Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country’s military campaign in Gaza will continue with “full force”, as the number killed in an overnight airstrike rose to 42. The comments come as the UN Security Council meets to discuss the violence, with the UN’s secretary general Antonio Guterres calling for an immediate end to
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Tensions in Gaza have escalated further after an Israeli bombardment destroyed a high-rise building used by foreign press, followed up by the targeting of the home of one of Hamas’s leaders. Israel‘s airstrike on the 12-storey tower block – an hour after people were told to evacuate the building – came as fighting raged despite
British troops have battled a sandstorm and temperatures higher than 50C (122F) to seize a cache of weapons from Islamic State terrorists in Mali, the Ministry of Defence has said. Around 100 soldiers from the Light Dragoons and Royal Anglian Regiment, found AK47 rifles, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, camouflage clothing, radios, mobile phones and
Israeli planes renewed airstrikes in Gaza early on Saturday morning, with Hamas militants firing rockets back as violence continued for a fifth night. At least 11 people were killed in the West Bank on Friday amid the most widespread Palestinian protests in years, with hundreds of young demonstrators in multiple towns clashing with Israeli troops.
Israeli ground forces began launching attacks on Gaza in a widening of hostilities as Israel braced for more internal strife between its Arab and Jewish citizens following Friday prayers. The Israeli military said air and ground forces were firing at the Hamas-run enclave, though it does not appear to mean the start of a ground
Israel has assembled thousands of troops at the Gaza border, as it prepares for a possible ground operation while airstrikes continue on both sides. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has called up 7,000 reservists, cancelled all weekend leave for combat soldiers and is at “various stages of preparing ground operations”, a spokesperson told The Times
The horror for the communities of Gaza and the terror for communities in southern Israel is rightly the focus in this latest clash in the long struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians. From Gaza the rockets continue to fly, and into Gaza the missiles continue to drop. But amidst this renewed conflict, the bitter
Radovan Karadzic – the Bosnian Serb political leader convicted over the Srebrenica genocide – is to be transferred to a UK prison to serve the remainder of his sentence. In a statement, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: “Radovan Karadzic is one of the few people to have been found guilty of genocide. “He was responsible
Hamas militants have announced one of their most senior leaders in Gaza has been killed in an airstrike amid the worst violence in the region since 2014. Gaza City commander Bassem Issa is the highest-ranking Hamas figure to be killed since the war there seven years ago. Israeli security services said he is one of
Hamas has launched a rocket attack on Tel-Aviv, with a direct hit on a building leaving at least one person dead, Israeli media reports. Israeli transport authorities have closed its main Ben Gurion airport as explosions broke out across the city. Hamas said in a statement it had fired 130 rockets towards Tel-Aviv and its
At least 11 people including students have been killed and several injured in a shooting at a school in southwest Russia, according to reports. The RIA news agency said an explosion was heard at the school in the city of Kazan and a gunman has been detained by police. Interfax news agency cited a source
A number of rockets have landed in an area of Jerusalem, according to Israeli media reports. It came minutes after an ultimatum from Hamas for Israel to withdraw forces from two flashpoints in the city. The group claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retaliation for Israeli “crimes and aggression”. Advertisement
Israeli police have clashed with Palestinian protesters inside a Jerusalem holy site amid rising tensions. Officers fired tear gas and stun grenades and protesters threw stones and other objects from the al Aqsa mosque compound. Palestinians reported stun grenades were fired into the mosque compound, with dozens reportedly injured. The site, known to Jews as
There is a tension in Jerusalem of a kind not felt for five years. There’s always an underlying unease in this city of two halves and two different cultures; a place where one group exerts control over the other and claims all the land as its own. But the past night at the Damascus Gate
A small private hospital in India’s most populous state is being charged under the National Security Act for sounding the alarm over a lack of oxygen. The director of the Sun Hospital in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh told Sky News he faced being arrested at any time and his business seized after the police laid
It’s been a blowy, blustery day in Brittany. There was a bracing wind and a few brave souls in the sea. It all felt very British. But for the British desperate to get abroad, a French holiday is still effectively off-limits. Its amber rating means people should not be travelling there for leisure trips. For