5 days ago · The first Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation erupted in Gaza in December 1987, kicking off more than five years of sustained protests and bloody violence.

21 hours ago · A ceasefire begets violence. As the truce between Israel and Hamas took hold on Jan. 19, radical Israeli settlers — incensed over an apparent end to the war and the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli hostages — rampaged through West Bank towns, torching cars and homes.. Two days later, Israeli forces with drones and attack helicopters descended on the northern West ...

The Gaza Strip, [e] also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine.Inhabited by mostly Palestinian refugees and their descendants, Gaza is one of the most densely populated territories in the world.

5 days ago · Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear of being uprooted again, and President Trump's remarks struck a raw nerve.

Jan 27, 2025 · Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians began returning home to northern Gaza on Monday, bracing for what awaits them in a region that has been reduced to rubble by months of brutal...

2 days ago · Times Opinion spoke to five Palestinian scholars and analysts in Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt and the United States about what they believe the future holds for their people. The discussion, which ...

4 days ago · “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that Palestinians “would have already been ...

Jan 28, 2025 · WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip — Palestinians streamed into northern Gaza on foot and in vehicles Tuesday, a day after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas. “Although my husband was martyred and my sons are injured, I’m happy that we’re going back home to our land and our home,” said Fayza al ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to the most heavily destroyed part of the Gaza Strip on Monday as Israel lifted its closure of the north for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas in accordance with a fragile ceasefire.

Jan 28, 2025 · The United Nations estimated on Tuesday that 376,000 Palestinians had returned to their homes in northern Gaza, a mass movement of people taking place even as Israeli troops remain stationed in...