UPDATE: In his appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Joe Biden quipped about his age, but the host pressed him on it. “All jokes aside, according to recent polling, this is a real concern for American voters,” Meyers noted. “Number one, you got to take a look at the other guy, he’s about as old as I am,” the president responded. “But he...

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....

There has been “significant progress” in hostage talks in Paris, according to Israeli media. Negotiators have been ramping up efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, in the hope of heading off an Israeli assault on the Gaza city of Rafah where more than one million displaced people are sheltering. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met Egyptian mediators in Cairo to discuss a truce this...

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...

It’s been a long and agonising 150 days for the families of hostages still inside Gaza, and every hour right now must feel like a lifetime as negotiations for a new ceasefire progress slowly.  Liran Berman’s brothers, Ziv and Gali, were taken from Kfar Aza on 7 October. The twins are being held separately in Gaza, according to testimony from released hostages who saw them....

The US president has again confused key international events and locations while expressing regret for his country’s invasion of Iraq\ US president Joe Biden has committed another gaffe to the public record. In the course of an interview with MSNBC on Saturday Biden said that Washington had made a mistake by going into Ukraine when in fact he was referring to the US invasions of Iraq and...

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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...

Airdrops are a last resort. They are inefficient, inaccurate, expensive and dangerous. They are only chosen as an option when things are really desperate. The White House spokesman admitted as much just after President Biden announced that America would carry out airdrops into Gaza. “There are no missions more complicated than humanitarian assistance airdrops,” Admiral John Kirby...

In a world that has grown more dangerous in recent years, the nightmare scenario of a Third World War is in the public consciousness. Earlier this year, UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned the world could be engulfed by wars involving China, Russia, North Korea and Iran in the next five years, and said we are moving “from a post-war to pre-war world”. The relief felt at the end...

At least 11 people have been killed and a further 100 injured as they waited for aid in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry which has blamed Israeli forces. The incident reportedly happened at Kuwaiti roundabout in the besieged Palestinian territory. The ministry said at least 11 bodies and 100 wounded people were taken to Al Shifa hospital. This comes two weeks after the Gaza...

The grinding misery in Yemen just got worse. Yet while their own suffering goes on in virtual silence, they still protest in towns across Yemen in their hundreds of thousands about the Israeli bombing in Gaza. Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, has found itself thrust into the centre of the war on Gaza. As if that wasn’t unlikely enough, the Houthi militants who control the...

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...

Israeli forces have withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind destroyed buildings and dead bodies. The military said it had killed some 200 Hamas and other militants and detained hundreds more in clashes in the area of the hospital, and had seized weapons and intelligence documents. Hundreds rushed to the area around the hospital to investigate the damage...

Lawmakers in Israel on Monday passed new legislation that allows the government to temporarily close foreign media outlets deemed to be a risk to national security. In the wake of the Israeli parliament approving the law, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to shutter Al Jazeera, saying it “will no longer be broadcast from Israel.” Calling Al Jazeera a “terrorist...