Allyson Horn

The West has taken to parachuting food aid into Gaza to help feed the people below. But on the ground, these meagre packages have sometimes turned deadly.

Palestinian civilians in Gaza hoped that last week's ruling from the International Court of Justice might represent a turning point, but it has quickly turned into an argument about legal interpretation and world order.

Violence has erupted at Israel's annual Jerusalem Day march, with some Jewish Israelis attacking Palestinians and journalists, including an ABC News team, while chanting offensive slogans.

The United Nations adds Israel's armed and security forces, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, along with the Sudanese Armed Forces and rival paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces, for the first time to its list of offenders for violating children's rights.

The October 7 attacks united many Israeli politicians and citizens in grief and anger but, after eight months of war, that has changed and right-wing voices now have a larger seat at Benjamin Netanyahu's table.

Children like Sumaya are among the thousands estimated to have lost a limb in the nine months of the Gaza war, and doctors say the situation inside some hospitals is so bad they are sometimes amputating without anaesthesia.

Lebanon's Health Ministry says two children are among those killed by a wave of exploding pagers that the militant group Hezbollah uses to communicate.

A wave of fresh explosions hit hand-held radios used by members of the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon.

One year ago today, Hamas-led terrorists infiltrated southern Israel from Gaza and went on a rampage. In this oral history, survivors recall the deadliest attack on Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.

Now 13, Hiba dreams of being able to go to school, like other girls her age. Instead she sits on the side of the road, surrounded by bombed and broken houses, selling handmade bracelets.