Al-Hayek stresses that the Palestinian Authority should govern Gaza after the war and urges international backing for reconstruction.

The admissions come amid widespread concern about a humanitarian crisis in Gaza after nearly two years of war that began when Hamas attacked Israel from the enclave. President Donald Trump has lamented the conditions and called on Israel to improve aid while also backing Israel’s plan to widen its military operation in the enclave.

A whistleblower claims World Food Programme and U.N. agencies rejected Israeli security assistance, blocking aid distribution to Gaza despite available supplies as U.N. dismisses accusations.

The United States has halted entry via visitor visas for individuals from the Gaza Strip until further notice. "All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days,

In Gaza and all areas under Israel's control, we are witnessing the complete stripping away of Palestinians' rights amid unrestrained Israeli violence

Thank you to Bernie Sanders (“US must end its complicity in Israel’s annihilation of Gaza,” Opinion, Aug. 2) and Alex de Waal (“A massacre in slow motion: Israel is responsible for mass starvation in Gaza,” Opinion, Aug. 8) for shedding light on the reality of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “war against Hamas” in Gaza.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will soon operate 16 distribution sites instead of four, said Mike Huckabee, the United States ambassador to Israel.