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  • A screenshot from a video published by the Palestinian Red Crescent shows the last moments before its paramedics came under Israeli fire

    New details on killing of paramedics in Gaza appear to contradict IDF’s account

    Haaretz report comes as supreme court gives Israeli PM more time to respond to affidavit from fired Shin Bet chief
  • logo showing PEN America The Freedom to Write

    US writers at growing risk of crackdown on free speech, says PEN America

    China again biggest jailer of writers in 2024, followed by Iran – with Israel in fifth place, says organisation’s annual report
    • Israel ends mention of humanitarian zones as Gaza war grinds on

    • DRC government and M23 agree to halt fighting and work towards truce

    • Dozens of my family have been killed by Israel in Gaza, and now Ziyad, too. Only one thing gives me solace

      Ghada Ageel
  • a man in a suit speaks

    Israel’s far-right security minister to visit Yale Jewish society day after Mar-a-Lago dinner

    Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has past convictions for supporting terrorism, attended fundraiser at Trump’s resort
  • A woman in a mask stands amid the charred ruins of Yaffa school in Gaza

    Children in school shelter among 25 killed in wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza

    Israel launches wave of airstrikes as Arab negotiators make new ceasefire proposal
    • Jordan shuts local branch of Muslim Brotherhood after arrests

    • Sharon Osbourne urges US to revoke Kneecap rappers’ visas after Israel criticism

    • This British-Australian doctor has seen the unspeakable in Gaza. He wants to shout from the rooftops

  • Kais Saied delivers a speech on 18 April 2025

    The Guardian view on Tunisia’s democratic regression: burying hope where the Arab spring began

    Editorial: The sentencing of opponents and other public figures to as much as 66 years in prison highlights the president’s dismantling of political achievements
  • Owen Jones

    Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership in amoral times

    Owen Jones
    With his outspokenness about Israel’s outrages, the late pope showed up the hypocrisy of the media and politicians, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
  • A portrait of Pope Francis is displayed at the Holy Family church in Gaza City.

    ‘He felt our pain’: Catholic church in Gaza grieves Pope Francis’s death

    Pope made nightly phone calls to the Holy Family Catholic church from the start of the war in October 2023
  • a man in a suit speaks next to another man in a suit

    Trump says Hegseth is ‘doing a great job’ despite reports of second Signal chat

  • Red crescent ambulance

    Humanitarian agencies reject IDF claim Gaza medic killings caused by ‘professional failures’

  • Ronen Bar

    Netanyahu demanded loyalty before trying to fire me, Shin Bet chief claims

  • Peter Beaumont

    What’s missing from Alex Garland’s Iraq movie Warfare? Context, motivation and, for the most part, Iraqis

    Peter Beaumont
  • Sudan’s Nuba wrestling: a celebration of strength at a time of conflict – in pictures

  • ‘My work is a scream for help’: Gaza’s artists document life under fire

  • Crowds of people surrounding a number of shrouded bodies on the ground

    Israeli military admits ‘professional failures’ over Gaza paramedic killings

    IDF says it is dismissing deputy commander for giving ‘inaccurate report’ on shooting that caused global outcry
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