Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to end the war until all the hostages are released and Hamas is either destroyed or disarmed and sent into exile. He has said Israel will

By Sarah Marsh, Matthias Williams and Thomas EscrittTURKU, Finland/BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered his most severe rebuke of Israel to date on Tuesday, criticising massive air strikes on Gaza as no longer justified by the need to fight Hamas and "no longer comprehensible".

An Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) soldier released during a ceasefire-hostage deal has said her biggest fear during captivity were strikes carried out by Israel.

Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on Monday. Chants of "death to Arabs" and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

The Israel Defense Forces struck more than 100 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight — including military structures, underground tunnels and Hamas hideouts — as thousands of Israelis

US special envoy Steve Witkoff has told CNN that a ceasefire-hostage deal for Gaza is currently on the table with a pathway to end the war, and urged Hamas to accept it.

Gaza’s civil defense agency reported Saturday that an Israeli airstrike in the southern city of Khan Younis killed nine children belonging to a pair of married doctors.

Suspect Elias Rodriguez, 31, allegedly shouted “Free, free Palestine” after the Wednesday night's deadly shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C.