News and reports from the Middle East.
The former US president’s acknowledgement of Palestinian dispossession has renewed scrutiny of the military aid and diplomatic protection he provided to Israel, and of the distance between his early conversations with Palestinian Americans and the policies he pursued in office.
The disputed warnings before October 7 place Israel’s intelligence failures alongside the destruction of Gaza and the civilian, diplomatic and political consequences of its operations across the region.
Israel’s military described an AI-assisted expansion in Gaza target generation from 50 targets a year to 100 a day — equivalent to a 72,900% increase if the daily rate is annualised.
From the Amsterdam disaster to weapons shipments through Scotland and Belgium, civilian airports have served Israel’s military supply lines. The public record exposes misleading reassurances, withheld information and gaps in scrutiny.
A rodent crisis linked to the devastation of Gaza has prompted a chemical response in Israeli farmland. The product named in that response has already killed pregnant gazelles and contaminated retail wheat, raising urgent questions about safeguards and exposure.
Reporting on starvation while hungry and displacement while displaced, the Palestinian journalist describes why she keeps documenting lives the world has failed to protect. Her testimony is accompanied by a record of famine, destruction and abuse assembled by international investigators and humanitarian agencies.
Students have faced suspensions, campus bans and threats to their immigration status as universities shared legal strategies and security planning to restrict Palestine activism, a new report finds.
A Channel 4 investigation exposes the gap between warnings inside Whitehall and decisions to keep supplying Israel, raising questions about a system critics say demanded answers only the accused could provide.
Palestinians sheltering near Israel’s expanding military boundary describe beatings, threats against children and relatives taken away by armed groups. Their accounts expose the civilian cost of a policy Israel has publicly defended as a way to fight Hamas while protecting its own soldiers.
Half a million people in beseiged enclave set to lose World Food Programme assistance as winter approaches. UNRWA, other UN agencies and charities are still working, but their funding and delivery reports reveal a response stretched far beyond its resources.
Majed Bamya challenges the Security Council over unequal treatment of Palestinian lives, a ceasefire that has continued to claim children, and an independence process in which the occupying power sets the conditions.
A fresh warning over food supplies and an expanding Italian investigation provide a new context for the French proceedings against two women accused of complicity in genocide.
Edward Snowden has condemned Western governments for continuing to arm Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, saying their actions are “not only unethical” but “most probably criminal”.
The former CIA officer’s allegations of intimidation and political pressure raise a question with direct consequences for Gaza: how far is Washington willing to hold its ally accountable?
Oxford surgeon Nick Maynard describes testimony of genital torture and lasting injuries, as investigations document sexual violence against children, journalists and medical workers — and a persistent failure to hold perpetrators accountable.
A former Israeli intelligence chief’s assessment describes a worldview in which neighbouring states are weakened, democracy is subordinated and peace loses its value. Trita Parsi warns that Washington has helped make it possible.
Hundreds of promised military inquiries have no identifiable public outcome. Meanwhile, foreign journalists remain barred from independent entry, UN investigators’ requests go unanswered, and even Israel’s allies are condemning decisions to close cases without criminal investigation.
*As Israeli officials target the makers of NAZA, Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada argues that some soldiers’ accounts reveal excitement at the power they wielded over Gaza — and asks why testimony about mass killing has brought such fury upon those exposing it.*
A Declassified UK investigation places a British soldier at a burning school in southern Gaza. A UN investigator says the evidence warrants a police inquiry, while footage supplied by the Israeli army in response was traced to a different school.
In the new book When Marx Meets Islam, a leading scholar reveals how his support for Israel and the Abraham Accords made him a target of former allies—and led him to investigate what he calls a growing ideological threat to the West.
In a new interview, the socialist broadcaster argues that Gaza has broken the old political consensus on Israel — and that politicians who claim to oppose the destruction must be prepared to act.
The Israeli donor-backed Academies of Hope say their mission is peace and recovery. Plans to record lessons and flag speech raise questions about who decides what Palestinian children and teachers may say.
Three years after 7 October, Israel’s loss of support reaches beyond campus protests and party politics. For Americans who once trusted it, Gaza has become a reckoning with what they believed — and what their country has helped sustain.
Three years after 7 October 2023, the war on Gaza has produced a body of numbers unlike any conflict before it – a daily ledger of the dead and a satellite map of every broken roof, a famine classified in phases and a defence industry's record year. This feature draws them together from the agencies that compiled them and sets them down in order.
