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Munther Abed, 27, a volunteer paramedic, said he had been detained after surviving an earlier attack on the missing ambulance that killed two other crew members.

‘I saw everything’: Doctor recounts Israeli attack on paramedics, filmed on dead worker’s phone

The Israeli military now says its initial version of events was “mistaken” after footage surfaced of the 15 killings, which have drawn international condemnation.

  • Vivian Yee and Bilal Shbair

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UN described the finding as a mass grave containing the bodies of 15 rescuer workers. UN officials said the workers were killed by Israeli fire after the group went missing on March 23. The location has not been disclosed.

Emergency crews ‘struck one after another’ as they searched for missing colleagues

The United Nations has demanded “justice and answers” after the bodies of 15 emergency and aid workers were recovered from a mass grave in Gaza.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Lee Keath and Fatma Khaled
Palestinians attend a rally calling for an end to the war, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip.

‘We’ve had enough’: Rare show of dissent against Hamas in Gaza

Palestinians tend to blame Israel for the death, destruction and hunger that the war in Gaza has inflicted. But some blame Hamas, too, for starting it in the first place.

  • Iyad Abuheweila, Abu Bakr Bashir, Aaron Boxerman and Malachy Browne
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive it in a makeshift tent camp inside a landfill in central Gaza Strip on Friday.

Israeli airstrike destroys Gaza’s only cancer hospital, ceasefire ‘bridges’ on the table

Meanwhile, E3 countries say they are “appalled” by the violence in Gaza and called for an immediate stop to strikes.

  • Brahim Hazboun, Sam Mednick and Nidal al-Mughrabi
Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel on Thursday (AEDT).

‘Catastrophic’: Israeli strikes kill dozens at home in Gaza after ground troops return

Israel warned attacks would increase. Now Hamas says the advance of ground forces in Gaza is a clear sign that Israel has backed out of the truce.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Julia Frankel and Samy Magdy
Protesters demand the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday.

‘My building of hope has collapsed’: Hostage families devastated by strikes on Gaza

Israel’s surprise assault on Tuesday brought the deadliest day in Gaza since the start of the war. Now relatives of hostages fear they might not come home at all.

  • Sam Mednick and Waafa Shurafa
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Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, (right) and US President Donald Trump.

While the world focused on Trump’s trade war, the Gaza ceasefire was unravelling in plain sight

The Israeli prime minister has always had a hole in the heart of his war strategy. And with Gaza once more under attack, it remains as glaring as ever.

  • Matthew Knott
Palestinians ride bicycles past the Al Basma IVF Centre, Gaza’s largest fertility clinic destroyed in Israel bombing in 2024.

Israeli bombing of IVF clinic destroyed 4000 embryos, report details

The United Nations says Israel has committed “genocidal acts” in Gaza, including by purposely bombing the enclave’s main fertility centre. Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the findings.

  • Shira Rubin and Lior Soroka
US President Donald Trump pictured with ex-hostage Omer Shem Tov.

Trump threatens Hamas after secret talks with terror group revealed

An Israeli official said Israel learnt that the US was directly negotiating with Hamas through “other channels”.

  • Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick
A woman walks with an Israeli flag near the remaining house of the Kunio family after it was burnt during the October 7, 2023 attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Israeli intelligence had ‘deep understanding’ of Hamas threat

Shin Bet has implicitly blamed the country’s political leadership for the October 7 attack, saying it was thwarted in its efforts to act on what it knew.

  • Emily Rose

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