Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after the militant group poured across the border from Gaza on Oct. 7, killing 1,400 people.

US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Israel has the right to respond to the October 7 Hamas attack but must do everything it can to protect civilians.

Desperately needed international aid piled up Friday near Gaza, with Palestinians in dire need of food and water after relentless bombing by Israel, still reeling from the bloodiest attack in its history.

Asian markets tumbled Thursday on fears the Israel-Hamas crisis would spill over into a wider conflict in the Middle East, with some warning that a full-blown war was increasingly likely.

Joe Biden heads to the Middle East on potentially the riskiest trip of his presidency Tuesday, aiming to thread the needle between supporting Israel against Hamas, averting catastrophe in Gaza and preventing a regional war.

The stench of death is overwhelming in Israel's National Center of Forensic Medicine, where experts have been trying to identify the remains of hundreds of people slain in the Hamas attacks.

"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.

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

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.

Palestinian officials are asking for action and accountability from world leaders regarding the recent increase of Palestinian children dying under the arms of the Israeli Defense Force.

Another Palestinian journalist was killed on Sunday by two masked gunmen, as Israel admits that Palestinian-American al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh may have been killed by the IDF.

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.

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.

A baby boy in West Gaza survived an Israeli airstrike that killed his mother along with his three brothers and 10 of his extended family.

Following protests over the eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, all-out conflict seems to have erupted as Hamas shot rockets leading to Israel returning fire.