http://feed.informer.com/digests/YSYO20ZZSN/feeder Israel News Review Respective post owners and feed distributors Sat, 07 Dec 2013 13:14:34 -0400 Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/gaza-photojournalist-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-fatima-hassouna World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:678113ba-7d31-3d89-388c-297dcf6c85af Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:25:08 -0300 <p>Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family</p><p>As a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew that death was always at her doorstep. As she spent the past 18 months of war documenting airstrikes, the demolition of her home, the endless displacement and the killing of 11 family members, all she demanded was that she not be allowed to go quietly.</p><p>“If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/gaza-photojournalist-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-fatima-hassouna">Continue reading...</a> Gaza Middle East and north Africa Palestinian territories World news Journalist safety Media Israel Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem Photograph: Fatima Hassouna https://www.ft.com/content/a3eb3101-0752-41f1-bb4e-4f28c392b2d2 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:93df3d63-77a1-44b6-b40c-48474892c283 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:13:02 -0300 Raids on Friday were deadliest in Trump administration’s bombing campaign against Iran-backed movement https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/hamas-rejects-israel-latest-ceasefire-proposal-gaza World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:16338237-be74-ceb6-bd7a-4c0b163a77b9 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:21:59 -0300 <p>Militant group says it will not accept deal without guarantee of end to Gaza war or full withdrawal of Israeli troops</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/middle-east-crisis">Middle East crisis – live updates</a></li></ul><p>Hamas has formally rejected Israel’s latest ceasefire proposal, saying it will not accept a “partial” deal that does not guarantee an end to the war or a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.</p><p>Hamas’s chief negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, accused Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of putting forward an offer that “set impossible conditions for a deal that does not lead to the end of the war or full withdrawal”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/hamas-rejects-israel-latest-ceasefire-proposal-gaza">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Israel Middle East and north Africa Hamas Palestinian territories Benjamin Netanyahu World news Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem and agencies Photograph: Esa Alexander/Reuters https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/18/microsoft-ai-israel-gaza-war World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:15d436e8-93e9-c6f5-8c07-d487a737df30 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:00:06 -0300 <p>Turmoil spreads at company over Israel’s extensive use of its AI and cloud computing services in Gaza war</p><p>For the second time in the last month, Microsoft employees disrupted high-level executives speaking at an event celebrating the company’s 50th anniversary on 4 April, in protest against the company’s role in Israel’s ongoing siege on Gaza.</p><p>AI executive Mustafa Suleyman was interrupted by employees Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal. The two were fired within days. The Microsoft president Brad Smith and the former CEO Steve Ballmer were shouted down at Seattle’s Great Hall on 20 March by a current and former employee.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/18/microsoft-ai-israel-gaza-war">Continue reading...</a> Technology Microsoft Israel Palestinian territories Timothy Pratt Illustration: Guardian Design/Bashar Taleb/Getty https://www.ft.com/content/628b404b-2a24-4853-8f3c-9caad408ef8f FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:ed124c50-2258-c65b-831f-ae61f02ee056 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:03:01 -0300 Satellite company linked to People’s Liberation Army has supplied images to Iran-backed group in Yemen, say officials https://www.ft.com/content/628b404b-2a24-4853-8f3c-9caad408ef8f FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:36e5e7cf-03c1-c418-f31c-be8b8fc06ffb Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:03:01 -0300 Satellite group linked to People’s Liberation Army has supplied images to Iran-backed group in Yemen, say officials https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/apr/18/kahanes-ghost-how-a-long-dead-extremist-rabbi-continues-to-haunt-israels-politics-podcast World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:0f890dec-0c4a-06c3-04f8-e004a6dc20e7 Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:00:01 -0300 <p>A violent fanatic and pioneer in bigotry, Meir Kahane died a political outcast 35 years ago. Today, his ideas influence the very highest levels of government</p><p>By Joshua Leifer. Read by Kerry Shale</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/apr/18/kahanes-ghost-how-a-long-dead-extremist-rabbi-continues-to-haunt-israels-politics-podcast">Continue reading...</a> Israel Written by Joshua Leifer and read by Kerry Shale. Produced by Nicola Alexandrou. The executive producer was Danielle Stephens Photograph: Benami NEUMANN/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/jerusalem-christians-easter-israeli-crackdown-church-holy-sepulchre World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:edc667b2-bc8e-3f19-59f1-97be186d75bc Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:00:01 -0300 <p>Palestinians trying to access Christianity's holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem face restrictions and hostility</p><p>As the bells rang out across the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the priests began to sing a deep, low prayer. Heads bowed over candles, and escorted by people bearing aloft large gold crosses, they made their way to a platform at the heart of the ancient square.</p><p>The ceremony on Holy Thursday, in which the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem washes the feet of 12 monastic priests to commemorate the Last Supper, is one of many Easter rituals that have taken place in the Old City of Jerusalem for hundreds of years. For Christians, there is no holier place to commemorate Easter than here, the site where they believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/jerusalem-christians-easter-israeli-crackdown-church-holy-sepulchre">Continue reading...</a> Palestinian territories Christianity Easter Israel World news Middle East and north Africa Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/17/its-time-labour-recognised-a-palestinian-state-its-been-stalling-for-50-years World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:e57c5682-beba-7252-b46f-1c1642a063ed Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:50:22 -0300 <p><strong>Tony Klug </strong>reflects on Labour’s position in 1975 and the Foreign Office’s policy today on recognising Palestine</p><p>Your report that the Foreign Office’s position is that it will recognise Palestine at an “appropriate moment of maximum impact” brings to mind conversations I had in 1975 with two Labour foreign ministers, Roy Hattersley and David Ennals (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/labour-mps-pressure-foreign-office-to-recognise-palestinian-statehood">Labour MPs push for Foreign Office to recognise Palestinian statehood, 13 April</a>).</p><p>While both ministers agreed in principle with my proposal in a Fabian pamphlet for a Palestinian state alongside Israel, they were adamant that then was not the right time. It is extraordinary that this conviction is still parroted by some of their ministerial counterparts today, 50 years later.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/17/its-time-labour-recognised-a-palestinian-state-its-been-stalling-for-50-years">Continue reading...</a> Palestinian territories Human rights Politics Israel Labour World news Guardian Staff Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA https://www.ft.com/content/4c2579a1-b646-4618-a8db-ffc0565abcb5 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:27382b9c-2024-55fd-644c-05c3eb9703af Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:17:52 -0300 Prince Khalid bin Salman is the highest-ranking royal to hold meetings in Tehran in decades https://www.ft.com/content/4c2579a1-b646-4618-a8db-ffc0565abcb5 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:70a63401-4cec-430b-bc12-5633b928a83a Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:17:52 -0300 Prince Khalid bin Salman is highest-ranking royal to hold meetings in Tehran in decades https://www.ft.com/content/2574b709-770b-4c68-ad8a-611702f8c7f1 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:862ccbfb-ac99-d5fb-73b9-6a8b4baf6acd Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:00:00 -0300 Trump has warned of potential military action if talks fail https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/no-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israeli-minister-israel-katz-hamas World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:f0cc8f0e-e4f3-0ebf-8720-69f4f9be05f1 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:25:16 -0300 <p>Israel Katz says blocking aid is ‘one of the main pressure levers’ on Hamas while military announces it has turned 30% of Gaza into buffer zone</p><p>Israel has said it will keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, as it vowed to force Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages from the 7 October attacks.</p><p>Aid supplies including food, fuel, water and medicine have been blocked by Israel from entering Gaza since 2 March, more than two weeks before the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/19/our-hopes-are-gone-gaza-faces-fresh-devastation-as-ceasefire-collapses">collapse of the ceasefire</a> between Israel and the Palestinian militant group with a return to air and ground attacks on the territory.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/no-humanitarian-aid-gaza-israeli-minister-israel-katz-hamas">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Israel Gaza Palestinian territories Middle East and north Africa World news Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem Photograph: APAImages/REX/Shutterstock https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/autopsies-of-rescue-workers-killed-in-gaza-show-gunshots-to-head-and-torso World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:e1d708f5-0f88-df9d-d393-b0ea6c347773 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:31:49 -0300 <p>Findings likely to increase pressure on Israel to give a full account of incident amid accusations of war crime</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/the-gaza-paramedic-killings-a-visual-timeline">The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline</a></li></ul><p>The doctor who carried out the postmortems of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in March has said they were mostly killed by gunshots to the head and torso, as well as injuries caused by explosives.</p><p>There was international outcry last month after it emerged that Israeli troops had launched a deadly attack on a group of paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent, civil defence and United Nations workers, as they carried out a rescue operation in southern Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/autopsies-of-rescue-workers-killed-in-gaza-show-gunshots-to-head-and-torso">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Israel Gaza Palestinian territories World news Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza Photograph: PRCS https://www.ft.com/content/74b745c7-f3c2-4f37-a31e-8f8535773d84 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:8198c179-5d2b-416e-1d33-6e481ea4f30d Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:16:40 -0300 Defence minister Israel Katz says military ‘is not evacuating areas that have been cleared and seized’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/autopsies-of-rescue-workers-killed-in-gaza-show-gunshots-to-head-and-torso World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:a0aa1fee-47ee-a95f-85f8-b11dca6c8e18 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:56:56 -0300 <p>Findings likely to increase pressure on Israel to give a full account of incident amid accusations of war crime</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/the-gaza-paramedic-killings-a-visual-timeline">The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline</a></li></ul><p>The doctor who carried out the autopsies of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in March has said they were mostly killed by gunshots to the head and torso, as well as injuries caused by explosives.</p><p>There was international outcry last month after it emerged that Israeli troops had launched a deadly attack on a group of paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent, civil defence and United Nations workers, as they carried out a rescue operation in southern Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/autopsies-of-rescue-workers-killed-in-gaza-show-gunshots-to-head-and-torso">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Israel Gaza Palestinian territories World news Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza Photograph: PRCS https://www.ft.com/content/18f2d68d-1e6f-4958-b7cb-ca9820ffa486 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:40937936-a250-dfbb-f0ac-dbf3fd6825b4 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:16:09 -0300 Trump administration accuses Shandong Shengxing Chemical of buying crude as it increases pressure on Beijing and Tehran https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/israeli-foreign-minister-david-lammy-uk-foreign-office World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:5e220686-daae-a22f-3b0d-7cfc01b52762 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:58:02 -0300 <p>Activist groups make request for arrest warrant to be issued for Gideon Sa’ar after unannounced trip to London</p><p>The UK Foreign Office has confirmed that the foreign secretary, David Lammy, met his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa’ar, while Sa’ar was on an unannounced visit to London.</p><p>The Foreign Office described Sa’ar’s visit as “private”, though it said Lammy had discussed a full range of Middle East issues with the Israeli foreign minister. News of Sa’ar’s presence in the UK – at a time when Israel is intensifying its offensive in Gaza, having ended a ceasefire last month – has triggered outrage among critics of Israel, and a formal request from activists for an arrest warrant to be issued against him on charges of alleged complicity in war crimes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/israeli-foreign-minister-david-lammy-uk-foreign-office">Continue reading...</a> Israel Foreign policy Israel-Gaza war David Lammy Politics Labour Middle East and north Africa Benjamin Netanyahu UK news World news Julian Borger Photograph: Nicolas Garriga/AP https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/apr/16/ben-jennings-american-rockets-cartoon World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:329a72ab-b93d-ab84-4b10-d8e722831e11 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:34:03 -0300 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/apr/16/ben-jennings-american-rockets-cartoon">Continue reading...</a> Weapons technology US news Middle East and north Africa Gaza World news Blue Origin Israel Space Ben Jennings Illustration: Ben Jennings/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/members-of-leading-british-jewish-body-condemn-israels-latest-actions-in-gaza World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:896e5d7b-7f6d-8e3c-888d-8273fcd29f0e Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:48:33 -0300 <p>Signatories from Board of Deputies say in open letter that ‘Israel’s soul is being ripped out’ and they ‘cannot turn a blind eye’ to loss of life</p><p>Members of the Board of Deputies, the largest body representing British Jews, have said they can no longer “turn a blind eye or remain silent” over <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/15/medics-killed-and-wounded-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital">the war in Gaza</a>.</p><p>In a significant break with the board’s customary support for the Israeli government, the 36 signatories to an <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6a506d98-40a0-48e7-8e98-2882beb30914?accessToken=zwAGMuXEajvgkc9qUG2YQKBI59OOmCiCvrMJFA.MEUCIAIGf0Yyz5j1OmpPzjYy1oJ6yMmulSXVVmsrVNBBszaxAiEAxnF3F2Vr2Bt5ZJP0bnmDSh2Ea3bY1YDjtn4YBh7DgYs&amp;sharetype=gift&amp;token=9bed91e5-c667-48f4-b741-5080138780ef">open letter published in the FT</a> say “Israel’s soul is being ripped out”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/members-of-leading-british-jewish-body-condemn-israels-latest-actions-in-gaza">Continue reading...</a> Gaza Palestinian territories Middle East and north Africa Israel Judaism UK news Benjamin Netanyahu Harriet Sherwood Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/world-central-bakery-israel-gaza World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:0f52f713-dfff-cc94-284c-307fc6ee93bd Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:27:08 -0300 <p>World Central Kitchen mobile bakery’s production limited by flour shortage as result of Israel’s blockade</p><p>Palestinians witnessed a large white trailer being laboriously towed through the bomb-pitted roads of southern Gaza by a red tractor earlier this month, though it is unclear how many realised it was one of their last humanitarian lifelines in the face of a total Israeli blockade.</p><p>The trailer contained Gaza’s last working bakery, forced by Israeli evacuation orders to move around the territory so it can keep functioning. Aid workers say the amount of bread it can produce is only a fraction of the needs of the people of Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/world-central-bakery-israel-gaza">Continue reading...</a> Israel Gaza Middle East and north Africa Palestinian territories World news Julian Borger Photograph: N/A https://www.ft.com/content/a97ae643-059d-4665-b8c7-0ef590533f87 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:c8a1ee4b-a4c9-8f50-7be4-e80d6c1c86f0 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:00:54 -0300 Letter underscores concern in Jewish community over Netanyahu government’s violence against Palestinians https://www.ft.com/content/1c6246bb-df4e-40b0-be12-ad047a62dd06 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:c7332a58-df59-b2f8-68fb-1ea890a58fe6 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:07:59 -0300 Prime minister’s decision to resume ferocious offensive in Gaza provokes growing backlash from troops https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/15/medics-killed-and-wounded-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:9846a28e-6eab-a5d3-1682-f5da65cb3d2d Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:19:24 -0300 <p>Airstrike prompts UN warning that humanitarian crisis is at its worst since fighting broke out 18 months ago</p><p>A medic has been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a hospital in Gaza, just as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was making a visit to the war-torn territory.</p><p>The attack on Tuesday came two days after another major hospital was targeted, fuelling warnings from the UN that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now the worst it has been since conflict began.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/15/medics-killed-and-wounded-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Palestinian territories Israel Gaza Middle East and north Africa World news Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/15/medics-killed-and-wounded-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:87c849d6-e12f-5e88-7a2c-e6e763471ab9 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:19:24 -0300 <p>Airstrike prompts UN warning that humanitarian crisis is at its worst since fighting broke out 18 months ago</p><p>One person has been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a hospital in Gaza, just as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was making a visit to the war-torn territory.</p><p>The attack on Tuesday came two days after another major hospital was targeted, fuelling warnings from the UN that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now the worst it has been since conflict began.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/15/medics-killed-and-wounded-in-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Palestinian territories Israel Gaza Middle East and north Africa World news Benjamin Netanyahu Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza Photograph: Abed Rahim/Anadolu/Getty Images https://www.ft.com/content/5fa3707d-7952-464f-a67c-37ddfc061ed5 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:1890f00a-e719-1c61-96d9-9d24d5ee4154 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:17:10 -0300 Trump’s envoy signals Washington may accept limited uranium enrichment over ‘full dismantlement’ of Tehran’s programme https://www.ft.com/content/5fa3707d-7952-464f-a67c-37ddfc061ed5 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:af3630a3-07ea-59f7-c425-2ebb9db0103b Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:17:10 -0300 Steve Witkoff’s comments come after he signalled Washington might accept limited uranium enrichment by Tehran https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/the-gaza-paramedic-killings-a-visual-timeline World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:39520018-a7a2-6c7a-3e86-f82ca8eec1f7 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:41:23 -0300 <p>On 23 March contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave</p><p>At 4.20am, a Red Crescent ambulance on its way to collect people injured by an airstrike in Rafah comes under Israeli fire in Hashashin. Two paramedics are killed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/the-gaza-paramedic-killings-a-visual-timeline">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Gaza Palestinian territories Israel Middle East and north Africa World news Aid Global development Lorenzo Tondo and Malak A Tantesh in Jerusalem, and Julian Borger. Videos and graphics by Bryony Moore and Tural Ahmedzade Photograph: Ocha/Red Crescent https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/15/lawyers-for-australian-student-who-lost-eye-during-idf-raid-in-west-bank-doubt-israel-will-investigate World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:270b2043-ba07-ba12-d484-42878ed01be1 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:16:34 -0300 <p>Foreign minister Penny Wong has demanded full review into wounding of Ranem Abu-Izneid in November but legal team claim there have been ‘no updates’</p><ul><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">afternoon election email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Lawyers for an Australian dentistry student who lost her eye after being struck by shrapnel in the occupied <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/west-bank">West Bank</a> say they doubt Israel is investigating the matter despite the foreign minister, Penny Wong, demanding a comprehensive probe.</p><p>Palestinian-Australian student Ranem Abu-Izneid, 20, was sheltering with her friend on 15 November 2024 at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, when she says a bullet <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/25/australian-student-injured-in-west-bank-says-life-flipped-upside-down-as-palestinian-community-demands-answers">fired by Israeli forces</a> penetrated the window. She later lost her right eye.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/15/lawyers-for-australian-student-who-lost-eye-during-idf-raid-in-west-bank-doubt-israel-will-investigate">Continue reading...</a> Australian foreign policy West Bank Australia news Israel Palestinian territories Penny Wong Rafqa Touma Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian https://www.ft.com/content/ac0753b4-cd3d-4267-a67f-c9c57a5c7825 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:cfd5df4d-b964-fc1b-c017-b39c6f63663b Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:00:46 -0300 Shaken by October 7, the country is seizing territory and flattening villages to build buffer zones while routinely striking neighbours https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/apr/15/why-are-so-many-world-leaders-silent-on-gaza World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:20e30c20-3e3e-a100-44ea-4aa9e1285407 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 22:23:36 -0300 <p>Do they think it’s just too hard to speak out?</p><ul><li>See more of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/fiona-katauskas">Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here</a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/apr/15/why-are-so-many-world-leaders-silent-on-gaza">Continue reading...</a> Gaza Israel Israel-Gaza war Fiona Katauskas Illustration: Fiona Katauskas/The Guardian https://www.ft.com/content/5ba45dac-6cde-43f7-9646-85b77974e40d FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:c159c108-0500-f014-6de0-938735df5dc2 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:16:15 -0300 Trump team should accept that both Washington and Tehran need to make compromises https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/israel-government-gaza-hostages-mossad-criticism World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:277cc546-94ea-5b85-e8bc-47a66384a6b7 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:59:46 -0300 <p>Over 250 former intelligence agency figures back letter urging prioritising return of hostages held in Gaza</p><p>Hundreds of former operatives from Israel’s intelligence agency have criticised the return to war in Gaza amid growing frustration over the failure to bring home the remaining hostages held by Hamas.</p><p>A group of over 250 former figures from the Mossad – including three ex-chiefs – gave their backing to a letter first signed by air force veterans and reservists that urged the Israeli government to prioritise bringing back the hostages over fighting the Palestinian militant group in Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/israel-government-gaza-hostages-mossad-criticism">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war The Mossad Hamas Gaza Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Middle East and north Africa Palestinian territories World news Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem Photograph: Saeed Qaq/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/israel-government-gaza-hostages-mossad-criticism World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:acdadaf0-6fdd-c828-328e-889caadaed1a Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:59:46 -0300 <p>More than 250 former intelligence agency figures back letter urging government to prioritise return of hostages</p><p>Hundreds of former operatives from Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency have criticised the return to war in Gaza amid growing frustration over the failure to bring home the remaining hostages held by Hamas.</p><p>A group of more than 250 former Mossad figures – including three ex-chiefs – gave their backing to a letter first signed by air force veterans and reservists that urged the Israeli government to prioritise bringing back the hostages over fighting Hamas in Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/israel-government-gaza-hostages-mossad-criticism">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war The Mossad Hamas Gaza Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Middle East and north Africa Palestinian territories World news Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem Photograph: Saeed Qaq/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock https://www.ft.com/content/c33b2c35-c163-4e06-8451-ccabed079ba2 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:2ac1a67a-bd3b-dd6a-a3ab-180626218aba Mon, 14 Apr 2025 02:00:27 -0300 Also in this newsletter: should the EU introduce an ‘Amazon tax’? https://www.ft.com/content/260d8d0b-c202-4732-8025-4aeda2739cc4 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:84c69044-8150-af98-d875-ed7176e35136 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:00:27 -0300 US military and CIA veteran to help spearhead private equity firm’s expansion in oil-rich region https://www.ft.com/content/260d8d0b-c202-4732-8025-4aeda2739cc4 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:227ca93c-6847-5ec9-acf4-ad7104563c38 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:00:27 -0300 CIA veteran to help spearhead private equity group’s expansion in oil-rich region https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/palestinian-medic-assad-al-nsasrah-attacked-gaza-detained-israel-says-icrc World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:4385f972-4da1-3372-039d-77f095a95cd1 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:38:16 -0300 <p>Palestinian Red Crescent says Assad al-Nsasrah was ‘forcibly abducted’ while carrying out humanitarian work</p><p>A Palestinian paramedic who has been missing since a massacre of medics and rescue workers by Israeli troops in Gaza last month is being detained in Israel, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).</p><p>The whereabouts of Assad al-Nsasrah, a Palestinian paramedic, had been unknown for weeks since an incident on 23 March, when workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) and Palestinian civil defence came under fire as they drove ambulances to rescue injured colleagues in the southern city of Rafah.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/palestinian-medic-assad-al-nsasrah-attacked-gaza-detained-israel-says-icrc">Continue reading...</a> Gaza Middle East and north Africa Palestinian territories World news Israel Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters https://www.ft.com/content/2f400656-d2f4-4ca3-9d5a-1a69525a0f2a FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:24e5fea7-b709-33f3-f6e5-9a45605331b5 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:48:37 -0300 Al Ahli medical facility hit in strike was one of the few hospitals still operating in Gaza City https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/gaza-city-hospital-hit-ahli-baptist-civil-defence-agency-israel-intensifies-military-operations-katz World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:5eae00e0-e480-0bc1-b2e2-7b8693334c3e Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:16:01 -0300 <p>Civil defence agency says al-Ahli hospital hit as IDF operations cut off access to southern city of Rafah</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage</a></li></ul><p>An Israeli airstrike destroyed parts of a hospital in Gaza City early on Sunday, as Israel continued its military offensive in the war-battered Palestinian territory and cut off access to the southern city of Rafah.</p><p>The Palestinian civil defence agency said Israel’s air force fired missiles at al-Ahli hospital, also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab hospital, at around 2am. It was the only hospital still fully functioning in Gaza City after the destruction of medical facilities in the northern area of the strip.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/gaza-city-hospital-hit-ahli-baptist-civil-defence-agency-israel-intensifies-military-operations-katz">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Gaza Israel Middle East and north Africa Palestinian territories World news Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/labour-mps-pressure-foreign-office-to-recognise-palestinian-statehood World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:1cf7ef8b-cb81-8459-9834-1ee3a07f3c90 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:17:04 -0300 <p>Emily Thornberry calls for UK to join France, as Emmanuel Macron says June UN conference must be decisive moment</p><p>The Foreign Office is under pressure from Labour MPs to recognise a Palestinian state if Emmanuel Macron, the French president, presses ahead with plans to recognise Palestine at an international conference set for June.</p><p>France is co-chairing the conference at the UN in New York alongside Saudi Arabia, and Macron has said the conference must be a decisive moment.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/labour-mps-pressure-foreign-office-to-recognise-palestinian-statehood">Continue reading...</a> Foreign policy Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Labour Emily Thornberry Palestinian territories Israel Middle East and north Africa Politics UK news World news Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/gaza-killing-starved World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:d35ca2ed-dd96-efa9-b3f4-6ae33b147696 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 06:00:11 -0300 <p>What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it</p><p>Where do I even start? In recent weeks I’ve sat down to try and write about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</a> and, every time I steel myself to write about one atrocity, another atrocity is committed. Palestinian journalists have been <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/7/targeted-killed-burned-alive-journalists-in-gaza-attacked-by-israel">burned alive</a>, babies have <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-children-cold-death-3085913b482dc5e45edd221ceccb17b3">frozen</a> to death, medics have been <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gaza-medics-killed-israel-ambulances-f34b6ecc985d9127265a400bd52c72b7">executed</a> and buried in mass graves, kids are being killed in their sleep. Meanwhile, in the US and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/germany-deport-me-eu-citizen-no-crime-standing-palestine">Germany</a>, speaking out about dead Palestinian babies can land you on a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/02/us/israel-protesters-us-students-deport/index.html">deportation list</a>. Arguing that international human rights law should be respected can put you at risk of being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-trump-immigration-gaza">snatched off the street</a> and stuck in a detention centre.</p><p>I don’t know where to start and I don’t know what is really left to say at this point. After 18 months of endless carnage, it should be clear to everyone that this is not a war. That this is not self-defence. What is happening in Gaza is, quite simply, annihilation. A litany of genocide <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/10/29/amos-goldberg-what-is-happening-in-gaza-is-a-genocide-because-gaza-does-not-exist-anymore_6730881_23.html">experts</a> have stated this. Respected international organizations like <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/">Amnesty International</a> have concluded that Israel is committing genocide – and yet our politicians are still funding this.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/gaza-killing-starved">Continue reading...</a> Gaza Israel-Gaza war Trump administration Benjamin Netanyahu West Bank Palestinian territories Middle East and north Africa Israel US news World news Arwa Mahdawi Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/gaza-city-hospital-hit-ahli-baptist-civil-defence-agency-israel-intensifies-military-operations-katz World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:8f59328f-ce92-7c1e-8d28-90fb6591b6d9 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 02:24:03 -0300 <p>Al-Ahli hospital struck, says Gaza’s civil defence agency, amid widening Israeli offensive that has cut off access to southern city of Rafah</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage</a></li></ul><p>An Israeli airstrike destroyed parts of a hospital in Gaza City early on Sunday, its civil defence agency said, as Israel seized a corridor further south in the war-battered Palestinian territory and said it planned to expand its military offensive.</p><p>There were no reports of casualties in the strike and the Israeli military told Agence France-Presse it was looking into the incident.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/gaza-city-hospital-hit-ahli-baptist-civil-defence-agency-israel-intensifies-military-operations-katz">Continue reading...</a> Israel-Gaza war Gaza Israel Middle East and north Africa Palestinian territories World news Staff and agencies Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images https://www.ft.com/content/0bcf5de3-69ca-4b2d-8f85-a3e1596f59a9 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:b563424d-8d03-3038-e330-7dc54b3fb9a2 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 01:00:21 -0300 Government deal linked to Shia militant movement shows its continued influence after devastating war with Israel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/erdogan-lambasts-israel-for-undermining-stability-in-syria World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:2b65326f-50ee-a303-f57a-86fb93e11cf8 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:11:07 -0300 <p>Turkey’s president lashes out shortly after talks with Netanyahu’s government aimed at defusing tensions</p><p>The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lambasted Israel for undermining stability in neighbouring Syria during a diplomatic forum, days after the two countries held talks aimed at defusing an escalating conflict between them on Syrian soil.</p><p>“Turkey will not allow Syria to be dragged into a new vortex of instability,” Erdoğan told attendees at the Antalya diplomacy forum on the southern Turkish coast, accusing Israel of “trying to undermine the 8 December revolution”, in reference to the insurgency that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/08/bashar-al-assad-reported-to-have-fled-syria-as-rebels-say-they-have-captured-damascus">toppled the former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad</a> after decades in power.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/erdogan-lambasts-israel-for-undermining-stability-in-syria">Continue reading...</a> Syria Turkey Israel Middle East and north Africa Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Ruth Michaelson Photograph: Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP/Getty Images https://www.ft.com/content/771f3b6f-75f9-4978-8bdb-f7834b9e7d04 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:cdb55ea6-47bb-607f-f779-c6b9fafb4334 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:37:49 -0300 Envoy Steve Witkoff was in Oman as US pushes for a deal to avoid conflict https://www.ft.com/content/771f3b6f-75f9-4978-8bdb-f7834b9e7d04 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:75afce3d-581b-2c22-091e-2703fa2f76dc Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:37:49 -0300 Steve Witkoff and Abbas Araghchi met briefly after indirect negotiations in Oman https://www.ft.com/content/771f3b6f-75f9-4978-8bdb-f7834b9e7d04 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:652987a4-2eed-5ba4-0aed-4edc9b0a4faf Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:40:04 -0300 Envoy Steve Witkoff in Oman as US pushes for a deal to avoid conflict https://www.ft.com/content/771f3b6f-75f9-4978-8bdb-f7834b9e7d04 FT.com - World, Middle East urn:uuid:020a4dc7-aebf-ccd0-487b-21f8a55d44ea Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:15:55 -0300 Envoy Steve Witkoff travels to Oman as US pushes for a deal to avoid conflict https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/idf-unit-killing-palestinian-paramedics-golani-brigade World news: Israel | theguardian.com urn:uuid:b7c21743-5218-7e31-9e1d-150824bd1f7f Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:00:38 -0300 <p>Golani troops were under command of reservist Armoured 14th Brigade, part of division led by Brig Gen Yehuda Vach</p><p>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit involved in the killings of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics-and-rescue-workers-one-by-one-says-un">15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers</a> in the Gaza Strip last month was under the command of a brigade led by a notorious Israeli general previously accused by some of his own troops of having “contempt for human life”.</p><p>The IDF has confirmed that troops from Golani, one of the army’s five infantry brigades, opened fire on two convoys of ambulances in Rafah on 23 March and dug a mass grave to cover the bodies of those killed until the corpses could be retrieved by a UN team six days later. It has disputed allegations from two witnesses who exhumed the bodies and newly released <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/gaza-paramedics-shot-in-upper-body-with-intent-to-kill-red-crescent-says">postmortem results</a> that found several of those killed had close-range gunshot wounds to the head and chest and were discovered with their hands or legs tied.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/idf-unit-killing-palestinian-paramedics-golani-brigade">Continue reading...</a> Israel Gaza Middle East and north Africa Palestinian territories World news Israel-Gaza war War crimes Human rights Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images