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Tuesday November 21 2023

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Anshel Pfeffer

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Anshel Pfeffer has covered Israel, the Middle East and international stories since 1996, and has reported from more than 40 countries on five continents. His latest book is the unauthorised biography, Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu. He has reported for The Times from Israel since 2017.

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Thomas Hand’s eight-year-old daughter, Emily, is being held by Hamas

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

We’re close to a deal with Israel over hostages, Hamas leader says

The leader of Hamas said that a deal on a truce with Israel was “close”, raising hopes that as many as 100 people taken hostage by the militant...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 8.30am, The Times

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

Watch the moment Yemeni rebels hijack ‘Israeli’ cargo ship

Iranian-backed rebels from Yemen have released a video showing gunmen dropping from a helicopter and seizing a cargo ship in the southern Red Sea...

Tuesday November 21 2023, 12.00am, The Times

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

IDF releases video of tunnel ‘used by Hamas’ at Gaza hospital

Israel has shared video of a large Hamas tunnel it claims to have discovered beneath the al-Shifa hospital in the centre of Gaza City.

Sunday November 19 2023, 8.40pm, The Times

Yair Lapid had previously resisted calls among the opposition for Netanyahu to be replaced

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

Netanyahu has lost trust of Israelis and must resign, says opposition leader

Yair Lapid, the leader of the opposition in Israel, has called for the “immediate” replacement of Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister despite...

Thursday November 16 2023, 5.45pm, The Times

Israeli soldiers return to southern Israel after operations in Gaza

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

‘We have found Kalashnikovs in almost every house’

On Tuesday there was the first bout of heavy weather this winter in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip. As night descended over Gaza City — which...

Thursday November 16 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Some 360,000 reservists have been called up by the Israel Defence Forces

Israeli reservists join the surge to eradicate Hamas

Ten miles from the front line in the north of Gaza, Israeli operations officers stare at tactical screens and reach out through encrypted...

Wednesday November 15 2023, 12.00am, The Times

Hamas has refused to release more than 80 hostages, while Israel has demanded a minimum of 100

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

Hostage talks with Hamas on a knife-edge after Gaza hospital attacks

A hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas is reportedly on a knife-edge as tense negotiations continue through Qatari and Egyptian...

Monday November 13 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Orheen Al-Dayah had her wounds stitched without anaesthetic at al-Shifa hospital

Trapped inside Gaza City’s last hospitals as the ICU shuts down and medicines run out

From al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Dr Mohammad Hawajreh can hear shooting and the crash of artillery as Israeli forces draw closer. Patients...

Sunday November 12 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

ANALYSIS | MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

Hamas leadership divided over what to do next

Fissures are opening up within the Hamas leadership over the fate of an estimated 240 hostages held in the Gaza Strip, according to Middle...

Saturday November 11 2023, 12.00am, The Times

From left, Antony Blinken, US secretary of state; Mohammad Shtayyeh, Palestinian prime minister; Binyamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister; Mahmoud Abbas. Palestinian Authority president

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS | ANALYSIS

Can Israel defeat Hamas and secure peace in Gaza?

On Sunday evening, Binyamin Netanyahu briefed a group of Israeli journalists on the war against Hamas. When asked about Israel’s plans for after...

Tuesday November 07 2023, 12.01am, The Times

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

Hamas launched rockets from scout hall, Israel’s forces claim

Israel’s military claimed that Palestinian militants used a mosque and a scout hall to fire rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip as it sought...

Tuesday November 07 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Troops of the 460th Brigade in northern Gaza, in a photograph released by the Israel Defence Forces, which said they had killed Hamas fighters and found tunnels and weapons

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‘We find a tunnel and blow it up’: In Gaza City with the troops hunting Hamas

As the sun was setting over the Mediterranean last night, the mortar rounds fired from a concealed Hamas stronghold were getting closer.

Sunday November 05 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times

The Gaza Strip on Friday, seen from the Israeli side of the border

What is Israel’s military strategy in Gaza?

One week after Israel began its ground offensive against Hamas, its armoured divisions have encircled Gaza City and are advancing towards the...

Saturday November 04 2023, 12.01am, The Times

How Isis-inspired Hamas is sabotaging high-tech Israel

The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is a confrontation between a superior military force armed with artificial intelligence and an enemy...

Thursday November 02 2023, 9.00pm, The Times

David Barnea, left, the head of Mossad talks to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister

MIDDLE EAST CRISIS

Head of Mossad visits Qatar to negotiate release of Israeli hostages

The head of Mossad has visited Qatar to help negotiate an agreement for the release some of the 239 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

David Barnea...

Wednesday November 01 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Binyamin Netanyahu’s party has lost the support of 40 per cent of its voters since the war began

Netanyahu blames army as public support drains away

While the Israeli army ground incursion into the Gaza Strip deepens, the government and army high command are in turmoil over Binyamin...

Monday October 30 2023, 12.01am, The Times

What is Israel’s war strategy? Its emergency cabinet can’t decide

A byword for dithering and indecision, Israel’s war cabinet was always likely to be a creature of compromise. Yet barely two weeks after it was...

Friday October 27 2023, 4.15pm, The Times

President Biden was welcomed by Binyamin Netanyahu during his visit to Israel last week

Biden pleads with ‘unprepared’ Israel to delay Gaza invasion

President Biden and other leading figures in Washington have told Israeli officials to delay their anticipated ground invasion of Gaza, warning...

Tuesday October 24 2023, 7.30pm, The Times

How Hamas and Isis are strengthening their connections

Six years ago, in November 2017, about 40 Islamic State gunmen swept into al-Rawda village near the North Sinai Mediterranean coast, and...

Tuesday October 24 2023, 12.01am, The Times

How fears of escalation led to dithering and delays

In what was an obviously co-ordinated move yesterday afternoon, a number of right-wing Israeli activists and journalists — all fervent supporters...

Monday October 23 2023, 12.01am, The Times