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The Israel Defence Forces have released their latest update on the crisis today. It states that IDF troops “struck a number of Hamas targets” and” directed an IAF fighter jet to eliminate a commander of Hamas”. “A number of terrorists armed with a rocket were identified near the troops, who were struck by IAF aircraft,”…
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described how children now wish for their fathers to come home from the frontline, rather than work, at Christmas. Issuing his Christmas message to the nation, he described how the season has changed in wartime. He highlighted how important it was that loved ones were around the table, not what…
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Pope Francis has said Jesus’ message of peace was being drowned out by the “futile logic of war” in the land where he was born. Leading the world’s Roman Catholics into Christmas, the pontiff presided over a solemn Christmas Eve Mass in St Peter’s Basilica. “Tonight, our hearts are in Bethlehem, where the Prince of…
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In a recent session at the United Nations Security Council, tensions ran high as diplomats engaged in a passionate debate regarding the provision of arms to Ukraine in the midst of its prolonged conflict with Russia. The eleventh meeting on this critical matter since Russia’s invasion in February 2022 sparked sharp criticisms from multiple speakers,…
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Tantrums, tears, temperature, toilet accidents. These travails of childhood are familiar to any parent. But for Doron Katz Asher, the daily whims of children took on a new, frightening dimension while in Hamas captivity with her two young daughters. If the girls cried, militants would bang on the door of the room where she was…
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Israel pressed ahead with its Gaza offensive on Sunday after a series of shootings, including of three hostages who were shirtless and waving a white flag, raised questions about its conduct in a 10-week-old war that has brought unprecedented death and destruction to the coastal enclave. Gaza remained under a communications blackout for a fourth…
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Benjamin Netanyahu says his government and that of the US have differing ideas on what the end of the current war might bring in terms of the governance of Gaza. Israel enjoys US support on the international stage, but cracks are beginning to appear between the two countries on the so-called “next day”. US focus…
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The US president has said Israel is beginning to lose the support of the international community as the country continues its massive bombing campaign inside Gaza. At the weekend, the Israeli air force said it had carried out over 22,000 strikes in the 41km long and 10km wide enclave since the start of the conflict…
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The Palestinian foreign minister claims that Israel is weaponising food and starving Gaza deliberately – claims an Israeli official rejected as “obscene”. The UN World Food Programme has previously said half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million is starving. Israel has said it allows aid into Gaza via the Rafah crossing and announced the first…
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We can now bring you some pictures from Rafah, in southern Gaza. People from the north and from as close as Khan Younis have flocked to the city in their thousands – believing it to be safer than other parts of Gaza. However, Israeli strikes have hit the city since a ceasefire deal collapsed at…
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The founder of Gaza Medic Voices has told Sky News doctors and medical professionals are being rounded-up and detained “en masse” inside Gaza. “It’s been increasingly hard to get in touch with the doctors and the healthcare workers on the ground… but the messages that are coming through are grimmer and grimmer by the day,”…
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Further to reports we have been bringing you today on the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the United Nations Security Council to be reformed. Mr Erdogan decried the fact that the US could veto a ceasefire proposal for Gaza despite huge support from other…
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The US army will sell Israel $106.5m (around £84m) worth of tank shells after the Biden administration used its emergency authority, the Pentagon said. This means about 14,000 tank shells will be sold to Israel without congressional review. The sale will be from army inventory and consist of 120mm M830A1 high explosive anti-tank multi-purpose with tracer…
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European countries must “ramp up investment in ammunition production” against a military threat from Russia in the event that the US cannot reinforce Europe effectively, according to a report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). In his piece, Professor Justin Bronk, senior research fellow for airpower and technology in the military sciences at RUSI, argues…
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Russian warplanes fired 19 long-range missiles at targets in Ukraine this morning, killing one civilian in a central region, wounding four more and damaging an industrial facility, Kyiv officials say. The strike was the first big salvo of missiles Russia has fired at targets, including the Ukrainian capital, in weeks. Russia has mainly been using…
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As reported in some detail here, the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka has become the focus of the fiercest fighting of the ongoing conflict as Russia continues its slow-moving campaign to win control of eastern Ukraine. Russian forces relied heavily on aerial attacks yesterday as they pressed to capture the beleaguered city. Moscow has focused its…
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