As the sun set over a neighbourhood in Rafah, where fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants has left barely a handful of buildings standing, hundreds of Gazans of all ages dug into the iftar ...

A first phase of a truce that began in January ended over the weekend with no agreement on what will happen next.

If agreed, the truce would halt fighting until the end of the Ramadan fasting period ... on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Mar 1, 2025 (Photo: AP/Abdel Kareem Hana) ...

A senior Hamas official says “no progress” has been made in the latest round of talks on the second phase of the ceasefire ...

A senior Hamas official said talks over the ceasefire's second phase would need to begin the day of the release and last no ...

The NPR producer is one of few Palestinian journalists working with a U.S. news organization to file dispatches from Gaza.

Since Friday night, Rafah has been the target of intense Israeli ... a ceasefire that had largely halted more than 15 months of fighting. On Saturday, a Hamas statement said Israeli Prime Minister ...

Israeli fire has killed at least two people in Rafah and injured three others ... raising fears among the population that fighting could resume. A Palestinian official with a group allied ...

Beijing, China - February 24, 2025 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel is ready to resume fighting in the ... Minister's Office; Rafah, Gaza Strip - Feb 22 ...

It knows voices in Israel want a return to the fighting, and it knows that Israeli ... that despite Israel’s demands to remain in the Rafah corridor and other issues, the ceasefire is likely ...