Artificial intelligence is used in warfare in the Gaza Strip. With its help, the Israeli armed forces can determine attack targets much faster. But what are the consequences?
Lots of talk, but no consensus. The leaders of the European Union failed to find a common position on whether to call for a "humanitarian pause" in the war in Gaza or a complete "ceasefire". What exactly are the differences and who supports what?
Since Gaza became a global topic, people have found Joe Sacco's graphic novel "Palestine" published 30 years ago online, but not in bookstores. That is why American and Belgrade publishers are preparing its reissue
"Whoever trains their children to be terrorists, finances terror and supports the families of terrorists cannot control Gaza even when we eradicate Hamas," the Israeli prime minister wrote on the X social network.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is embarking on a tour of the Middle East. Oil is on his agenda, experts say, but also efforts to increase the influence of the Kremlin in the region. Increasingly strong international criticism of Israel due to the bombing of Gaza is helping him
An hour before the truce was supposed to end at 7:00 a.m., Israel announced that it had intercepted a rocket fired from Gaza.
In the night between Wednesday and Thursday, 16 hostages from the Gaza Strip were released, as well as 30 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.
Hamas and Israel are expected to release more hostages and prisoners today, the last day of an extended six-day truce, while public attention is focused on whether Qatar - which is mediating the talks - can negotiate another extension.
Israel has not officially confirmed that the truce with Hamas will be extended for two more days, although Qatari, US and UN officials welcomed the decision to extend the truce.
"There is no electricity. Medical devices have stopped. Patients, especially those in intensive care, have started to die," said Al Shifa hospital director Abu Selmiya
"Every five minutes, a child is wounded. And these are life-changing injuries," says Save the Children's Director for the Palestinian Territories, Jason Lee
The tragedy in the Middle East is increasingly turning into a political weapon in the confrontation between Republicans and Democrats ahead of the presidential elections.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they had launched air and artillery strikes against Lebanon after a missile was fired from that country at one of the Israeli drones.
Occasional air raids and subtle explosions in the sky do not disturb life in Tel Aviv too much. The physical war is being waged 70 kilometers away, in the Gaza Strip. But the war is in the minds of the Israelis
Israel has one of the best equipped armies in the world, with great support from Washington. Extremist Hamas, which the IDF is fighting, is a well-trained military group with powerful regional allies. As both sides prepare for an Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip following Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, VOA takes stock of their military resources
Israel announced the intensification of attacks on the north of the Gaza Strip, while at the same time the US announced that it was committed to delivering larger amounts of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians who are running out of food, water, medicine and fuel. Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza are trying to escape the relentless Israeli bombardment, but the neighboring countries, Egypt and Jordan, do not want to accept the refugees.
The US Secretary of State is working with Arab allies to prevent the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas from turning into a wider conflict. He is currently in Egypt before tomorrow's new departure to Israel, whose army has said it is waiting for a political decision to launch a ground offensive.
In frozen conflicts that last for a long time, as a rule, violence periodically flares up and erupts. Thus, the hatred of the militant Palestinians for "Jewish apartheid" spilled deadly onto Israeli territory this weekend. There is no doubt that the response of a shaken Israel will be brutal. Hezbollah, Iran and Syria are looking for an opportunity to actively intervene in the raging conflict
The Syrian crisis remains a kind of bleeding wound in the Middle East. Syria, which was artificially created by the French after the First World War on parts of the Ottoman Empire, today has split into three hostile enclaves: Arab-Sunni, Arab-Alawite and Kurdish. Bashar al-Assad, with the military support of Iran and the Russian Federation, controls two-thirds of the country's territory, where only a third of its pre-war population lives. Most Syrians were not with Assad. About eight million live in neighboring countries in refugee camps, four to five million in territories occupied by Turkey and four million in the northeast of the country, in the Kurdish region of Rojava and the Euphrates basin.
