As pressure builds on Netanyahu to secure the release of the remaining living hostages, Israel is considering reopening the Rafah border crossing into Gaza.

Despite firm and vocal US opposition, Israel appears poised to mount a large-scale invasion of Rafah. The congested part of southern Gaza is Hamas's last major stronghold in the territory.

These, and other calls, for hostilities to end in Gaza are likely ... forces attacked his hideout in the centre of Rafah, ...

Israeli strikes on the Gaza ... Hamas will continue to exist." Israel hoped Egypt would sit in custodianship of the Philadelphi Corridor Regarding the fighting in the Philadelphi Corridor and in ...

Warnings continued against the growing offensive in Rafah, considered the last refuge in Gaza for more than a million civilians as well as Hamas’ last stronghold. Some 300,000 people have fled ...

Hamas' leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is still hiding in tunnels under Khan Yunis, not in Rafah, American officials ... Israel from raiding or bombing his hideout, US and Israeli officials told ...

The Hamas-run health authority ... Israeli air strikes in Rafah Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz has warned that unless Hamas frees all hostages held in Gaza by 10 March an offensive will ...

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told troops on the Gaza border: "We will not cease operating in Rafah until Hamas is destroyed, or until the first hostage returns home." UN Secretary General ...

Both Israeli and Hamas delegations left indirect talks in Cairo on Thursday. After seven months of war in Gaza, Israel insists victory is impossible without taking the city of Rafah and ...

where he ruled as Hamas chieftain and launched the horrific Oct. 7 pogrom on Israel. The destruction of his final hideout and ...

In October, Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' leader and the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attack, was killed by the IDF in Rafah, in southern Gaza. While many speculate that Sinwar’s death may lead to a ...

Our coverage includes the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the plight of hostages, how the war in Gaza has devastated the territory and left thousands dead and the flurry of international diplomacy to ...