Libya’s PM rejected normalization with Israel, but secret talks between the two countries and strategic interests keep the issue alive despite strong public opposition. "There is no effort or desire to normalize relations with the occupying state [Israel],

The United Nations on Friday officially declared a famine in Gaza, the first in the Middle East, with its experts saying 500,000 people were facing "catastrophic" hunger.

Israeli officials say the military has signed off on an expanded operation in Gaza City, with tens of thousands of reservists to be mobilized by September.

It was Netanyahu's first response to a temporary ceasefire proposal put forward by Egypt and Qatar that Hamas accepted.

Her eight-day trip to Israel early in August added clarity to events occurring in a part of the world that has been a major focus of U.S. foreign policy, Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak said Tuesday in Minot during a swing through the state.

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday renewed his call for peace in all places hit by armed conflicts, especially in Ukraine and the Middle East. Addressing his weekly General Audience in the Paul VI Hall, the pontiff called for prayer and fasting on Aug. 22, Friday, for peace in all places torn by armed conflict.

Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, part of a wider effort by Israel to facilitate mass emigration from the territory left in ruins by its 22-month offensive against Hamas.

Israeli settlement building, a point of contention at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has come back into focus after Israel's far-right finance minister revived a plan that would divide the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem.

If Israel lacks the demographic weight to impose its own hegemonic order on the Middle East, it has instead constructed a system to prevent anyone else from doing so.

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA CITY/GENEVA/CAIRO (Reuters) -The hunger crisis in Gaza is at a tipping point, with critically low supplies of fortified milk and special nutritious pastes exacerbating food shortages and pushing greater numbers of children into starvation,