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....

More than 20 people have been killed in Israeli tank shelling on a tent camp in Gaza, according to Palestinian health officials. It comes amid widespread outrage over Israel’s bombing two days earlier of another camp where at least 45 lives were lost. On Tuesday, four tank shells hit a cluster of tents for displaced families in a designated humanitarian zone in al Mawasi, western Rafah,...

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...

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...

Hamas has launched rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza for the first time in months. The barrage of rockets set off air raid sirens in cities as far away as Tel Aviv. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in what appeared to be the first long-range rocket attack from Gaza since January, although Palestinian militants have continued to sporadically fire rockets and mortar rounds...

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...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the hallway outside a courtroom where he attended a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in New York City, U.S., March 25, 2024.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters A court ruling that slashed Donald Trump‘s civil fraud appeal bond was a financial win for the former president. But the...

Joe Biden has reaffirmed the US’s “ironclad” commitment to Israel’s security after Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles in an “unprecedented” attack. With additional launches in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, over 300 drones and missiles, including 120 ballistic missiles and 30 cruise missiles, were fired at Israel. RAF planes were involved in the...

A retired intelligence agent turned producer testified at a corruption trial of the sitting Israeli prime minister Billionaire movie producer Arnon Milchan told a Jerusalem court on Monday that some $200,000 worth of the gifts he sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara may have been “excessive” but claimed he did not think they were illegal. Milchan founded the production house...

The body of an Israeli hostage has been recovered in Gaza, Israel says. Elad Katzir’s body was found by special forces in the southern city of Khan Younis, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said. He was taken hostage from his home in Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, along with his mother on 7 October. His father was killed on 7 October, the kibbutz said, while his mother Hanna was...

For weeks, the ceasefire talks have been at a virtual standstill – not completely broken down but with little movement to report. Hamas’s new proposal though, is a potential – albeit small – breakthrough in the deadlock. Until now, Hamas had insisted on a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, a demand which led to the failure of securing a...

Thousands in Papua New Guinea have been ordered to evacuate from the path of a landslide that killed at least 670 people, as fears grow of a second major rockfall. Officials from the Pacific country said the chance of finding survivors under the rubble in Yambali is slim, after previously saying they believe more than 2,000 people were buried alive. Enga province disaster committee chairperson...

Batbold Sukhbaatar of Mongolia addresses the Millennium Development Goals Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 22, 2010. Emmanuel Dunand | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors on Tuesday sued to seize two New York City apartments worth $14 million that were allegedly bought with proceeds from a corrupt scheme involving Mongolia’s huge copper mine,...