The Latest Breaking News from Rafah

Israeli forces on Friday struck targets across the Gaza Strip, with witnesses reporting air raids around the southern city of Rafah, the latest focus of the nearly eight-month war.

Over the past few days, one image has been shared at least 45 million times on Instagram. It shows an aerial landscape with hundreds of thousands of tents, pitched in rows, on red earth. In the centre, the tents align to form the slogan “All Eyes on Rafah”.

The viral image has been reposted on Instagram more than 47 million times, but what good does it actually do?

The Palestinian group says it is ready for a ‘complete agreement’ including exchange of captives if Israel ends assault.

Can Israel ignore the pressure? Young people outraged by the graphic images of the Rafah tent fire that killed dozens of civilians are out in the streets of Paris and Marseille, this as Ireland, Norway and Spain recognise a Palestinian state and international courts mount cases over the war in…

Defense experts who've reviewed debris images from an Israeli airstrike that ignited a deadly fire in a camp for displaced Palestinians question why Israel didn't use smaller, more precise weapons when so many civilians were nearby

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Party of war cabinet member Benny Gantz calls for the Israeli parliament to be dissolved

If Israel’s ongoing assault on Rafah on the Gaza Strip is anything to go on, the concept of “red lines”, so beloved of US presidents as a measure of when to take action, is increasingly flexible. Back in February, when the Israeli government was planning the operation, the US president…

The Biden administration views Egypt as a key player in any post-war plan for Gaza.

President Biden described a line Israel should not cross in Gaza. If it really exists, Israel seems to still have leeway to press into Rafah.