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Twenty years since Israel pulled out of Gaza – how Western folly fuelled the current bloodshed

Over the past two decades, Europe’s perverse incentives helped turn a peace overture into a prelude to the worst war of the Arab-Israeli conflict

By The JC Leader

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Israeli security forces drag a resisting Jewish settler onto a bus during the forced evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom, in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 18, 2005. (Image: Getty)

The IDF has released an image of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, who was killed in an Israeli strike over the weekend, hugging the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (Image: X/@AvichayAdraee)

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IDF releases photo of slain Al Jazeera journalist hugging late Hamas leader before death in Gaza strike

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Israeli far-right cabinet members Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich (Image: Getty)

By Dennis Ross

Recognising a symbolic Palestinian state will only help Israel’s far right block a real one

5 min read

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis takes part in a 'National march for the Hostages' organised by Stop the Hate UK, in central London on August 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

If a terror group is welcoming government policy, something is seriously wrong

3 min read

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Al Jazeera reporter killed in Gaza strike was ‘head of terror cell’, IDF claims

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Protesters gather in a demonstration organised by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 calling for action to secure their release outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

Netanyahu’s Gaza options are limited but the biggest constraints are self-inflicted

4 min read

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (Image: Getty)

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Gantz and Rubio criticise UK, Western moves they say hurt hostage talks

By JC Reporter

2 min read

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US terror victims sue Unrwa over alleged Hamas links

The claim follows a Supreme Court ruling which allowed US citizens to bring civil claims against international orgnisations accused of supporting terrorism

By Andrew Bernard

2 min read

August 8, 2025 16:20

Unrwa has been sued in US federal court over allegations of links with Hamas (Image: Getty)

Palestine recognition ‘shows Hamas that killing people pays off’

‘The entire world order is in danger,’ says the chair of Estonia’s foreign affairs committee, who warned against rewarding Hamas with statehood

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

August 8, 2025 15:25

While recognising the plight of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, Marko Mihkelson warns that Hamas could view the recent actions of Western democracies - including France, the UK and Canada - as a reward for acts of terrorism (Photo: Mihkelson in Israel, October 17, 2023 / courtesy)

Former cabinet minister slams UK ‘complacency’ over Muslim Brotherhood influence

Another former minister told the JC that some countries in Middle East are concerned that Westminster doesn’t take the issue seriously

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

August 8, 2025 15:13

A former cabinet minister has expressed concern over the 'complacency' in the UK about the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood (Pictured: Supporters of the Brotherhood at a pro-Palestine rally in Jordan; Image: Getty)

By Philipp Peyman Engel

Israel is the only nation in history accused of starving those it feeds

A lie amplified by Western media and feckless politicians – who have abandoned the hostages and increasingly abandon Israel itself – is fueling a new wave of unashamed antisemitism

4 min read

August 8, 2025 11:14

Thousands of pallets of humanitarian aid already inside Gaza were waiting to be picked up and distributed from the crossings by UN agencies and international organizations. (Image: COGAT)

Hamas using secret £500m war chest boosted by aid theft to pay civil servants’ salaries

Sources told the BBC that the terror group has been restricting the supply of aid, despite both it and the UN denying that widespread looting takes place

By Gabrielle Apfel

1 min read

August 7, 2025 13:40

Hamas has stockpiled £500 million in cash to pay the salaries of its civil servants, according to a BBC investigation (Image: Getty)

Belgian MP Darya Safai who escaped Iran ‘torture’ prison reveals IRGC abduction plot

Belgian MP Darya Safai, who fled the Islamic Republic 25 years ago, talks to the JC in an exclusive interview about her fight against the Islamic Republic and how important it is for the world to side with Israel

By Jamie Shapiro

5 min read

August 6, 2025 17:17

Belgian MP Darya Safai speaks to the JC about the horrors of the Islamic government of Iran (Image: Getty)

Starmer says Hamas must have nothing to do with any future Palestinian state

The prime minister didn’t say whether recognition would take place if Hamas continue to hold hostages

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

August 6, 2025 17:00

Pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil says there is ‘manufactured hysteria’ about antisemitism at Columbia

Khalil was detained by the Trump administration and is in the middle of a legal battle over its attempts to deport him

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

August 6, 2025 15:31

Mahmoud Khalil spoke about his views on the conflict to Ezra Klein (Image: YouTube/The Ezra Klein Show)

Evyatar David: ‘Torturous video of my skeletal brother is meant to break us, but it won’t’

Ilay David cannot bring himself to watch the footage of his emaciated brother

By Amelie Botbol

3 min read

August 5, 2025 10:51

Evyatar, whose family say he is being starved by Hamas, is now believed to weigh as little as six stone

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Hamas

Twenty years since Israel pulled out of Gaza – how Western folly fuelled the current bloodshed

IDF releases photo of slain Al Jazeera journalist hugging late Hamas leader before death in Gaza strike

Recognising a symbolic Palestinian state will only help Israel’s far right block a real one

If a terror group is welcoming government policy, something is seriously wrong

Al Jazeera reporter killed in Gaza strike was ‘head of terror cell’, IDF claims

Netanyahu’s Gaza options are limited but the biggest constraints are self-inflicted

Gantz and Rubio criticise UK, Western moves they say hurt hostage talks

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