The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 40.000; authoritative research in recent months has stated that the estimate of health officials is downwards and the number is much higher, possibly reaching 185.000 according to Lancet's study

Palestinians have sued the State Department over US assistance to the Israeli military, accusing the Biden administration of violating US law prohibiting aid to military units involved in rights abuses

A new report by the human rights organisation Amnesty International has determined that Israel's war in Gaza has reached the legal threshold of genocide, accusing Israel of treating the Palestinians of Gaza as a 'subhuman group unworthy of human rights'

The situation in the north of the Gaza Strip has been described as 'apocalyptic' by UN aid chief Joyce Msuya