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Ten Nepali nationals were among those killed when Hamas fighters attacked southern Israel last Saturday.

People searched for victims after an earthquake killed and injured thousands in Afghanistan’s Herat province, supporters of Israel embraced near the Israeli Consulate in New York during a demonstration in the wake of a deadly attack by Hamas, and people prayed for rain during a drought near the Incachaca dam…

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The fear of Israeli missiles is making thousands in south Lebanon rush northwards as the war’s impact spreads.

It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in New Zealand. Less than a week from the polls, a crisis in the Middle East offered opposition parties a brief chance to criticise the foreign minister’s initial reaction.

Campus debates about Israel at the elite university have a way of turning into national conversations, where no one feels their rights are being respected, Josh Marcus reports

Israel’s military has told 1.1 million people to move further south, UN says, warning of ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’; Gaza death toll passes 1,500, a third of them children

The Prime Minister asked his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure aid could be facilitated to those under siege in Gaza.

As Nathanel Young, 20, was buried, the streets of the divided city remained uneasily empty with both sides fearing reprisals