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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      Israel, Oppenheimer and the laws of war

      Legality and morality are not always the same thing in wartime

      Illustration of an ‘H’ sign for a hospital that has bullet holes in it and is surrounded by fire
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Arab foreign ministers press China to support end to Israel-Hamas fighting

      Wang Yi backs ‘immediate ceasefire’ as Beijing seeks to step up its influence in Middle East

      China’s foreign minister Wang Yi delivers a speech during a meeting with Arab and Muslim counterparts in Beijing
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Middle East conflict restarts German debate on selling jets to Saudi Arabia

      Israel-Hamas war has prompted several ministers in Berlin to reconsider relations with Gulf kingdom

      German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sits in the cockpit of a German Eurofighter plane
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      In maps: half of northern Gaza’s buildings wrecked by war

      Radar data shows Israel’s six-week offensive against Hamas has left much of the Palestinian enclave in ruins

      Montage of Israeli soldiers in a vehicle next to damaged buildings in Gaza and map of Gaza
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      EU poised to approve continued Palestinian development aid

      Brussels’ review of funding prompted by Israel-Hamas war finds bloc is not financing terror groups

      European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, left, in north Sinai in Egypt on Sunday for  the unloading of humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US and Qatar say deal closer over Hamas hostages

      Any breakthrough is expected to lead to a multi-day pause in Israel’s offensive in Gaza

      An Israeli armoured vehicle rolls past Palestinians fleeing the fighting in war-torn Gaza  on Salaheddine road in the Zeitoun district of Gaza City
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
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      MPs urge use of UK national security law to vet Barclay family’s Telegraph deal

      Tories concerned that family’s offer to repay media group’s £1.1bn debt will use funding from Abu Dhabi

      Copies of the Spectator and Daily Telegraph
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US confident Arab states will not weaponise oil, says Biden adviser

      Amos Hochstein tells FT energy markets are coping ‘fairly well’ despite pressure from two wars

      Amos Hochstein
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli forces advance in Gaza City as Netanyahu resists ceasefire calls

      Defence minister says entire enclave ‘will feel IDF’s lethal strength’ as allies urge caution

      Palestinians walking in a street full of rubble
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Joanne Liu
      Patients and doctors must never become targets of war

      In any conflict situation, from Gaza to Ukraine, medical staff must be protected and given unhindered access to patients

    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Gaza’s tiny Christian community huddles in churches to hide from war

      Most of the enclave’s 800-1,000 Christians have remained in Gaza City, even as Israel’s ground offensive has intensified

    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Biden says ‘a ceasefire is not peace’ and calls on Hamas to release hostages

      US president also suggests visa bans for those behind ‘extremist violence’ against Palestinian citizens in the West Bank

    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Hundreds of patients flee Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital

      Israel says the medical facility sits on top of a Hamas command centre

    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Israel
      Israel raises $6bn in borrowing bonanza to fund war against Hamas

      Yield on debt is sharply higher than before the conflict began

      The Bank of Israel building in Jerusalem
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel vows to expand operations against Hamas beyond northern Gaza

      IDF chief says ‘more regions’ will be targeted as troops continue search of al-Shifa hospital

      Israeli soldiers open fire during an operation against Hamas
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Opec+ weighs further oil production cuts as anger mounts over Gaza

      Saudi Arabia prepares to prolong reductions into spring after price hits four-month low of $77

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    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
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      Also in this newsletter: How Brussels is working to defuse cheesemakers’ concerns over packaging rules

    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      InterviewIsrael-Hamas war
      Iran told US it did not want Israel-Hamas war to escalate

      Hossein Amirabdollahian says Tehran has used back channels to convey fears of conflict in Gaza spreading across region

      Hossein Amirabdollahian said messages had been exchanged between Iran and the US, via the US interests section at the Swiss embassy in Tehran
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      ‘B-movie general’: Israel’s hostage point man draws scorn from angry families

      Retired army officer Gal Hirsch becomes lightning rod for fury as most of those held remain in Hamas’s captivity

      Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie Shoshana Raanan walk while holding hands with retired brigadier general Gal Hirsch
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel signals operations in southern Gaza after hospital raid

      Israeli military says it has found the body of a hostage taken by Hamas close to the al-Shifa medical facility

      A woman stands amid a wrecked building
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Germany raids ‘anti-Israel’ Muslim organisations

      Police and intelligence agencies swoop on more than 54 properties on Thursday

      German police stand outside the Islamic Center Hamburg in Germany on Thursday
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
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      Dubai Watch Week: brands dial into Middle East market with local special editions

      Pieces featuring Arabic or Hindi numerals, reflecting the region’s cultures, are gaining in popularity with collectors

      Watches on display inside the Dubai Watch Week fair
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Ivan Krastev
      With all eyes on the Middle East, does the west have a viable strategy for Ukraine?

      New polling suggests western public opinion is not convinced that this is a winnable war

      A group of people stand inside a railroad carriage that has a clinical layout
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel will maintain ‘very strong force’ in Gaza, says president

      Head of state Isaac Herzog expects country’s neighbours and the US to play role in enclave after war

      Isaac Herzog
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli military raids Gaza’s largest hospital in climax of siege

      IDF says al-Shifa medical facility sits on top of Hamas tunnel complex

      Israeli troops patrol the al-Shifa hospital site in Gaza City as part of an offensive against Hamas
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