local Sunni Islamist politician and an ally of the Palestinian militant Hamas group and took him to Israel for questioning.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has started a state visit to Australia, aiming to console grieving Jews and improve bilateral relations.

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has reopened after a two-day closure.

U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon say they have faced increased violence from Israeli forces over the past year.

As Israeli strikes killed two dozen Palestinians on Wednesday, many in Gaza wondered what had become of the ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas in October.

Health officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes have killed at least 24 Palestinians, including two babies.

Three women from the first group of Palestinians to enter Gaza through the newly reopened Rafah crossing told The Associated Press that Israeli troops blindfolded, handcuffed and interrogated them for hours after they crossed.

Palestinians have gathered at Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt, hoping to pass through after it reopened.

A dozen Palestinian returnees were allowed into Gaza and a few medical evacuees exited to Egypt Monday after the long-awaited reopening of the Rafah border crossing was marred by delays.

Palestinians in Gaza are watching with hope and impatience as workers lay the groundwork to reopen the territory’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt, its lifeline to the world.

Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least 30 Palestinians, marking one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire.

The Trump administration has approved a massive new series of arms sales to Israel totaling $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion.

Israel says it will reopen Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt over the weekend.

A Gaza Health Ministry official says Israel has turned over the bodies of 15 Palestinians just days after recovering the remains of the last Israeli hostage.

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors.

Israelis expressed relief as the remains of Ran Gvili, the last hostage taken into Gaza, were recovered Monday.

Israel says its military is conducting a large-scale operation to locate the last hostage in Gaza.

Top U.S. envoys have met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to advance the ceasefire in Gaza.

Jared Kushner envisions a rebuilt Gaza with high-rises, a coastline that attracts tourists and a bustling port.

Desperate Palestinians at a garbage dump in a Gaza neighborhood are digging with their bare hands for plastic items to burn to keep warm in the cold and damp winter in the enclave, battered by two years of the Israel-Hamas war.

President Donald Trump launched his Board of Peace on Thursday to lead efforts to maintain a ceasefire in Gaza.

Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians on one of the deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October.

Israeli settlers are celebrating the inauguration of a new settlement in the West Bank on land where Israel and the U.S. once hoped to build a hospital for Palestinian children.

Israeli forces have targeted two United Nations facilities as part of their crackdown on the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

In a story published Jan. 19, 2026, The Associated Press reported that 77% of Gaza’s population is facing crisis-level food insecurity.

Israel’s government is objecting to a White House announcement about leaders overseeing the next steps in Gaza as the ceasefire enters its challenging second phase.

Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed nine people, including three women, following the U.S. announcement of a second phase in the fragile ceasefire.

Hospital officials in Gaza say an Israeli drone strike has killed three Palestinians who crossed the ceasefire line.

Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan.

Israel is closely monitoring the fallout from widespread Iranian protests.

President Donald Trump says Iran reached out to the U.S. and proposed negotiations after he threatened action in response to a crackdown on protesters in the Middle Eastern country.

Israel’s official state photos from last year portend to show history in the making.

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.

Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza.

As Iran is gripped by new protests, many people there are focused on the U.S. raid in Venezuela and wonder whether the same could occur in Tehran.

Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two.

Hospital officials say an Israeli strike in Gaza hit a tent housing displaced people, killing a 5-year-old girl and her uncle.

Israel's air force has struck areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, including Sidon, the country's third-largest city.

Syrian and Israeli officials are set to resume U.S.-mediated talks in Paris, aiming for a security agreement to ease tensions.

Israel has revoked the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations, and now those groups are grappling with how that will affect aid operations in Gaza.

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.

President Donald Trump is warning Iran against reconstituting its nuclear program.

Winter rain has lashed the Gaza Strip and flooded camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by war try to stay dry in fraying tents.

Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain.

Police say that two people have been killed and at least two more injured in northern Israel in a car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man.

An explosive device has detonated in Gaza and wounded one Israeli soldier, prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

A local Gaza hospital says Israeli troops have fired over the ceasefire line in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least five Palestinians, including a baby.

The world’s leading authority on food crises says the spread of famine’s been averted in the Gaza Strip.

President Donald Trump’s key peace envoy will host new Gaza talks with Arab and Muslim officials on Friday in Miami, a State Department official tells the AP.

Israel has carried out airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon.

Israel’s military says troops fired a mortar shell into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas.

England and Australia players will wear black armbands and flags at Adelaide Oval will be flown at half-staff on Wednesday in an Ashes tribute to the victims of the Bondi beach shootings.

Western and Arab diplomats have toured Lebanon's border with Israel, where Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers are working to end Hezbollah's armed presence.

Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest have announced a final list of 35 countries that will take part in the glitzy pop-music gala next year.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized Australia's leader, linking calls for a Palestinian state to rising antisemitism.

Israel says it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza after an explosive device detonated and wounded two soldiers in the territory’s south.

Storm Byron has hit Gaza and worsened the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.

Aid deliveries into Gaza are falling short of the amount agreed upon in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Bolivia’s new right-wing government says it restored diplomatic relations with Israel, the latest sign of the dramatic geopolitical realignment underway in the South American country.

Israel’s military took journalists into Rafah this week.

A Hamas leader is calling for international pressure on Israel before the Palestinian militant group moves forward with the next phase of the ceasefire in the territory.

Israeli police have forcibly entered the United Nations agency compound for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem.

A Hamas official says the group is ready to discuss “freezing or storing” its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of their ceasefire soon.

Qatar’s prime minister says the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” as its first phase winds down.

An international body tasked with governing the Gaza Strip under the next phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire is expected to be announced by the end of the year.

An Israeli police officer killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the country's war with Hamas is the last hostage whose remains are still in Gaza.

At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is embracing his love for travel in his final month in office.

Lebanon’s prime minister says his country is “far from” diplomatic normalization or economic relations with Israel.

Israel says it has received remains handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross.

Palestinians in the West Bank are living in fear of more attacks by armed Israeli settlers.

For travelers from the United States and Israel, visiting Bolivia has just become a little easier.

Israeli forces have raided a village in southern Syria, killing at least 13 people, according to Syrian officials.

Israeli forces killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.”.

Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians, following Hamas' return of the remains of an Israeli hostage.

Children and families in Gaza are scooping muddy water from their tents and trying to protect the few belongings that remain after two years of war.

Israel says it has received human remains that Palestinian militants handed over to the Red Cross, but it is not immediately clear if they are one of three hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has summoned the Israeli ambassador over a post by Yad Vashem.

Israel has struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild.

Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they’re changing the voting system of the popular musical extravaganza to ensure fairness.

Israel’s prime minister has met with top security officials to assess a rising tide of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.

Israeli strikes across Gaza over a roughly 12-hour period have resulted in the deaths of 33 people.

The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, targeting what it claims are Hezbollah weapons storage facilities.

President Donald Trump says he's agreed to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite concerns that China could gain access to the plane’s vaunted American technology.

State media and the Health Ministry in Lebanon say that an Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded others.

Palestinian attackers have stabbed an Israeli to death and wounded three others in the West Bank.

The Trump administration’s blueprint to secure and govern Gaza has won strong approval at the United Nations.

Israeli settlers have rampaged through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, torching homes and cars in the latest in a string of settler attacks in recent weeks.

A report by an Israeli human rights group says at least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since the war in Gaza began.