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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not pictured) in Jerusalem on December 7, 2025. (Photo by Ariel Schalit / POOL / AFP)

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US ‘looking into’ whether Israel violated Gaza truce

Washington is looking into Israel’s weekend killing of a Hamas commander during the Gaza ceasefire, as the militant group warns the strike threatens the truce agreement.

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A US military vehicle, part of a convoy, drives near the town of Tal Tamr in the northeastern Syrian Hasakeh province on the border with Turkey, on November 10, 2019. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

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Syria chases IS ‘sleeper cells’ after attack on US soldiers

The US and Syria are tracking IS ‘sleeper cells’ across the Syrian desert after a security force member due to be fired for “extremist Islamist ideas” killed two US soldiers and an interpreter.

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--PHOTO TAKEN DURING A CONTROLLED TOUR AND SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY-- A soldier stands next to what the Israeli Army says are weapons left behind by Hamas militants inside the Al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, on November 22, 2023. (Photo by Ahikam SERI / AFP)

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Hamas clashes with Israel over Gaza disarmament demand

Israel said Hamas “will be disarmed” as part of the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top leader from the Palestinian Islamist movement suggested a weapons freeze.

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JUNE 8: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image has been reviewed by Israeli Defense Forces prior to transmission) A tunnel, where the Israeli army believes to be Hamas leaders underground infrastructure near the Gaza European Hospital near Khan Yunis on June 8, 2025 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. According to the Israeli military, it struck Hamas

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Israel says nine more militants killed in Hamas tunnels

Israel said it had found the bodies of nine more militants who had hidden in tunnels while around 80 terrorists are believed to have fled into the labyrinth beneath Gaza.

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IDF forces continue fighting in the Gaza Strip. Earlier today, the commander of the Southern Command, Colonel Yaron Finkelman, held a situation assessment that dealt, among other things, with the issue of the tunnel and the exposure of the shafts in the Gaza Strip. The chief engineering officer, Lt. Col. Ido Mizrahi >> also participated in the situation assessment.@IDFONLINE” sizes=”150px” src=”https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/0627525003a7f0288db1ee0f7cf0112d” srcset=”https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/0627525003a7f0288db1ee0f7cf0112d?width=150 128w, https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/0627525003a7f0288db1ee0f7cf0112d?width=150 150w, https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/0627525003a7f0288db1ee0f7cf0112d?width=320 320w, https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/0627525003a7f0288db1ee0f7cf0112d?width=650 650w, https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/0627525003a7f0288db1ee0f7cf0112d?width=1024 1024w” loading=”lazy” /></div></a><h3 class=

‘Systemic failure’: Israeli generals sacked over Hamas attack

Israel’s top brass suffers a historic purge as three generals lose their jobs over the catastrophic intelligence failure that enabled Hamas’s deadliest attack on October 7, 2023.

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Protestors and activists from BDS (Boycott Desinvestissement Sanctions) hold a banner reading

Eurovision gets major overhaul after Israel controversy

Eurovision faces its biggest crisis as multiple countries threaten to boycott the 2026 contest unless Israel is banned from competing. See what organisers have decided.

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A Palestinian child walks through the rain in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi))

US touts plan for postwar Gaza as path to Palestinian statehood

The US has spearheaded a “sincere” joint statement that suggests Palestinian statehood may yet be part of the reconstruction plan of war torn Gaza. WARNING: GRAPHIC

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Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski. Picture: Twitter/X

‘Even the Nazis didn’t do it’: Israeli hostage recounts vile torture

A courageous hostage who was among the last of the living captives to be released by Hamas has told of the sickening ordeal he endured at their hands. Warning: Graphic.

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Employees of the Nasser Medical Complex wheel a body bag, one of the thirty bodies of Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel and released as part of the hostage exchange deal, as they arrive in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 31, 2025. Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a US-brokered ceasefire plan, the Nasser Medical Complex told AFP on October 31, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

Hamas searches for bodies; IDF returns remains of 30 Palestinians

The return of 30 Palestinian bodies to Gaza marks the latest exchange in a grim tally that has reached 225, while 11 Israeli hostages remain unaccounted for.

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People greet freed Palestinian prisoners arriving on buses in the Gaza Strip after their release from Israeli jails under a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

‘Instant millionaires’: Shock claim about freed Palestinian prisoners

A former Israeli military director has made a stunning claim about Palestinian prisoners freed in exchange for Israeli hostages.

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Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in the Al-Shati camp, in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

‘No plan B’: America’s dire warning over Gaza ceasefire

The US has called for an international force to step up and enforce the truce in Gaza vowing Hamas would play no ongoing role in its governance.

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TOPSHOT - Members of the press mourn following an Israeli strike that reportedly struck a house used by journalists in the Al-Zawayda city near Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza on October 19, 2025, in which, according to the Gaza Civil defense at least two people including a journalist were killed. Israel resumed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on October 19, after accusing the Palestinian militant group Hamas of breaking a ceasefire and hostage release deal brokered last week. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

Israel resumes Gaza ceasefire after deadly attacks on troops led to strikes

Israel has resumed enforcing a Gaza ceasefire after launching deadly strikes that killed 45 Palestinians, following accusations Hamas had violated the truce.

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A gunman wearing the uniform of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, stands guard as Red Cross vehicles allegedly transporting coffins containing the bodies of four deceased hostages leave a warehouse for Israel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)

Hamas to return bodies of two more slain Israeli hostages

Hamas’ military leaders announced it will hand over the remains of two more of the remaining 18 deceased Israeli hostages within hours. Follow updates.

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‘Not going away’: What’s next for Hamas, Gaza

Experts have cast doubt on Donald Trump’s ‘new Middle East’ vision, warning it’s “not the end” for the terrorist group which is battling rival militias for control of the Gaza Strip.

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