Five people were killed and another five were kidnapped from Holot’s kibbutz on October 7, 2023, when Hamas and other militant groups launched a coordinated terror attack on Israeli communities and military posts, killing 1,200 and kidnapping 251 people.

The tunnel network built by the U. S.-designated terrorist organization is vast and sprawling and has hindered Israel’s war effort.

A Palestinian rescuer carries the body of a child killed in an Israeli strike on a residential area in Gaza City's Shujaiyya neighbourhood.

Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 40 people across Gaza during the past 24 hours, civil defence officials in the devastated Palestinian territory said, as Israel’s government prepared to order an expansion of its military offensive.