Hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including 10 from the same family who were sheltering in a tent.

Video captured by an NBC News crew in Gaza shows mourners gathering at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after a mother, father their and 5-month-old daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit their apartment.

Welcome to the news world from West Asia, your live source for real-time updates and analysis from one of the world’s most strategically vital regions. From shifting alliances and diplomatic breakthroughs to economic reforms and civil movements,

Two of Gaza’s largest hospitals have issued desperate pleas for help, warning that fuel shortages caused by Israel’s siege could soon turn the medical centres into “silent graveyards”. The warnings from al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza City and Nasser Hospital in southern Khan Younis came on Wednesday,

Trump administration sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese over criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza - Move against independent human rights abuses investigator represents latest US effort to punish cri

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations' special rapporteur, has accused Israel of waging a "genocidal campaign" in Gaza.

A political firestorm was triggered on Wednesday by likening Israel’s proposal for the displaced Gazans to Nazi‐era concentration camps. Channel 12 foreign-news editor Arad Nir triggered a political firestorm on Wednesday by likening Israel’s proposal to move displaced Gazans into a fenced “humanitarian city” near Rafah to a Nazi‐era concentration camp,

A senior Israeli official predicts Israel and Hamas will come to a ceasefire in the "next week or two," a longer timeframe than previously expected. Until a ceasefire can be reached, fighting goes on and Israel continues its airstrikes.

Francesca Albanese told The World with Yalda Hakim that "many" of the young people fighting in Gaza are "haunted by what they have seen, what they have done".