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Middle East and north Africa

  • People look through rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike

    UK foreign secretary repeats ceasefire call as Israel continues to pummel Gaza

    David Lammy holds second day of meetings with Israeli officials but hopes of immediate ceasefire are dwindling
  • People stand among charred wreckage whilst a member of the civil defence team sprays water from a hose

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: Gaza municipality says it can no longer provide 700,000 people in area with drinking water – as it happened

    Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza Strip, says it can no longer provide drinking water after running out of fuelSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverage
    • Living in a tent with premature triplets: how fear and anxiety haunt Gaza’s new mothers

    • Clearing Gaza of almost 40m tonnes of war rubble will take years, says UN

    • War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns

  • Dozens of people walking across rubble, with damaged buildings and smoke rising in the background

    Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest attacks on Gaza City, say officials

  • David Lammy is pictured at a meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, in January 2024

    David Lammy to call for Gaza ceasefire in talks with Benjamin Netanyahu

  • A woman sit amid the destruction after an Israeli airstrike killed at least 90 Palestinians in a designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis.

    ‘The street was a pool of blood’: Gaza witnesses one of most violent weeks since first months of war

  • Smoke rises during the 1982 invasion in which up to 20,000 died

    Veterans warn of echoes from 1982 Lebanon war as new conflict looms on Israel’s northern borders

  • Crowd of people walking amid rubble and smoking ruins.

    Hamas mastermind of 7 October attack target of deadly Gaza strike, claims Israel

  • A black shadow figure on a brown backround

    Who is the Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif?

  • Palestinians carry someone on a makeshift stretcher

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: IDF says 7 October mastermind ‘struck’ in Gaza attack reported to have killed 90 – as it happened

  • Rupa Huq

    I’m a Muslim MP who rebelled on Gaza, but still I was barracked and intimidated

    Rupa Huq
  • ‘Constant anxiety’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction threat in East Jerusalem

  • Footage shows aftermath of fatal Israeli strikes on Gaza safe zone – video

  • Palestinians pushed into ‘ever deeper circles of hell’, says UN chief – video

  • Spectators watch video games as gamers play in Riyadh.

    Saudi Arabia to host first ‘Olympics Esports Games’ in 2025

  • A woman stands with salvaged items near a damaged building

    Bodies of about 60 Palestinians reportedly found after Israeli attack on Gaza City

  • People stand amid the rubble of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv.

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    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Palestinians in the Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: US mediators making progress on ceasefire deal but still ‘gaps to close’, says Biden – as it happened

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