Middle East

Watch: Moment IDF soldiers board Freedom Flotilla ship bringing aid to Gaza. Pro-Palestinian group Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says Israeli troops have boarded a boat that was trying to bring food aid to the Gaza Strip by sea. It said the Handala vessel was intercepted in international waters. Video footage …

The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen boarded a Jordanian military plane dropping humanitarian aid into Gaza. He was told by the Jordanians that Israel did not want our crew to film outside the plane’s windows while he was onboard. But from the window, Bowen said he could see nothing left …

Emir Nader BBC News, Jerusalem Reuters B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel presented the findings at a news conference in Jerusalem Two leading Israeli rights organisations have said Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza constitutes genocide against the Palestinian population. B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel released separate reports …

Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent, reporting from Istanbul Reuters Residents of Gaza have cautiously welcomed reports of a temporary humanitarian pause to allow aid into the besieged enclave, but many say the relief must be the beginning of a broader, lasting solution to the deepening crisis. Israel’s military said it will …

Jeremy Bowen International editor AFP Israel has responded to sustained and growing international condemnation that it is responsible for starvation in Gaza by announcing a series of measures the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said would “improve the humanitarian response”. It is allowing airdrops of aid, carrying out the first one …

Watch: Air drop aid seen arriving in northern Gaza The World Health Organization has warned malnutrition has reached “alarming levels” in Gaza with rates on a “dangerous trajectory”, as aid airdrops resumed in the Strip. Jordan said it had worked with the United Arab Emirates and dropped 25 tonnes of …

The focus on air drops into Gaza is a “grotesque distraction” that will not reverse the territory’s deepening starvation crisis, aid agency leaders have warned. Israel’s military said early on Sunday that it had airdropped humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, after also announcing humanitarian corridors for UN aid convoys. …

Watch: Moment IDF soldiers board Freedom Flotilla ship bringing aid to Gaza. Pro-Palestinian group Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says Israeli troops have boarded a boat that was trying to bring food aid to the Gaza Strip by sea. It said the Handala vessel was intercepted in international waters. Video footage …

Hedaya al-Muta’wi’s 18-month-old son Mohammed suffers from malnutrition due to famine and weighs just 6kg. He suffers from fatigue and can no longer stand or sit up. She told the BBC “my husband was killed in the war and I don’t have a breadwinner, except God”. She said she works …

Reuters Almost one in three people in Gaza are going days without eating, the UN’s food aid programme has warned. “Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment,” the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement to news agency AFP. Warnings of starvation in …

BBC News and three leading news agencies have expressed desperate concern for journalists in Gaza, who they say are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. Those reporting the conflict from Gaza now face starvation and “the same dire circumstances as those they are covering,” a joint statement from …

Emir Nader BBC News, Jerusalem BBC Mohammed al-Qedra said he was shot in the hand and leg while trying to get food at a GHF aid distribution centre “Hunger and the lack of everything makes us go there.” “We know that we might get injured or killed at any time, …

Aoife Walsh and Paulin Kola BBC News BBC The UN says the hunger crisis in Gaza ‘has never been so dire’ One in five children in Gaza City is malnourished and cases are increasing every day, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) says. In a statement issued on Thursday, Unrwa …

A photographer in Gaza has told the story of how he captured a series of harrowing photographs, showing an emaciated child. Ahmed al-Arini told BBC Newshour that he wanted to “show the rest of the world extreme hunger” that babies and children are experiencing in the Gaza Strip. Global food …

France will officially recognise a Palestinian state in September, President Emmanuel Macron has said. In a post on X, Macron said the formal announcement would be made at a session of the UN General Assembly in New York. “The urgent need today is for the war in Gaza to end …

David Gritten BBC News, Jerusalem Reuters Gaza’s population relies almost entirely on humanitarian aid to survive More than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups are warning of mass starvation in Gaza and pressing for governments to take action. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam are …

Yolande Knell Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem Getty Images Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III (left) and Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (centre) visited Gaza for four days Church leaders in Jerusalem say they have returned from a trip to Gaza with “broken hearts”, describing starving people and children not “batting an …

Ghoncheh Habibiazad BBC Persian, World Service reporter EPA Parts of Evin prison were badly damaged in the Israeli strikes One month on from deadly Israeli air strikes on a notorious Iranian prison during the war between the two countries, inmates say they are being kept under unbearable and inhumane conditions …

The UK and 27 other countries called on Monday for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, where they say the suffering of civilians has “reached new depths”. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the UN chief António Guterres said he was “appalled” by the increasingly dire conditions in Gaza. …

At least 33 Palestinians, including 12 children, have died as a result of malnutrition across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry has said. The deaths of 11 adults and four children were reported over the past day, a spokesman told the BBC. It came …