Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces: ‘They put on music and colourful lights and started dancing over us ... They had their feet on our backs’
Two Palestinian teenagers from the occupied West Bank describe suffering and seeing systematic abuses while in Israeli detention
From a viewing platform in Israel, observers watch Gaza’s destruction through binoculars
While children starve, tour groups at a viewing point in Sderot pay to view the smoke-filled ruins of the enclave
‘They are very weak, they’re thin, their minds have stopped’: Stranded fathers’ anguish over children in Gaza
Separated from their families by war and closed borders, Gazan workers describe life in limbo — haunted by hunger, loss and the voices of children they can no longer protect
‘Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die’: News agency staff warn journalists face starvation
AFP journalists suffer malnutrition and exhaustion as human rights groups warn mass starvation spreading across enclave
‘This is an unimaginable nightmare’: Residents gather to mourn two Palestinians -including US citizen - killed in Israeli-occupied West Bank
Florida-born Sayfollah Musallet was beaten by Israeli settlers, according to families and witnesses
‘Hanging on by a thread’: Two days with activists protecting Palestinians from being forced off their land
In the occupied West Bank, life is constantly under threat with illegal Israeli settlements rapidly on the rise
‘This is the homeland of Jesus’: Palestinian Christians plead for end to attacks by West Bank settlers
Religious leaders warn of serious threat from worsening land grabs, harassment and settlement expansion
Palestinians say Occupied Territories Bill would give them hope: ‘We are really in a big cage’
Residents throughout the occupied West Bank describe the fear and deprivations they endure amid the expansion of Israeli settlements
Gaza death toll passes 57,000 with little clarity on potential ceasefire
US Senator says Occupied Territories Bill would cause Ireland ‘self-inflicted economic harm’
‘Going backwards’: Landmine treaty enters increasingly perilous territory as key states pull out
Finland, Poland and Ukraine have all moved recently to exit the 1997 Ottawa agreement
‘Everyone is digging for gold now’: Desperate Syrians resort to scouring ancient sites
Security vacuum after Assad downfall has led to plundering for Greek, Roman and Byzantine artefacts
‘Everybody can feel the pain’: Middle Eastern views on the present and future
A Syrian, a Palestinian, an Iranian and an Israeli give their views on how better times might be reached where they live
Iran fires missiles at key US base in Qatar
Doha appears to have had advance warning of attack which followed US bombing or Iranian nuclear sites
Growing concern about fate of Iranian political prisoners during conflict with Israel
Dublin-based Iranian woman says contact has been lost with her brother
Demining in Syria: ‘People are desperate to go back to their houses... In their mind the main threat is gone’
There have been more than 900 mine-related injuries or fatalities in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime