WorldA funeral was held at St. Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza City for a Christian woman and her daughter, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight from Friday into Saturday. Shifa hospital said five people died, including four women.
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WorldAtlantic staff writer Vivian Salama says Egypt’s then-intelligence chief Abbas Kamel made an unusual 67-minute visit to Israel less than two weeks before the Oct. 7, 2023 attack to warn officials that intelligence indicated Hamas was mobilizing for a major assault. Several regional governments also raised concerns, but questions remain over who received the warning.
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WorldFive people were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City overnight from Friday into Saturday, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the casualties. The dead included four women and a Christian mother and her daughter.
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WorldJennifer Gavito, a former acting senior State Department official for Near Eastern Affairs and a senior adviser at the Cohen Group, responds to comments by Reserve Major General Nitzan Alon, the former head of Israel’s hostage headquarters. Alon said Israeli captives in Gaza could have been freed up to a year earlier, potentially saving thousands of lives on both sides. Gavito said the claim renews debate over whether Israel put defeating Hamas ahead of securing the hostages’ release.
PoliticsIsrael’s Supreme Court has overturned a decision that barred the country’s two main Arab parties from contesting this month’s parliamentary election. Former Palestine Liberation Organisation adviser Xavier Abu Eid explains the ruling’s significance.
PoliticsIsrael’s Supreme Court has overturned a decision that barred the country’s two main Arab electoral lists from this month’s parliamentary election. Knesset member Ofer Cassif, whom the court cleared, spoke to TRT.
WorldBalad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh has withdrawn from Israel’s Knesset race after being disqualified over remarks about the Gaza war, prompting concerns about political representation for Palestinian Israelis.
WorldVivian Salama joins François Picard from Washington. Her latest investigation revisits September 26, 2023, when Israel’s national security establishment was marking 50 years since the Yom Kippur War and Abbas Kamel, then Egypt’s intelligence chief, made an exceptionally rare and discreet visit to Israel.
PoliticsSami Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian-Israeli politician and leader of the Balad Party, has withdrawn his candidacy for the Israeli Knesset after Israel’s Central Elections Committee disqualified him. Ziad Abu Rish, an associate professor at Bard College, says the Israeli Supreme Court’s position represents a new threshold in suppressing Palestinian voting rights.
PoliticsPalestinian Israeli politician Sami Abu Shehadeh has decided to withdraw from the race for Israel’s Knesset after the country’s central elections committee disqualified him. He will submit his decision to the Israeli Supreme Court on Friday, following a hearing in which the court gave him the choice.
WorldIn Gaza City’s al-Yarmouk area, families have buried the remains of 105 people who lay beneath a collapsed seven-storey building for nearly three years after it was hit during the al-Taj massacre in October 2023. Civil defence teams and Egyptian crews described horrific conditions, with infants among the dead. More than 7,000 people across Gaza are still believed missing under rubble.
WorldUpdated aerial imagery on Google Maps is offering a clearer view of the devastation in Gaza. An estimated 61 million tonnes of rubble must be cleared, leaving aid workers facing immense challenges.
PoliticsIsrael’s Supreme Court held a hearing on an appeal by Arab parties and candidates barred from this month’s general election. The Election Commission disqualified Sami Abu Shehadeh and Ofer Cassif and voted to bar the two main Arab parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel. Israeli right-wing parties, including Otzma Yehudit, had requested the bans.
Politics4:23Israel’s Supreme Court has begun hearing appeals against the decision to bar Arab candidates from the upcoming elections. The Central Elections Committee voted last week to disqualify all Arab electoral lists, while Chatham House’s Yossi Mekelberg offered analysis of the case.
WorldFamilies in Gaza have buried the remains of 105 Palestinians recovered nearly three years after they were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City. The victims died when the seven-storey al-Taj 3 residential building and nearby structures in the al-Yarmouk neighbourhood were destroyed by Israeli air strikes in October 2023. Gaza Civil Defence estimates that about 7,000 people remain trapped under rubble across the Strip, with heavy machinery and international help needed for recovery.
WorldA mass funeral was held in Gaza for 100 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered from the rubble of a residential building hit by an Israeli strike in October 2023.
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WorldA mass funeral is being held in Gaza City for 100 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered from the ruins of a residential building hit by an Israeli strike in October 2023. Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes in two separate attacks on Sept. 30 killed at least seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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WorldGaza is preparing a mass funeral for more than 100 people killed in an Israeli attack in October 2023. Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from the ruins of al-Taj Tower in Gaza City, while families have waited for years to find and bury their relatives.
WorldIsraeli air strikes and artillery fire have continued across Gaza despite a US-brokered ceasefire agreed in October 2025. At least five Palestinians were killed and 15 injured when a drone targeted a public transport vehicle in Tal al-Hawa, Gaza City. Several wounded people are in critical condition, and doctors warn the death toll could rise.
WorldA year ago, TRT World freelance cameraman Yahya Barzaq was killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza while documenting the war. He had previously photographed newborns and family milestones, before turning his camera to the destruction and displacement around him. The Committee to Protect Journalists says Israel was responsible for two-thirds of journalist and media worker killings worldwide in 2024 and 2025.
WorldIsraeli media says Benjamin Netanyahu secretly travelled to the United Arab Emirates over the weekend to ask its leader to deny claims that he had warned the Israeli prime minister about an impending Hamas threat before the group's October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel. Netanyahu confirmed the trip but denied making such a request.
WorldMore than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the October ceasefire, amid ongoing Israeli strikes. Mount Royal University sociology professor Muhannad Ayyash discusses the continuing attacks on Gaza.
WorldSettler violence prevented a Palestinian family from returning to its home in the West Bank, NBC News reports.
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PoliticsFor decades, US support for Israel was one of Washington’s few unbreakable bipartisan positions. The programme says the genocide in Gaza changed that, as a war that killed more than 74,000 Palestinians fractured Democratic and Republican coalitions and reshaped primaries, campus politics and the terms on which a generation views Israel.