Tens of thousands of people were warned to flee the city, where many displaced Palestinians have been sheltering and it's ...

The central city is one of the few parts of Gaza so far spared a major ground operation during the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli tanks on Monday rolled into a part of central Gaza that has not previously seen ground operations in the 21-month war ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli ground troops for the first time Monday pushed into areas of a central Gaza city ...

Balah for the first time, where thousands of displaced people are sheltering and some of the remaining hostages are ...

Israel launched a ground offensive in central Gaza for the first time, ordering out many thousands of Gazans who had sought ...

Israel over "drip feeding" of aid to Palestinians and say "the war in Gaza must end," just as it looks set to expand.

Israeli tanks pushed into southern and eastern districts of the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah for the first time on Monday, an area where Israeli sources said the military believes hostages may be held.

After the Bar Kokhba revolt suppression, a large Jewish settlement remained in the Land of Israel for the next 600 years, throughout the first centuries of the Christian Byzantine period.

But after Israel's stunning military success in the Six Day War of 1967, Israel took more land, occupying the Palestinian territories, and Israeli citizens began building settlements.