The Gaza breakdown
The delicate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is over. War has returned to the Middle East.
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Netanyahu has gone back to war. But Israel is not with him
Hostage families and civic society alike have been outraged by the renewed assault on Gaza.
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In the face of Hamas’s terrorism, choosing life is essential
It was unbearable when my brother’s murderer was released from prison in the ceasefire deal. But 59 hostages remain in…
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How did the BBC’s Gaza documentary ever get broadcast?
Cuts have hollowed out the corporation’s decks of talent – to the point where catastrophic errors slip through.
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The precarity of the Gaza ceasefire deal
Even if the next phase of the agreement commences, Israel will face tough choices.
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The BBC’s fumble leaves the stories of Gaza’s children untold
Also this week: Britain united over copyright law, and Trump’s war on the US press rages on.
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The horror of Hamas’s parade of hostage coffins
The bodies of hostages taken on 7 October were returned to Israel in a disturbing spectacle.
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Donald Trump is planning ethnic cleansing in Gaza
This imperialistic “Riviera” project could have been dreamt up by the Israeli far right.
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Letter from Gaza: the fighting is over, but the mourning is just beginning
This war has reached into every home, leaving no family untouched by its flames, no heart unscarred by its agonies.
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Israel is still at war
Could the West Bank city of Jenin suffer the same fate as Gaza?
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Burying the lost children of Gaza
We survivors of this war are searching for our broken families. But, even so, we must count ourselves as victors.
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The peace paradox
The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.
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Will the ceasefire last?
Trump has changed the calculus for Israel and the Middle East.
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This is Donald Trump’s ceasefire
Joe Biden doesn’t own this peace – but Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu must now take responsibility for what comes next.
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Gaza’s uneasy peace
Israel and Hamas have agreed a ceasefire. But can a new Palestinian society be built from the ruins of war?
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The myth of the liberal international order
Donald Trump can’t break what doesn’t exist.
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The year ahead: Are we on the verge of a new Middle East?
A democratic Syria and rising Turkey would ask different questions of Israel.
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Britain’s complicity with Netanyahu’s war must end
The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant make it clear: there is no justifying Israel's war.
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The ICC’s milestone decision
How court’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu will hurt – and possibly help – him.
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Yahya Sinwar’s deadly mission
The late Hamas leader’s cold determination led his fellow Palestinians down a trail of terror.
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