Israel is preparing to initiate a “significant ground operation” to strike Hamas in Gaza “from air, sea and land” following last week’s terror attacks.
Latest developments
Hamas launched a massive assault on southern Israel on Saturday morning, murdering over 1,000 men, women and children and kidnapping an estimated 130 hostages. Thousands of people were injured in the well-planned and highly organised sneak attack which took place …
A terrorist group based in the Gaza strip test-fired a number of rockets into the Mediterranean sea on Tuesday morning, in a move that triggered an alert in southern Israel.
The launches, claimed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, …
Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards a historic US-brokered deal to normalise diplomatic ties, the White House said on Friday.
US President Joe Biden hopes to score an election-year diplomatic victory by securing recognition of the Jewish state by …
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted some of Israel’s most senior security officials for a meeting at his office on Sunday which excluded national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
This was not the first time that the hard right nationalist Ben …
Ahead of Labour’s annual conference next week, LFI has released its latest policy pamphlet: Britain and the Middle East: Priorities for the Next Labour Government exclusively in the Guardian today.
Priorities for the next Labour government
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ elite Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani, visited Syria last week to oversee a joint military drill, according to Iranian media reports.
Ghaani, who was appointed following a US drone strike against his predecessor, …
Israeli security forces on Sunday arrested eight Palestinian students suspected of planning an imminent terror attack.
The students, from Birzeit University near Ramallah, were arrested following an investigation into Hamas cells in Palestinian education institutions, the IDF said.
The students …
Last Friday saw Iran display what it claimed was the “longest-range drone in the world” during a military parade that also featured a number of banners threatening Israel.
The drone, one of several unnamed aerial vehicles and missiles presented at …
As the UN General Assembly convened last week, longstanding speculation around the potential for a normalisation deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia has reached a fever pitch.
What happened
US secretary of state Antony Blinken claimed last week that any potential normalisation agreement between the Saudis and Israel would have to include steps towards a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Blinken stressed his view that if the Israel-Saudi normalisation …
The UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, reported that terror groups in the West Bank are currently better armed than the Palestinian Authority security forces.
He told the World Summit of Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya that …