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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
      The Israel-Hamas war in maps: latest updates

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of Gaza map and photograph of Israeli tanks on the border
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Hamas releases 24 hostages as Israel truce takes hold

      Group including 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino freed, says Qatar

      A Red Cross vehicle, part of a convoy, at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
      Who are the Palestinians being freed under the hostage deal?

      A grandmother and a 14-year-old boy are among those eligible for release as part of Israel-Hamas agreement

      The mother of Shorouq Dwayyat holds a picture of her daughter
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Person in the News
      Sheikh Mohammed: Qatar’s hostage negotiator is no stranger to crisis

      After weeks of torturous negotiations, the prime minister has mediated a deal to release some of Israel’s captured civilians

      Illustration of Sheikh Mohammed holding telephone handles with both hands. One with the Israeli flag, the other with the Palestinian flag on it.
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel-Hamas truce takes hold ahead of planned hostage release

      Four-day ceasefire brokered by Qatar will allow return of 50 captives held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners

      Israeli soldiers on the border with Gaza on Monday
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli intelligence ‘dismissed’ detailed warning of Hamas raid

      Report sent to senior officer weeks before October 7 attack was ignored, say people familiar with matter

      An armed man runs aiming his gun during the October 7 attack by Hamas
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      A much-needed truce between Israel and Hamas

      Pause in hostilities to release hostages should lead to a humanitarian ceasefire

      People walk past a mural calling for the return of the hostages kidnapped during the October 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel,
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Military briefing: has Israel achieved its war aims in Gaza?

      Benjamin Netanyahu remains a long way from his objectives despite the deal to free some of the hostages taken by Hamas

      An Israeli soldier operates in the Gaza Strip
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast20 min listen
      How united are Arab and Muslim leaders on Gaza?

      Pressure grows for concerted action to end the violence

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel approves hostage deal with Hamas

      The release of captives held by the Palestinian militant group is not expected to start before Friday

      The parents and relatives of children kidnapped on October 7, along with families of hostages and their supporters, demonstrate outside the Unicef headquarters in Tel Aviv
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Italy presses Israel to consider aftermath of Gaza offensive

      Foreign minister Antonio Tajani urges Israelis to talk to allies about who will rule strip after military operation ends

      Antonio Tajani
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
      ‘A first step’: what the Israel-Hamas hostage agreement means

      Deal is a breakthrough after weeks of war but leaves more to be done and many captives behind

      People light candles in the shape of the Star of David, with a black garment with the logo ‘Bring them home’ placed in the centre, in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 21 2023
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel’s government meets as Biden says Hamas hostage deal is close

      Agreement would free some held in Gaza in return for Palestinian women and children in Israel prisons

      Plumes of smoke seen from southern Israel towards the border with Gaza
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
      How public opinion on the Israel-Hamas war has shifted

      Surveys have picked up significant changes in the US and Europe that are rippling through national politics

      Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters in New York and Washington
    • 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
    • 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
      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
      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

    • 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

      An oil pump jack
    • 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
    • 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
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