Chaos erupted on the second day of aid operations by a new U.S.-backed group in Gaza as desperate Palestinians overwhelmed a center distributing food on Tuesday, breaking through fences.

Chaos and confusion broke out at a new aid center in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first full day that humanitarian assistance was being distributed through a contentious effort conceived by Israeli...

Mediators are seeking to urgently broker a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip to free the remaining hostages there amid Israeli threats to launch a sweeping offensive throughout the enclave.

Hamas has agreed to a proposal by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire, a Palestinian official close to the group told Reuters, paving the way for a possible end to the war.

In Gaza, an early-morning Israeli strike on the Fahmi Al-Jarjawi school, where displaced people were sheltering, killed "at least 33, with dozens injured, mostly children", civil defence agency spoke...

“We are dismayed by the fate of the civilian population and the terrible suffering of the civilian population” in Gaza, the chancellor said on Tuesday while on a visit to Turku, Finland.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by the U.S. and Israel, said it will go ahead with deliveries to Gazans on Monday. Israel bombarded Gaza with airstrikes overnight.

The Israeli government had blocked aid from entering Gaza for weeks in an effort it says was designed to pressure Hamas further to release the roughly 60 hostages it still holds.