Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Haaretz

Israel-Hamas Conflict: Iran Reportedly Sends Destroyer To Red Sea; US Sinks Houthi Boats

It's Day 87 of the Israel-Hamas war, and Hamas continued to fire rockets toward Israel on New Year's Day. Yemen's rebel army also pursued its disruption of Red Sea shipping, and Hezbollah carried out attacks toward northern Israel that displaced thousands of residents.

International Business Times

Amid fears of escalation in the Israel-Gaza conflict, consider this: war without end suits Netanyahu

The Israeli prime minister has his own agenda to galvanise his coalition and strengthen himself, says foreign affairs specialist Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian death toll in Gaza nears 20,000 with nearly 2 million people displaced

UK and Germany demand ‘sustainable ceasefire’ as Israel’s military campaign enters 11th week

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Videos of stripped detainees in Gaza: A practice condemned under international law?

Since December 7, images of Palestinians arrested and stripped naked in Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have provoked widespread concern. Israeli authorities say they undressed the detainees as a security measure, but that photos of them in their underwear "serve nobody". The images have sparked debate on the…

France 24

These photos of Israelis mistreating Palestinian children aren’t from the latest conflict

More than 6,000 Palestinian children are thought to have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas so far, according to numbers released by Hamas. It’s in this context that photos and videos have started circulating online that people say show Israelis mistreating Palestinian children. However, while violence against…

France 24

Labour steps up criticism of ‘intolerable’ killings in Gaza

Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy slams Israeli ‘death and destruction’ and urges UK travel ban on violent settlers

The Guardian - UK

Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds

Civilian proportion of deaths is higher than the average in all world conflicts in 20th century, data suggests

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

London-born teenager killed in Gaza while fighting for the IDF

Binyamin Needham, 19, was killed just two days after being deployed in the territory

Evening Standard

British national, 19, killed while fighting for IDF in Gaza

Binyamin Needham was born in England but moved with his family to Israel at the age of eight

The Guardian - UK

Wartime Israel shows little tolerance for Palestinian dissent

More than 270 Palestinian citizens have been arrested in an Israeli crackdown on free speech and political activity since the Hamas attack

The Independent UK

Gaza Update: ceasefire holds for now, but array of armed Hamas allies could threaten this fragile truce

So far, the ceasefire between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas, originally set at four days and since extended twice as more hostages and prisoners are exchanged, remains in place. There have been concerns that isolated incidents of violence, including one in Jerusalem where three Israeli civilians were gunned…

The Conversation

First Thing: Deal to keep 1.5C hopes alive is within reach, says Cop28 president

Sultan Al Jaber says progress means ‘unprecedented outcome’ is possible. Plus, why the UK and Greece are arguing about marbles

The Guardian - UK

Qatar mediator says latest prisoner release would comprise 16 children and 14 women – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Gaza war: Israeli government has Haaretz newspaper in its sights as it tightens screws on media freedom

The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza.

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Israeli intelligence leak details extent of warnings over Hamas attack

Officer who reviewed intelligence considered risk of big attack ‘an imaginary scenario’, leak suggests

Al Jazeera

Elon Musk’s Israel trip: What was the purpose, what did he tell Netanyahu?

X CEO Elon Musk, who has been accused of platforming anti-Semitic posts, visits kibbutzim attacked by Hamas.

WEKU

Israel's forgotten hostage: Avera Mengistu remains in Hamas captivity after 9 years

Nine years ago, Mengistu was taken by Hamas. A deal on the release of some of the hostages taken on Oct. 7 doesn't appear to include him.

Al Jazeera

Hamas had not planned to attack music festival, Israeli report says

First police investigation of Supernova festival also found Israeli forces responsible for some deaths.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Al Jazeera

What does David Cameron’s return to UK politics mean for the Middle East?

The former PM has called Gaza ‘a prison camp’ and advocated for two states, but he is also a staunch backer of Israel.

The Guardian - UK

What would Israel look like under a new leader – and who would benefit?

Israelis are politically divided, but there’s widespread agreement that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government needs to go

The Guardian - UK

Israel-Hamas fake news thrives on poorly regulated online platforms

Claims on X and Telegram include downplaying 7 October Hamas attack and allegations Palestinians are faking scenes of suffering

Al Jazeera

What’s Israel’s Hannibal Directive? A former Israeli soldier tells all

The controversial policy to avoid capture of Israeli soldiers isn’t formally in place now. But echoes persist in Gaza.

Crikey

Under cover of Gaza’s destruction, Israeli settlers and police are destroying West Bank Palestinian society

One hundred Conistons-on-the-Jordan: hi-tech murder and land theft is destroying an agricultural indigenous people.

The Guardian - UK

Israel under growing pressure to trade Palestinian prisoners for Gaza hostages

National security expert and newspaper join families’ calls for trade of about 5,000 prisoners for hostages taken by Hamas

The Conversation

Minor Detail book: how the language of the past can help us read the present situation in Palestine

On August 12 1949, members of an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) unit at the Nirim outpost in the Negev desert were celebrating the successful establishment of their new camp, close to the recently agreed armistice line with Egypt. What happened at that party was long-hidden, until a 2003 investigation by…

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Amnesty International

878 stories

Human Rights Watch

857 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.