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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For eight months, families of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 have been imploring Israel’s ...
Israel’s forced starvation has caused the deaths of two more children in central Gaza where conditions have been made worse by Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing, further limiting aid and ...
Eyewitnesses have described chaos and horror when an Israeli strike hit a United Nations-run school in central Gaza overnight. The strike on the facility, which was housing displaced Palestinians ...
News analysisDivided between a pro-Israel camp and another committed to respect for international law, the 27 EU members have been weak in their response to Israel's bombardment of Gaza since the ...
Joe Biden announced a surprise plan with three phases: the first would be a six-week ceasefire, the second the return of remaining hostages, and the third a reconstruction plan for Gaza.
The war in Gaza could last until the end of the year. That was the gloomy assessment of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s security adviser today. His words came as Israel continued to strike ...
Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile United Nations agencies warned Wednesday that over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza could experience the highest level of ...
A string of security, logistical and weather problems has battered the plan to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza through a U.S. military-built pier. Broken apart by strong winds ...
Fundamentally, the wrangling is not just about how long a cease-fire in Gaza should last or at what point it should be implemented, but whether Israel can ever accept a long-term truce as long as ...
An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Sunday that Israel had accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war now being advanced by President Joe Biden, though he ...