At least three Palestinians were killed, and 11 others injured on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike and artillery shelling targeting a home and civilians in the central Gaza Strip, according to local medical sources.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday the Palestinian authority should exercise its full jurisdiction on the Gaza strip and all border crossings including Rafah. Abbas told the UN General Assembly the authority’s vision for the post-war era in Gaza included allowing relief aid to Gaza,

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to stop the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants, saying Israel had almost entirely destroyed Gaza and it was no longer fit for life.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Thursday that the Palestinian authority aims to exert full jurisdiction over the Gaza Strip and its border crossings, including Rafah. Speaking at the UN General Assembly,

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 22 Palestinians on Tuesday, medics said, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led fighters in Rafah, near the border with Egypt. The violence

Head of Palestinian Authority appeals to world to stop "genocidal war" in Gaza, declares: "We will not leave."

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