Israel

McDonald’s has said it will buy its 30-year-old Israel franchise from Alonyal, taking back ownership of 225 outlets that employ more than 5,000 people. The US fast-food chain has been…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden threatened to condition support for Israel's offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to…

Celebrity chef Jose Andres said that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car." In an emotional interview to…

THE HAGUE:  Judges at the International Court of Justice unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the…

DUBLIN: Ireland will intervene in South Africa's genocide case against Israel, in the strongest signal to date of Dublin's concern about Israeli operations in Gaza since October 7.…

GENEVA: A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in Gaza during its military campaign against Hamas said…

GAZA: Israeli air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians at both ends of the Gaza Strip overnight, hitting the area around Al Shifa hospital in the north and Rafah on the southern…

CAIRO: The head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said Israel had informed the UN that it will no longer approve UNRWA food convoys to the north of Gaza. "This is outrageous…

CAIRO: The United States and Saudi Arabia have made "good progress" in talks on normalizing ties between the kingdom and Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said without providing a…

NEW YORK: Famine is imminent and likely to occur by May in northern Gaza and could spread across the enclave by July, a UN-backed report said, after more than five months of war which have…

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Israeli forces swept into the Palestinians' administrative capital of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank overnight, killing a 16-year-old in a refugee camp during their…

SELMA: US Vice President Kamala Harris bluntly called out Israel for not doing enough to ease a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza as the Biden administration faces increasing pressure to…

GENEVA: At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip - one quarter of the population - are one step away from famine, a senior UN aid official told the Security Council warning that widespread…

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said Israel has agreed to halt military activities in Gaza for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as Hamas studied a draft proposal for a truce which…

THE HAGUE: Arab states urged international judges to rule the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories illegal and Turkey described the occupation as "the real obstacle to peace" on the…