Category: Hamas

Diplomacy’s lowest point: how the Israel-Gaza conflict was mishandled

In two years there have been many versions of a ‘day after’ plan for Gaza and many obstacles to overcomeGeorge Mitchell, the great US advocate for the Northern Ireland peace agreement, described diplomacy as 700 days of failure...

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What the UK’s recognition of Palestinian statehood will mean

What does the decision entail and which other countries are joining Britain in recognition?The UK is expected to formally recognise Palestinian statehood in the coming days, having shifted its position on the subject in July,...

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UK politics live: No 10 says Hamas won’t have ‘veto’ over UK recognition of Palestine

Downing Street indicates that further hostage releases are not required for move to go ahead next monthGeorge Finch, the Reform UK leader of Warwickshire county council, goes next. (Aged 19, he is the youngest council leader in...

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Starmer ‘listening to hostages’ but intends to stick to Palestine statehood plan

Freed British-Israeli accuses PM of ‘moral failure’ over move to recognise Palestine at UN unless Israel changes courseKeir Starmer has said he is listening to hostages taken by Hamas but still intends to recognise a Palestinian...

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Keir Starmer will urge Trump to resume US role in Gaza ceasefire talks

PM said to be horrified by the crisis and hopes to convince US president to help end the ‘unspeakable suffering’Keir Starmer will personally press Donald Trump to resume ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas when they meet on...

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‘I worried I might start finding it normal. But I never did’ – what I learned as the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent

After four years reporting from Israel and Palestine, our correspondent is returning to the UK. She reveals the grief, horror and hope that defined her time thereThree days before Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, I was...

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