Middle East

Israel's military says it has launched air strikes against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, which medics say killed at least 24 people and wounded 54. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES.

Israeli strikes have hit several Gaza Strip sites as a Hamas spokesman accused Israel of changing markings that define areas Israel controls in the enclave.

Health authorities in the Palestinian enclave says at least 25 people have been killed from four Israeli air strikes.

Thirteen people have been killed by an Israeli strike on a compound in Lebanon, which the military says was being used by Hamas to carry out attacks on Israel.

The US is pushing the UN Security Council to support and enshrine Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan. But Israel, Hamas, Russia and others have objections.

The UN Security Council has backed Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, authorising an international stabilisation force and a ‘board of peace’ led by the US President to restore order in the war-ravaged territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed his opposition to a Palestinian state the far-right erupted over a US-backed plan indicated support.

Fifteen bodies of Gaza Strip residents have been returned by Israel, officials at a hospital in the south of the enclave say.

An attack on a courthouse in Islamabad was the first major assault to hit Islamabad in more than a decade.

President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has met with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the next stages of the fragile Gaza ceasefire.

Hamas's armed wing says fighters holed up in southern Gaza will not surrender to Israel, raising fears the month-old ceasefire could crumble.

Israeli officials have received the remains of a soldier killed in Gaza in 2014, ending an 11-year ordeal for his family.

Iran's embassy in Mexico has denied claims of a plot to kill Israel's ambassador to the American nation, which a US official calls the latest in a long history.

Two ISIS brides who returned to Australia in September have paved the way for others to follow in their footsteps, with one expert believing the pair did so with ‘a lot of help’ from the Government. 

Israel have identified the latest remains of a hostage that Hamas handed over as belonging to a Tanzanian agricultural student.