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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday (October 5, 2026) called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. “It is time for the ceasefire to become permanent. It is time to…
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(This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here. A photograph of a large group of Palestinian children, seated and lying amid the rubble and ruin in Gaza, watching the ‘Lion King’ projected on a screen, has gone…
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Mother of three-year-old Palestinian child Tayyem Hamdan, who was killed in an Israeli strike according to medics at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, reacts during his funeral in the central Gaza Strip, on August 30, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza…
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Palestinians gathered on Tuesday (August 4, 2026) for a mass funeral of more than 100 bodies finally recovered from a deadly Israeli strike in Gaza in 2023. More than 300 people were killed on November 22, 2023, weeks into the war with Hamas, when warplanes flattened a residential block in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood. Around…
The language of world politics has become remarkably predictable. Every military strike, diplomatic initiative, economic sanction, or strategic partnership is justified in the name of national interest. Television debates and commentaries have a common vocabulary — power, deterrence, balance of power, strategic autonomy, and security. It almost appears as though International Relations has become an…
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The Israeli military shot and killed four Palestinians in the village of Tell in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Friday (July 24, 2026), raising tensions in the occupied territory after an Israeli settler was killed in a confrontation with local residents. Two other Israelis and four more Palestinians were wounded,…
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The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, according to satellite imagery, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave. More than 23 Km (14 miles) have been constructed in recent months, running through…
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Palestinian women mourn over the body of Awda Farakhneh, 53, who, according to the health authorities, was killed by Israeli army fire following a settler attack, during his funeral in the West Bank town of Deir Jarir, northeast Ramallah, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The Palestinian Health Ministry said Monday (July 20,…
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Israeli military machinery demolishes a Palestinian building in Kafr Aqab in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, near Jerusalem, on June 22, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday (June 22, 2026), Palestinian officials said, while the Israeli military said the two had attacked a…
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Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh. File. The Palestinian Authority has called upon the Union government and Indian humanitarian organisations to act “urgently” and help the Palestinian healthcare sector overcome the “state of collapse” it is currently in, following nearly three years of military campaign by Israel. Citing the ‘Aarogya Maitri’ project of the Government of India,…
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