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Yasser Arafat

July 2024

  • Aerial view of a destroyed section of the Jenin refugee camp

    Blair government accused IDF of acting like Russian army in West Bank

    Tensions over Palestinian death toll have eerie parallels to western concerns about current Israeli operations

February 2024

  • Israeli soldiers patrol in the West Bank city of Ramallah with a mural showing Marwan Barghouti.

    ‘The most popular Palestinian leader alive’: Releasing Marwan Barghouti could transform territories’ politics

    The 64-year-old is respected by secular nationalists and Islamists alike, and his much called-for release after two decades in jail for terror charges could bring a ceasefire closer

November 2023

  • Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands as Bill Clinton gestures expansively

    What are the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict?

    Recent events are the culmination of a decades-long clash in the disputed region of the Middle East

October 2023

  • Palestinian children throwing stones at an Israeli tank in the West Bank in 2003. Photograph: Mohammed Ballas/AP

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail – podcast

    One night in 2005, Israeli soldiers came for Huda Dahbour’s teenage son. He was gone for a year and a half. The damage done to their family – and so many others like them – was incalculable

September 2023

  • Palestinian children throwing stones at an Israeli tank in the West Bank in 2003.

    The long read
    ‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail

    The long read: One night in 2005, Israeli soldiers came for Huda Dahbour’s teenage son. He was gone for a year and a half. The damage done to their family – and so many others like them – was incalculable

January 2023

  • Dr Ian Black, UK author and journalist

    Ian Black obituary

    Middle East editor of the Guardian, author and academic who embodied the journalist’s duty to show fairness to all sides

October 2022

  • Mahmoud Abbas

    Palestinian ‘Game of Thrones’? What happens when Mahmoud Abbas leaves office?

    Now in the twilight of a controversial reign as president, what comes next is a vexed question
  • Gerald Butt, BBC Middle East correspondent

    Gerald Butt obituary

    Foreign correspondent and writer who reported for the BBC from Beirut and Jerusalem
  • Munib al-Masri at his home.

    Palestinian petitions UK for apology over alleged abuses during British rule

    Munib al-Masri has 300-page dossier of allegations including killings and torture between 1917 and 1948

July 2021

  • Yasser and Suha

    Court rejects attempt to reopen investigation into Yasser Arafat’s death

    European court of human rights rules family’s appeal over French hearing is ‘manifestly ill-founded’

May 2021

  • At this juncture, it feels particularly bleak ... a scene from The Human Factor.

    The Human Factor review – bearhugs and murder: Bill Clinton’s Middle East peace deal in gripping detail

    This rigorous and nailbiting documentary examines the US president’s failure to facilitate an agreement between Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s

October 2020

  • Security personnel bundle Yitzhak Rabin into his car after he was shot at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on 4 November 1995

    The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: ‘He never knew it was one of his people who shot him in the back’

    Twenty-five years after the death of the Israeli prime minister, those who were there recall the night two bullets altered the destiny of two nations

April 2019

  • A Palestinian walks past the separating wall in Bethlehem.

    Palestinians eye Israel’s election: ‘People could make peace … the problem is politicians’

    Palestinians hoped for change, but a lurch to the right in Israel’s elections has only brought despair

July 2018

  • 01/01 Palestinians look down on the rubble of the destroyed house of senior Hamas militant Nizar Rayan after an Israeli airstrike hit a nearby mosque in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. Israel showed no sign of slowing a blistering seven-day offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza, destroying homes of the group’s leaders and bombing one of its mosques a day after a deadly strike on a prominent Hamas figure killed him and most of his family. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

    Book of the day
    Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations – review

    With remarkable access to officials and reports, Ronen Bergman’s revealing book lays bare Mossad’s kill operations

June 2018

  • Bernard Lewis in 2002.

    Bernard Lewis obituary

    Controversial historian of the Middle East and expert on Islam who was an influential adviser to the Bush administration

January 2018

  • ARAFAT<br>FILE--Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat inspects bomb damage in the Arab University area of West Beirut, Monday, Aug. 2, 1982, following a heavy bombardment by Israel the day before. Israel should have killed Yasser Arafat 20 years ago, while he was under Israeli siege in Beirut, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002. Sharon was defense minister at the time, and led the push to drive Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization out of Lebanon. (AP Photo/Mourad Raouf)

    Israel had plan to shoot down passenger plane to kill Arafat, book claims

    Ariel Sharon allegedly told air force to attack planes if thought to be carrying Palestinian leader

June 2017

  • ‘I stalked these characters’ … Oslo on Broadway, now bound for Britain.

    Oslo: the smash hit about the peace accords that's been scrutinised by 1,000 UN delegates

    How do you turn a grinding peace deal into a sellout show that’s up for seven Tony awards? Easy, says JT Rogers. Just violate your heroes – and stir in some Noël Coward

November 2016

  • Yasser Arafat pictured in 2003

    Yasser Arafat museum to open in his old West Bank headquarters

    Visitors to complex in Ramallah will be able to view former Palestinian leader’s modest living quarters and belongings

November 2015

  • Billboard of Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv, October 2015

    Israel lost not just Yitzhak Rabin, but his politics of reason

    Avi Shlaim
    Twenty years after his assassination, the Israeli leader’s eventual insight that there is no military solution to the Palestinian conflict is still missed

October 2015

  • Yitzahk Rabin, Yasser Arafat and Bill Clinton

    Anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's murder stirs what-ifs amid violence

    Myth and reality abound 20 years on from assassination of Israeli prime minister who came close to forging durable reconciliation with Palestinians
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