Gaza

A weekend update on the Middle East, where there are no reports that the ground war in Gaza has begun yet. An convoy of trucks carrying emergency aid has entered into GazaThe aid, a consignment of food, water and medical supplies, has…

A small convoy of international aid entered Gaza on Saturday morning, hours after two US hostages were released by Hamas after mediation from Qatar.Some 20 trucks carrying medicines and canned food entered the southern Gaza Strip via the…

Egypt finds itself under growing pressure from Europe and other international organizations to fulfill a more major role in helping the residents of the Gaza Strip, and even opening up the Rafah border crossing to…

President Joe Biden’s dramatic war-time visit to Israel and Jordan began to unravel even before he left the ground, after an explosion at a Gaza hospital left hundreds dead and Arab leaders pulled out of a meeting planned for the trip.…

A former Hamas leader said the group was holding 200 to 250 people captive, but was focused on securing the release of thousands of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.Khaled Meshaal, who now heads Hamas’s diaspora office and still…

Since the start of the war, Ashkelon has been targeted by 1,040 rockets including 340 falling in the city and 180 direct hits, representing 25% of all the rockets fired at Israel. Despite the harsh reality of being…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Hospitals in Gaza are likely to run out of fuel within 24 hours, putting the lives of thousands of patients at…

5/5 © Reuters. People carry the body of a Palestinian, who was killed in Israeli strikes, from an ice cream truck where it was kept, as the hospital morgues are packed, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in the central Gaza…

SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images Energy stocks enjoyed their best week since June, with the S&P 500 Energy Index +4.5%, as oil prices surged ahead of Israel's imminent advance into Gaza that could cause violence to spill over…

President Joe Biden on Saturday spoke with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging the leaders to allow humanitarian aid to the region and affirmed his support for efforts to protect…