But most of the Israeli cabinet and the new IDF chief of staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, favour a much longer ground campaign in Gaza, which would involve sending entire armoured divisions back ...

Israel has launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, saying it is hitting Hamas targets in its heaviest assault in the territory since a ceasefire took effect in January.

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Israel’s renewed bombardments of the enclave and warned about the risk of "the instability spreading across the region in case Israel continues its ag ...