Among the Israeli settlers living in H2, in the hardline Kiryat Arba settlement, is Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir. On Thursday, Ben Gvir, who has personally overseen the distribution of thousands of new rifles to West Bank settlers since
Palestinians including hundreds who left al-Shifa hospital are seen fleeing Gaza City on foot. Gunfire was heard as people made their way and Israeli tanks and diggers were seen on the move. The evacuees from the hospital included sick and injured people,
While we do not know how those men escaped, we do know what methods were used by the other 21,113 who were caught trying. The majority – 14,313 – were attempting to walk or swim across the border, and the remaining 6,800
The laptops, he says, contain photos and videos of hostages, taken after their kidnap to Gaza. There is also recently released footage, shared by Israeli police, of their interrogations of Hamas fighters arrested after the October attacks. The BBC was not shown
China’s current economic challenges will be an “important factor” in Mr Xi’s negotiations and “would lead to a stronger desire to stabilise the economic, trade and investment relations with the US”, Li Mingjiang, an associate professor at Singapore’s S Rajaratnam School of
Israel maintains that it has not fired directly on hospitals in Gaza but says tunnel networks under them are used by Hamas as “instruments of war” to plan and launch attacks on Israeli forces. The Israeli military has vowed to destroy Hamas,
On Monday, BBC Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abdalouf spoke to a survivor, Maryam al-Arabeed, 65, who told the BBC that Israeli soldiers entered the facility on Sunday night, moved everyone out and watched “an Israeli bulldozer completely demolish the building”.
Meanwhile the far left in France, analysing Gaza through the anti-colonial lens, sees an oppressed people hammered by a superpower proxy and shouts “Solidarity!” Having lost the support of the old working class, many of whom vote National Rally, it has a
Speaking the day after a humanitarian aid conference in Paris about the war in Gaza, Mr Macron said the “clear conclusion” of all governments and agencies present at that summit was “that there is no other solution than first a humanitarian pause,
Six months after they were stripped, paraded naked and allegedly gang raped by a mob in north-east India, two women, whose ordeal was made public in a viral video, talk to the BBC in their first face-to-face interview. They speak about living