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Middle East and north Africa

22 August 2024

  • Two women hug in front of a wrecked car, as people stand alongside buildings behind

    US officials say Gaza ceasefire ‘in sight’ but Israel and Hamas downbeat

    Warring sides indicate breakthrough not imminent as renewed fighting rages in parts of Palestinian territory
  • A Palestinian man walks past cars burned during an attack by Israeli settlers in the town of Jit in Qalqilya, northern West Bank.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: Israeli police arrest four suspected over settler attack on Palestinian village – as it happened

    Three adults and one minor arrested over suspected acts of terrorism against Palestinians, Israeli security services say

    • Global surge of water-related violence led by Israeli attacks on Palestinian supplies – report

    • Stop using the term ‘centrist’. It doesn’t mean what you think it does

      Arwa Mahdawi

    • Israel launches reprisal strikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

21 August 2024

  • UN officials have said that Israel has issued nine evacuation orders this month, which have affected roughly 213,000 people

    1:22

    Humanitarian zone overcrowded as Israel orders evacuation from Khan Younis – video

  • Firefighters work at the site of a damaged house

    Hezbollah launches barrage of rockets and drones towards Israel

  • Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton’s comments on Palestinians fleeing Gaza ‘bad for cohesion and harmony’, envoy says

  • A flat-bed truck overflowing with a family's belongings as a boy walks alongside it

    People in Gaza forced to stay in areas at risk of Israeli attack as ‘safe zone’ full

  • First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: What next for peace in Gaza after six Israeli hostages’ bodies are recovered

  • Ceasefire elusive as Blinken leaves Middle East, with future Israeli presence in Gaza key sticking point

20 August 2024

  • Footage recorded on 17 August by a UN official inside Gaza City shows whole neighbourhoods razed, with buildings reduced to piles of rubble and tangled steel

    2:17

    Gaza City footage shows scale of destruction caused by Israeli bombardments – video

  • Clockwise from top left: Nadav Popplewell, Haim Perry, Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Yoram Metzger and Avraham Munder

    Israel says bodies of six hostages have been recovered from Gaza

  • Men stand in the rubble of a school in Gaza City

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: at least 12 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on school, say Gaza defence authorities – as it happened

  • At least 12 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced Palestinians, the Gaza heath authorities said

    1:31

    Survivors carried through dust after airstrike hits Gaza school housing displaced families – video

  • Countries fueling Israel’s Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warn

  • Palestinian hip-hop collective DAM: ‘Music can’t stop a war machine’

19 August 2024

  • Antony Blinken speaks to the media near Israeli protesters holding US flags and placards reading 'Hostage lives matter' and 'Hostage deal now'

    Blinken says Gaza ceasefire talks ‘may be last opportunity’ for hostage deal

    US secretary of state says Netanhayu supports US ceasefire proposal, after meeting with Israeli PM
  • US secretary of state Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Netanyahu’s office says meeting with Blinken was ‘positive’ – as it happened

    Israeli prime minister says meeting with US secretary of state was ‘conducted in good spirit’ as Blinken says latest push for ceasefire is last opportunity
  • Aerial view of damaged buildings in Khan Younis

    Israel perpetrating war crimes in plain sight in Gaza, says ex-UK diplomat

    Mark Smith, who quit Dublin embassy role, says he raised his concerns over weapons sales with foreign secretary
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