The Latest Breaking News from Gaza

Ireland's Taoiseach Micheál Martin called the situation in Gaza ‘hell on earth’. He told The Europe Conversation that Israel is committing war crimes, and criticised the EU’s lack of response. Food and medicine have been blocked from entering the besieged area for almost 60 days.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said his government is "drawing a line in the sand" over the Gaza humanitarian aid blockade, which he says goes against international humanitarian law.

Mahmoud Abbas’s lining up of the next president is part of a long pattern of denying Palestinians political agency, says researcher of Palestinian and Arab politics Dana El Kurd

Irish national broadcaster RTÉ director general said he was "appalled by the ongoing events in the Middle East and by the horrific impact on civilians in Gaza, and the fate of Israeli hostages."

First responders in Gaza said Thursday that their operations were at a near standstill, more than two months into a full Israeli blockade that has left food and fuel in severe shortage.

A leading aid group says that Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza has forced it to shut down its community soup kitchens

Trump administration wants Israel ‘to come to its senses’ and strike a ceasefire deal on Gaza, Israeli media reports.

For burn patients, shortages of medicines in Gaza are particularly excruciating under Israel's blockade of the territory, now in its third month

A pianist allegedly sacked after dedicating a piece to slain Gazan journalists has scored an early win in a legal dispute with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.