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For three weeks, Israel has been bombing the Gaza Strip as part of its war with Hamas. The two sides have published conflicting accounts of the toll taken by the airstrikes. Satellite data gives us an independent view. Every 12 days, NASA’s Sentinel-1 satellite passes three times over the Gaza Strip, firing out radar waves

All the civilians being held hostage in Gaza can be released in days, if there is a pause in the fighting, the Qataris leading negotiations say. Dr Mohammed Al Khulaifi, senior negotiator and Qatar’s minister of state for foreign affairs, told Sky News in an exclusive interview that the negotiations to free Israelis taken by

With Israel’s darkest hour falling on his watch, the Israeli prime minister knows that he must show strength and purpose in his war with Hamas, but every choice he faces is filled with peril. Benjamin Netanyahu made a televised address to the nation on Wednesday night, vowing to “destroy” the Hamas militant group based in

Negotiations to release more Hamas hostages from Gaza are ongoing but could be jeopardised by an Israeli ground offensive, Qatari mediators have warned. “If we can keep discussions going between both parties we should see some sort of breakthrough, hopefully soon,” Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani, Qatar’s foreign minister, told Sky News in a

US spy agencies believe the blast at a Gaza hospital a week ago was caused by a Palestinian rocket that suffered engine failure and broke apart into two pieces, with the warhead striking the hospital’s parking lot, intelligence officials said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters by phone, the intelligence officials said they had “high confidence”

Israel is taking its time before launching a ground invasion into Gaza as troops would have “fallen into a deadly trap” set by Hamas had they entered too quickly, a top Israeli diplomat has said. Emmanuel Nahshon, a senior official at the country’s foreign ministry, said it was also “not a bad thing” for the

The key Hamas negotiator over the fate of more than 200 hostages held by the group inside Gaza says all the civilians among them will be released – if the right conditions are met. Khaled Meshaal is a powerful figure within Hamas, revered as a living martyr after surviving an Israeli attempt to assassinate him

Israel has evidence of Iranian “involvement” in the Hamas terror attack that left more than 1,400 people dead and over 200 kidnapped, a senior Israeli military officer has said. Major General Michael Edelstein, a veteran commander who is working with the Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) Southern Command, said the attackers, were “well trained, well equipped”.

Hamas terrorists who broke into Israel were carrying instructions on how to make chemical weapons, according to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Israeli forces claim they discovered the material on the bodies of dead fighters in Kibbutz Be’eri, where an estimated 20% of the 1,100 residents were killed or kidnapped. The documents, complete with diagrams, were shown

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

Hands pulling the wheels on his wheelchair, a young Israeli soldier led the way into his hospital bedroom, both legs patched up after surgery for three gunshot wounds. The reservist, a member of an elite unit called the counter-terror school, was wounded as he helped to recapture a rural community near Gaza that had been

Late on Friday night, somewhere along the Gaza-Israel border, Judith and Natalie Raanan were handed over by masked Hamas gunmen into the care of the International Red Cross. In a video released by Hamas, they look exhausted and dazed. No wonder. Follow latest: First aid trucks enter Gaza The Americans were just two of an

I stopped counting after the ninth person was shot in front of us on another day of protests in the West Bank.  It was clearly a tactic by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to send a message – to the usual suspects who regularly hurl rocks at their vehicles and security posts – that today

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has separated from her partner Andrea Giambruno who has faced criticism for alleged sexist comments. Ms Meloni, 46, took to her social media accounts on Friday to say her near decade-long relationship with television journalist Mr Giambruno “ends here”. “I thank him for the splendid years we spent

A man has painfully described how 10 members of his family were killed after an explosion reduced their flat to rubble – eight of whom were very young children. Warning: This article contains images of children in distress and body bags Uday Albakri survived the deadly blast which took place yesterday evening, metres away from

We filmed as a small group of teenagers whirling slings above their heads lobbed stones at an Israeli military vehicle 100m or so up the road on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah.  They’re taunting members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) stationed at their main military communications hub. Above them snipers

An explosion at the al Ahli hospital in Gaza on Tuesday evening killed scores of Palestinians. Here is what we know so far. What happened at the hospital in Gaza? There was a strike on al Ahli al Arabi hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday evening, around 7pm local time. The exact number of people

At least 500 people have been killed in a bombing of a hospital in Gaza City, the Palestinian Health Ministry has claimed. A spokesman for the ministry said in a statement: “Initial estimates indicate that between 200 and 300 martyrs were killed in the bombing that targeted Baptist Hospital in Gaza city.” The ministry later

The only cancer hospital in Gaza has been forced to shut down due to fuel shortages – as Israel bombed areas of southern Gaza where it told Palestinians to flee, killing dozens. Amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, the Turkish Friendship Hospital – which is home to the area’s only oncology unit

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