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An aide to Senator Linda Reynolds tells the federal court Bruce Lehrmann was not the ‘sort of person I would have socialised with’

UN secretary general says situation ‘fast deteriorating into catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications’

Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is widely believed to have helped mastermind the unprecedented Hamas attack that changed the course of Israeli-Palestinian history.

As pressure grows on Israel to avoid civilian deaths, IDF believes killing leaders will collapse organisation

After Hamas gunmen stormed into 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz's house and shot her husband in the hand, they threw her on a motorbike and dragged her off to a tunnel network beneath Gaza, her grandson Daniel says.

During the seven-day truce agreed between Israel and Hamas, seven exchanges were made of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. But on November 30, the two sides failed to reach an agreement on the eighth exchange and there has since been a resumption of the fighting…

As fighting resumes, we look at the capabilities of the Palestinian militant group and who controls it

Peace activist Yocheved Lifshitz describes meeting Yahya Sinwar in Gaza tunnel network where she was held captive