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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

Israel sent tanks and troops into northern Gaza overnight, in the “biggest incursion” of the war with Hamas so far, according to the country’s military. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it carried out a brief ground raid to strike several military targets. The attack was intended to “prepare the battlefield”, the IDF said, before

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will have to “answer for what happened” on 7 October as he addressed the nation. Mr Netanyahu also vowed to “rain hellfire” on Hamas in a televised address but declined to provide any details on when a ground invasion may begin. Hamas fighters killed at least 1,400 people

There was a nervous energy at a dusty staging post for ground troops, waiting for an order to invade Gaza. Several soldiers, stern-faced and in full combat gear, asked not to be filmed. Others, however, appeared more relaxed, even smiling as they stood by a line of armoured personnel carriers on a sprawling stretch of

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

Hamas has released two more hostages, with the British daughter of one of the women flying to Israel after saying she’s relieved beyond words. Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79, were taken to the Rafah crossing into Egypt and put into ambulances. Hamas said it released them on humanitarian and “poor health grounds”, but

Six British nationals are suspected to be among those being held hostage by Hamas, a minister has told Sky News. Victoria Atkins, financial secretary to the Treasury, said the missing Britons were the government’s “absolute priority”. “It’s a very, very fast-moving situation but the latest figure I’ve been given is that there are suspected to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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