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Islamic State turning old enemies into new allies
Amid the rise of and widespread exhibition of the vile inhumanity of the Islamic State, has been the tender opening of dialogue between two vast regional enemies – Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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Amid the rise of and widespread exhibition of the vile inhumanity of the Islamic State, has been the tender opening of dialogue between two vast regional enemies – Iran and Saudi Arabia.
A two-year-old child and a woman are killed in an Israeli airstrike as a week-long Gaza ceasefire crumbles – with Hamas blamed for firing the first rockets.
A new ceasefire in Gaza appears to be holding, as Israeli negotiators fly to Cairo for indirect peace talks with the Palestinians.
Israel says it would not return to Egyptian-mediated ceasefire talks as long as Palestinian militants in Gaza keep up cross-border rocket and mortar fire.
A 10-year-old Palestinian is reportedly killed after Israeli military responded with air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday after militants launched rockets from the enclave.
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
Israel and Hamas enter a 72-hour truce mediated by Egypt with a view to encouraging negotiations on a more enduring end to the month-old Gaza war.
Live updates from the Channel 4 News team as the violence continues.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says “this madness must stop” and describes the strike outside a UN school in Rafah, Gaza as a “moral outrage and a criminal act” as he calls for an end to fighting.
Israeli shelling in southern Gaza kills at least 25 people, the Palestinian interior ministry says, as a ceasefire that went into effect only hours earlier appears to be crumbling.
US Secretary of State John Kerry says Hamas and Israel have agreed a three-day truce and talks will begin in Cairo once authorities are sure the ceasefire is holding.
Health officials say that over 40 people are reported dead in Gaza, including at least 15 at a UN school, after another night of Israeli shelling and air strikes.
At least two Palestinians are killed and 200 wounded in the West Bank during massive protests as shelling continues in Gaza.
As diplomats try to find a way out of this crisis, how Hamas is fighting Israel? What is the military strategy and what does it hope to achieve?
Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from the ground in Gaza – follow his tweets, videos and blogs throughout the day in this live blog.