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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Pilgrims of a lost Palestine
In Forgotten, writers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson explore the careless treatment and outright destruction of Palestinians’ most precious memorials…
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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 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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Sharone Lifschitz: “On 7 October, my father saw his life’s work going up in flames”
The film-maker on her father Oded Lifschitz and the plight of the 7 October hostages.
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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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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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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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Will Israel strike Iran’s nuclear programme?
This is going to be another turbulent year in the Middle East.
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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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The year ahead: “The Middle East is going to get solved”
Donald Trump has promised he'll achieve peace in the region. We'd be foolish to believe him.
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The unbearable fragility of Lebanon’s ceasefire deal
The agreed pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has been repeatedly violated.
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The reality of Ireland’s anti-Israel stance
The country has drawn a false equivalence with Northern Ireland and Palestine.
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The tragedy of Greater Syria
With the Middle East in turmoil, could Israel now step into the breach?
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Jerusalem: city of blood and blame
The violent summer of 1929 reveals the deep and tangled roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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