Top UN court stops short of ordering cease-fire in Gaza and demands Israel contain deaths

The United Nations’ top court stopped short Friday of ordering a cease-fire in Gaza in a case accusing Israel of genocide in the tiny coastal enclave, but demanded that Israel try to limit deaths and damage caused by its military offensive there

Israel strikes in and around Gaza’s second-largest city in an already bloody new phase of the war

Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza’s second-largest city early Tuesday, as ambulances and private cars came racing into a local hospital carrying people wounded in a bloody new phase of the war in Gaza