The Latest Breaking News from Rafah

US national security adviser says outline in place for proposal for temporary ceasefire in Gaza

Closed-door negotiations in Paris and UN efforts in New York yield conflicting reports of progress, but city of Rafah remains in Israel’s firing line

The desire to avert catastrophe in Rafah has given fresh impetus to talks in Paris, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Pressure mounts on Israel and Hamas to make a deal before threatened Rafah offensive

Israel wants security control over all land west of Jordan, including occupied West Bank and Gaza; MSF says idea of humanitarian response in Gaza ‘an illusion’

Despite the chaos in the Commons, there is scope for our ideas and creative thinking, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

A senior Hamas official on Friday lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s post-war Gaza plan granting Israel security control over Gaza indefinitely. The proposals “will never succeed”, Osama Hamdan told reporters in Lebanon. An Israeli delegation led by Mossad’s director held talks in Paris Friday with the US, Qatar and…

Intense negotiations in Israel for a ceasefire with Hamas amid warnings of a potential ground offensive in Rafah. Urgent diplomatic resolution needed to pr...

Israel has announced plans to launch a full-scale offensive on the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza strip, claiming it is the only way to "completely destroy" Hamas. But according to former French military officer and author Guillaume Ancel, a large-scale military operation in the city that is now…