When Nahed Abu Eyada woke up on Monday morning, flyers were littering the streets outside her flat in Rafah. The flyers, dropped by Israeli planes, warned of a coming offensive and ordered residents to evacuate the city’s eastern districts. Hours later, the bombing started. Nahed, 42, was staying in the Tal al Sultan neighbourhood, more than 4km from the evacuation zone....

The first strike was a case of false identity; the second and then the third were “grave mistakes”. An Israeli investigation into the killing of seven aid workers, which has drawn outrage around the world, has found that incorrect assumptions, decision-making mistakes and violations of the rules of engagement had resulted in their deaths. “The investigation’s findings...

The road to Kassala is infamously hard to traverse. It has seen little maintenance over the years and during these times of war, it is ungovernable. Trenches cut across the tarmac from one stretch of mountainous desert to another. The hoods of SUVs disappear into them and send passengers flying out of their seats as the cars buck in and out of the ridges. For the healthy traveller, the journey...

This wasn’t an accident. It was no mistaken misfire. The IDF cell tracking the vehicles fired lethal precision guided missiles into each car, one after the other. Through blurred night-time surveillance footage, they saw what they thought was a man carrying a gun and assumed he was a Hamas fighter. Read more: IDF releases findings of what went wrong in strike that killed aid workers They...

An aid group is to resume its work in Gaza four weeks after suspending operations following the killing of seven workers. World Central Kitchen (WCK) says it will resume operations in the besieged strip on Monday, delivering food to “address widespread hunger”, including in the north. It comes following the killing of the WCK workers in an Israeli military strike on 1 April. Three...

Palestinians in Rafah are reeling from a series of devastating Israeli airstrikes that have killed 22 people – including 18 children. The last 48 hours, horrific even by Gaza’s standards, are an indicator of what may follow in any Israeli Rafah offensive. Doctors told the Sky News team in Gaza how they saved the life of an unborn baby even as her mother was dying from head...

Warning: MASSIVE SPOILERS for Alex Garland’s Civil War are in play. It doesn’t matter what type of American you are, but there are some pretty revealing details ahead. Some pictures are just made to spark conversation, and writer/director Alex Garland’s Civil War absolutely fits that bill. The 2024 movie is the latest from the man who gave us equally debatable conclusions...

During the first months of the war in Gaza, deaths were counted through a network of computers connecting morgues across the territory. It was a system that, in the years beforehand, had won the trust of human rights groups, the UN and the World Health Organisation. But amid repeated Israeli attacks on hospitals and chronic fuel shortages, this system has now effectively collapsed. Of the...

The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says he has been blocked from entering Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini claimed it was the first time this had happened to an UNRWA commissioner-general in its history. Speaking on Sky News’ The World With Yalda Hakim, Mr Lazzarini said it would be “easy to flood Gaza with food” – but he was prevented from entering...

The death of Chen Almog-Goldstein’s 20-year-old daughter Yam was just the start of her ordeal. The final time Chen saw her, Yam was convulsing on the floor of their home after being shot in the face by a Hamas terrorist; minutes earlier, Chen’s husband Nadav had also been killed by a bullet in his chest. They were forced to step over his body as they were led out of the safe room at...

Israel has rejected a ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas and announced it is pushing ahead with an assault on the town of Rafah in southern Gaza. The Israeli military said it was conducting “targeted strikes” against Hamas in the east of the city, which is the group’s final stronghold in Gaza. Soon after Israeli tanks entered Rafah and advanced as close as 200m from...

Four people have been wounded after a shell exploded near a UN patrol in southern Lebanon, the UN peacekeeping mission has said. Earlier, Reuters reported an Israeli strike had hit a car carrying UN observers outside the border town of Rmeish, citing two security sources. But the Israeli military said “contrary to the reports” it did not strike a UNIFIL vehicle in the area. UNIFIL...