Nicolás Maduro said Palestinian President Abbas informed him in detail about the development of events alongside "the diplomatic deployment of the Palestinian National Authority as a leadership body, committed to peace, dialogue, and respect for the agreements signed between the parties."

Any move by Israel to occupy the Gaza Strip again would be a "big mistake," US President Joe Biden said in an interview released on Sunday, as Israeli troops prepared for a ground invasion.

The UN estimates that about one million people have been displaced since Israel began a relentless aerial bombardment of Gaza in retaliation for Hamas's deadly assault on October 7.

In the eight days since Hamas gunmen killed more than 1,300 Israelis in their surprise onslaught, Israel has responded with a devastating bombing campaign that has claimed over 2,300 lives in Gaza.

"We strongly condemn President Petro's statements and call on him to condemn Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, for its barbaric murder of Israeli men, women, and children," Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt of the office of the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism (SEAS) said.

The funds would be used to help more than 1.2 million people, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, adding that recent fighting in the region had left aid groups without adequate resources.

Like clockwork, every 30 seconds Israeli artillery goes into action against a barely visible target somewhere in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Several countries have been airlifting nationals who have requested to leave as the armed conflict escalates

President Joe Biden urged Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to follow the rules of war after the Israeli prime minister vowed to destroy Hamas following the Palestinian militants' brutal attack.

Thousands have already been killed on both sides since Hamas on Saturday launched its devastating attacks against Israeli civilian targets, prompting massive Israeli retaliatory strikes on the densely-packed Gaza Strip

Israel on paper enjoys vast numerical superiority over Palestinian militant group Hamas in terms of forces and hardware but the numbers mask a picture that is far more troubling for the Israeli government, analysts say.

The EU's digital chief Thierry Breton warned Elon Musk on Tuesday that his platform X, formerly Twitter, is spreading "illegal content and disinformation", in a letter seen by AFP. The letter said concerns had heightened after the Hamas attack against Israel, and demanded Musk respond to the complaint within 24 hours and contact "relevant law enforcement authorities".

John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, said the U.S. has no intention to put U.S. troops on the ground in Israel

At Israel's Ramla military base, civilian volunteers and reservists gather in a show of unity that comes after nearly a year of unprecedented political division in the nation.

Some thousand demonstrators on Sunday gathered in Manhattan in solidarity with Palestinians as pro-Israel marchers counter-protested following a bloody escalation in the Middle East conflict.

President Joe Biden ordered US ships and warplanes to move closer to Israel in a show of support on Sunday, while sending fresh military aid after attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The Israeli army said tens of thousands of soldiers were deployed to fight militants in southern desert regions near the coastal enclave, to rescue Israeli hostages and then evacuate the entire region within 24 hours.

Israel has launched retaliatory strikes in the Gaza Strip, where the death toll has risen to almost 200

Mexico's president has made a second request to Israel for the extradition of a former official accused of torture.

The head of PIJ's rocket-launching force and two others were killed, who the military claimed to be militants.

A man died after choking on a Hanukkah doughnut in Israel.

On Sunday, the Hamas movement of Palestine said it executed five people in the Gaza Strip including two men accused of collaborating with Israel. 

In the late 1930s, Philippines president Manuel Quezon gave refuge to over 1,200 Jews, after their expulsion from Germany and Austria.

Forty-four Palestinians, including fifteen children and two commanders of the Islamic Jihad, were killed by Sunday after Israel launched a multi-day airstrike targeting the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli woman claimed on Wednesday that she was the victim of being physically beaten by a Secret Service agent who was in the country to prepare for the visit of U.S. President Joe Biden.

A South African official called on Tuesday for Israel to be branded an "apartheid state" due to the many human rights violations over the decades that the country has committed against the Palestinians who live there.

A reporter was killed while another was injured as they were covering the Israeli army raid on Wednesday, May 11.

Vladimir Putin apologized to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett via phone call, addressing Sergei Lavrov's comments about Hitler and Jews.

The notorious “Tinder Swindler” got the taste of his own medicine after a pair of tricksters scammed him to fork out more than $7,000, promising they could have his Instagram account verified and get rid of all the fake accounts under his name.

Harnaaz Sandhu bested 80 contestants and was crowned after Nadia Ferreira of Paraguay was named first runner-up and Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane second runner-up.