The Latest Breaking News from Gaza

On October 7 2023, more than 1,000 Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel and went on a killing spree, murdering 1,200 men, women and children and abducting another 250 people to take back to Gaza. It was the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

The body of Mohammed Sinwar was found in a subterranean control and command centre, says Israel. Meanwhile, Palestinian officials say a dozen people have been killed near an aid distribution point.

The UK Government has sent a spy plane over Gaza at the same time a ship carrying vital aid is under threat from Israel

Alarm briefly sounds on vessel Madleen amid interception fears after Israeli defence minister tells military to ‘take all necessary measures’ to block humanitarian ship

Shooting happened about a kilometre from distribution site in Rafah run by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Climate campaigner Thunberg joined the Madleen’s crew to ‘challenge escalating war crimes’

'The revolution will not be televised,' were the immortal words of jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron in the 1970s

Palestinian health officials and witnesses say Israeli fire killed at least five people as they headed toward two aid distribution points in Gaza

Israel on Sunday ordered the military to stop a humanitarian ship carrying international activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Franco-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan. The Madleen flotilla is trying to break the Israeli blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

IN FOCUS: Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots has seen an escalation in attacks in Gaza. Alicja Hagopian reports

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