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“This will be the black Ramadan,” Abu Mousam Haddad said in front of his coffee stand near Damascus Gate, one of the Old City’s main entrances.

Netanyahu’s popularity has dropped since the war broke out, according to most opinion polls.

The march comes as negotiations are underway in Qatar to bring about a deal between Hamas and Israel that would lead to a cease-fire in exchange for the release of hostages.

If a deal is reached in the coming days, this timeline would also include Ramadan, which starts around March 10.

Negotiators face an unofficial deadline of the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan around March 10, a period that often sees heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

Human Rights Watch cited a 30% drop in the daily average number of aid trucks entering Gaza in the weeks following the court’s ruling.

The move signals a willingness by the Western-backed Palestinian leadership to accept shake-up that might usher in reforms seen as necessary to revitalize the Palestinian Authority.

Israel's War Cabinet met to discuss the proposal late Saturday, but there was no official word on what they had decided.

An Israeli delegation led by Mossad chief David Barnea was in the French capital on Friday to discuss a deal to ensure a fresh ceasefire and the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza

Netanyahu's plan envisages Israeli security control "over the entire area west of Jordan" from land, sea and air "to prevent the strengthening of terrorist elements" in occupied West Bank and Gaza.

On Wednesday, the Association of Rape Crisis Centres in Israel, an umbrella body that fights sexual violence, said that sexual assaults on October 7 matched "patterns of wartime sexual violence documented in literature".

A study by the UN children’s agency warned that one in six children in the north are acutely malnourished.

The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13-1 with the United Kingdom abstaining, reflecting the strong support from countries around the globe for ending the war.

US circulated a rival UNSC resolution that supports a temporary cease-fire in Gaza linked to the release of all hostages, and calls for the lifting of all restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid.

New airstrikes in central Gaza on Saturday killed more than 40 people, including children, and wounded at least 50, according to Associated Press journalists and hospital officials.

Hours before troops seized the hospital Thursday, Israeli fire killed a patient and wounded six others inside the complex, staff said.

The raid came a day after the army sought to evacuate thousands of displaced people who had taken shelter at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis.

The fatalities marked a significant escalation in more than four months of daily cross-border exchanges triggered by the Oct. 7 outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said Wednesday its fighter jets "began a series of strikes in Lebanon", raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border fire. The military gave no further details of the air…

Two children aged thirteen and two are among the civilians killed in Lebanon by Israeli air strikes.