News and reports from the Middle East.
Three years after the attacks, military admissions, soldiers’ testimony and UN findings have left unresolved questions about the Hannibal directive and the deaths of people Israel’s forces were sent to protect.
The award comes as Palestinian authorities report nearly 22,000 children killed in Gaza — an average of one child every 72 minutes for three years — while Washington targets the war crimes court and Marco Rubio threatens to “end the ICC”.
Hind Rajab Foundation seeks an investigation into medical complicity at Sde Teiman as the World Medical Association meets in Rotterdam
Three years after Israel's genocide began, Palestinians remain trapped between continuing Israeli attacks and a reconstruction process that has barely advanced. Behind the diplomatic promises are bereaved children, inaccessible homes and families struggling to survive.
A year after a ceasefire took effect, Palestinians in Gaza are still being killed, displaced families are struggling to obtain food and water, and Israeli aircraft continue to circle overhead, according to testimony broadcast on the third anniversary of 7 October. From Gaza City, journalist Akram al-Satarri described a territory where the destruction of homes, the separation of families and the search for missing bodies continue to shape daily life.
Israel is tearing itself apart under the strain of prolonged war, bitter political divisions and the consequences of its devastation of Gaza, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson have warned, as a reported American intelligence assessment raises the prospect of civil conflict and state collapse.
Larry Johnson’s unverified account follows Donald Trump’s threats to destroy Iran, raising questions about preparations for a wider conflict and the possibility of nuclear escalation.
A new map connects more than 35,000 videos and photographs to Gaza locations as the wider archive passes 200,000 media records and preserves the names of 72,835 people killed.
Eight months after doctors in Gaza alleged that Palestinian bodies returned by Israel bore evidence of organ removal, renewed United Nations demands for access to human remains have underlined the obstacles to establishing what happened to the dead.
*Maysa Abu Daoud and her daughter Mary had moved from a church refuge into a rented flat. An Israeli strike killed them alongside another mother and daughter and a young man, leaving a 14-year-old mourning two generations of his family.*
Up to 27 Israeli diplomats could be expelled from London if Israel forces Britain’s East Jerusalem consulate to close, threatening a historic rupture in relations.
With Gaza’s economy devastated and Netanyahu addressing the UN under an ICC arrest warrant, former UN official Craig Mokhiber challenges the gap between Israel’s growing isolation and meaningful action. His warning extends to Trump’s threats against Iran and the contest to choose the next UN chief.
Europe is renting its future rather than building it. It relies on others for its energy, its computing power and much of the capital its companies need to grow. Its leaders are pushing reform of markets and regulation to improve the conditions, but policy alone cannot build what Europe now rents. That falls to its companies, and in large part to the growth-stage private businesses that have had little voice in the debate about Europe’s future.
Labour’s electoral setbacks, an American protest vote and gains for the French left show how outrage over Gaza is reaching the ballot box — as Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja is arrested outside Labour’s conference.
Bowed heads and refused handshakes marked Ireland’s victory over Israel. Behind the protests lies the destruction of Palestinian sporting life: footballers killed, athletes losing limbs, and grounds reduced to rubble or turned into shelters.
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor have brought Israeli military insiders’ accounts of mass civilian killing to an American audience, confronting citizenship threats, official denunciations and the responsibility of the country funding Israel’s armed forces.
Micheál Martin warns of a reckoning when Gaza’s full horrors are revealed. Satellite assessments document damage across more than four-fifths of its structures, while Israel’s restrictions on independent foreign reporting continue to obstruct scrutiny and families face another winter in tents and unsafe buildings.
A mother preparing for another child after losing three, a boy working through his childhood, a displaced grandmother, a lecturer and a skateboarder reveal how war has transformed the most ordinary acts of living.
Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called Gaza a concentration camp as world leaders confronted Israel over genocide allegations, demanded protection for Palestinians and questioned whether international law could survive without enforcement.
Thirty-five years ago Seymour Hersh dragged Israel's secret bomb into daylight, along with the doctrine of last-resort annihilation built around it and the American officials who chose not to see either. Reread now – with Israel fighting on every front and the paymaster in Washington finally wavering – 'The Samson Option' is the most unsettling book on any shelf.
Iran called for Israel’s expulsion from the UN as Türkiye and Qatar rejected the Israeli prime minister’s attacks. Outside, police arrested protesters opposing his visit.
Alaa Hessi named her newborn Waseem after the eldest son she lost. In the final weeks of her pregnancy, she was living in a tent above her destroyed home, struggling to find nourishment and a safe place for her baby.
More than two years after Navi Pillay presented findings of extermination, forcible transfer and starvation, new UN reports have widened the record. Arrest warrants remain outstanding, while the ICJ’s written timetable runs to 2029.
Hearing damage is adding to the lasting injuries suffered by Gaza’s children, while humanitarian organisations warn that restrictions on treatment and supplies are prolonging the harm.
