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President Joe Biden has said the Hamas militant group should be eliminated, but warned it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza, calling instead for a “two-state solution”. Speaking a week to the day since Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, Mr Biden said Israel has “to go after Hamas” but said

We’ve been travelling to the many different scenes where Hamas fighters carried out their terror attack on Israel this week, and it is becoming clear that their tactics and levels of brutality changed from location to location. Warning – this story contains descriptions and pictures of a graphic nature In the attack on the Nova

Israel is preparing to launch a “coordinated offensive” on the Gaza Strip, after the deadline given to Palestinians to move south to escape passed. Up to 1.1 million people on the sliver of land were offered safe passage south of the Gaza Wadi river by Israel’s Defence Forces until 4pm local time on Saturday (2pm

Holding out his phone, a soldier walked towards me in the shattered ruins of a kibbutz in southern Israel. “This is my friend,” he said, showing a photograph on the screen of a beautiful young woman and her fiancé. Their names were Nieve Raviv, 27, and Nirel Zini, also in his 20s. The soldier described

Israel’s military says infantry backed by tanks have carried out “localised raids” in the Gaza Strip. It comes ahead of an expected ground operation, with Israel warning more than a million people in the north of Gaza to evacuate to the south. The small raids were carried out to attack Hamas rocket crews and seek

Israeli infantry and tanks have carried out “localised raids” in Gaza – the first hint at a shift to ground assaults. The small raids were carried out to attack Hamas rocket crews and seek information on the location of hostages taken by Palestinian gunmen last Saturday, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said. It is the first

Britons are “highly likely” to be among those held by Hamas in Gaza, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has told Sky News. The cabinet minister revealed the UK had also sent additional intelligence personnel to the region as part of efforts to release those captured or assist citizens trapped in the besieged enclave. His comments came

I walked up the hill to the main stage area of the Nova Festival site knowing we were entering a murderous scene the world has heard so much about but has yet to fully understand. As I passed bullet-ridden cars where people trying to escape were gunned down; burnt-out cars where some young people had

An Irish-Israeli woman who went missing after Hamas attacked a music festival at the weekend has been confirmed dead. Kim Damti, 22, was at the event in Re’im in southern Israel when she was last seen, the Irish government confirmed. The festival was attended by several hundred people when Hamas gunmen opened fire. This breaking

Shortly before 9pm on Tuesday evening, a Hamas fighter tried to kill an Israeli soldier with a knife. The attack took place at Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, about four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the border with Gaza. The man was shot dead by another soldier. What is remarkable is that the would-be assassin had

The US has sent a team of technical experts to Israel to assist in hostage recovery , according to official sources. The team are there to advise and work the Israelis on how to free people who are being held hostage, the official said. Hamas is believed to have taken more than 100 hostages during

From destroyed homes I watched stretcher bearers bringing out the body of a small child.    Without saying a word, the men carried the body and loaded it onto a truck alongside the bodies of other members of the community murdered as they hid or tried to defend themselves. We were taken to the Kfar

Hamas’s armed wing has warned people living in the Israeli city of Ashkelon that they have until 5pm local time to leave. The al Qassam Brigades, as the group is known, posted on social media that its warning to leave by 3pm UK time was in response to the “crime of the enemy”. The statement

The mastermind of Hamas’s attack on Israel on Saturday is a shadowy figure.  Mohammed Deif, the commander of the militant group‘s military wing, is known as “The Guest”, or sometimes “the cat with nine lives”. The second nickname is a reference to his knack for evading Israeli assassination attempts. The first is taken from his

Families seized and separated. Men, women and children hauled off to captivity, some of them shot on the way, girls raped, their belongings ransacked and looted. It is a catalogue of atrocities that recalls some of the darkest moments in Jewish history and yet it has happened in the 21st century in a country that

At least 260 bodies were found after Hamas targeted a music festival in Israel as part of its incursion, rescuers have said. Those killed at the Supernova festival near Re’im in southern Israel are among 700 dead across the country so far. The number dead at the music event in the desert region of Negev

Israel’s prime minister has warned people living in Gaza to leave the area as he vowed to reduce parts of the territory “into rubble” in revenge for a “black day”. Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier said Israel was at war with Palestinian militants from Hamas, which governs Gaza, after their fighters launched a surprise attack on

The Hamas operation started just before 7am in Israel and came without any warning.  Israel is coming to the end of the Jewish festival of Sukkot and today is the Shabbat day of rest, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency meeting of his security cabinet to work out how to respond to this

Thousands of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel in a surprise attack by the Hamas militant group on Saturday morning. Large plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from a number of Israeli towns. Images on social media show cars on fire and some buildings damaged, and the Israeli ambulance

They move efficiently down the mountain paths and through the brush. The Kosovo police are reasserting their authority in these northern territories after gunmen stormed the village of Banjske in the valley below. The attack, by more than thirty heavily armed ethnic Serb paramilitaries in late September was the worst explosion of violence in this

At least 40 people have been killed in flooding in the Indian Himalayan region, officials have said. The flood began on Wednesday when the waters of the glacial South Lhonak lake breached a hydroelectric dam. That triggered flash flooding in the mountainous Sikkim state of northeastern India, impacting towns and villages along the Teesta River

Hand grenade fragments were found in the bodies of victims of a plane crash that killed former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Prigozhin was reportedly in a plane crash north of Moscow on 23 August, two months to the day after he led a failed mutiny against top Russian officials.

We are standing on the side of a flyover, looking over the edge, and it is a fearful sight. Behind us, the traffic is pounding past, slowing slightly to take in the scene of northern Italy’s worst road accident. And ahead of us is the reason why so many people perished here, just a couple

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was once considered mighty but with a growing threat from Ukrainian attacks, Moscow has turned to a First World War strategy to protect it. Despite not having a navy itself, Ukraine has managed to carry out a series of successful attacks including strikes on Russia’s Black Sea navy HQ in Sevastopol

The man accused of being Australia’s most prolific paedophile in history has been named, after a change in the country’s sex offender laws. Ashley Paul Griffith, 45, a former childcare worker, has been accused of abusing 91 girls over a 15-year period. He is facing 1,623 charges after being arrested in 2022, which include 136

At least 21 people have died in a coach crash near Venice in northern Italy, according to authorities. Another 40 people are believed to be injured in the crash on Tuesday evening, while Venice prefect, Michele Di Bari, said there were 15 survivors. The president of the region of Veneto, Luca Zaia, said 21 have

A company has been fined by the US government for leaving junk in space. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its first space debris enforcement fine, saying the company DISH will pay $150,000 (£124,000) for failing to properly de-orbit its EchoStar-7 satellite. The satellite TV provider admitted liability, the commission said, adding that the action

The family of a British man have said “we don’t know what to believe” over the circumstances of his death during a holiday in Vietnam. Darren Blair was a “happy-go-lucky chappy” who enjoyed sightseeing and had visited 44 countries – but his family in Nottingham said “there have been different stories going around” over the

Turkey has carried out an airstrike in northern Iraq after a suicide bombing attack in capital Ankara, its defence ministry said. The airstrike destroyed 20 targets belonging to the Kurdish militant group PKK, which claimed responsibility for the bombing. Earlier on Sunday, two police officers were injured in an attack in Ankara, hours before parliament

At least seven people have died in a fire at a nightclub in Murcia in southeast Spain, according to local authorities. The fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning in the Teatre nightclub, emergency services said on X, formerly Twitter. Four people were injured and the number of dead could rise, Murcia’s

Five people have died and five were seriously injured after a truck crash caused a toxic gas to leak into the air in Illinois. The accident caused a “large plume, cloud of anhydrous ammonia” that led to “terribly dangerous air conditions” after the tanker spilled more than half its load after rolling over in a

A bride and groom, whose wedding celebration ended in disaster after a fire killed more than 100 of their guests, have told Sky News they are “dead inside” following the tragedy. Revan, 27, and bride, Haneen, 18, survived the blaze, which started inside a packed wedding hall in Qaraqosh, in the Nineveh province of northern

NATO is beefing up its presence in Kosovo with UK troops, amid concerns about a build-up of Serbian forces along the border. Hundreds of soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment have now been made available to a peacekeeping force. Tensions rose last weekend after a deadly siege at a