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Israel targets senior Hezbollah official in first strike on Beirut in months
The Iran-backed militant group said the strike, launched almost exactly a year after a ceasefire ended that Israel-Hezbollah war, threatened an escalation of attacks.
- byFadi Tawil andKareem Chehayeb
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Opinion
Freedom of speech
These people don’t believe in censoring art … unless it’s Israeli
Some of those who cried “censorship” over the cancellation of Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s representative at the next Venice Biennale are the same people who called for the banning of Israel’s Biennale artist last year.
- byDeborah Stone
Israel targets Lebanon with airstrike that kills 13
The Israeli military said it had hit a Hamas training compound in the deadliest attack inside Lebanon since last year’s ceasefire.
- byMohammad Zatari
Editorial
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
UN Gaza resolution moves from ceasefire to rebuild
US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza gets the nod from the international community.
- The Herald's View
Born to an unwed mother far from home, this baby cannot leave
Caressing her son Abudy’s tiny hands, Esther says she cannot understand why her newborn has to face the consequences for a situation not of his making.
- byVivian Nereim andAbdi Latif Dahir
Analysis
Trump diplomacy
Last week, he was a ‘terrorist’ with a $15m bounty. He just met Trump in the Oval Office
A grainy photograph near a side entrance marked the start of what may well be the most astonishing meeting ever hosted in the White House.
- byAdrian Blomfield
The torture video shaking Israel to its core
The arrest of a senior military figure who allegedly leaked footage purporting to show Palestinian prisoners being abused has shocked Israel and ignited a major political row.
- byHenry Bodkin
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Gaza ceasefire is back on, Israel says, after new strikes kill more than 100
The strikes, the deadliest since the ceasefire began on October 10, marked the most serious challenge to the tenuous truce to date.
- byWafaa Shurafa andJosh Boak
Opinion
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel’s annexation of the West Bank has been occurring for decades
Israel’s parliament is debating applying Israeli law over the West Bank. Its control of the region, however, has been growing without such ceremony.
- byAnas Iqtait
Analysis
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The one-word post that shows how hard it will be to keep peace in Gaza
The short-lived, if intense, Israeli military response to the latest violence in Gaza suggests US officials were at work behind the scenes to push restraint and keep the deal alive.
- byDavid M. Halbfinger
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel says ceasefire and aid to resume after Gaza airstrikes
The Israeli military said it was responding to being fired upon, in what is the most serious test yet of this month’s US-brokered truce.
- byDavid Crowe