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A video posted on the Israeli military’s official Hebrew-language Twitter account on Tuesday October 10 appears to show Israeli soldiers shooting dead four Palestinian men after they held up their hands and lay down on the ground in an apparent surrender. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told…

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

There are currently 173,000 active soldiers in the Israeli army, including 8,000 commanders, and another 300,000 reservists have been called to fight Hamas

Military has might on its side but Hamas is prepared and the humanitarian fallout could prove costly

Israel accuses Iran of trying to open ‘second war front’ by deploying arms via Syria as thousands of Palestinians flee north Gaza

Israeli PM posts video to troops saying ‘we are all ready’

On Yom Kippur in 1973, I was 6 years old and living in Petah Tikvah, a city in central Israel. Playing a nail-biting game of marbles, I initially ignored my mom calling me from our front porch. But sensing something was wrong, I gave up my potential winnings and ran…

False claims about the latest Israel-Hamas war are flooding social media, making it difficult for onlookers to sort fact from fiction

Thousands pack into cars and trucks or leave on foot after Israel told them to go, as violence flares in East Jerusalem and West Bank

How Israeli military bases, kibbutzim and a music festival were overrun by gunmen under orders to kill and take hostages

Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces clash in several areas before expected ground offensive