As a Brit in Gaza, ‘it’s all your fault,’ is a line I’ve heard a lot
Sit down with any Palestinian over the age of 50 on a street in Gaza and, if you’re British, you’ll soon be discussing Arthur Balfour.
Paul Mason
Paul Mason has left Channel 4 News.
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Troops ordered to pull back in Gaza, but the killing didn’t stop
The intensive care unit at Khan Younis hospital is so full, they have set up a makeshift one as the bombs pound nearby Rafah and its UN school.
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Gaza-Israel live: strike on UN school
Live updates from the Channel 4 News team as the violence continues.
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Gaza: health crisis looms for trapped civilians
Today in Gaza the death toll stands at 1,635. If the public health system collapses, without a major inward flow of emergency relief, killer epidemics are a real danger.
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In the midst of Gaza’s bloody ‘truce’
I’ve just seen what a ceasefire means, on a road east of Khan Younis. It means young men getting carried along dusty roads in blankets, with sniper wounds.
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Seven things about the military situation in Gaza
Getting your bearings in a war is difficult. Here are seven things I’ve noticed that may help you understand what is happening.
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How did the first world war actually end?
I’ve tried this quiz question again and again on highly educated people and, even once they know the answer, there are looks of “does not compute”.
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#AskMason: your questions on Israel-Gaza conflict
#AskMason – your questions for Paul Mason, reporting for Channel 4 News in Gaza on latest clashes between Hamas and the Israeli Defence Force.
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Inside the Gaza UN school ‘shelled by Israel’
I’ve just been to the UNRWA school in Jabalia, where 15 people were killed by what appears to be an Israeli shell as they were sheltering in a classroom.
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What it feels like to be under Israeli fire
Some Gazans are tweeting that this was the worst night of bombardment that the city and the Strip have ever witnessed. This is what it felt like to be under sustained bombardment.
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‘Israel doesn’t understand – we’re a nation that can’t be crushed’
I’ve been to radicalised Muslim countries and heard the rhetoric. But what I’m hearing in Gaza, from people who consider they have little left to live for, is more than that.
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Ten Palestinians die in Gaza rocket attack
Ten Palestinians – mostly children – are killed when a missile explodes in a park at the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
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Gaza conflict: an Israeli soldier’s question
“Why the world hate Israel?” the soldier whispered. There was genuine confusion in his eyes. He whispered again: “Why the world hate us?”
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Live from the Gaza conflict’s ceasefire tag
The Israeli military resumes fighting on Sunday, saying that Hamas militants had ignored a 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire. Channel 4 News reports live from the Gaza border.
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Hamas: ‘Firing rockets is the only thing we have’
Hamas spokesman Ihab al-Ghousein says firing rockets into Israel is “the only thing we have” to get Israel to “give us our rights”, and denies the organisation is using civilians as human shields.
