A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) investigated the impact of the ongoing conflict in Gaza on mortality. They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and December 31, 2024. As a result, life expectancy in Gaza in 2024 fell to nearly half the level expected without the war. An update of their analysis, produced after the publication of the study, revealed that the current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000.

The Israeli army is launching a large-scale military operation in the northern West Bank, claiming it aims to prevent the regrouping of armed resistance groups in the Tubas district. But the real reas...

<article data-history-node-id="432008" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unrwa-israeli-offensive-displaced-32000-palestinians-west-bank-camps" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unrwa-israeli-offensive-displaced-32000-palestinians-west-bank-camps" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Unrwa: Israeli offensive displaced 32,000 Palestinians from West Bank camps</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said that about 32,000 Palestinians in the West Bank were forcibly displaced after Israel launched its military operations in the area.</p> <p>"In the northern West Bank, Israeli Forces renewed the military order issued against Tulkarm Camp as part of operation ‘Iron Wall’ until 31 January 2026," Unrwa said.</p> <p>"Some 32,000 Palestinian refugees remain forcibly displaced by the operation, ongoing since January 2025," it added.</p> <p>Israeli forces have since targeted the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps.</p> <p>In early November, the organisation had&nbsp;said&nbsp;that around 75,000 displaced people are sheltering in more than 100 agency buildings in Gaza, most of which are damaged and overcrowded.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Pope Leo XIV is making the first stop in Turkey on Thursday and will move on to Lebanon afterward.

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The fire has not, in fact, ceased, and there have to be meaningful penalties for Israel’s violations.

"The Government must wake up and realise that the world is watching, and that people are extremely disturbed by the erosion of protest rights in the UK," Amnesty says.

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Joint submission to UN committee details systemic abuse, deaths and denial of medical care.

Food is slowly returning to the shelves in Gaza but the situation is still difficult and supplies remain in shortage. I

An Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon killed 13 people on Tuesday, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Pope Leo XIV begins a six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon on Thursday, his first foreign trip since his election and one on which he’s expected to emphasize key themes of his fledgling pontificate – a...