1 hour ago ‘Humanitarian city’ in Gaza a concentration camp for Palestinians: former Israeli PM

Forcing people into the proposed ‘humanitarian city’ would be ethnic cleansing, Ehud Olmert says

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5 h. ago Search ends for missing crew of ship sunk by Houthis in Red Sea

Four people presumed dead and 11 unaccounted for after Yemeni forces sink bulk carrier Eternity C

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18 h. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 30 people including six children gathering water, hospitals say

Six children were killed by an Israeli strike on a water collection point while another three were killed when a home was struck

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28 h. ago Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood: The darkly comic despair of the foreign correspondent

This novel doesn’t need the old-fashioned disclaimer that any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental, because plainly it isn’t. Like her heroine, Sara Byrne, author Phoebe Greenwood was a freelance newspaper correspondent on the Middle East.

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28 h. ago What if Ukraine falls? This is no longer a hypothetical question – and it must be answered urgently | Simon Tisdall

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step upFor 40 cruel and bloody months, Ukraine has fought the Russian invader. Since February 2022, when Moscow’s full-scale, countrywide onslaught began, its people have faced relentless, devastating attacks. Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have lost their homes. Ukraine’s industries, shops, schools, hospitals and power stations burn, its fertile farmlands are laid waste. Its children are orphaned, traumatised or abducted. Despite repeated appeals, the world has failed to stop the carnage. And yet Ukraine, outnumbered and outgunned, has continued to fight back.Ukrainian heroism amid horror has become so familiar, it’s almost taken for granted. But as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, escalates the war, raining nightly terror on Kyiv and other cities using record waves of armed drones, as US support and peace efforts falter, and as Ukraine’s overs...

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42 h. ago Nearly 800 killed near Gaza food distribution sites and aid convoys since late May, says UN

More than 600 of these deaths were recorded near the Israel-backed GHF aid distribution site

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46 h. ago Gaza truce talks stall as 28 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight

Sources say the talks are faltering over the extent of Israeli forces' withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave

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46 h. ago UN says fuel shortage in Gaza at ‘critical levels’ – Middle East crisis live

A lack of fuel means ‘lifelines will vanish for 2.1 million people’, the UN saidIsraeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including four children, hospital officials said on Saturday, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The four children and two women were among at least 13 people who were killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the area starting late on Friday, officials in Al-Aqsa Martyr’s hospital said.Another four people were killed in strikes near a fuel station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Nasser hospital. The Israeli military said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, troops struck approximately 250 targets in the Gaza Strip, including militants, booby-trapped structures, weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missile launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels and additional Hamas infrastructure sites. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago People waiting for aid among dozens reported killed by Israeli forces in Gaza – Middle East crisis live

Gaza civil defence said Israeli forces killed at least 30 people on FridayTurkish president Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that a new page opened for Turkey following the start of a weapons handover by Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) militants, Reuters reports.He said:As of yesterday, the scourge of terrorism has entered the process of ending. Today is a new day; a new page has opened in history. Today, the doors of a great, powerful Turkey have been flung wide open.Following incidents in which harm to civilians who arrived at distribution facilities was reported, thorough examinations were conducted... and instructions were issued to forces in the field following lessons learned. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may face death penalty as deal thrown out

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 that dictated US interventionist policy toward the Middle East for decades

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60 h. ago Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries, UN agency says

Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment

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66 h. ago Thirty years after the Srebrenica massacre, ‘never again’ is an old and empty slogan

As we mark the anniversary of the second genocide of the 1990s, we should recognise that we will never be able to say ‘we did not know’ what is happening in Gaza today, our world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes

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69 h. ago CHRIS HUGHES: 'UK citizens could be harmed as Iran widens its target library'

Iran is increasingly a threat to UK citizens and interests amid a changing Middle East as mounting tensions with Israel and the United States put Britain firmly in Tehran's crosshairs

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2 d. ago Concentration, removal and occupation: Inside Netanyahu’s plan for the future of Gaza

Rights groups say the Israeli plans for a so-called ‘humanitarian city’ and emigration amount to ethnic cleansing and forcible displacement, report Bel Trew, Richard Hall and Alicja Hagopian who look into the details of the proposals

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2 d. ago Almost 800 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food aid since end of May, says UN – Middle East crisis live

Majority of those killed were in the vicinity of sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation The number of people killed by strikes in Gaza on Friday has risen to seven, according to the region’s civil defence agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.Nearly all of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once during the more than 21-month war, which has created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people living there. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Five reported dead in Gaza after Israeli strike on school sheltering displaced people – Middle East crisis live

Separately, the Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat said it received several casualties after Israeli forces had opened fire at civilians near an aid distribution pointMilitant fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) began handing over their weapons near the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant step in the decades-long conflict between Turkey and the outlawed group.The disarmament ceremony marks a turning point in the transition of the PKK from armed insurgency to democratic politics, as part of a broader effort to draw a line under one of the region’s longest-running conflicts. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago 30 years after the Srebrenica massacre, ‘never again’ is a slogan as empty as it is old

Thirty years since Srebrenica, the second genocide of the 90s, it is clear that ‘never again’ is a slogan as empty as it is old, our world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes

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3 d. ago The anniversary of Srebrenica is a moment to remember that looking away is not an option

Thirty years since Srebrenica, the second genocide of the 90s, it is clear that ‘never again’ is a slogan as empty as it is old, our world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes

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3 d. ago Israeli strike kills 10 children queuing at Gaza medical clinic, officials say

Aid groups call strike ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’ while ceasefire talks continue

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3 d. ago Netanyahu is playing Trump with his ridiculous Nobel peace prize nomination | Mohamad Bazzi

There’s a cynical logic behind Netanyahu’s publicity stunt: he is exploiting Trump’s need for flattery to prolong Israel’s brutal war on Gaza “Benjamin Netanyahu nominates Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize”– that headline seems to have been pulled straight out of the satirical news outlet the Onion. But it’s 100% real news: the Israeli prime minister who has been indicted by the international criminal court for alleged war crimes in Gaza has proposed the US president, his largest weapons supplier and strongest political backer, as a candidate for the world’s top peacemaking prize.It’s absurd, akin to nominating one’s drug dealer for the Nobel prize in medicine. But there’s a cynical logic behind Netanyahu’s publicity stunt: he is exploiting Trump’s need for flattery to prolong Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and to continue attacking other countries in the Middle East, including Iran, Lebanon and Yemen. Before Netanyahu showed up for dinner at the White House on Monday with a copy of h...

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