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Peter Beaumont

Peter Beaumont is a senior international reporter who has reported extensively from conflict zones including Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine. The former Jerusalem correspondent of the Guardian, he has won several awards, including the Orwell Prize for his work in Iraq, and is the author of The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict. Twitter: @petersbeaumont1

July 2024

  • The construction of the Israeli settlement of Givat Ze'ev in the West Bank in 2022.

    Why ICJ ruling against Israel’s settlement policies will be hard to ignore

    Judgment challenges allies such as UK and US, which for years soft-pedalled on occupation of Palestinian territories
  • Israeli army vehicles transport a group of soldiers and journalists inside southern Gaza in early July.

    National religious recruits challenge values of IDF once dominated by secular elite

    Two-fifths of infantry graduate officer cadets now come from section of Israeli society aligned with far-right parties and settler movement
  • Two men sat side by side with two Israeli flags behind

    Israel has approved ‘largest West Bank land grab in 30 years’, watchdog says

    Peace Now says approval of more than 12 sq km is biggest since peace process began in 1993

June 2024

  • Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, wearing a black turban and clothes, delivers a television address straight to camera

    Hassan Nasrallah: the man who has led Hezbollah to the brink of war with Israel

  • Netanyahu speaks at a lectern, flanked by Israel flags

    Intense phase of Israel’s war with Hamas nearing end, says Netanyahu

  • Bezalel Smotrich

    Israeli far-right minister speaks of effort to annex West Bank

  • A man walks past destroyed apartment buildings after an Israeli raid in Jenin, occupied West Bank on 14 June.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: ‘My life’s mission is to thwart establishment of Palestinian state,’ says Israeli minister – as it happened

  • IDF investigates soldiers who tied Palestinian man to vehicle’s bonnet

  • Middle East crisis live
    US withholding arms shipments, says Netanyahu, days after Washington denies claim – as it happened

  • Israeli defence minister flies to US for ‘critical’ talks on Gaza and Lebanon

  • Israel’s Iron Dome risks being overwhelmed in all-out war with Hezbollah, says US

  • Dozens killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City

  • Middle East crisis live
    ‘At least 42 killed’ in Israeli strikes in Gaza – Middle East crisis as it happened

  • ‘All day you hear bombs’: on Israel’s northern border as war with Hezbollah looms

  • IDF transfers powers in occupied West Bank to pro-settler civil servants

  • Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: Netanyahu rebukes IDF after army spokesperson warns that Hamas cannot be eliminated – now closed

  • Hezbollah leader: Cyprus will be target if it lets Israel use its territory in conflict

  • Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: Hezbollah fires more projectiles at Israel despite warning – as it happened

  • Israeli foreign minister says decision on all-out war against Hezbollah is near

  • Benjamin Netanyahu dissolves Israeli war cabinet

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