A generation has been traumatized in Gaza, with one million children requiring mental health and psychosocial support, says a UN official.

The first three hostages released from Gaza arrived in Israel on Sunday for tearful reunions with families, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war.

Unrwa's Gaza director says rebuilding homes, infrastructure and people's lives will "take an awful lot of time".

The UN’s leading humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher, has urged US President Donald Trump to remain engaged in the world. The UN's Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator,

Humanitarian office official calls for more funding, protection of aid workers in Palestinian enclave - Anadolu Ajansı

A major Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians on Tuesday and left dozens wounded, Palestinian health officials said, as Israel’s fragile ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza entered its third day.

Floor mattresses, make-shift water containers, and remaining contents of tents were quickly packed, piled and hurled on top of cars, trucks and donkey pulled carts in Gaza as thousands of Palestinians made their way back to their homes after 15 months of displacement.

The Israeli military said Thursday that the two men barricaded themselves in a structure in the West Bank village of Burqin and exchanged fire with Israeli troops before they were killed overnight. The army said a soldier was moderately wounded.

Gazan brothers are killed days after the ceasefire was announced, as a tense Middle East awaits more hostages releases this weekend and more violence in Israel's bloody West Bank operation

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These developments do not bode well for the success of the next phases of the cease-fire, let alone a lasting peace. Palestinians consider Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan as part of what should be a Palestinian state, which Netanyahu rejects.

Thirty-three hostages are set to be released in the ceasefire's first phase. Many residents of northern Gaza and southern Lebanon are expected to return to their homes in the coming days and weeks ...