As Hamas sticks to a hard line in cease-fire negotiations with Israel, many Palestinians just want the fighting and misery to end after more than six devastating months.

Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has urged protesters on college campuses to protest against Hamas' behaviour as well as Israel's conduct of the Gaza war. Hundreds of people have been arrested on dozens of campuses across the US, where protests and encampments have sprung up in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

Hamas reiterated on Thursday its demand Israel end the Gaza war as part of any deal to release hostages held there, with Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior official in the Palestinian militant group, telling Reuters that U.

A group of American and Israeli rabbis demonstrated in southern Israel near the Gaza border to demand a ceasefire and the delivery of aid to the Strip.

Hamas is racing to prevent an imminent Israeli military operation in Rafah, ramping up an insurgency in Gaza and deploying its most decisive advantage—sympathy for dozens of hostages.

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip,. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight,