Sydney News Board

Thousands of workers walked off the job in outrage over the deaths of hostages in Gaza, as protesters demanded that Israel reach a deal with Hamas. Union leaders halted the strike after a court said they hadn’t given enough warning.

Hamas leaders spent years developing an underground warfare plan. Records from the battlefield show the group’s preparations, including blast doors to protect against Israeli bombs and soldiers.

“They are like a bleeding wound, and no one sees it,” a schoolteacher said of her pupils, many of whom have fled frontline areas or lost family members in the fighting.

The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, had a very successful night in two states, despite its state chapters’ classification as “extremist” by German domestic intelligence.

The attack, the third large-scale bombardment in a week, coincided with intense fighting in eastern Ukraine and Russia.

The Alternative for Germany party was on course to win in Thuringia, according to projections, in what was seen as a worrying sign of the health of German democracy.

Ukraine said Russia struck the country’s second-largest city with missiles and bombs. Russian state media and local officials earlier reported that Ukraine attacked power plants and refineries with drones.

Ukraine gambled that its move into Russia would draw Moscow’s forces away from the town of Pokrovsk. It didn’t happen. And now resigned residents are evacuating daily.

It’s so hot in Cairo that people like to go out all night. It might look like a party, but in reality, one shopkeeper said, “everybody is dead on the inside.”

One of the hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was an American citizen. Separately in Gaza, a polio vaccination drive was getting underway on Sunday.