The Latest Breaking News from Hamas

Keir Starmer expected to confirm move after concluding the situation has worsened significantly in recent weeks

Keir Starmer will take the historic step of recognising Palestine on Sunday after ministers concluded the humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave has deteriorated amid Israel’s assault on Gaza City.

The Prime Minister is understood to have concluded the situation has deteriorated since he urged Israel to change course.

Apologizing now would be a politically explosive reversal for Netanyahu.

Palestinian group says an expanded Israeli ground invasion and air raids threaten safety of the captives held in Gaza.

Palestinian civil defence says nearly half of Gaza City’s population gone since start of current Israeli offensive

The director of Al Shifa hospital was on duty Saturday marshalling the facility's response to Israel's assault on Gaza City when two victims killed in a strike were delivered to the ward: his brother and his sister-in-law.

French President Emmanuel Macron scored a major diplomatic coup by declaring his intention to recognise a Palestinian state but the move risks being followed by bitter retaliation from Israel while not providing concrete benefits to the Palestinians, analysts and sources say.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, according to health officials

A group of 20 leading figures from the world of Jewish culture and religion in France have called on the French president Emmanuel Macron to ensure that France's recognition of a Palestinian state be made conditional on the release of hostages in Gaza and the dismantling of Hamas.

From the music, film to publishing industries, growing numbers of Western artists are calling for a cultural boycott of Israel over the Gaza war, hoping to emulate the success of the apartheid-era blockade of South Africa.