The Latest Breaking News from Josep Borrell

More than 200 people are thought to have been taken to Gaza after Hamas’s assault on Israel on October 7.

Agreement could involve limited ceasefire in Gaza Strip and release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails

Ayman Safadi says credibility of international law at stake as he clashes with senior US official over terms for humanitarian pause

In Washington Post on Saturday, Biden writes: ‘After this war is over, the voices of Palestinian people … must be at the center of post-crisis governance’

Both those calling for a ceasefire and those opposing it are making assumptions that don’t stack up, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Israeli leader says the army is trying to get civilians out of harm’s way by telling them to evacuate.

EU foreign affairs chief says ‘one horror does not justify another’ and calls for unconditional release of hostages

EU considers massive military and state aid packages as Ukraine claims 10,000 Russian troops killed in Avdiivka assault.

Petr Aven, a UK-based billionaire who owns a Surrey mansion, is under UK and EU sanctions

Fighting has reached the gates of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: Israeli ground troops have almost fully encircled the medical buildings which it says sit above Hamas’s underground headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas and hospital staff deny the claims and say Israeli forces have trapped patients and civilians inside in…

The 27 European Union nations have jointly condemned Hamas for what they described as the use of hospitals and civilians as “human shields” in the war against Israel