An Israeli air strike killed three senior Hamas commanders in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a clear sign of its intention to hit the group’s armed leadership days after a ceasefire failed.

Israel today claimed Iran has enough enriched uranium to build one nuclear bomb and will soon will be able to produce a second.

Iran is now able to produce atomic weapons, Israel’s top military intelligence officer told his country’s Cabinet today, sounding the highest-level warning that Israel’s arch-enemy has achieved independent nuclear capability.

Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City today in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel’s military inched toward Gaza’s population centres and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive.