As Egypt presses Israel for a response on the latest ceasefire proposal approved by Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instead announced on Wednesday that he was “shortening the timelines” for the IDF’s plans to conquer Gaza City,

The Iranian and Egyptian foreign ministers have discussed the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip by phone, calling for an immediate end to the genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in the enclave.

Fearing an Israeli onslaught could come soon, some Palestinian families began leaving eastern areas of Gaza City, now under constant Israeli bombardment, for points to the west, and some explored ev The Egyptian Foreign Minister said that any mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza was a "red line" in a Monday interview with CNN.

Military official tells MEE Egyptian army is on ‘the highest state of alert we’ve seen in years’ as Israel prepares to occupy Gaza

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The Israeli military says it plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists for an expanded operation in Gaza City.

At the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, hundreds of aid trucks sat unmoving in the Egyptian desert, stuck for days with only a handful allowed through by Israel to relieve the humanitarian disaster across the border.

Egypt denies an Israeli media report claiming that it proposed to seize Hamas weapons as part of a post-war Gaza plan.