Middle East

“They will not understand what happened and how it happened, they will see the results,” Gallant said. Elsewhere in the Middle East region, fighting has continued between Hezbollah and Israel, with four people killed in an Israeli air strike on a Lebanese village near the southern city of Sidon. In …

Hezbollah can still rely on staunch support in the neighbourhoods where it is the dominant force in political and social life, and among the Shia communities of mixed areas. Several Shia residents of the Mar Elias neighbourhood said they stood completely behind the group. “We are all Hezbollah here, whatever …

The Israeli military says it is expanding its ground offensive against Hezbollah by moving into a new zone in the south-west. The incursion will be backed by a fourth division in the coastal sector, bringing the total number of soldiers deployed to fifteen thousand. On Monday, Israeli forces warned people …

Syria’s state news agency, Sana, cited a military source as saying that the building was hit by three missiles launched by Israeli aircraft from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights. Photographs from the scene showed emergency services personnel inspecting significant damage to apartments on the first, second and third …

This is the third time Israeli forces have gone into Jabalia and its refugee camp over the past year, with the last operation in May displacing tens of thousands of people, killing hundreds and causing widespread destruction. On Monday, Jabalia resident Asmaa Tayeh told the BBC that she and her …

The IDF also said its aircraft had carried out a new round of strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where the group has a strong presence, and other areas of Lebanon on Tuesday. Earlier, it announced that a strike in the capital on Monday had killed the commander …

After weeks of stunning tactical success, Israel’s prime minister seems to harbour grand ambitions. In a direct address to the Iranian people, he hinted that regime change was coming in Tehran. “When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think, everything will be …

In nearby communities which were also attacked by Hamas gunmen, smaller events were held. Elsewhere, Netanyahu visited the Iron Sword memorial in Jerusalem for victims of the Hamas attacks, lighting a candle to “remember our fallen, our hostages”. In Tel Aviv’s biggest park, Israeli families gathered in for an event …

The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf, who has reported from Gaza for decades, spent weeks documenting the conflict from inside the territory, only leaving with his family on 20 November for the sake of their safety. He sheds light on the challenges of reporting the war from inside and outside of Gaza. …

Three weeks of intense Israeli strikes and other attacks in Lebanon have killed more than 1,400 people, including 22 on Sunday, and displaced another 1.2 million, according to Lebanese authorities. Hezbollah – a Shia Islamist political, military and social organisation that wields considerable power in Lebanon – has remained defiant …