Thousands of Palestinian children are amputees, and 377 aid workers have been killed. And the holy grail of a sustainable peace in the Middle East seems no closer. Today Hamas in Gaza appears ...

The final hours of war in Gaza could explode into intense violence as both sides try to gain leverage before an uneasy peace breaks out ... including female soldiers, children and the sick ...

Despite the extreme hardships they have experienced and the long road ahead, children in Gaza are holding fast to their dreams of a better future.

Already, the people of Gaza have paid too high a cost in this conflict, with the overall death toll surpassing 50,000, including 46,000 Palestinians, many of them children, women and the elderly.

As a result, more than 46,788 Palestinians have been killed, with one in four of them children ... image in gallery A woman and her child sit amid the rubble following the Israeli bombardment of ...

Dashing long-term peace hopes ... withdrawal of Israeli troops from central Gaza. It will focus on the release of 33 hostages, including women, children, and the elderly, in exchange for hundreds ...