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When is this Labour government going to break its silence on Gaza? | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the killing of Palestinian paramedics and aid workers by Israeli forces

07, Apr, 2025 @4:32 PM

Israeli military changes account of Gaza paramedics’ killing after video of attack

Phone footage contradicts IDF claims vehicles were not using emergency lights when troops opened fire

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and agencies

06, Apr, 2025 @4:25 PM

Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics

Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

05, Apr, 2025 @1:38 PM

Israel is ‘seizing territory’ and will ‘divide up’ Gaza, Netanyahu says

Prime minister says Israel will build a new security corridor to isolate parts of the strip in major escalation

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

02, Apr, 2025 @5:47 PM

The Guardian view on South Sudan: the world's youngest nation is on the brink of a new conflict | Editorial

Editorial: The arrest of vice-president Riek Machar takes the country closer to a second civil war

Editorial

01, Apr, 2025 @5:47 PM

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem, Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, and Julian Borger

31, Mar, 2025 @2:24 PM

Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds

Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report

Fiona Harvey Environment editor

26, Mar, 2025 @9:00 AM

Trump’s expansionism threatens the rules-based order in place since second world war

UN charter says members ‘shall refrain from the threat or use of force’ against a country’s territory or independence

Peter Beaumont

23, Mar, 2025 @4:23 PM

Haitians fear the imminent fall of Port-au-Prince to rebel gangs: ‘We will die standing’

Both the national police and a UN-backed security force have failed to staunch the year-long insurgency, with more than a million people displaced

Tom Phillips and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Jacmel

23, Mar, 2025 @9:00 AM

Atrocities mount daily. Promised aid does not arrive. Why has the west turned its back on Sudan?

As territory is won and lost by opposing military forces, people grasp at scraps of normality. But the country is undergoing the world’s most severe humanitarian catastrophe and global announcements of help have amounted to nothing

Mark Townsend in Khartoum North, Sudan

23, Mar, 2025 @5:00 AM

A tale of two conferences: women against women as ‘poison of patriarchy’ returns and abortion fight intensifies

Last week, anti-choice campaigners emboldened by current US politics met in New York at the same time as UN delegates gathered to address the widespread inequalities women face. The battle to protect rights has never felt more urgent

Isabel Choat in New York

22, Mar, 2025 @5:00 AM

Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN

Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources