Bethan McKernan
The Guardian
Lebanon
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Joe Biden to meet Benjamin Netanyahu at UN in awkward rapprochement
US president agrees to talks at general assembly despite deep unease over policies of Israeli PM’s hardline coalition → Read More
The show must go on: 35,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews descend on Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah
The annual pilgrimage brings both prayers and partying to Uman. Many have been undeterred by official pleas to stay away this year → Read More
Israel’s Knesset to vote on judicial changes amid pro-democracy protests
Rightwing ruling coalition hopes to pass bill curtailing ability of supreme court to overrule government decisions → Read More
What the raid on Jenin says about the future of Israel and Palestine
The biggest assault on the West Bank in 20 years could herald a new phase of this old conflict, reports Bethan McKernan from Jenin → Read More
‘It’s just like the intifada’: Palestinians reel from Israel’s raid on Jenin
Clean-up begins after three-day operation, the largest attack on occupied West Bank in two decades → Read More
Israel’s Jenin assault displaces thousands as violence spirals on
Armoured incursion in response to rising bloodshed across Israel and West Bank looks political as much as tactical → Read More
‘History repeats itself’: Israeli attack turns Jenin into war zone once again
Old traumas are revived in West Bank city that was scene of some of worst fighting in second intifada → Read More
Israel’s far-right government fans the flames of vigilante settler violence
Religious nationalists emboldened now their representatives are major players in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new administration → Read More
‘Nowhere in Palestine is free’: West Bank villagers defenceless against rising settler violence
The killing of a young father during a rampage through his quiet village underlines the impossible options for Palestinians in the occupied territories → Read More
Netanyahu angers coalition partners by ditching part of judicial overhaul
Israeli PM says he has thrown out controversial measure to allow parliament to override supreme court decisions → Read More
Former Israeli PM and ex-parliamentarian investigated by police
Statements by Ehud Barak and Yair Golan on plans for judiciary reviewed on grounds of alleged sedition → Read More
Happy endings: how a treasure trove of lost Palestinian music opened up a new thread of musical history
Mo’min Swaitat’s lockdown trawl of old cassettes led to some amazing discoveries – and our 2022 story on it helped open the music up to the entire diaspora and beyond → Read More
Benjamin Netanyahu suffers rebellion in vote linked to Israeli judicial overhaul
Political chaos weakens prime minister as he pursues controversial changes → Read More
Israel’s Knesset vote to be delayed as judicial overhaul row continues
Fresh protests expected against proposals as opposition members threaten to quit compromise talks → Read More
Israel prepares for vote related to controversial judicial reform plan
Knesset to elect two members to judges selection committee, with hardliners in ruling coalition pushing to pick both members → Read More
China’s Palestinian moment is about global standing rather than peace
Experts quash claims by Beijing that the Palestinian Authority president’s visit will facilitate new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks → Read More
Palestinian journalist hit in the head by bullet during raid on terror suspect’s home
News photographer Moamen Sumreen, 22, had been covering the demolition of the apartment in Ramallah → Read More
Three-year-old Palestinian boy shot by Israeli soldiers dies in hospital
Mohammed al-Tamimi was shot in the head while riding in a car in the West Bank with father, who was also injured → Read More
Killer of three Israeli soldiers was Egyptian border police officer, says army
Netanyahu calls deaths of three members of Israel Defence Forces on Sinai border a terrorist attack → Read More
UK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village reveals mass grave sites
Researchers analysed cartographic data and aerial photos to identify three possible locations in former fishing village Tantura → Read More