An Israeli officer who refused to serve in the war in the Gaza Strip over the ‘abandonment’ of hostages has been sent to jail. He said that he could no longer serve in a war that had been reduced to an ’endless death of innocent people’ and has a ’lack of a political vision’.

A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,

Israel continued to pound the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on Wednesday as it resisted international pressure to halt its revamped attacks on the devastated enclave. Scores of Palestinians were killed,

Per Israeli officials, 93 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but experts say that is not nearly enough.

Israeli troops "will stay and hold the ground in areas we've already fought for longer," an IDF spokesperson told Newsweek.

The fast, initiated by Veterans for Peace, an anti-war organization, and a dozen Christian organizations, intends to raise awareness of the famine looming over Gaza.

Experts also warn the territory could plunge into famine if Israel doesn’t stop its military campaign and fully lift its blockade.

Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, killing more than 53,700 Palestinians