Human rights in the Gaza Strip

The UN Human Rights Office has cautioned Israel that its actions in Gaza may have breached international law. This warning comes in response to the Israeli military's alleged failure to uphold principles such as distinction, proportionality, and caution during attacks in Gaza.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Tuesday that at least 36,550 people have been killed in the territory during nearly eight months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants.

Israeli forces on Friday struck targets across the Gaza Strip, with witnesses reporting air raids around the southern city of Rafah, the latest focus of the nearly eight-month war.

Israel launched its military incursion into Rafah in early May despite international objections over the safety of civilians sheltering in the city on Gaza's border with Egypt.

Why are hopes for peace in the Middle East lower than ever? The immediate, obvious answer is that Hamas' terror attack on October 7 and Israel's response show that, for both sides, this is a fight to the finish: Hamas wants to wipe the state of Israel off the map and is trying, through the catastrophic response that it provoked, to mobilize a broader front against Israel.

Humanitarian aid for Gaza is continuing to leave Cyprus by sea and will be held in floating storage off the coast of the enclave until a US-built military pier undergoes repairs, a Cypriot government official has said.

The Israeli army has announced that it controls the strategic zone along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, known as the Philadelphi Corridor. This area spans 8 kilometers and, in some places, is more than 100 meters wide. The military claims to have discovered 20 tunnels used by the radical Palestinian group Hamas to smuggle weapons into Gaza.

Israel's army said Wednesday it took control of a vital Gaza-Egypt corridor it suspects aided weapons smuggling as  U.S. said new U.N. resolution on the war in Gaza will not going to change the situation on the ground.

Israeli bombardment rocked Gaza's far-southern Rafah on Wednesday, a day after Israeli tanks rolled into the centre of the city near the Egyptian border as the White House said that so far it had not seen Israel cross President Joe Biden's "red lines."

The United States asserts that Israel did not cross any red lines in its recent operation in Rafah. John Kirby, the White House's national security spokesperson, made this statement, emphasizing that Washington condemns the loss of life in Gaza but currently has no intentions of altering its policy towards Tel Aviv.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has criticized Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz's "baseless" accusations against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, stating that these accusations are a futile attempt to shift focus from Israel's crimes in Palestine.