Gaza

We spoke to Oren Marmorstein, deputy ambassador and charge d’affaires at Israel’s embassy in the UK.

The Freedom Theatre is a cultural centre in the Jenin camp – and its artistic director, Ahmed Tobasi, was born and raised there.

At least eight Israelis have been injured after a Palestinian attacker rammed his car into a crowded bus stop in Tel Aviv, before stabbing people at random.

A 21-year-old Palestinian medic has been killed in Gaza today near the Israeli border. She is reported to have been shot in the chest, with dozens of other people injured by live fire. In recent weeks more than a hundred Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops, including two journalists. Despite the dangers, one woman has…

The United Nations is holding a special session of its top human rights body tomorrow to discuss the killing of scores of demonstrators by the Israeli Defence Forces at the Gaza border fence. Today another country followed the United States by opening its embassy in Jerusalem.

There’s been more international condemnation today of Israel’s security forces killing dozens of protesters on its border with Gaza. Boris Johnson has been meeting his European counterparts in Brussels.

The UN Security Council has held an emergency meeting following the deadly violence in Gaza which coincided with America opening its new embassy in Israel in Jerusalem. US Ambassador Nikki Haley said it would be a mistake to blame the deaths on the embassy moving from Tel Aviv to the city which Palestinians view as…

Hamas official Ghazi Hamad discusses Gaza.

Palestinian authorities reported that two more people died under the fire of the Israeli military on the Gaza border with Israel, bringing the total number of fatalities to 62 since yesterday. Many more remain critically injured in hospital. There is mounting international condemnation of Israel’s use of force, with the United Nations calling it an…

Israel’s UK Ambassador Mark Regev discusses Gaza.

Over 50 people were killed – several of them children – and many hundreds injured, as Palestinian protesters were met with live rounds fired by Israeli troops.

Nadia Hijab is co-founder and president the Palestinian think-tank Al-Shabaka.

Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Danny Danon, discusses the Gaza protests.

The anger and consequent bloodshed in Gaza was in response to events in Jerusalem.

Tensions on the Gaza-Israel border are high ahead of a planned major demonstration next week to mark what Palestinians refer to as “the Nakba” or “catastrophe” – a reference to Israel’s establishment in 1948 and what happened to the Palestinians who lived on that land. Today, Gaza health officials said one Palestinian has been killed…