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Survivors of Israel music festival attack by Hamas describe their trauma
They went to a music festival to celebrate “friends, love and infinite freedom,” only to find themselves in the midst of a massacre. Some 270 people were killed, and an unknown number injured and taken hostage when Hamas attacked the Supernova trance music festival three miles from Israel’s border with Gaza on October 7th.
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‘Diplomacy has failed’, says former Israeli intelligence chief
We’re joined by Ami Ayalon – the former head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service Shin Bet and a former Member of Parliament for the Israeli Labour Party.
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‘Blinken making it up as he goes along’, says former Palestinian Authority spokesperson
We’re joined by Nour Odeh, the former spokesperson to the Palestinian Authority.
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Israel-Hamas war: House to house fighting in Gaza as dead near ‘10,000’
Another large barrage of explosions has been reported in northern Gaza in the past hour, with reports communications and the internet have again been cut off. The Israeli army said today it had now struck “over two and a half thousand terror targets”. More than 9,400 people have now been killed, according to figures from the Gaza health ministry – appointed by Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the UK.
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Pro-Palestinian protests: Thousand demonstrate across UK
Tens of thousands of pro Palestinian protesters have taken to the streets in London and other cities around the UK for the fourth week in a row.
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Israel hostages: Son of peace activist on four weeks without his mother
We’ve met with a number of families throughout this crisis – including Yonatan Zeigen, son of peace activist Vivian Silver, who spoke to us just a few days after the Hamas attack. Four weeks later, we sat down with him again.
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Two-state solution ‘less workable by the day’, says former Pentagon adviser
We’re joined by national security expert and former Middle East advisor at the Pentagon, Jasmine El-Gamal.
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Will Israel bow to US pressure for a humanitarian pause?
Our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has the latest geopolitical analysis.
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Israel’s Gaza bombardment continues – sparking global protests
Israel’s military says it is continuing to push forward with its offensive against Hamas – which the UK designates as a terrorist organisation – claiming it has now completely encircled Gaza City in the north of the enclave.
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Israel-Hamas war: Biden under pressure for a short-term cessation of hostilities in Gaza
While US secretary of state Antony Blinken is in the Middle-East, 14 Democratic senators released a joint statement calling on Biden for a short-term cessation of hostilities to let humanitarian aid in and to increase the focus on releasing the hostages.
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Several killed in apparent Israeli missile strike outside Gaza’s largest hospital
An airstrike hit a convoy of ambulances outside the Al Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, leaving several killed and others injured.
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‘We should be focussing on how we can be better with AI’, says AI expert
Speaking to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Tech billionaire Elon Musk said AI will eventually create a future where ‘no job is needed’.
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Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud and money laundering
The man who once ran one of the world’s biggest crypto currency companies has been found guilty of fraud and money laundering.
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Exclusive: hundreds of UK police officers suspended for sexual offence allegations
We can reveal that hundreds of police officers have been suspended by UK police forces because of allegations of sexual offences.
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Gaza’s newest resident, born into war
We can’t get into Gaza ourselves, but filmmaker Yousef Hammash, who also works for the Norwegian Refugee Council, has been sending us moving reports about the situation there.