Hamas reportedly holds leadership vote at critical moment for militant group New head will face decisions crucial to movement’s future, such as how far to cooperate with Trump’s Gaza plan The Guardian - UK · Feb 20
Macron plan to recognise Palestine puts pressure on Starmer to choose a course Prime minister risks either provoking mutiny in his cabinet and party over Gaza or alienating White House The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2025
Trump-Netanyahu meeting: Observers sceptical yet hope for end to Gaza war Trump says a deal for a 60-day ceasefire could lead to an end to the war, but others are more pessimistic. Al Jazeera · Jul 6, 2025
US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’ The Guardian - US · Jun 10, 2025
Pattern of defiance: Israel expands settlements in face of Western pressure Move to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank a challenge to Western allies unwilling to take serious steps. Al Jazeera · Jun 5, 2025
Israel ‘normalisation’ takes back seat as Trump announces Saudi deals In Riyadh, US president focuses on business, shifting from Biden’s policy that prioritised Saudi Arabian-Israeli ties. Al Jazeera · May 13, 2025
Why the Palestinian Authority’s Abbas is under pressure to pick a successor Concern is growing within the Palestinian Liberation Organization that Israel might exploit Abbas’s departure. Al Jazeera · Apr 25, 2025
Georgetown researcher arrest escalates Trump speech crackdown, scholars say Georgetown fellow Badar Khan Suri, an Indian citizen, was targeted over his personal views on Palestine, supporters say. Al Jazeera · Mar 20, 2025
What does Trump’s ethnic cleansing proposal mean for Gaza ceasefire deal? US president’s call for mass displacement in Gaza risks renewing the fighting in the devastated enclave, analysts say. Al Jazeera · Feb 8, 2025
Israel’s outlawing of UNRWA will make life ‘unbearable’ for Palestinians Israel banned the UN aid agency as part of broader attempt to expel Palestinians from their land, analysts say. Al Jazeera · Oct 31, 2024
Sinwar's killing opens up opportunity and much uncertainty for the war in Gaza Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind of the group’s Oct. 7 2023, attack, is a dramatic turning point in the brutal yearlong war that it touched off The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2024
‘Disastrous failure’: How Biden emboldened Israel to attack Lebanon US failure to end Gaza war and prevent escalation in Lebanon is leading the region to all-out war, analysts say. Al Jazeera · Sep 24, 2024
Israel targets Hamas' military leader in Gaza. Who is he and what does it mean for the war? Israel says it tried to assassinate Mohammed Deif, the shadowy leader of the Hamas group’s military wing who has long topped the country’s most-wanted list The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2024
‘The goal is to destroy Gaza’: Why Israel rejects a ceasefire with Hamas Israel has rejected a ceasefire and launched an operation in Rafah, raising fears that the war in Gaza could drag on. Al Jazeera · May 7, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2024 What is the real Hamas? The long read: How Israeli, Palestinian and US political actors understand Hamas is not merely a theoretical question – it will determine what kind of agreement can be reached to end the current war, and what the future of Gaza will look like
Al Jazeera · Feb 15, 2024 Will Israel release Marwan Barghouti, the ‘Palestinian Mandela’? Amid growing calls for Barghouti to be released after 22 years in jail, Israel has placed him in solitary confinement.
WEKU · Jan 26, 2024 The long and bitter relationship between Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas have a tortured relationship dating back to the 1990s. Yet at various times, the hardline policies of one have boosted the other.
The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023 Middle East is sliding closer to the edge of a wider regional conflict An escalation could spark a conflagration that would bring Israel into open confrontation with Iran, and suck in the US too, writes Julian Borger
Al Jazeera · Nov 18, 2023 ‘A lot of discontent’: Netanyahu alone as Israel turns on wartime PM From families of Hamas captives to politicians in his own government, Netanyahu’s popularity is at an all-time low.
Al Jazeera · Oct 25, 2023 Biden condemns Israeli settler attacks in occupied West Bank US president said attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank ‘pour gasoline’ on tensions.
Al Jazeera · Aug 2, 2023 US wants an Israeli-Saudi ‘normalisation’ deal. Why now? Potential deal to formalise relations between Israel and kingdom would be complex but not transformative, analysts say.
The Guardian - US · Jul 27, 2023 US-Saudi talks amid reports of far-reaching diplomatic plan for Middle East But Jeddah’s demands for brokering an Israeli-Palestinian respite are reportedly a ‘non-starter’ and a ‘sucker’s bet’
Reuters · Jan 30, 2023 Israel and Palestinians risk deeper conflict in a distracted world After bloodshed in Jerusalem and the West Bank and a month since Israel's most right-wing government took office, Israel and the Palestinians risk sliding into a cycle of wider confrontation with pressure on both sides for retaliation, analysts say.
The Guardian - US · Jan 11, 2023 Biden’s response to Israel’s far-right government: avoid confrontation As Netanyahu takes an aggressively anti-Palestinian line, the White House will seek to avoid the humiliations heaped on Obama
WEKU · Sep 4, 2022 50 years ago, the Munich Olympics massacre changed how we think about terrorism Gunmen held members of the Israeli team hostage, eventually killing them, during the 1972 Munich Olympics. The attack was the first time a global audience had witnessed terrorism as it happened.