October 13, 2023 - Mosques broadcast messages telling Gaza Strip residents to stay put on Friday, in defiance of an Israeli military call for more than a million civilians to move south within 24 hours in the build-up to its expected ground offensive.

November 30, 2024 - On 9 October 2023, Israel intensified the blockade of the Gaza Strip after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and the ensuing Israel–Hamas war when it announced a "total blockade", blocking the entry of food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity.

January 23, 2024 - Health officials said the Gaza death toll passed 25,000. Netanyahu rejected what he said were Hamas’s hostage release terms, including the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

In June 2007, following the military takeover of Gaza by Hamas, the Israeli authorities significantly intensified existing movement restrictions, virtually isolating the Gaza Strip from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), and the world. This land, sea and air blockade has ...

November 3, 2023 - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned the United States on Friday that preventing a regional conflict depended on stopping the Israeli attack on Gaza, and said there was a possibility of fighting on the Lebanese front turning into a full-fledged war.

January 15, 2024 - As far as Washington and London are concerned, Western retaliation is meant to convey a clear message to Iran — stop. But why would it?

November 22, 2023 - Follow NBC News' coverage for live updates about the Israel-Hamas war: Hostage deal reached to pause fighting in Gaza.

President Joe Biden and his team's current thinking: there’s no single thing that will pressure the militants to cease launching missiles.

January 13, 2024 - U.S. President Joe Biden's blistering strikes on Yemen followed weeks of warnings to the Houthis to stop attacking Red Sea shipping - or else.

January 31, 2024 - Hamas said on Tuesday it had received and was studying a new proposal for a ceasefire and release of hostages in Gaza, presented by mediators after talks with Israel, in what appeared to be the most serious peace initiative for months.

September 27, 2014 - The negotiations in Cairo, apparently renewed for five days Wednesday amid rocket fire and counterstrikes at the midnight hour, have been conducted behind closed doors. There is much to discuss — the role, henceforth, of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, the return of the remains of two ...

January 2, 2024 - FP asks experts two questions about the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.

January 19, 2024 - The sounds of gun battles and explosions are becoming less frequent, residents say, after Israel reduced the intensity of its military campaign in the north.

July 20, 1998 - Gaza Strip - Blockade, Occupation, Conflict: In autumn 2007 Israel declared the Gaza Strip under Hamas a hostile entity and approved a series of sanctions that included power cuts, heavily restricted imports, and border closures. In January 2008, facing sustained rocket assaults into its southern ...

October 7, 2023 - Held in place by Israel and Egypt, the blockade restricts imports to the region and prevents most people from leaving.