JERUSALEM — Gaza has long been a powder keg, and it exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and began killing and abducting people, sparking a crushing Israeli ...

Some walked with crutches. Palestinians are returning to the demolished ruins of the Gaza Strip they once called home. After an agreement halted Israel's 15-month rain of bombs on Gaza in exchange ...

Soon after the ceasefire was announced, I was gripped by a foreboding sense of déjà vu. I feared that the agreement would only subdue Israel’s killing lust in Gaza for a little while and ...

President Donald Trump expressed a desire for the United States to "own" the Gaza Strip as he spoke alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. After Hamas ...

WASHINGTON — Even before the first phase is completed, the fragile cease-fire agreement that has paused 15 months of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas faces increasingly long odds of lasting ...

The United Nations estimates that about 200,000 displaced Palestinians have returned to the shattered northern part of the Gaza Strip since Israel authorized their movement on Monday. CBS News ...

Gaza is about 139 square miles, or more than twice the size of Washington, D.C., CBS News reported. Its border with Israel measures about 36 miles, and it shares an 8-mile border with Egypt.

While “owning” land is a term that appears to be more applicable to real estate than to territories, the Palestinians see the Gaza Strip as an integral part of their future state, even if the ...

While “owning” land is a term that appears to be more applicable to real estate than to territories, the Palestinians see the Gaza Strip as an integral part of their future state, even if the ...

Tens of thousands of Palestinians flocked to the strip. Under Egyptian military control, Palestinian refugees in Gaza were stuck, homeless and stateless. Egypt didn’t consider them to be citizen ...