Growing up, Fawzia al-Otaibi and her two sisters, Manahel and Maryam, yearned for a different life. Coming from a conservative family and going to school in Saudi Arabia, they chafed against the rules and restrictions imposed on them. When given the chance they would challenge them, to the irritation of teachers who said they were … Read more
In a move Israel has long feared, the international criminal court has announced it is seeking arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the defence minister, Yoav Gallantm alongside the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and other Hamas officials Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh. The news is a political earthquake, with the men … Read more
The outlook in Gaza appears bleak. A famine looms if not more aid is brought in, while Israel has said it is preparing to invade Rafah, the southern city where half the civilians in Gaza are sheltering. But there is a glimmer of hope. In Cairo a deal between Israel and Hamas has been tabled … Read more
They had told the Israelis they were there. Travelling along a coastal road in Gaza, six aid workers – from the UK, Poland, Australia and Canada – and their Palestinian driver. They had just unloaded more than 100 tonnes of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza for the millions of people at risk of famine … Read more
The scenes were chaotic: hundreds of people crowded around aid trucks desperately trying to grab what they could amid a hunger crisis that international observers feared could turn into famine. By the end of the night, according to Gazan health authorities, 112 would be dead and more than 700 people injured. As the Guardian’s diplomatic … Read more
Beyond the conflict in Gaza it has been a violent few weeks in the wider Middle East, from attacks on shipping in the Red Sea to bomb blasts in Iran and a killing by drone in Beirut. Julian Borger explains what may happen next Iran suffered the worst terrorist attack in the history of the … Read more
