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Celtic fans in the stands wave flags of Palestine during the UEFA Champions League Group E match at Celtic Park, Glasgow, October 25, 2023
Men’s football / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025

Palestinian football has been decimated, its players killed, its stadiums reduced to rubble. Yet the global game has looked away silent in the face of genocide, and will remain a stain on the sport, writes JAMES NALTON

People listening to speakers in Whitehall after a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London, June 21, 2025
Gaza / 1 August 2025
1 August 2025
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Books / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends that these beautifully written diaries from Gaza be essential reading for thick-skinned MPs

People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in London, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gathered senior ministers for an urgent Cabinet meeting on Gaza. It comes as the Prime Minister faces renewed pressure to recognise Palestine as a state immediately and after he held an emergency call with France and Germany at the weekend. Picture date: Tuesday July 29, 2025
Editorial: / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025
Keir Starmer and Gaza destruction
Gaza Genocide / 30 July 2025
30 July 2025

Starmer’s conditional recognition of the Palestinian statehood dismissed as ‘gesture politics’

Two boys wearing t-shirts that read
Gaza Genocide / 31 July 2025
31 July 2025

RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine

Pro-Palestine protesters take part in a demonstration outside the gates of Downing Street in Westminster, central London, ahead of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer convening an urgent Cabinet meeting as he seeks to set out a pathway to peace in Gaza. Picture date: Tuesday July 29, 2025
Britain / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

Sir Keir Starmer announces Britain will recognise Palestinian state, unless Israel meets certain conditions, in emergency Cabinet meeting

Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags look on as the Ship to Gaza boat 'Handala' arrives at the port of Malmö, Sweden, May 8, 2024
Middle East / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025
Gaza / 28 July 2025
28 July 2025

Crisis in Gaza worsens as Israel maintains blockage on aid

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025
Middle East / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025

Ceasefire is only way to help all war-stricken civilians, warn agencies

Journalist George Monbiot, with other local residents in Totnes, protesting against the government's banning of Palestine Action, July 26, 2025
Policing / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025

Policing of protests against Palestine Action's proscription i in disarray, campaigners say, as police decide not to arrest sign-holders for terrorism

Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags look on as the Ship to Gaza boat 'Handala' arrives at the port of Malmö, Sweden, May 8, 2024
Activism / 28 July 2025
28 July 2025

The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

A pro Palestinian flag can be seen in the crowd by the Pyramid stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, June 27, 2025
Scotland / 27 July 2025
27 July 2025
Maysara Adwan, left, mourns as she holds the body of her 11-year-old son, Qais, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza that has been used as a shelter, during his burial at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Friday, July 25, 2025
Arms Trade / 25 July 2025
25 July 2025

Sir Keir faces backlash for continuing to enable the genocide in Gaza

Traji Adwan (centre) mourns during the funeral of her 11-year-old grandchild Qais, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza that has been used as a shelter, at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 25, 2025
Features / 26 July 2025
26 July 2025

Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

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Appreciation / 25 July 2025
25 July 2025

WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne