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Hamas’s attack on Israel has given rise to the largest-scale hostage crisis in the country’s 75-year history. About 200 people have been captured and taken into Gaza, according to the Israeli military. Over the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict, armed Palestinian groups have taken dozens of Israelis captive. The vast majority have been Israeli Defence

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

France will deploy 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols after a terror attack killed a schoolteacher and wounded three others, the president’s office has said, while the Louvre was evacuated after a threat. The museum in Paris closed early on Saturday because it received a written threat. It said no one had been hurt and

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

Israel could be just “hours or days” from launching a ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza, according to Sky’s security and defence analyst Michael Clarke. With more than two million people living in Gaza, which is 25 miles wide, what would Israel consider before such an attack and how could Hamas respond? Here, we look at

Israel will be looking at all military options at the moment.  And they don’t look very good – not with 130 or so Israeli hostages imprisoned and dispersed all over Gaza. But after Israel’s current bombing campaign – designed to go after Hamas ammunition supplies and command facilities, most of which are disguised in ostensibly

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

“Where have you been? Where was everybody?” The questions were being screamed at soldiers on a highway by a man stricken with grief.  His brother had had only a week left to go in the army but was killed today in a shootout with Hamas on Israeli soil. The entire country wants those questions answered.

Drivers in Singapore now need to pay £88,000 for the right to own a car – and that doesn’t include the cost of the vehicle itself. The city-state is the most expensive place in the world to be a motorist, with skyrocketing prices putting cars out of reach for most middle-class Singaporeans. Back in 1990,

A picture showing two female Chinese athletes which makes an unintentional reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre appears to have been censored on social media in China. Gold medal winner Lin Yuwei was being embraced by Wu Yanni after the 100m hurdles final at the Asian Games when their race numbers formed ’64’. The number

Apple is blaming a software bug and issues tied to apps like Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to get too hot. The company said over the weekend that it is working on an update to the iOS17 system that powers the iPhone 15 line-up to prevent the devices from

At least 10 female Cuban migrants have died after a truck they were travelling in crashed on a road in southern Mexico on Sunday, officials have said. One of the women who died was under 18 and 17 other women were seriously injured in the crash on a highway near the town of Pijijiapan, close

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

Russia’s naval military might dwarf that of Ukraine, yet the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) continues to be targeted – and increasingly effectively – by Ukrainian forces. Conventional military wisdom suggests the largest, best equipped military will prevail, yet Ukraine appears to have turned that principle on its head. Why is Ukraine attacking the Russian Navy,

France is grappling with a bed bug problem, with the government warned it must tackle the pests ahead of the Olympics in Paris. The French capital has been particularly affected by the infestation, according to reports, which has become a greater problem in the country over the past few years. Bed bugs have been spotted

Italian champions Napoli have insisted they did not intend to offend striker Victor Osimhen after appearing to mock him in a video on TikTok. They posted a video on the social media site appearing to make fun of him following his penalty miss in Sunday’s Serie A goalless draw against Bologna. Osimhen’s agent has threatened

Three people have been killed in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam after two shootings at a university hospital and a home, police confirmed. Police have confirmed three deaths so far, a 43-year-old teacher at the university and a 39-year-old woman, whose daughter, 14, was also shot and died after sustaining serious injuries. A suspect

Switzerland has lost 10% of its glaciers in just two years, research shows, after high summer heat and low winter snowfall. The country lost as much ice in the 24 months as it did in the three decades before 1990, researchers said, describing the ice melt as “catastrophic”. Switzerland – home to the most glaciers