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  • Meta Photo Illustrations, Athens, Greece - 23 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14446891a) The Meta logo is being displayed on a smartphone screen and on a computer screen in Athens, Greece, on April 23, 2024. Meta Photo Illustrations, Athens, Greece - 23 Apr 2024

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    Meta says it would remove content ‘attacking “Zionists” when it is not explicitly about the political movement’
  • View over a beach with smoke rising over Gaza City in the background

    Israeli attack on Gaza City continues as Hamas says ceasefire efforts at risk

    New wave of displacement as airstrikes hit northern and central Gaza and IDF says forces engaged in ‘close-quarter combat’
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      Famine spreading throughout Gaza, UN says, after more children die from malnutrition – as it happened

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    • US says gaps remain between Israel and Hamas on ceasefire talks – video

  • Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards participate in a military parade in Tehran.

    Labour unlikely to rush into proscribing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

    Exclusive: Lammy said to be looking at creating new category of state-sponsored terrorism to allow restrictions to be imposed
  • Palestinians carry their belongings as the flee

    Thousands of Palestinians flee amid heavy Israeli attack on Gaza City

    Civil emergency service says dozens killed in strikes launched after Israeli military issued evacuation orders
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      Israeli minister says hostage deal with Hamas would be ‘humiliation’ as Netanyahu offered ‘political safety net’ by opposition – as it happened

    • Labour expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant

    • ‘I panic when my phone rings’: the plight of Palestinians in Jordan

  • A Palestinian boy looks at the remains of a house hit by Israeli bombardment

    Israeli government accused of trying to sabotage Gaza ceasefire proposal

  • Masoud Pezeshkian greets his supporters in Tehran a day after the presidential election.

    The Guardian view on Iran’s moderate president: modest hopes must be acted upon

  • A convoy of army vehicles drives along a dirt road, sending up clouds of dust

    IDF used protocol that may have risked civilian lives in Hamas attack – report

  • Israeli police extinguish a fire lit by anti-government protestors near Shoresh, Israel.

    Middle East crisis live
    Hamas ‘waiting for response’ on Gaza deal as Israeli protesters accuse Netanyahu cabinet of ‘total failure’ over hostages – as it happened

  • Palestinians at the site of an Israeli air strike on a UN school sheltering displaced people in Nusairat in central Gaza Strip.

    Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 16, say Palestinian officials

  • A group of Palestinian men and young children standing amid the ruins of bombed-out building

    Fears of long war in Gaza as new chapter opens and ‘intense fighting’ eases off

  • A man walks with two children between destroyed buildings

    Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise further as Hamas reportedly backs new proposal

  • Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip.

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    Israel-Gaza war as it happened: hopes rise over hostages and ceasefire deal

  • Masoud Pezeshkian: the former heart surgeon who became president of Iran

  • The ‘tricky balancing act’: Jordan’s dilemma on Israel and Gaza

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