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Israel-Gaza war

9 February 2025

  • A Palestinian prisoner is greeted after being released as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis live: Israel sends negotiators back to Qatar for next stage of ceasefire talks

  • Families in Bangkok welcomed back five released Thai hostages who were held in Gaza for over a year after being kidnapped by Hamas.

    ‘We never gave up’: tears and elation as freed Thai hostages return home from Gaza

8 February 2025

  • Ohad Ben Ami is embraced by his two daughters

    Fifth ceasefire exchange sees gaunt captives emerge from Gaza and Israel

  • A freed Palestinian prisoner is hugged after being released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah,

    Middle East crisis live
    Gaza ceasefire live: Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli hostages – as it happened

  • Donald Trump in a hard hat standing in front of a billboard showing a luxury beach resort with the slogan ‘Gaza- Riviera of the Middle East’. Behind the billboard is a mountain of rubble. Trump clutches rolled up blueprints labelled ‘Greenland Gold Mine’, ‘Ukraine Baba Yaga Theme Park’ and ‘Panama Water World’. Netanyahu is grasping Trump’s coat tails and smiling broadly as Trump says “Don’t worry, Bibi, I’ve got this…”

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump’s plan to take over and redevelop Gaza – cartoon

  • Two people hugging
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    Israeli hostages reunited with families after release – video

  • Palestinian prisoners and detainees released as part of ceasefire agreement – video

  • The Week in Patriarchy
    Meet the young Musketeers, our unelected overlords employed by ‘Doge’

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • British family of Israeli hostage speak of ‘bittersweet’ emotions at his release

  • Hamas releases three more Israeli hostages as part of ceasefire deal – video

  • The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra review – legacies of violence

  • Trump wants to wipe out Gaza’s history. Saving its mosques and churches would defy him

    Raja Shehadeh

  • ‘We make the most of every minute’: relief and resolve at Gaza’s few reopened restaurants

7 February 2025

  • two men looking at each other

    US approves $7.4bn sale of more weapons to Israel used to ravage Gaza

  • Palestinians riding a donkey cart pass by a stand selling goods.

    Middle East crisis live
    Hamas names three Israeli hostages to be released after alleging ceasefire breach – as it happened

  • People walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings.

    Trump’s Gaza plan suggests his pro-settler advisers are in the ascendant

  • Rightwing protesters wave Israeli flags outside Sde Teiman detention facility

    Israeli soldier sentenced to seven months for assaults on Gaza detainees

  • Lethal fantasies of driving people from their land haunt the Middle East. Trump is fuelling them

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Israel tells army to prepare plans for Palestinians ‘who wish to leave’ Gaza

  • Antoinette Lattouf hearing day five – as it happened

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