Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 17:00 GMT, May 18,2024

A senior Hamas official says it would be “meaningless” to conclude any agreement with Israel unless the occupying regime commits itself to a complete ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Two young Palestinian men have been killed by Israeli military gunfire west of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to local security sources.

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a destroyed building in Rafah after Israeli strike. 

The UNRWA chief says the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has broken all superlatives with the highest number of children, paramedics and journalists killed.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says 140 journalists have been killed in the Israeli military's raids, bombardments and missile attacks across the Gaza Strip, six months into the regime's genocidal war on the besieged territory.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq retaliates against the Israeli atrocities in Gaza with a drone strike against a “vital” target in the southernmost part of the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories.

A salvo of missiles has targeted a military base in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr amid rising anti-US sentiments over Washington’s support for the bloody Israeli onslaught on Gaza.

Hezbollah fighters have targeted Israeli spying devices and a gathering of soldiers near the border with the occupied territories in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The US and UK have conducted new airstrikes on Yemen, as tensions remain high in West Asia over the Gaza war.