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Middle East and north Africa

  • People arrive at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after an Israeli attack.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war live: Palestinians forced to move ‘across a landscape of destruction and death’, UN chief says

    António Guterres’ comments come as head of UN Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa says it has funds to continue Gaza emergency operations until September
  • Spectators watch video games as gamers play in Riyadh.

    Saudi Arabia to host first ‘Olympics Esports Games’ in 2025

  • A woman stands with salvaged items near a damaged building

    Bodies of about 60 Palestinians reportedly found after Israeli attack on Gaza City

  • People stand amid the rubble of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv.

    Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

  • Palestinians in the Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: US mediators making progress on ceasefire deal but still ‘gaps to close’, says Biden – as it happened

  • ‘Constant anxiety’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction threat in East Jerusalem

  • Why did Delta Air Lines tweet that the Palestinian flag is ‘terrifying’?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Why researchers fear the Gaza death toll could reach 186,000

    Mona Chalabi
  • Thousands of Palestinians missing amid Gaza’s unrelenting warfare

  • Fresh scrutiny of free speech in Saudi Arabia after brothers’ convictions over tweets

  • people fly flags

    US steps up sanctions against Israeli settlers and ‘outposts’ in occupied West Bank

  • Palestinians walk past houses destroyed during the Israeli military offensive in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 10 July.

    The Guardian view on Gaza’s mounting pain: Netanyahu’s ‘complete victory’ looks no closer

  • Mourning Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Martyr's Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: Hamas accuses Israel of ‘stalling’ over ceasefire negotiations – as it happened

  • Voters in Iran put their votes into red ballot boxes.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I feel betrayed by the west’: Iran’s freedom protesters react to their new president

  • I’ll be helping to clear unexploded bombs in Gaza, my home. But I dread what I will find there

    Haniya Albaioumy
  • A game of football, a boom, then scattered bodies: video shows moment of Israeli strike on Gaza school

  • Millions of lives upended as Sudan’s civil war leads to displacement crisis

  • A photo believed to be of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon in 2014

    Widow of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi given death sentence by Iraqi court

    Judgement deems one of Baghdadi’s widows complicit in crimes against Yazidi women
  • A view of the heavily damaged school: a man is seen looking through a hole in a stone wall of a building open to the sky and with chunks of rubble and plaster piled around.

    Palestinians told to leave Gaza City as Israel steps up offensive

    Evacuation order follows deadly airstrikes on locations including schools and shelters in past few days
  • Geoffrey Robertson

    Labour faces its first moral test in power. Will it protect Netanyahu from being prosecuted by the ICC?

    Geoffrey Robertson
    Britain finally has a chance to reject the Sunak government’s claim that Israel enjoys impunity in Gaza, says Geoffrey Robertson KC
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