A Russian-backed UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire to the fighting between Israel and Hamas has been voted down. Five countries voted in favour, four voted against and six countries abstained. The draft needed nine votes to pass the 15 member council. The...

Israel means to defeat the Palestinian group Hamas and end its rule in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. Speaking to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, ahead of a widely expected ground operation, Netanyahu said "our goal is victory over Hamas, toppling...

At least one journalist has been killed and several others wounded in a shelling attack by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, according to witnesses and reporters at the scene. The Reuters news agency confirmed on Friday that Issam Abdallah, a videographer, was killed in the attack....

An Israeli army official on Tuesday said that the army has found some "1,500 bodies" of Palestinian gunmen in the settlements around Gaza. "In the past days, the Israeli army found no less than 1,500 bodies of Palestinian gunmen inside Israeli territories," the Israeli army official,...