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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Hamas releases 24 hostages as Israel truce takes hold

      Group including 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino freed, says Qatar

      A Red Cross vehicle, part of a convoy, at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel-Hamas truce takes hold ahead of planned hostage release

      Four-day ceasefire brokered by Qatar will allow return of 50 captives held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners

      Israeli soldiers on the border with Gaza on Monday
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli intelligence ‘dismissed’ detailed warning of Hamas raid

      Report sent to senior officer weeks before October 7 attack was ignored, say people familiar with matter

      An armed man runs aiming his gun during the October 7 attack by Hamas
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel approves hostage deal with Hamas

      The release of captives held by the Palestinian militant group is not expected to start before Friday

      The parents and relatives of children kidnapped on October 7, along with families of hostages and their supporters, demonstrate outside the Unicef headquarters in Tel Aviv
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel’s government meets as Biden says Hamas hostage deal is close

      Agreement would free some held in Gaza in return for Palestinian women and children in Israel prisons

      Plumes of smoke seen from southern Israel towards the border with Gaza
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      In maps: half of northern Gaza’s buildings wrecked by war

      Radar data shows Israel’s six-week offensive against Hamas has left much of the Palestinian enclave in ruins

      Montage of Israeli soldiers in a vehicle next to damaged buildings in Gaza and map of Gaza
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli forces advance in Gaza City as Netanyahu resists ceasefire calls

      Defence minister says entire enclave ‘will feel IDF’s lethal strength’ as allies urge caution

      Palestinians walking in a street full of rubble
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel vows to expand operations against Hamas beyond northern Gaza

      IDF chief says ‘more regions’ will be targeted as troops continue search of al-Shifa hospital

      Israeli soldiers open fire during an operation against Hamas
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      ‘B-movie general’: Israel’s hostage point man draws scorn from angry families

      Retired army officer Gal Hirsch becomes lightning rod for fury as most of those held remain in Hamas’s captivity

      Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie Shoshana Raanan walk while holding hands with retired brigadier general Gal Hirsch
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel signals operations in southern Gaza after hospital raid

      Israeli military says it has found the body of a hostage taken by Hamas close to the al-Shifa medical facility

      A woman stands amid a wrecked building
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli military raids Gaza’s largest hospital in climax of siege

      IDF says al-Shifa medical facility sits on top of Hamas tunnel complex

      Israeli troops patrol the al-Shifa hospital site in Gaza City as part of an offensive against Hamas
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Biden urges ‘protection’ for hospitals as Israelis surround Gaza facility

      US president’s comments come as pressure builds in Arab world and some western capitals for a ceasefire

      Patients lying on beds at al-Shifa hospital
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Blinken says too many Palestinians being killed in Israel-Hamas war

      US calls for more action to protect civilians as friction builds between Washington and Israel

      Israeli soldiers walk through rubble in northern Gaza
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel calls for Palestinian photographers of Hamas raid to be treated as terrorists

      Freelancers for AP, CNN and others sent images of October 7 raids, some from within Israel

      A photograph filed by freelance Palestinian photographer Hassan Eslaiah to the Associated Press during Hamas’s raid on Israel on October 7
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US and Israeli spy chiefs hold hostage talks in Qatar as Gaza battle rages

      Militant group releases new video of captives as Biden seeks three-day pause in fighting

      Palestinians carry their belongings as they flee northern Gaza on Thursday
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
      The battle for Gaza City

      Ground invasion exposes Israeli troops to close combat in an urban environment against dug-in Hamas fighters

      A montage of an Israeli soldier gesturing while manning the machine gun turret atop an armoured personnel carrier and a map of Gaza
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel plans ‘indefinite’ controls over Gaza, says Netanyahu

      Move to retain ‘overall security responsibility’ aims to ensure Palestinian territory cannot be dominated by Hamas

      Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a security assessment meeting in Tel Aviv
    • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Arab envoys urge Blinken to help end ‘madness’ in Gaza

      US secretary of state comes under intense pressure from regional allies to facilitate Israel-Hamas ceasefire

      US secretary of state Antony Blinken, right, and Jordanian foreign minister Ayman Safadi
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli army ‘encircles’ Gaza City as US calls for pause in fighting

      Washington says halt in hostilities needed to free hostages but stops short of pushing for full ceasefire

      Israeli soldiers inside the Gaza Strip
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      West Bank Palestinians live in fear of settler attacks

      Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza has violent repercussions in the occupied territory

      Mohammed Arrah
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Military briefing: How Hamas fights

      Faced with Israel’s tech superiority, the militant group has turned Gaza into a haven for guerrilla war

      Hamas fighters take part in a military parade
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      News in-depthMiddle East military briefing
      The tactics behind Israel’s ground offensive

      Gaza incursion’s limited initial scope helps IDF use firepower advantage against Hamas while minimising risk

      Merkava tanks take position along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli forces hold part of northern Gaza for second night

      Netanyahu warns of ‘long and hard’ war as communications begin to return to embattled Palestinian enclave

    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Hostage families’ message: ‘pay whatever price’ to bring them home

      Relatives relive their horrors, publicly and frequently, so country and world do not forget

      Relatives of hostages kidnaped and taken to the Gaza Strip hold a demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for the Israeli government to bring them back
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