Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News' International Editor.
Recently she has reported on the war in Ukraine, and the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
She has reported from six continents, covering the major conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades, including Syria, Iraq, Kosovo and Rwanda, winning many awards.
She is the author of Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution and In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, which won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for biography.
She is a regular contributor to newspapers and literary journals.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting his cabinet amid hopes that a deal to release some of the nearly 240 people being held hostage in Gaza could be imminent.
The right wing populist Javier Milei has been elected as Argentina’s next president – after pledging to tackle the country’s soaring inflation and high levels of poverty.
They went to a music festival to celebrate “friends, love and infinite freedom,” only to find themselves in the midst of a massacre. Some 270 people were killed, and an unknown number injured and taken hostage when Hamas attacked the Supernova trance music festival three miles from Israel’s border with Gaza on October 7th.
Our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has the latest geopolitical analysis.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there will be no temporary ceasefire with Hamas, proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK, until all Israeli hostages are released.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there will be no temporary ceasefire with Hamas, proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK, until all Israeli hostages are released.
The Hamas attacks on October 7th threaten to upend Israeli politics. Some of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing supporters blame him, while leftwing Israelis are questioning their belief in peace talks and an end to occupation.
For the first time in three weeks the border between Gaza and Egypt has opened, as the war between Israel and Hamas rages, mainly in the north of the Strip.
Dozens of people have been reported killed in an Israeli airstrike at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza – which the IDF said killed a senior Hamas commander. A spokesman accused Hamas, which the UK has designated a proscribed terrorist organisation, of deliberately building its infrastructure beneath peoples’ homes. According to the Hamas appointed Gaza…
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out any ceasefire in Gaza – declaring it was a “time for war… for our common future”.
The UN has warned that civil order is starting to break down in Gaza, after thousands of people looted warehouses, desperate for food.
Gazans are cut off from the world and also each other, under a total siege and a communications blackout as the war enters a new phase.
In Gaza there are large explosions along with an internet and mobile phone black out. A spokesman for the IDF has said operations on the ground are being stepped up.
An Israeli army spokesman has announced that its land operations are being expanded. Although it is not clear what expansion means and whether this is the long feared ground invasion.
As Israel continues to step up its relentless air attacks on Gaza, the IDF said it had attacked more than 250 targets during its brief raid into the territory overnight and has also killed a senior Hamas leader. While UN agencies on the ground in Gaza say fuel supplies are still urgently needed if they’re…