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  • Palestinians run for cover after an Israeli air strike on Khadija school leaves wreckage on the ground and the air filled with smoke

    Wave of Israeli airstrikes kills at least 50 people in Gaza

  • A Palestinian woman holds her daughter as she walks past the rubble of homes in Khan Younis.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war live: dozens killed after Israeli strike on school

  • Palestinian health officials said at least 30 people died in the airstrike in Deir al-Balah

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    Deadly Israeli airstrike hits school in central Gaza – video report

  • Palestinians flee the eastern area of Khan Younis as Israel’s bombardment begins

    ‘Like judgment day’: evacuees tell of fleeing Israel’s assault on Khan Younis

  • Netanyahu said Israel was 'eager' to secure a ceasefire deal that would begin releasing hostages held in Gaza

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    Donald Trump: Kamala Harris comments about Gaza war not ‘very nice’ to Israel – video

  • Caroline Marks's hand passes through a blue wave as it breaks over her

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Palestinian supporters gather outside of the US Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress in Washington DC.

    The Guardian view on Israel and the world: Benjamin Netanyahu’s US trip won’t help

  • Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House<br>epa11496587 Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting with US Vice President Kamala Harris (not pictured) in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office on the White House complex in Washington, DC, 25 July 2024. US President Joe Biden also hosted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu the day after Netanyahu delivered an address to a joint meeting of the US Congress. EPA/KENNY HOLSTON / POOL

    Israelis want Netanyahu to resign. Why did Congress invite him to speak?

    Tamar Glezerman
  • Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

  • Middle East crisis live
    Israeli official criticises Kamala Harris’s calls to end the war – as it happened

  • Israeli right wing hits out at Kamala Harris as Netanyahu visit polarises opinion

  • Opinion
    Children in Gaza are now at risk of polio as well as bombs – we need a ceasefire now

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  • Gaza voices
    The Gaza orphanage director: I carried a small boy with cerebral palsy to safety – but he died soon after

  • Vice-president Kamala Harris speaks following a meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington in which she pressed him on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

    Kamala Harris says ‘I will not be silent’ on suffering in Gaza after Netanyahu talks

  • The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said Hamas and Israel were closer to a ceasefire and hostage release deal than they'd ever been before

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    Israel and Hamas closer to ceasefire deal than ever before, says White House – video

  • man wearing navy suit, blue tie and yellow pin speaks in front of microphone

    Netanyahu is presiding over a sharp decline in the US’s pro-Israel consensus

    Eli Clifton
  • A destroyer tank lies in front of a mosque in a decimated area of Omdurman, Sudan.

    ‘Smoking gun’ evidence points to UAE involvement in Sudan civil war

  • Amid chaos of US politics, Netanyahu finally gets attention he craves in Washington

  • Gaza voices
    The Gaza physiotherapist: My house was bombed – and my baby son and beloved husband died

  • Foreign Minister Penny Wong at a press conference in the blue room of Parliament House in Canberra this afternoon. Monday 5th February 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia.

    Australia imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers and youth group over violent attacks on Palestinians

    Penny Wong says settler violence in West Bank includes ‘beatings, sexual assault and torture’ as she announces Magnitsky-style sanctions
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