GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: At least 91 Palestinians were killed and another 350 injured in Israeli attacks, medics said, as a hoped-for ceasefire disintegrated with the apparent capture of an Israeli soldier on Friday.  Nineteen Palestinians were killed on Friday night in Israeli air strikes on Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip early Saturday.  Fifteen of those victims, including five children aged 3-12, came from the same family […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of a “prolonged” military campaign in Gaza. Mr Netanyahu said Israel would continue to act until it had achieved its aim of destroying militant group Hamas’ network of underground tunnels. It comes amid an upsurge of violence in Gaza and southern Israel, despite a UN plea for a cessation of hostilities. Fighting continued in the early hours of Tuesday, with attacks reported from […]