Middle East

Manuel, who is living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, was also supported by HIV charities in the UK, after claims he had not been given regular access to his medication, which keeps the virus under control. He said: “I had to beg on a daily basis to prison officers to try …

The blast happened on Lehi Street in southern Tel Aviv, about an hour after the US secretary of state landed in the city to push for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. CCTV footage filmed moments before appeared to show a middle aged man walking past a shop carrying …

Bernard Haykel, a friend of the crown prince and Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, says that despite rumours that it hangs in the prince’s yacht or palace, the painting is actually in storage in Geneva and that MBS intends to hang it in a museum in the …

US President Joe Biden said earlier this week “we are closer than we have ever been” to a deal. But previous optimism expressed during months of on-off talks has proven unfounded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting on Sunday that complex negotiations were taking place to secure …

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage. More than 40,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run …

Israel and Hezbollah have traded near daily fire across the border since the 7 October attack on Israel by Palestinian militants prompted an Israeli invasion of Gaza with the aim of eliminating Hamas. Tensions have escalated further in recent weeks after Israel killed a senior Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr, in …

The first phase of the deal outlined by President Biden, based on Israel’s 27 May proposal, would include a “full and complete ceasefire” lasting six weeks, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all populated areas of Gaza, and the exchange of some of the hostages – including women, the elderly …

Footage has emerged on social media purportedly showing houses and vehicles set ablaze in Jit late on Thursday. Plumes of smoke are seen rising above the village. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that “those responsible for any criminal act will be caught and prosecuted”. Israeli …

The sticking points facing negotiators are substantial. But proposals to bridge some of them have been widely reported in the Israeli media. For instance, Mr Netanyahu’s insistence that Israeli forces must remain on Gaza’s border with Egypt, to stop armed groups smuggling in weapons, has been countered with solutions involving …

A senior official in Hamas – which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the UK and other countries – told the BBC on Wednesday that it would not attend the meeting, even though its political leadership is almost entirely based in Doha. Hamas’s position was that it would …

However, its breakdown of identified reported fatalities says a majority are children, women or elderly people. This month, Israel’s military told the BBC that more than 15,000 terrorists had been killed during the war. International journalists, including the BBC, aren’t able to report from Gaza to independently verify figures from …

The last time Israel and Hezbollah went to war, in 2006, it lasted six weeks and caused major damage and loss of life in Lebanon. More than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed, along with up to 200 Hezbollah fighters. Of the 160 Israelis killed, most were soldiers. All sides agree …

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that unpublished documents showed Israel had relayed a list of five new conditions in a letter on 27 July, external, which added to the principles it had set out on 27 May and Mr Biden presented days later. It said the May proposal …

“I don’t know what happened,” he said. “I am told it was a shell that hit the house.” “I didn’t even have the time to celebrate them,” he added. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says 115 infants have been born and then killed during the war. According to AP news agency, …

He blamed the incident on what he said were Israeli “massacres” of Palestinians. The Israeli military said: “We will continue to examine and verify the credibility of the message and will update with any more information that we obtain.” This is the first time that Hamas has said that its …

On Monday evening, the leaders of the UK, France and Germany issued a joint statement urging Iran and its allies to “refrain from attacks that would further escalate regional tensions”. “They will bear responsibility for actions that jeopardise this opportunity for peace and stability,” Sir Keir, President Emmanuel Macron and …

Fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East have been growing following the recent assassination of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders. On Sunday, the US confirmed it had sent a guided missile submarine to the region in response to these concerns. The submarine can carry up to 154 Tomahawk …

Both the police and the BBC source said that Ms Badri’s car windows were tinted. Ms Badri is now in the intensive care unit of the police-owned Vali-e-Asr Hospital in Tehran and under tight security. According to the source, her family is allowed only brief visits, during which their mobile …

Khaled says Area C is the only place where there is enough space to build something like his club, away from built up areas of cities. Despite renting the land from the Palestinian ministry of religious affairs, he has been unable to get a permit to build as this is …

The Biden administration believes a ceasefire in Gaza that frees Israeli hostages would be the best way to calm tensions in the region, and has called for talks to resume on Thursday. But on Sunday night, Hamas responded to US efforts to revive the ceasefire talks by saying Israel should …