Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged only that Israel had been working with “clans.” But the opposition leader warned that the “weapons going into Gaza will eventually be pointed at Israeli soldiers and civilians.

The Israeli prime minister's comments on social media were the first public acknowledgment of Israel’s backing of armed Palestinian groups within Gaza, based around powerful families.

Prime minister’s comments come after opposition leader claims country is sending weapons to ‘criminals and felons’

Palestinian health officials and witnesses say 27 people are dead after Israeli forces opened fire as people headed toward an aid distribution site.

Western diplomats are looking on with dismay at the killing of hungry Gazans near aid hubs, writes Jeremy Bowen.

A week of aid chaos in Gaza that has drawn condemnation from around the world and has led the United Nations to call for an independent inquiry into the deaths of desperate Palestinians, killed whilst queuing for aid, at locations they were told to attend by Israel’s military.