Fighting rages in Gaza after Israel vowed to intensify its ground offensive in Rafah despite international concerns for the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in the southern city.

The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has urged the soccer's world governing body FIFA to suspend Israel over the regime’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.

Here is Press TV's latest top stories at 09:00 GMT, May 17,2024

Yemen’s army says it has shot down an American spy drone by “a locally-made missile” in the province of Ma’rib, amid escalating tensions in the region over Israel’s US-backed genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Seventy-six seconds of sirens wailing across the West Bank, marking 76 years of the Nakba or the ‘Catastrophe’. 

Five Israeli soldiers have been killed by an Israeli tank friendly fire in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Nakba has turned 76 years old.