The Latest Breaking News from Israel

As Israel’s offensive in Gaza rages on, people across the entire Gaza Strip find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances, with nearly the entire population experiencing high levels of food insecurity, including malnutrition, hunger and starvation. A famine review analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification reported on June 25,…

Nineteen minors, five with cancer, allowed to enter Israel before travelling to Egypt and elsewhere for treatment

Fighting continues in central and southern Gaza, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to encounter resistance from units of Hamas fighters, despite a recent assessment by the Israeli government that the “intense phase” of the ground offensive is drawing to a close. The IDF will now switch to conducting…

Several killed as Israel storms Shujayea in eastern Gaza City, according to the Gaza civil defence and a doctor.

Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant says the country does not want to go to war with the militant group – but will do so if pushed

Supreme Court ruling could test Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition

France's parliamentary elections are pitting the far-right National Rally, which counts a convicted Holocaust denier and a former Nazi paramilitary among its founding members, against left-wing parties – themselves accused of antisemitism after an equivocal response to the war between Hamas and Israel. With all sides quick to condemn the…

Notable Israelis add their voices to oppose invite extended by Mike Johnson, which Democrats plan to boycott

Germany's citizenship law changes require affirming Israel's right to exist, addressing antisemitism and far-right influence.

The conflict that has raged in Gaza since October 7 has riven Israeli society. People are deeply divided over the government’s conduct of the war and the failure to secure the release of the remaining hostages. As a result, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is bitterly unpopular with the majority…

It was the moment that Israel’s military acknowledged the failure of its eight-and-half month war in Gaza – certainly the mission set out by the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, when he said after the October 7 Hamas attack that he would destroy the militant group.