Gaza war

Startling footage shows ‘Beautiful Six’ hostage group marking Chanukah in Gaza tunnel

Alex Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Ori Danino can be seen commemorating the occasion months before their murder

By Daniel Ben-David

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Hostages in a Gaza tunnel complex celebrating Chanukah around 80 days after their capture on October 7, 2023 (Credit: IDF)

Gazan journalist Anas al-Sharif (C), who was killed in an Israeli strike in August, embraces the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (IDF)

Gaza war

Most Gazan journalists killed by IDF had links to terror, new report claims

By Jacob Jaffa

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Hamas

Hamas leader rules out ‘unacceptable’ disarmament as part of Gaza ceasefire

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Marwan Barghouti is led to a police vehicle on 29 September 2003 (Getty Images)

Sir Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry and Miriam Margolyes among 200 public figures to call for Marwan Barghouti’s release

By Ben Conway

2 min read

The entrance to the Guinness World of Records museum in Copenhagen, Denmark (Getty Images)

Israel

Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel or Palestinian territories

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Football

Uefa held meetings with pro-Palestine campaigners ahead of vote on Israel ban despite Gaza ceasefire

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

A copy of the Financial Times (Getty Images)

Board of Deputies

Board of Deputies cuts suspensions of two members involved in FT Gaza War letter

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

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By Aharon Cohen-Mohliver

How the Gaza coverage hard-wired anti-Israel into AI

Years of flawed, emotive reporting – especially from “high-reliability” outlets – have been baked into training data for large language models and the damage may be impossible to undo

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November 20, 2025 14:43

UN Security Council to vote on second phase of Trump peace plan

Israel has raised concerns about the plan’s apparent commitment to establishing a Palestinian state

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

November 17, 2025 10:50

A UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestinian statehood, during the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2025, in New York City (Getty Images)

Israel reopens key aid crossing to northern Gaza

UN agencies are reporting an uptick in food availability since the ceasefire was implemented

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

November 13, 2025 16:00

Palestinians walk carrying sacks of flour near Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on July 27, 2025, after trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered northern Gaza through the Zikim Crossing (Getty Images)

Wikipedia co-founder personally intervenes over edits to ‘egregious’ Gaza ‘genocide’ article

Jimmy Wales confirmed the page had been locked until ‘editing disputes have been resolved’

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

November 4, 2025 14:03

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales (Getty Images)

BBC accused of ‘pushing Hamas lies’ after whistleblower report found Gaza coverage ‘minimised Israeli suffering’

Claims against the Jewish state were allegedly ‘raced to air’ without adequate checks in order to ‘paint Israel as the aggressor’

By Jacob Jaffa

4 min read

November 4, 2025 12:59

People outside the main entrance to the BBC's headquarters, Broadcasting House, in central London (Getty Images)

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder claims parent company blocked development of ‘flavour for Palestine’

Ben Cohen is now going ahead with the project independently, and taking recipe suggestions from the public

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

October 29, 2025 12:06

Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen announces the planned creation of an independently-made 'flavour for Palestine' (Instagram/Ben Cohen)

‘No involvement’ – Netanyahu rules out Turkish troops in Gaza under post-war plan

Concerns had been raised about Ankara’s forces being stationed in the region, with the prime minister seeing the idea as a ‘red line’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

October 22, 2025 10:37

US Vice President JD Vance meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

Netanyahu claims Israelis would have ‘gone up in nuclear smoke’ if Gaza War had ended sooner

Opposition Yair Lapid hit back: ‘Who was prime minister on October 7?’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

October 21, 2025 14:30

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a plenary session of the opening day of the winter session at the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 20, 2025 (Image: Flash90)

By Andrew Fox

The Gaza cease-fire is built on painful Israeli concessions – not total victory

The deal with Hamas is imperfect – hostages exchanged for killers, the jihadis diminished but not gone. The task now is not to romanticise the bargain, but to use this brittle pause to build a sturdier quiet

3 min read

October 10, 2025 15:06

Hamas fighters stand guard near the family home of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (Image: Getty)

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Gaza war

Startling footage shows ‘Beautiful Six’ hostage group marking Chanukah in Gaza tunnel

Most Gazan journalists killed by IDF had links to terror, new report claims

Hamas leader rules out ‘unacceptable’ disarmament as part of Gaza ceasefire

Stephen Fry and Miriam Margolyes among 200 public figures to call for Marwan Barghouti’s release

Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel or Palestinian territories

Uefa held meetings with pro-Palestine campaigners ahead of vote on Israel ban despite Gaza ceasefire

Board of Deputies cuts suspensions of two members involved in FT Gaza War letter

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