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Mounting attacks on on Gaza come as mediators travel to Qatar for another round of talks to try and end the war,

Hamas accuses Israeli leader of obstructing negotiations for truce and hostage release as mediators again push for deal.

First, the most important news. At last count, the death toll, as reported by Gaza’s ministry of health, stands at 37,232 people, including more than 15,000 children, with a further 84,932 people wounded. It’s not known how many people are buried beneath the rubble of the more than half of…

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has expressed frustration at the Hamas response to the latest proposed ceasefire deal with Israel. He said that after nearly two weeks of procrastinating, instead of coming back with the word “yes”, Hamas has insisted on a series of changes – some fundamental.

Hamas’s ability to return to areas from which it was earlier forced to retreat threatens ‘forever war’

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads prayers in capital city days after death of Ebrahim Raisi and seven others in helicopter crash

Iran’s supreme leader has prayed over the coffins of the country’s late president, foreign minister and other officials killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week

Late president’s body will be taken from Tehran to his hometown Mashhad, where he will be buried.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held the service at Tehran University, the caskets of the dead draped in Iranian flags with their pictures on them