As these lines are being written, Israel has informed the UN that more than one million people in the northern Gaza Strip, including residents of Gaza City, must evacuate their homes. There is nowhere to go in Gaza - not for 10,000 people, not for 100,000 and certainly not for a million. To...

For the seventh day in a row, overnight and early morning Israeli air strikes levelled homes atop their civilian occupants in Gaza, killing scores of people. On Friday night and into Saturday morning, the bombardment was concentrated in the areas of Khan Yunis and Deir el-Balah. At least...

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....

Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned Israel on Friday against laying siege to Gaza in the same way that Nazi Germany besieged Leningrad, saying a ground offensive there would lead to an "absolutely unacceptable" number of civilian casualties. Putin said Israel had been subjected to "an...