After months of conflict and tens of thousands of deaths, fighting continues between Israel and Hamas, with the Middle East appearing to be on the brink of a wider war. In this story, Sky News looks back at what has happened between the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 and the same date a year later. The renewed conflict has raged for months and has seen an escalation between Israel and Iran and...

At least six people have been killed by an Israeli strike in Lebanon, the health ministry there has said. Officials said the strike, in which three others were wounded, hit a residential building in the city of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, early on Saturday. Tensions have soared in the region in recent weeks, after a deadly rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that Israel blamed...

President Biden claims a ceasefire deal in the Middle East is closer than ever. Biden made the surprise announcement after signing a proclamation establishing a national monument in memorial of the Springfield 1908 Race Riot — a live event to which he arrived noticeably late. “One of the reasons I was late for y’all is because I was dealing with the ceasefire effort in the Middle...

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Venezuela expressed support for Iran after its missile attack on Israel this week. Iran launched a missile attack against Israel on Tuesday, deploying some 180 missiles, none of which caused casualties inside Israel. Tuesday’s attack marks Iran’s second missile attack against Israel in the past six months. Cuba’s communist Castro regime, through its...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — As mediators expressed optimism for an imminent cease-fire deal, violence raged on Saturday in… DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — As mediators expressed optimism for an imminent cease-fire deal, violence raged on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, where an Israeli airstrike killed at least 18 people, all from the same family. The attack came days after the Health...

Along with a surge of combat aircraft and warships, President Biden dispatched three of his top Mideast advisers, including CIA Director Bill Burns, to the region this week to try to delay Iranian and Hezbollah military retaliation against Israel, and to use that borrowed time to craft an offramp from the collision course that ultimately risks a regional war that could draw in U.S. forces....

The Justice Department unsealed charges Tuesday targeting multiple senior members of Hamas‘ leadership for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murdering of Americans during the terror group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The criminal complaint, unsealed in the Southern District of New York, names six members of Hamas’ leadership structure and details extensively their...

A Hamas representative in Lebanon confirmed to CBS News that a delegation from the militant group will not attend Thursday’s attempt to restart cease-fire negotiations with Israel, saying Hamas has not received assurances that Israel would commit to negotiate on the basis of an earlier proposal dated July 2.  “We are not against the concept of negotiations and we were flexible in...

Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Iran, the group has confirmed. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were “assassinated” in the capital Tehran, Iranian state media reported. In a statement, Hamas said he was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”. The assassination is a...

Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah has finally confirmed the death of one of its top military commanders in an Israeli attack on Beirut, as his body has been recovered from rubble. Hezbollah previously refused to confirm Israel’s claim that it had killed Fuad Shukr, described as ‘the right-hand man’ of their leader Hassan Nasrallah, on Tuesday night. The Israeli Defence...

US President Joe Biden has said he hopes Iran will back down from threats of retaliation against Israel to avert a serious war in the Middle East. Tensions are rising in the region after Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Iran has pledged to avenge his death, with its proxies already escalating attacks against Israel. Hamas and Iran...

Hezbollah launched 30 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel early Monday, though no casualties were reported, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed.  “Following sirens that sounded a short while ago in northern Israel, approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon toward the area of Kabri, a number of which fell in open areas,” an IDF spokesman said....

The grief at the funeral for two young children in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, was palpable. Children weeping, girls clinging to each other, women openly sobbing. The young brother and sister were killed in the Israeli ‘targeted’ assassination of one of Hezbollah’s top commanders Fahd Shukr. Image: A child on a man’s shoulders at a...

World News Israel vowed retaliation for Iran’s missile barrage, which it said had caused only a few injuries. Israeli army tanks in a staging area in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. Baz Ratner / AP By Associated Press updated on October 1, 2024 | 4:45 PM...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday. The killing of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan marks the latest casualty suffered by Iran as the nearly yearlong Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip teeters on the edge of becoming a...