Middle East news headlines

The Gaza Health Ministry said 71 people were killed in the Israeli attack on Saturday in the south of the war-stricken enclave.

Abandoned, bullet-ridden apartment buildings have blasted out walls and shattered windows. Bedrooms and kitchens are visible from roads dotted with rubble.

The demonstrations on Sunday came after long-running efforts to broker a truce gained momentum last week when Hamas dropped a key demand for an Israeli commitment to end the war.

The wave of strikes followed the killing of a high-level commander by Israeli forces.

Protesters blocked a major highway after Israel's Supreme Court ordered the drafting of ultra-Orthodox youth into the military.

The Israeli military strapped an injured Palestinian man to the hood of a military vehicle during an operation on Saturday in the occupied West Bank.

The top US general fears a wider regional conflict if Israel launches a full-scale attack on Lebanon.

DFAT confirmed they were providing assistance to the family of an Australian who died in the country.

The group has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all-out war, it has warned.

"His death will disrupt ISIS's ability to resource and conduct terror attacks," US Central Command said.

One list circulating online suggested at least 550 people died as temperatures reached up to 47 degrees.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the influential War Cabinet tasked with steering the war in Gaza.

Masses of pilgrims have embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia under the soaring summer heat, which saw 13 die of sunstroke.

The flow of aid in southern Gaza has drastically declined just as the humanitarian need grows.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that mediators would keep trying to close an elusive cease-fire deal for Gaza.

The four people were rescued in an operation over the weekend that reportedly left over 270 dead.

Thousands are on the brink of famine as the Israeli invasion continues.

The mining magnate says the plan could ensure the daily delivery of 10,000 metric tonnes of food aid to starving Palestinians.

A deadly raid by Israeli forces freed four hostages over the weekend and killed hundreds of Palestinians.

Only one member abstained from the vote, which resulted in a call for Hamas and Israel to stop the war.

The killing of so many Palestinians, including women and children, showed the heavy cost of such operations.

The attack in central Gaza killed at least 35 people, including women and children, according to local health officials.

The annual march, seen as provocative by Palestinians, could ignite broader unrest, as it did three years ago, when it helped set off an 11-day war in Gaza.

The army said it was a precision strike against Hamas, but local officials said women and children were among the dead.

In a newly published interview, the president also said it was "uncertain" whether Israel had committed war crimes.

He reiterated his government's focus is on the state rather than foreign conflict.

The proposed deal would bring an end to the devastating war that has ground on for months, Biden said.

He also reiterated China's call for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,

Children dig through rubbish and wrecked buildings for wood or cardboard for their mothers to burn for cooking.

Her demand comes after a strike in a tent camp killed dozens of people, including many women and children.

Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.

Israeli shelling and airstrikes pummelled the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire days earlier in a camp for displaced Palestinians.

Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, according to a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the latest in Tehran's attempts to steadily exert pressure on the international community.

The Israeli prime minister has acknowledged a “tragic mistake” had been made after an Israeli strike in the Gaza city of Rafah set fire to a tent camp and killed at least 45 people.

The incident comes five days after a British man died of a suspected heart attack and dozens of people were injured.

The bodies of three more hostages killed on October 7 have been recovered from Gaza, Israel's army said, as the top United Nations court prepares to rule on whether Israel must halt its military operations and withdraw from the enclave.

Iran's supreme leader prayed over the coffins of Ebrahim Raisi and other officials killed in a helicopter crash.

It's a historic move that has drawn condemnation from Israel and jubilation from the Palestinians.

The ICC is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The death of Iran's president is unlikely to lead to any immediate changes in Iran's ruling system or to its overarching policies, which are decided by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash.

The apparent crash of a helicopter carrying Iran's president and foreign minister has sent sent shock waves around the region, but details are scant.

Israeli military said its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its October 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.

Israel's latest actions in Rafah have prompted fresh legal action amid genocide accusations in the UN's highest court.

More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in southern and northern Gaza, the United Nations says.

Ruby Chen’s son, Itay, was killed in the Hamas attack on October 7.

The United States warned on Thursday that Israel will be dealing a strategic victory to Hamas if it carries out plans for an all-out assault on Rafah, the militants' last major stronghold in Gaza.

US President Joe Biden has said he won't supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah – the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza – over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there.

Israel said the peace deal did not meet its "core demands", but a glimmer of hope remains of at least a pause in the fighting.

Israeli leaders have approved a military operation into the Gaza Strip city of Rafah, just hours after Hamas said it had accepted a ceasefire plan.