Gaza

Sorry Keir Starmer, the Middle East does not listen to Britain any more

Britain’s PM visited the Gulf and said many of the right things. But when you do the wrong things, words don’t matter.

‘How can I do this?’: Gaza families unable to bury dead months into truce

About 10,000 Palestinians remain missing, believed to be buried under rubble of collapsed buildings during Israel’s war.

Palestinians pray over the body of Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Wishah, who was killed in an Israeli strike on his vehicle, during his funeral outside Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinians pray over the body of Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Wishah, who was killed in an Israeli drone strike on his vehicle, during his funeral outside Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, the central Gaza Strip, on April 9, 2026. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Six months into a US-brokered ceasefire, Gaza remains under Israeli attacks

Rida Daher grieves at the funeral of her son-in-law, Samer al-Fasis, killed in an Israeli military strike, in Khan Younis, Gaza, on March 29, 2026. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across the Gaza City seafront, on March 25, 2026. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

A boy pushes a bicycle carrying jugs of water through a sandstorm in Khan Younis on March 14, 2026. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Mourners carry the bodies of two Palestinian policemen killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral in Khan Younis on March 14, 2026. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Members of the al-Najar family break their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, on March 13, 2026. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Gaza's civil defence teams work to recover the remains of members of the Abu Nada family, who were buried beneath the rubble of their four-storey house after it was destroyed by an Israeli strike in December 2023, in Gaza City, on February 9, 2026. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Smoke and flames rise from an Israeli military strike on a building in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, on Feburary 6, 2026. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Khadija Abu Rabi mourns over the body of her son, Iyad, three, who was killed when an Israeli strike hit tents sheltering displaced people along the coast of Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip, on Febuary 2, 2026. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Mourners carry the body of Abd Shaat, one of the three Palestinian journalists killed in an Israeli strike on an Egyptian committee's vehicle, during his funeral in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip, on January 22, 2026. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Palestinians inspect damaged tents at a displacement camp following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, on January 9, 2026. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Palestinians stand beside a tent set up on the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli air and ground operations in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City on December 30, 2025. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Palestinians struggle to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Nuseirat, the central Gaza Strip, on December 17, 2025. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Bodies of unidentified Palestinians returned from Israel as part of the ceasefire deal are buried in Deir el-Balah, the Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2025. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Displaced Palestinians ride donkey carts loaded with belongings past destroyed buildings in Gaza City, on October 11, 2025. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

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