Author: THE NEW YORK TIMES

In a separate incident, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl was also fatally shot, part of the rising toll of West Bank violence during the war in Gaza.

U.S. officials say that Hamas and Israel have not agreed on how many people each side would set free, nor on who they would be, in the first, six-week phase of a truce.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party announced a slate of nine candidates for cabinet posts on Wednesday, marking the biggest shake-up in the government since the war against Russia started.

In its first two days, the campaign to vaccinate 640,000 Gazan children has been more successful than expected, a W.H.O. official said.

After thousands of Israeli workers walked off the job on Monday, angry over the deaths of hostages in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a news conference that the war would only end when Israel had eliminated Hamas.

Demonstrators lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of torpedoing efforts to secure a cease-fire in exchange for the hostages’ release. The country’s largest labor union said it would go on strike on Monday.

The Israeli military and a U.S. aid organization gave differing, murky accounts of the attack, which targeted people who were not originally part of the convoy.

An early look at a remote treatment center where children and adults suffer with mpox, recently declared a global health emergency.

Israel has emphasized the move is not the first step to a cease-fire, but that there would be limited pauses in specific areas to allow for the vaccinations.

Hundreds of troops entered cities in the occupied territory, targeting Palestinian militants. It was a significant escalation after months of raids that have unfolded alongside the war in Gaza.