Israel's military carries out air strikes in Gaza after IDF and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire
Israeli air strike kills Hamas commander and five others
Rushdi Abualouf
Gaza correspondent
An Israeli airstrike on the town of al-Zawaida in central Gaza has killed six members of Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades, including Yahya al-Mabhouh, the commander of the elite unit in the Jabalia Battalion, according to local sources.
The strike targeted a small seaside café set up inside a tent along the town’s beachfront.
Al-Zawaida lies between Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast.
Summary
Israel carries out a "wave of strikes" on southern Gaza, after the Israel Defence Forces and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire
The IDF earlier today said Hamas "fired an anti-tank missile and gunfire toward IDF troops" near Rafah, but the militant group says it is unaware of any clashes there
Hamas has said Israel "continues to breach the agreement", while the IDF says the alleged attack by Hamas is a "bold violation of the ceasefire"
Elsewhere, a doctor at al-Aqsa Hospital says nine Palestinians have been killed in central Gaza by Israeli air strikes on al-Zawaida and Nuseirat
The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 attack, in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 others hostage
North Korean soldier defects to South Korea across heavily fortified border
Soldier’s is first reported defection to South Korea across 248km militarised zone since August 2024
Sun 19 Oct 2025 14.27 BST
A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across the rivals’ heavily fortified border, South Korea’s military has said.
The military took custody of the soldier who crossed the central portion of the land border on Sunday, South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement. It said the soldier expressed a desire to resettle in South Korea.
It was the first reported defection by a North Korean soldier since a staff sergeant fled to South Korea via the border’s eastern section in August 2024
A Defeat for Genghis KhanChina's Mongolian Minority Facing Increased Pressure to Assimilate
Beijing long allowed Mongols in China to live out their cultural identity. That, though, is now over. Xi Jinping has decided that they must assimilate into the culture of the Chinese majority.
By Georg Fahrion in Inner Mongolia
His job has become more difficult under Chinese ruler Xi Jinping, says the Buddhist abbot. Laobuseng Jinpa is around 50 years old, an ethnic Mongol with a shaved head and dressed in deep red robes. He is sitting in a carved wooden chair in the reception chamber of his residence, prayer beads gliding through his right hand with quiet clicks. "In the new era,” says Laobuseng Jinpa, "monks must not only study the holy scriptures, they must also understand politics.”
Bolivians choose between two right-wing politicians at presidential runoff
New deal puts Takaichi on track to be Japan's first woman PM: reports
Japan's ruling party is set to sign a new coalition deal on Monday, paving the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country's first woman prime minister, media reports said.
Takaichi became leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) earlier this month, but her bid to become premier was derailed by the collapse of her ruling coalition.
Since then, the LDP has been working to cobble together a different alliance, putting her chances back on track.
The ‘enormous conflict of interest’ at centre of Jared Kushner’s Gaza ceasefire deal
Andrew Roth in Washington
For a man with no formal role in the White House, Jared Kushner last week literally took centre-stage as Donald Trump’s emissary to the Middle East.
As the administration took a victory lap for hammering out a Gaza ceasefire last week, Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, stood in Tel Aviv’s ‘hostages square’, addressing a feverish crowd that had booed the mention of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and later broke into chants of: “Thank You Trump!”
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