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Israel's war on Gaza

Exclusive: Families of Israeli captives reach out to Hamas over fate of ceasefire talks

Senior Hamas official tells a representative for some of the families that it is 'serious' about reaching ceasefire deal but facing 'intransigent Israeli positions'

'Unbearable': Gaza services face shutdown as fuel runs out under Israeli siege How Netanyahu's demented hubris could shatter the region

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel has distilled western colonial war techniques, but fails to quell resistance

Mathieu Rigouste

Israel attacks Iran

Israel's air superiority in Iran conflict can't be compared to either Russia or Ukraine

Trojan Horse Affair

Grooming gangs and Trojan Horse: The poisoned politics of Muslim integration

John Holmwood

Live

Israel's war on Gaza

Live: Over 700 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on fresh water points

Saudi Arabia asks consultants to review feasibility of 'The Line' megaproject: Report

Israel's war on Gaza

BBC review says pulled Gaza documentary did not break impartiality rules

Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict

US offers to oversee disputed Armenia-Azerbaijan corridor

Israeli weapons firm Rafael uses Gaza killing in marketing campaign

Israel's war on Gaza

Divided UK police response to Palestine Action protests exposes 'chaos' of ban

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel kills more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza in under 24 hours

Syria after Assad

Syria: Dozens killed in clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin groups

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Opinion

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel has distilled western colonial war techniques, but fails to quell resistance

Mathieu Rigouste

Trojan Horse Affair

Grooming gangs and Trojan Horse: The poisoned politics of Muslim integration

John Holmwood

Israel attacks Iran

How Netanyahu's demented hubris could shatter the region

Alain Gabon

When Britain's 'feminists' cheer for bombs and sneer at Palestinian suffering

Maryam Aldossari

For Netflix, the Srebrenica massacre is a joke - and Gaza is the sequel

Esad Širbegović

UN peacekeepers failed to protect us in Bosnia. They will fail in Gaza too

Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Israel's war on Gaza

The UK must act now to save Gaza's children

Kim Johnson

Israel's war on Gaza

The Jewish diaspora must confront what Israel is doing in our name

Antony Loewenstein

Israel's war on Gaza

Why the British Medical Association is speaking out on Gaza

Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini

Syria-Israel talks: Why the Golan Heights must not be a bargaining chip

Wesam Sharaf

BBC bias: Attack on watchdog that skewered Gaza coverage is a feeble hit job

Peter Oborne

Why is The New York Times so afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

Hamid Dabashi

It's time to decolonise the Palestinian economic system

Ahmed Alqarout

Israel attacks Iran

Gulf states must act to avoid Israel's war on Iran spiralling into chaos

Hadi Kahalzadeh

Israel's war on Gaza

Britain once jailed suffragettes. Now it jails Palestine activists

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Bob Vylan backlash: Britain is more worried about words than war crimes

Ismail Patel

Labour's surrender to Reform's narrative means Farage has already won

Sunniya Ahmad Pirzada

Gaza extermination

War on Gaza: When friends become names you whisper to the sky

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

Israel's war on Gaza

Ten things the UK could do if it truly cared about Palestinians

Alexandra Hall Hall

Israel attacks Iran

Iranian 'freedom' won't come from Israeli bombs or US regime change

Ciara Moezidis

Israel's war on Gaza

In Gaza, children are learning the alphabet through grief and hunger

Ghada Abu Muaileq

Israel attacks Iran

After ceasefire, Iran is preparing for the long war with Israel

Mohammad Eslami

Israel attacks Iran

Why western visions for a 'new Middle East' are irrelevant

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Israel's war on Gaza

If Starmer's Labour proscribes Palestine Action, none of us will be safe

Andrew Feinstein

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Israel's war on Gaza

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Israel-India relations

Fascism and impunity behind Israel and India's latest economic agreement, experts say

International law

Exclusive: Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel

Exclusive: UK Islamophobia working group blocked from consulting Muslim organisations

Israel attacks Iran

Exclusive: Iran receives Chinese surface-to-air missiles after ceasefire deal

Israel's war on Gaza

The spy, private equity baron and ghost of a Trump donor: The revolving door behind a Gaza mercenary firm

The rise of paramilitary settler groups in Israel's West Bank strategy

Egypt hosts secret talks between Sudan's Burhan and Libya's Haftar in bid to mend ties

Israel's war on Gaza

Srebrenica genocide survivors draw parallels with Gaza 30 years after massacre

Israel's war on Gaza

'Like a kidnapping': How UK police are hunting pro-Palestine activists

Exclusive: UAE ambassador’s firm linked to Bangladesh airports data deal

Israel attacks Iran

Unscathed by war, Gulf states look to capitalise on Israel and Iran's losses

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza

'Unbearable': Gaza services face shutdown as fuel runs out under Israeli siege

Israel's war on Gaza

Israeli civilians paid thousands to demolish Gaza homes

International law

‘I’ve hit a nerve’: Francesca Albanese defiant in face of Trump sanctions

Israel's war on Gaza

Pits, gunfire and panic: Palestinians navigate death at US aid points

Israel's war on Gaza

Israeli troops executed her father and brother. Then taunted the survivors

Israel's war on Gaza

‘They will start dying’: Gaza’s largest hospital forced to end dialysis services amid fuel crisis

Israel's war on Gaza

The Palestinian babies stricken by meningitis in Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza

‘My journey to get aid in Gaza was like Squid Game’

US politics

Campus protests

Pro-Israel professor Shai Davidai leaves Columbia University after 'mutual agreement'

Pro-Israel website Canary Mission used to identify students for deportation, says ICE

Russia-Ukraine war

Former US official says Israel should give Patriot interceptors to Ukraine

US-Israel relations

Timeline: Trump's remarks on the forcible transfer of Palestinians in Gaza

Why is The New York Times so afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

Hamid Dabashi

US Democrat Ro Khanna faces backlash for TV appearance with anti-Muslim legislator

Trump cannot prevent migrants from seeking asylum at US border, judge says

‘Alligator Alcatraz’: Trump administration builds Florida detention centre for deportees

Sudan Crisis

Egypt hosts secret talks between Sudan's Burhan and Libya's Haftar in bid to mend ties

RSF advance on Libyan border marks new phase in spread of Sudan's war

They were a few miles from safety. Then the RSF stopped them

Sudan: Gum arabic haul worth $75m seized by RSF in Kordofan looting spree

Sudan’s army and RSF militia enter bone-breaking phase in Nyala and Port Sudan

Sudan's shadow war: Drone strikes reveal escalating tensions between UAE and Turkey

UAE sent Chinese weapons to Sudan despite embargo

Sudan cuts ties with UAE as Port Sudan reels from drone strikes

Sudanese army accuses Libya's Haftar of joint border attack with RSF

ICJ dismisses Sudan's case accusing UAE of complicity in genocide

UK police handed dossier of war crimes committed by RSF in Sudan

Activists call for UAE boycott over its backing for the RSF in Sudan

Explainers

Israel's war on Gaza

'Concentration camp': Israel's planned new city in Rafah, explained

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel's war on Gaza: Who are Palestine Action?

Iran-Israel tensions

What do we know about Israel's own nuclear weapons?

Israel attacks Iran

Israel attacks Iran: What do we know so far?

Israel's war on Gaza

‘Popular Forces’: Who are the Gaza gangsters being armed by Israel?

International law

Could David Cameron be prosecuted for threatening the ICC?

Everything you need to know about the immigration protests in Los Angeles

Israel's war on Gaza

Has Israel manufactured a famine in Gaza?

Trending

Gaza Under Attack

Video of US contractors cheering after firing at Gaza civilians ignites fury online

Discover

'The Rebel’s Clinic': Frantz Fanon's legacy in a new era of colonial genocide

'The President’s Cake': Hasan Hadi on Iraq, sanctions and his Cannes-winning debut

Israel's war on Gaza

Documentary dropped by BBC exposes Israel's deliberate targeting of Gaza medics

Sulaiman Addonia: A novelist shaped by displacement and the redemptive power of art

Shattered Lands: How Doha and Dubai could have joined India or Pakistan in 1947

The Anthropocene Illusion: Capitalism destroyed nature. Now we long for it

From Spain to Mecca on horseback: The men performing Hajj like medieval pilgrims

Eid al-Adha dishes from around the world, with not a kebab in sight

Eid al-Adha 2025: When is it and everything else you need to know

Eid al-Adha 2025 quiz: How much do you know about Islam's biggest religious festival?

Their End Is Our Beginning: On imagining a world free of cops

Gaza Olympics 2048: A vision of Palestine a century after Nakba

The good Arab immigrant: Ramy Youssef hits his stride with #1 Happy Family USA

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials

'The Encampments' vs 'October 8': A battle of narratives on Palestine plays out in cinema

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha amongst 2025 Pulitzer winners

We are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth

Trolling Israeli soldiers and being shoved by a settler leader: Louis Theroux's 'The Settlers'

The Encampments: A portrait of a protest for Palestine that moved America

Israel's war on Gaza

ITV documentary 'Our Land' lays bare the fanaticism of the Israeli settler movement

The Big Story

Israel's war on Gaza

How America's entertainment industry manufactured silence on Gaza

How independent MPs transformed British politics

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza genocide: How Arab regimes became the enemy within

The Nakba: Jaffa's erasure is a warning to Gaza - but history is yet to be written

A dangerous mind: The legacy of Bijan Jazani and Iran's 1975 Evin executions

Kenize Mourad: The Ottoman princess boycotted in France for supporting Palestine

Ten years after the air strikes began, Yemenis hope for an end to 'journey of suffering'

How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region

Revealed: How the UK continued selling arms after Yemen massacre

Are Arab dissidents facing a new wave of repression?

Israel's war on Gaza

Eyes were wet with tears, children cried. The long walk home to northern Gaza

What made Benjamin Netanyahu?

Real Talk

How the New York Times enabled genocide 'more than Starbucks' | Mona Chalabi

William Dalrymple: ‘Britain’s education system sold me a lie about Palestine’

Israeli strikes on Iran: ‘You can’t bomb people into a revolution’ | Hoda Katebi

'I have no business with genocidaires': Saul Williams on Gaza, US empire and power of art

'I'm broken inside': A young journalist's painful story of leaving Gaza | Abubaker Abed

Pakistani influencer on India, partition, and the language of ‘dehumanisation’ | Bilal Hassan

I called out Microsoft’s complicity in Gaza. They fired me | Vaniya Agrawal

How does western media ‘whitewash’ genocide? | Assal Rad

Unapologetic

Unapologetic Podcast

How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes

Unapologetic Podcast

What exactly happened in Syria’s 13-year civil war

Unapologetic Podcast

Azzam Tamimi on Yahya Sinwar's legacy, Israel and the likelihood of a regional war

Unapologetic Podcast

Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests

Unapologetic Podcast

Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system

Unapologetic Podcast

Cornel West on his life and what inspired him to run for US president

Unapologetic Podcast

Andrew Feinstein: The anti-apartheid activist trying to stop Keir Starmer

Unapologetic Podcast

Mads Gilbert: The doctor who's witnessed Israel's wars against Palestinians since 1982

The Big Picture Podcast

The Big Picture Podcast

An American surgeon in Gaza describes what he saw

The Big Picture Podcast

Netanyahu commits 'a bloodbath in Gaza' to save himself

The Big Picture Podcast

Hamas expects another war with Israel - this time in the West Bank

The Big Picture Podcast

Netanyahu’s total victory narrative has collapsed

The Big Picture Podcast

The Muslim senator who took on Australia’s government

The Big Picture Podcast

Palestinians must audition for 'our own humanity'

The Big Picture Podcast

The Syrian dream rises from the ashes of Assad’s nightmare

The Big Picture Podcast

Trump’s intrusive demons and Israel’s ‘enlightened cause’

The Big Picture Podcast

Americans 'socialised' into capitalism, racism and Zionism

The Big Picture Podcast

Jill Stein: 'The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves'

The Big Picture Podcast

Ilan Pappe on the birth of Israel and the death of Zionism

The Big Picture Podcast

'He was sent by God': Talking to Trump supporters about Israel

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By threatening the ICC, David Cameron disgraced Britain

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Israel's war on Gaza

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The West made us pay for its guilt - and now watches as Israel delivers the final Nakba

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Syria after Assad

On Israel's fatal illusion in Syria

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Gaza Under Attack

Why Hamas will not surrender

David Hearst

Why did UK media ignore Lammy's secret meeting with Israeli foreign minister?

Peter Oborne

Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Israel's war on Gaza

Gaza medic killings: How a voice from beyond the grave destroyed Israel's lie

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Red Crescent massacre: Palestinians are betrayed in a world ruled by outlaws

Joe Gill

Trump's Israel-Palestine plan

Witkoff and Trump’s Gaza dream has one thing missing: Palestinians

David Hearst

Israel's war on Gaza

Palestinian children are the future. That’s why Israel is killing them

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Israel’s Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining western claims of moral leadership

David Hearst

In Trump's new order, anyone can become Palestinian

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Why Trump's team is negotiating with Hamas

Chris Doyle

Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced

David Hearst

Trump's Israel-Palestine plan

Trump’s Gaza takeover plan is dead. Will he let Israel drag him into endless war?

Sami Al-Arian

How Netanyahu's alliance with the far right could be Israel's undoing

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war on Gaza

Cairo summit: US-Israeli rejection of the Arab Gaza plan is a moment of truth

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Syria after Assad

Syria must put an end to Israel's incursions - and fast

David Hearst