The Latest Breaking News from Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s PM has brought fractious parties together over Hamas’s invasion, yet questions remain over how it was allowed to happen

It’s a strange moment in history for a Matryoshka doll of lies that’s usually re-offered swollen with each flare-up in the Israel-Palestine conflict. 

Death toll from airstrikes reaches 2,200 as water, food and fuel supplies run low

Incompetent and discredited leaders, in thrall to worn-out ideologies, have brought Israel and Gaza to this catastrophe

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's links to Hamas are under growing scrutiny following the group's deadly assault on Israel. Erdogan has positioned himself as a mediator in securing the release of Israeli civilians, but his connections to the Palestinian militant group are now casting a shadow over ongoing Turkish-Israeli rapprochement…

As an invasion appears imminent, Israel has several reasons – even if lofty – for carrying out such an offensive.

‘I will not move. I will be killed in my house with my family,’ one mother told me. Look to history and the omens are grim, says author and former Middle East correspondent Sarah Helm

Israel accuses Iran of trying to open ‘second war front’ by deploying arms via Syria as thousands of Palestinians flee north Gaza

As the conflict between Israel and Palestine enters its eighth day, these are the main developments.

Israel has made deep inroads into a continent traditionally sympathetic to Palestine. But its gains have limits too.

Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza begin fleeing their homes after Israel delivered evacuation orders; Benjamin Netanyahu vows to eradicate Hamas