Israeli aircraft have fired two missiles at a 12-storey apartment block in Gaza City, collapsing the building, sending a huge fireball into the sky and wounding at least 22 people, including 11 children, witnesses and Palestinian officials said.

Medical officials in Gaza City say an Israeli air strike has killed four people who were attending a funeral.

Palestinian militants launched dozens of rockets and Israel responded with airstrikes after Egyptian efforts to mediate a lasting truce in the month-long Gaza war collapsed in a hail of fire a day earlier.

Palestinian militants have launched dozens of rockets and Israel responded with air strikes after Egyptian efforts to mediate a lasting truce in the month-long Gaza war collapsed in a hail of fire a day earlier.

A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip collapsed yesterday, with claims that Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel, prompting Israeli air strikes that health officials said killed a woman and a young girl. 

Israel yesterday launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian- mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in the month-long war.

A child has been killed in an apparent Israeli air strike on Gaza City.

The Israeli military has resumed strikes on targets “across Gaza” in response to rocket fire from the territory.

A senior Hamas official has told supporters at a rally that the war with Israel will not be over until the group’s demands for a lifting of the Gaza blockade are met.

Israel said it withdrew the last of its ground forces from Gaza today as it and Hamas began a temporary ceasefire.

The Israeli government has accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal to end a month-long war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli official has said.

An Israeli air strike killed a militant leader in the Gaza Strip today, just hours ahead of a seven-hour truce announced by Israel which was meant to open a “humanitarian window” for aid.

Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip yesterday in an apparent winding-down of the nearly month-long operation against Hamas that has left more than 1,800 Palestinians and 60 Israelis dead.

Israel will not participate in indirect ceasefire talks with Hamas for now and instead plans to scale back its 26-day military operation in Gaza on its own terms, according to officials and media reports.

At least four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli tank fire nearly two hours after Israel and Hamas began observing a three-day ceasefire, Gaza officials have said.

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Israel has said it is calling up another 16,000 reservists, giving the military the ability to substantially widen its bloody Gaza offensive.

Updates from Farah Baker, 16, convey the terror of life under conflict.

At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in fighting in Gaza today, according to a health official, as Israel escalated its military offensive in the coastal strip.

A strike on a Gaza park has killed 10 people, including nine children.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is demanding an end to the violence in Gaza “in the name of humanity”.

Israel and Hamas have launched new attacks in the raging Gaza war, despite each side offering different truces to temporarily halt nearly three weeks of fighting ahead of a major Muslim holiday.

An Israeli soldier is missing following a deadly battle in the Gaza Strip, a defence official has said, while a medical chief in Gaza claims that Israeli air strikes hit a hospital yesterday.

Israeli air strikes pummelled a wide range of targets in the Gaza Strip today as the UN chief and the US Secretary of State began an intensive effort to end more than two weeks of fighting that has killed at least 570 Palestinians and 29 Israelis.

The overall Palestinian death toll passed 560 as high-level attempts to end Israel-Hamas fighting hit serious problems.

Israel has denied claims by Hamas that they have kidnapped one of its soldiers in Gaza.

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The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas group claimed it had kidnapped an Israeli soldier last night, prompting celebrations in the streets of Gaza City.

Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes have escalated their ground offensive, battling Hamas militants in a crowded neighbourhood of Gaza City.

An area of Gaza City has come under heavy tank fire as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas, causing hundreds of panicked residents to flee.

Israeli troops have uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and battled Gaza militants on the second day of a ground operation, as the Palestinian death toll climbed past 330 and diplomats scrambled to revive ceasefire efforts.

Thousands of Israeli soldiers backed by tanks have entered the Gaza Strip, escalating a 10-day campaign of heavy air bombardment to try to destroy Hamas' arsenal, rocket-firing abilities and the tunnels militants use to infiltrate the Jewish state.

Israel launched a large-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip yesterday, escalating a 10-day military operation to try to destroy Hamas’ weapons arsenal, rocket-firing abilities, and tunnels under the Palestinian territory’s border with Israel.

Israel has launched a large-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, escalating a 10-day military operation to try to destroy Hamas’ weapons arsenal, rocket firing abilities and tunnels under the Palestinian territory’s border with Israel.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a five-hour United Nations-brokered “humanitarian” pause to their nine-day battle, offering the most encouraging sign yet that the fierce fighting could come to an end.

Israeli war planes intensified attacks across the Gaza Strip today, targeting senior Hamas leaders and bombing a coastal area where four Palestinian boys were killed.

Hundreds of Palestinian families, their children crying, fled as Israel intensified airstrikes on Hamas targets, including homes of the movement’s leaders, following failed Egyptian ceasefire efforts.

Israel has fired missiles at the homes of four top Hamas leaders, the militant group said, in a resumed bombardment of Gaza following a failed Egyptian ceasefire effort.

People in Gaza fear further bombardment after Israel warned tens of thousands in the north and east to leave their homes.

Thousands fled their homes in a Gaza town yesterday after Israel warned them to leave ahead of threatened attacks on rocket-launching sites, on the sixth day of an offensive that Palestinian officials said has killed at least 160 people.

Israeli air strikes shook Gaza every few minutes yesterday, and militants kept up rocket fire at Israel’s heartland in intensifying warfare that Palestinian officials said has killed at least 47 people in the Hamas-dominated enclave.

Israel has launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault on scores of targets and killing 25 people.

THE World Press Photo exhibition has returned to Ireland for the first time in a decade.

Israel has published the names of 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them jailed for deadly attacks, who are to be released this week as part of a US-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Middle East negotiations.