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A second aid convoy has entered Gaza as the US said Israel’s leader had now agreed to a “continued flow” of supplies into the territory – where the health ministry says more than 4,600. It comes as an Israeli soldier was killed by an anti-tank missile on Sunday during a raid into the Hamas-controlled Gaza

Five people have been killed in the West Bank as Israel carried out a strike on a mosque it says was used to organise attacks – as more than 50 Palestinians are reported to have died in strikes on Gaza overnight. Israel also struck two airports in Syria as fears grow the two-week old war

Israel will increase its strikes on Gaza, its military has warned, as airstrikes rained down on south Gaza, an area Israel had said would be safer. Israel’s military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said the country planned to step up its air strikes starting on Saturday in preparation for the next stage of the war.

Donald Trump could face jail after violating his gag order with an “untrue and disparaging post”. Judge Arthur Engoron, presiding over Trump’s $250m (£206m) New York civil fraud case, said the former president could be sent to prison for failing to comply with the partial suppression order. At the start of October, Judge Engoron ordered

An explosion at the al Ahli hospital in Gaza on Tuesday killed many – officials linked to Hamas said up to 471 were killed. This latest round of fighting has inflamed anger and violence well beyond the confines of the Israel/Hamas conflict. The Israelis insist they have evidence which suggests that the damage was not

Canada has withdrawn dozens of its diplomats from India after the Indian government said it would revoke their diplomatic immunity, amid an ongoing dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader. The move follows Canada’s claims that India may have been involved in the June killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in the Canadian province

I spent the afternoon in the West Bank with a father grieving the loss of his 17-year-old son who was shot by Israeli security forces on 8 October. Thaer Ali Kusbah cried and shook as he showed me the film of his son Yaser being shot in the back as he was running away after

A Russian-American journalist has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, had her passports confiscated when she was stopped at Kazan airport in June. She was fined for failing to register her US passport and was unable to leave

Israel’s military has said it will release evidence – including drone footage and an intercepted conversation – that it claims will prove an Islamist militant group was responsible for a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza and not an Israeli airstrike. “We are running on it because someone is doing a fake on us,

Joe Biden flies to the Middle East with his policy for the region in tatters.  It was not meant to be like this. Until a couple of weeks ago his administration was preparing for an outbreak of peace. A historic deal between sworn enemies was in the offing or so it seemed. Follow live: Hundreds

Israel’s military says more civilian deaths in Gaza are “inevitable”, claiming that Hamas fighters are using Palestinians as cover. More than one million Palestinians were warned to move south through Gaza at the weekend by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), ahead of an expected ground invasion. In recent days, more than 80 people have been

Hamas’s attack on Israel has given rise to the largest-scale hostage crisis in the country’s 75-year history. About 200 people have been captured and taken into Gaza, according to the Israeli military. Over the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict, armed Palestinian groups have taken dozens of Israelis captive. The vast majority have been Israeli Defence

Police have reportedly shot dead a suspected gunman who killed two people before an international football match in Brussels. Belgium’s interior minister Annelies Verlinden told VRT radio “we have the good news that we found the individual”. The weapon believed to have been used in the fatal shootings before Belgium‘s match with Sweden on Monday

Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk is declaring the beginning of a new era after three opposition parties appeared to have won enough votes in Sunday’s election to oust the governing party. An Ipsos exit poll suggested that the opposition together as a coalition has likely won 248 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament,

We’ve been travelling to the many different scenes where Hamas fighters carried out their terror attack on Israel this week, and it is becoming clear that their tactics and levels of brutality changed from location to location. Warning – this story contains descriptions and pictures of a graphic nature In the attack on the Nova

Afghanistan has been hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, its third in a week. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said it was at a depth of 10km and affected the same region as last week’s earthquakes, which killed almost 2,500 people. It hit the Herat province, north of the city of Herat – the same

Israel is preparing to launch a “coordinated offensive” on the Gaza Strip, after the deadline given to Palestinians to move south to escape passed. Up to 1.1 million people on the sliver of land were offered safe passage south of the Gaza Wadi river by Israel’s Defence Forces until 4pm local time on Saturday (2pm

Ireland have been knocked out of the Rugby World Cup at the hands of New Zealand. Ireland, who at one point were favourites to win the tournament outright, lost 24-28 to the three-time champions at Paris’s Stade De France. It means New Zealand play Argentina in next week’s semi-final, after Los Pumas beat Wales in

France will deploy 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols after a terror attack killed a schoolteacher and wounded three others, the president’s office has said, while the Louvre was evacuated after a threat. The museum in Paris closed early on Saturday because it received a written threat. It said no one had been hurt and

Australia will vote against proposals to enshrine an indigenous advocacy committee in its constitution in a historic referendum, local media are projecting The Indigenous Voice, as it was called, would have been an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander group to advise the government on issues affecting their community. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who championed the