Middle East

Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent James Chater BBC News, London Reuters Israel has intensified its offensive on Gaza in recent days At least 38 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip during a half-hour period overnight, according to Palestinian medics. Israeli warplanes struck several …

Jeremy Bowen International Editor Reuters IDF attacks in Gaza have killed thousands since Israel ended a ceasefire in March Israel went to war after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 armed with an arsenal of weapons mostly paid for, supplied and then resupplied by the United States. Its other …

The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at how world leaders are responding to Israel’s blockade of Gaza. BBC News

Rushdi Abualouf, Cairo; Yolande Knell, Jerusalem; Mallory Moench, London BBC News Reuters A mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia Nearly 100 people, including children, have been killed in a large-scale Israeli ground, air and sea attack launched early …

Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Yuval Raphael told the BBC she had practiced singing to the sound of people booing to prepare for Eurovision Israel has qualified for Eurovision’s grand final on Saturday, hours after protesters tried to disrupt the country’s dress rehearsal. Yuval Raphael, 24, was performing New …

Jiyar Gol BBC world affairs correspondent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps special forces (file photo) US and Israeli intelligence have accused Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards of planning attacks abroad There has been a sharp rise in plots by the Iranian regime to kidnap or assassinate dissidents, journalists and political foes living …

Tim Whewell BBC News Reporting fromHoms, Syria BBC To the blast of a trumpet and the beating of drums, Fatima Hazzouri has come home. Thirteen years after civil war forced her to leave, she’s back in her native city, Homs in Syria, blinking in the sunshine as she steps off …

Israeli air strikes have killed at least 56 Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip, a local hospital says. The strikes reportedly hit homes and tents sheltering displaced families in the city of Khan Younis overnight. Local journalists said the corridors of Nasser hospital were crowded with casualties, who included women …

A pregnant Israeli woman has been shot and killed in what Israeli authorities say was a terrorist attack in the north of the occupied West Bank. Tzeela Gez, 30, was driving to a hospital with her husband Hananel to give birth when a gunman opened fire on their car near …

Fergal Keane Special correspondent Watch: BBC joins Gazans airlifted abroad for treatment after 19 months of war We were flying through the warm light of the setting sun. There were villages and small towns where the lights were coming on. It was a peaceful landscape where people walked and drove …

An Israeli air strike on the European Hospital in Gaza has killed 28 people and injured dozens, according to the Hamas-run civil defence agency. The Israeli army says it was targeting Hamas fighters and infrastructure. CCTV footage obtained and verified by the BBC shows the moment before impact and the …

Israel has issued one of the most sweeping evacuation orders for civilians in Gaza yet seen in this war. Large swathes of Gaza City, an area already partially destroyed by bombing, have been declared unsafe, the residents taking shelter there told to leave for their own safety ahead of “intense …

Caroline Hawley BBC Diplomatic Correspondent NurPhoto/Getty Human rights groups are warning of a “surge” of deaths of migrant construction workers in Saudi Arabia, as it prepares to host the World Cup in 2034. Labourers are already dying from preventable workplace accidents in the country, according to Human Rights Watch and …

Celebrations on the streets of Syria as US sanctions lifted BBC News

US President Donald Trump has said he will lift sanctions on Syria, ahead of an expected meeting with its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. Trump has agreed to “say hello” to Syria’s interim president on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia as part of his tour of the Middle East, the White House said. …

Fergal Keane Special correspondent BBC cameraman captures Israeli strike on Gaza hospital The war’s horrors multiply. The dead, the pieces of the dead. The dying. The starving. More and more of them now – all the weight of human suffering witnessed by my brave colleagues in Gaza. The urge to …

A British tourist is facing deportation from Israel after allegedly entering a closed military area and threatening security forces, Israeli authorities say. Janet Adyeri, 35, who was named by Israeli media, was detained in the Southern Hebron Hills area in the occupied West Bank on Monday. After being questioned she …

An Israeli air strike on the emergency department of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza has killed a well-known Palestinian photojournalist, medical sources and eyewitnesses say. Hassan Aslih, who was being treated for injuries from a previous Israeli strike, was targeted in what witnesses described as a drone attack on the …

US President Donald Trump has landed in Saudi Arabia, for the first major diplomatic trip of his second term. The president is hoping to secure significant new investment in the US in the four-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE. Saudi Arabia was also the first country that Trump …

A UN-backed assessment has said that Gaza’s population of around 2.1 million Palestinians is at “critical risk” of famine and faces “extreme levels of food insecurity” as an Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid continues. The latest report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said there had been a …