After 19 months of pounding Gaza, Israel is now under growing pressure from unlikely quarters – some of its closest Western allies.

The Israel Defense Forces struck more than 100 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight — including military structures, underground tunnels and Hamas hideouts — as thousands of Israelis

Long-awaited humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip this week after Israel’s 11-week blockade on aid trucks. Gaza health officials say hundreds of people died because of the blockade, with Israel saying their goal was to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages still in captivity.

A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,

Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen

Israel continued to pound the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on Wednesday as it resisted international pressure to halt its revamped attacks on the devastated enclave. Scores of Palestinians were killed,

The aid trucks that Israel has allowed into the Gaza Strip this week are "too little, too late," a spokesperson for the German government said on Friday.

Smoke rises to the sky following an explosion in the northern of Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Friday, May 23, 2025.