The Latest Breaking News from Israel

With hate crimes, context is everything, and events outside of the United States – like the war between Israel and Hamas – can have far-reaching and potentially tragic consequences.

The strategy goes well beyond defeating an opponent: it seeks to destroy key infrastructure and the economy, says academic Paul Rogers

The apparent drive to encircle Gaza's second-largest city of Khan Younis was forcing people to flee further south to escape the fighting.

Gaza’s water, soil and air have been devastated. And reconstruction will add to the carbon emissions.

Leaders of six Gulf countries and Turkey meet in Qatar, with Israel’s war on Gaza at the top of the agenda.

IDF steps up attacks in north and south and says it has raided Hamas HQ, as increase in civilian deaths reported

Head of UN agency said Israel is ‘repeating horrors from past weeks’. Plus, Volodymyr Zelenskiy will address US senators

Health official describes gunfire and artillery shells outside Kamal Adwan Hospital as hundreds are trapped inside.

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has urged UN member states to intervene in the crisis in Gaza, accusing the international community of being "paralysed" in its reaction to the tragedy. Speaking to FRANCE 24, Francesca Albanese said she stands by her earlier comments, when the death…

This blog has now closed. Read our full report on the latest developments in Gaza here and our report on a UN meeting to hear accounts of sexual violence committed by Hamas on 7 October here.

Netanyahu, who did not attend Monday’s hearing, has described charges against him as a ‘witch-hunt’.