• January 22 2026
  Jared Kushner sets out $30bn vision for ‘New Gaza’

  Donald Trump’s son-in-law says Palestinian enclave will offer ‘amazing investment opportunities’ after two years of war

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• January 21 2026
  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Netanyahu joins Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

  Israel will join countries including UAE, Morocco and Belarus on body that US president wants to adopt UN-like role

  
• January 19 2026
  US foreign policy

  Trump has invited Putin to join ‘Board of Peace’, Kremlin says

  Russian president’s spokesperson says Moscow is ‘studying all details of the offer’ to join board overseeing Gaza

  
• January 18 2026
  US foreign policy

  Broad mandate of Trump’s Board of Peace sets it up for rivalry with UN

  Body was originally planned to oversee Gaza but charter’s expansive wording suggests it could mediate in other conflicts

  
• January 17 2026
  Ali Sha’ath: the new Gaza chief who must rebuild the shattered enclave

  Civil engineer and former deputy minister in the Palestinian Authority faces daunting reconstruction task

  
• January 17 2026
  Middle East war

  Trump names Tony Blair, Jared Kushner and Marc Rowan to advise Gaza ‘Board of Peace’

  US president will chair executive body that he says will guide reconstruction of war-ravaged enclave

  
• January 16 2026
  US foreign policy

  US floats expanding Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ to other global hotspots

  Trump-headed body could mediate in countries such as Ukraine and Venezuela

  
• January 13 2026
  Trump administration prepares to unveil new Gaza leadership

  US and Israeli officials who will shepherd fragile ceasefire were linked with contentious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

  
• January 1 2026
  News in-depthMiddle East war

  The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut

  As bombs fell and famine took hold, Samir Mansour kept delivering books

  
• December 31 2025
  Israel

  Israel’s allies condemn ban on dozens of aid groups

  EU and other partners hit out at suspension of NGOs’ activities in Gaza

  
• December 29 2025
  Middle East war

  Netanyahu to meet Trump as differences over Gaza grow

  Florida visit will be the Israeli PM’s sixth summit with US president this year, the most of any world leader

  
• December 23 2025
  Middle Eastern politics & society

  Israel’s defence minister pledges to resettle northern Gaza

  Swiftly retracted comments run counter to Trump administration’s policies

  
• December 23 2025
  Schooling joins casualties of Gaza war

  Palestinians with ‘huge appetite’ for education struggle against the odds to study and pass exams

  
• December 21 2025
  Middle Eastern politics & society

  The unlikely Arab kingmaker aiming to sway Israel’s next election

  Mansour Abbas ejected Benjamin Netanyahu from office in 2021. He is hoping for a repeat next year

  
• December 19 2025
  Winter storms flood Gaza as population remains stuck in tents

  UN estimates that 55,000  families have been affected by rain in enclave where reconstruction is a distant prospect

  
• December 13 2025
  Middle East war

  Hamas accuses Israel of sabotaging ceasefire after commander is targeted

  Israeli army said it killed Raed Saad, one of the architects of the October 7 attack

  
• December 8 2025
  Blair out of running for Gaza ‘board of peace’

  Former UK prime minister dropped from consideration after objections from some Arab and Muslim states

  
• December 8 2025
  Middle East war

  Israel’s ‘new border line’ in Gaza casts doubt on future of Trump peace plan

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu questions whether mooted international force can disarm Hamas

  
• December 8 2025
  HTSI

  British-Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi wants to talk about Gaza

  This time, the world is listening

  
• December 7 2025
  West Bank

  Israel stepping up ‘creeping annexation’ of West Bank, Palestinian PM says

  Mohammad Mustafa tells FT that Israel is scuppering efforts to reform the Palestinian Authority and hold elections

  
• December 6 2025
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  The sorry history of US policy in the Middle East

  This administration’s transactionalism marks a departure in America’s approach to Israel, Palestine and the rest of the region

  
• December 5 2025
  Israel-backed Gaza militia leader killed in armed clash

  Yasser Abu Shabab, most prominent of Israeli proxy forces seeking to rival Hamas, dies after dispute with another clan

  
• November 26 2025
  UK society

  Palestine Action is part of UK’s long tradition of direct action, High Court told

  Lawyers seeking to overturn ban on the group say the Suffragettes would have been on wrong side of today’s anti-terror laws

  
• November 24 2025
  UK crime

  Activist’s hammer attack left police officer ‘stunned’, Palestine Action trial hears

  Sergeant told court she was left in severe pain after alleged incident at Israeli defence company’s UK site last year

  
• November 24 2025
  Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

  Controversial US-backed Gaza aid group to close

  Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was heavily criticised over killings of Palestinians desperate for food